Aha! Checking back a week or so later, glad this was actually solved!
sp3ctr4l
joined 2 weeks ago
Local Autist at your service, analysis is what my brain is optimized for.
... I am just trying to 'yes, and!' this.
I think its awesome that someone modded a Switch this hard, I think its awesome the person I replied to loves their modded handhelds, and I am just sharing my own tales of modding and tinkering with the Deck to show what you can do with it as well, and how I angle my goals of modding a bit differently than the person I'm replying to, so its a better fit for me.
I did not at any point state that their approach to modding is any kind of wrong or inferior.
You can tweak and (hard and soft) mod a Steam Deck as well.
... Your starting point is just more powerful hardware, and a much more permissive software system that basically begs you to do whatever you want to it, compared to a Switch.
I get that this level of modding if a Switch is an accomplishment, because it is more challenging... that the modding itself is what is enjoyable for many people.
But many other people enjoy a different proportion of 'tinkering' to 'actually using it'. Or different kinds of tinkering.
Like... I have an OLED Deck. For me, running RPCS3 is... well, I could either dl the flatpak of it and configure it myself, or let Emu/RetroDeck take care of that, or switch over from SteamOS 3 to Bazzite, set up a distrobox instance of Fedora (what Bazzite is built off of), then just literally download all the source code and required libraries... and completely compile the entire emulator myself, on the Steam Deck itself.
I actually did this with O3DE and Godot a few times... a bit buggy, but hey, its a fun way for me to get more familiar with just... how compiling works, as well as the Fedora ecosystem... most of my previous experience with compiling/development is within Debian based distros.
You can literally develop a game, in Godot, or Unity, or many 2D only/mostly FOSS engines... on a Steam Deck.
As far as hard modding?
A year (or two?) back now... somebody figured out that you can actually take the SSD out of a Steam Deck, run the OS from the microSD card... add an adapter to the SSD slot, and then connect that to a full, PC grade eGPU with its own power supply... and this requires you to actually physically cut out (or I guess remove the entire) a part of the back exterior housing.
But, if you can do all this, you now have basically a hyper charged Steam Deck with waaay more rendering power you can basically use as a decently powerful desktop PC...
But, this only works with Windows (running off of the microSD card), and your Deck is... no longer really portable, unless you consider detaching the eGPU and SSD adapter thingy, putting the SSD back in, and put a standard backplate back on the thing... as an acceptable level of portability, lol.
Less ... nearly insane ... degrees of hardware modding are things like swapping out the joycons with halleffect sticks, custom body shells (the translucent atomic purple n64 style ones are quite popular, and the translucence actually helps a bit with heat dissipation),
...custom colored button and dpads... sort of .. skin like wraps for the touchpads, or whole bodyshell... semi squishy grip style wraps that can help if you have larger, or injured hands/wrists...
...oh right, the LCD variants have some fairly popular entire screen replacements that give you a higher resolution than the native screen... not sure if anything like that exists for the OLED variants yet.
... Does the Pope golf in the woods?
... I mostly found your comment pitiable, not offensive.
As in, your metaphor is so crass and demonstrates such a fundamentally unserious approach to understanding reality, that it barely even registers as offensive, and immediately transcends into pity.
If you think this is some sort of... brush off your hands, phew, glad we made it out of that! type situation... if you think the suffering is over, disproportionately for Americans but also for the rest of the world...
This conveys to me that you have an extremely naive and simplistic grasp of how history moves, how international relations work, how fascism works, how economics works... etc.
... you are probably right.
Damn. I did not know you actually could litterbox train them, that's amazing.
I've had ex partners with guinea pigs and ferrets... but never rabbits.
I'll have to bookmark the wabbitwiki, thank you!
Adorable! =D
Ciel is a more creative name than Bunnicula, my first thought, lol.
I've not been religious for a long time now, but I don't know how else to phrase this:
I pray that one day I can put that knowledge toward just having a pet bunny.
... That would be nice.
Do... if you keep a bunbun as a pet, do they do better alone, or are they social enough that they need a buddy... or would two buddies in something like an apartment lead to fights?
... Can you potty train a rabbit like a cat, and let it roam around, or will it just relieve itself whereever?
... Turns out... if you go full 'make line go up...'
... Line do not go up.
Line go down.
SAD!!!
(apologies to any readers who may have a PTSD reflex to boomer baby talk, their brains are mush, they struggle with complex concepts like 'how does a tariff work')
I missed your reply weeks ago, and I know upvotes are worthless, but you deserve most of mine from this thread =P
Its been a long time since I have actually seen crowd sourcing actually work in a non exploitative way to solve a problem, be productive.