Dang do I own a future relic?

I’ve been out on medical disability since '21.

I dread this possibility when I try going back to work soon.

I knew as soon as I heard about Win10 having candy crush on the start menu that it would be the last Windows I ever installed. I had been meaning to switch for years before that (actually dabbled with a dual boot of Ubuntu back on whatever version number “Edgy Eft” was-- 5? 6?). I stayed mainly on Windows because I don’t really think Wine or Proton was around yet (who knows maybe I just hadn’t heard of it yet), but I did really like how non-Windows it was.

It was always in the back of my head and I knew my time was coming. Just had to get my system cleaned up (file wise) and ready to move over.

Then I ended up making a new build first so instead of moving I just never put Windows on this machine at all.

Anyway the last time I worked I still use Windows at home. So other than attempting to set up a printer on my sister’s computer one time (which didn’t work out because I was only there for about 20 minutes total and it had some wireless pairing to do but just wouldn’t find whatever it was trying to find), I’ve never even touched 11. But the tiny bit I did see have me the same ick that moving from Win7 to 10 gave me. Things like how they fucked with the control panel and made a new, half-redundant settings app, had built-in cortana in the task bar, etc all bothered me.

But given that the awfulness that was 10 is longed for now, I really hope whatever job I get doesn’t have to use Win11.

I played mostly Rocket League (again, 10 consecutive wins for time played lol).

But my computer was down done Christmas Eve last year and just got out working again on Halloween. So most of my games this year were solely on the Deck. So the Deck gets an MVP award for being there when I needed it.

That said, the only game I own that doesn’t really work on the Deck is Helldivers 2.

I cannot drop down and play literally anything in 30fps. I already have to deal with the 60Hz screen on the Deck, I cannot use anything less (that hasn’t been literally designed for it- anything that can run at a higher fps should be. 60 is the absolute rock bottom I will tolerate.

Anyway, I also played a lot of Balatro, Slay the Spire, and REPO. Getting it working satisfactorily would have been impossible on some handhelds, but the grip buttons made it just enough to have access to all inventory slots, sprinting and tumbling. Had to use voice activation without an easy way to use push to talk, but that didn’t really bother me.

Tried PEAK, but it doesn’t really grab me personally. I still wanna try it on PC tho now that I have it running again, to give it a fair shake. I feel really off balance trying controllers with games meant to be kb/m. Repo felt awkward but playable. And I liked the choir game design enough anyway. But playing Peak while being awkward didn’t feel as rewarding. But I wanna give it a go with kb/m.

I played some Hades as well. Still haven’t beaten it yet (I’ve only gotten to the Hades fight twice). That game I actually like better on the Deck or on controller better. Which is kinda what I expected, but it definitely belongs on a controller.

I played through It Takes Two, which was beautiful. Haven’t finished Split Fiction yet because my brother keeps being unavailable. I try to tell him to “come be a lesbian with me”. Haven’t quite finished it yet, but there’s no way those 2 don’t hook up, right?

Didn’t play a lot of anything else, haven’t gotten back to work after my last couple years of surgeries so my budget was basically zero.(Supplemented by Steam gifties from real ones) Soon to change this coming year I hope, but given my disability, the depression of being stuck for medical reasons back in a house I had escaped from, the general everything, being poor, and not even having access to my main platform to game on at all, I think I did ok.

If you’ll pardon me I gotta go grind some more Rocket League.

I learned of tab sleeping in another reply. Having all of that juggling in RAM would be the downside, but apparently that feature takes care of that. I haven’t looked into it yet or learned about it, still just going off someone mentioning it.

Although for me if it’s important enough to need to keep around, I would bookmark it anyway because I never trust reopening to bring everything back.

I presented one specific scenario/use case that I find completely ridiculous, intimating it was an ADHD symptom that one would need a better medical therapy to get past. That was exaggeration. I realize that doesn’t necessarily come across via text comments with strangers.

I hadn’t heard of “tab sleeping” either, so knowing that does blow that issue away. So I concede that point.

And I don’t use just one store. You can leave things in however many carts you have accounts for. Personally I rarely take longer than one browsing session to purchase something, but I understand that’s not necessarily everybody.

The longest (and most complicated, speaking of tab usage) browser process I’ve ever done was when I built my last computer. I used 3 different stores just for that, and took a couple days to finalize the final choices of parts, but even then I didn’t keep them all open.

And if tab sleeping really does fix the resource issue, then I’m not even arguing this process is better or worse anymore, aside from just opening up articles without ever actually reading them.

I can probably use my fingers to count how many times I’ve needed multiple windows in my life (and I’m old now in Internet years), and double digit quantities of tabs is probably barely a bigger number.

Personally, organizing and keeping track of that many things open would drive me nuts.

So it’s just like hoarder mentality then.

Not sure how much good closing and opening windows is then. If you close a window, those tabs are supposedly fine, but if you have “dozens” and close 2, what happens when you open a new one?

You have some kinda choice to resurrect a specific window? Or do you just run one window of every browser in existence?

Not sure where the attention span zing came from, but if it’s something I’m working on, it’s filled in a to do list of some sort.

If I’m considering a purchase, it’s either in a cart or on a wish list, or has a bookmark.

Leaving all that open is just making your computer sad.

Like I get the fact that ADHD is a whole thing, I’m just saying I can’t personally grasp how using this coping mechanism works.

I understand having questions like this, but from a somewhat more quote unquote “normal” pov, I can’t understand it.

I literally cannot comprehend this. What are you keeping in these things?

If any of you are playing games, and I know you are, there’s no way those games aren’t slideshows.

Sooo literally how?

If I leave the computer for longer than taking a piss, the browser is closed. Zero tabs.

I get actually uncomfortable with more than 5 or so open.

At least at home. Work computers I can understand because you gotta do whatever you’re doing, but even then double digit amounts seems actually crazy.

If you’re just opening them thinking “I’m gonna read this article” and just leave it, then you gotta get some better meds.

Probably, but until they see at least 20 pictures of your 5 year old in a bikini, they’ll just beat you.

No, this came up from talking about how it (the puck) doesn’t have to be connected to the device you’re playing on. Which outside of Bluetooth or using a steam machine, you would have to have it connected.

Directly wired hasn’t come up at all until you just mentioned it.

For one, as far as I know that’s a single player game. Anyone with other players around means constant slight readjustments, and having everything you do held back (even if only a tenth of a second- I don’t know the actual number, that’s a ballpark guesstimate) really adds up.

For almost every game it doesn’t matter a whole lot. But when it does, it really matters. Bluetooth headphones pad the audio a smidge too, to the point of rather play without sound instead of late audio. It causes constant sending guessing, and if you’re using both your leaky playing in a game state that’s already past (although when online you always are anyway but cutting as much out as possible is miles better).

My point (the part I quoted in my original reply) was that you would need the puck plugged into the device you’re playing on, assuming you don’t want to deal with the delay.

So if that’s not a problem for you, then that doesn’t apply, but I assume most people will want the fast connection.

I realize that. But that’s just for that machine, but I’m speaking for arbitrary devices.

The protocol hasn’t gotten faster in the last few years that I know of.

I’ve used several with different devices, but most of my direct comparison experience is with an Xbox series X controller paired to the Deck via BT and by dongle, and it’s very noticeably more laggy with Bluetooth. I’ve only occasionally tried others, but every Bluetooth-connected controller I’ve ever used definitely has a noticeable delay.

No one says that you have to explicitly plug it in to whatever you’re playing on.

You do if you want it to connect to the thing you’re playing on.

Unless you’re ok with a shitty Bluetooth connection. But I’m guessing few people comparatively are using that, at least as their primary use case.

You can’t tell me playing with a Bluetooth controller doesn’t actually hurt you. The constant latency is excruciating.

Then again, I use it for mostly real time- based games.

If you’re playing something like Balatro it probably doesn’t matter. But for almost everything else it sure does.

Update: The error on that issue wasn’t the one I had, but the command was the one that ended in Neptune 611, so I did use it.

Ran the debug install again and no dice.

Rebooted and reinstalled, then back to gaming mode, and now it’s working. I knew from several mentions that it might take a couple reboots, so even though it felt weird to need to do it more than once, I still did, and it seems to have paid off.

Now I’ll still have to switch the dongle back and forth from my PC for now (until I get my hands on the new steam controller), but I can live with that.

Although as soon as I get it paired and working, I see a new steam os update, so I’ll probably need to do it all again anyway. But at least I can trust the process now.

I didn’t see that. I stepped on my glasses last week and I was using the deck screen itself working on this. I’m using backups from like 15 years ago lol.

I’ll look at that tonight when I get a moment. Thanks

No it’s a series X controller. Other reply mentioned an issue I hadn’t noticed and I plan on looking at that tonight.

If fortnite goes down, I laugh.