• @NegativeLookBehind
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    40221 days ago

    That poor woman

    Having to deal with a guy who uses windows on his Steam deck

    • @cm0002OP
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      7421 days ago

      I would hope she would have known about his red flags before the baby lolol

    • @Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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      1120 days ago

      Can’t play tarkov on steam deck without windows or moonlight and moonlight over hospital wifi would be worse than tarkov natively over hospital wifi.

    • @slaacaa
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      420 days ago

      “Wife’s pregnancy”

      I’m wondering who is the father

  • Twinklebreeze
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    22421 days ago

    What idiot would install windows on a steam deck. Defeats the whole point.

    • @StitchIsABitch
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      The kind of idiot that boasts about “system tweaks” and “audiophile headphones”.

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          tbh the decks dac is surprisingly good- at least with my planar IEMs

    • @jacksilver
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      2421 days ago

      I did install windows on a microsd to play some online games with my steamdeck. It’s a so-so experience, but at least means you can literally play anything on the steamdeck.

        • @jacksilver
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          1521 days ago

          SteamOS is still the main OS. I’ve just got a microsd for dual booting. I feel like a ROG Ally would be a downgrade at that point.

    • @felixwhynot
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      720 days ago

      Guessing that his game of choice didn’t work on Steam OS

      That said I wonder about the frame rate—this game is notoriously demanding/heavy AFAIK

        • @KoalaUnknown
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          BSG have said they plan on adding linux support, just not their top priority.

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      It’s probably because he’s playing tarkov multiplayer

  • Lord Wiggle
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    13920 days ago

    Poor woman. Having a baby with some weirdo who installed windows on his steam deck, who brought his gaming setup when you’re in labor. Idiocracy was a prediction, not a comedy.

    • @Hiro8811
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      2720 days ago

      Why bring mouse+keyboard when the steamdeck has it’s own control and takes less space?

      • CoopaLoopa
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        EFT has like 100 different keybinds for every type of movement and action. Not uncommon to have ctrl, alt, and shift all set as different modifiers for 5-10 keys.

        • Dettweiler
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          Command wheels and mode shifts, my son. Those touchpads are extremely flexible, especially when combined with the back buttons.

        • @Yawweee877h444
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          520 days ago

          OMG I’ve been playing FPS with a controller since I was a baby.

          A NEWBORN BABY.

          It’S an FPs I HAve tO USe keYBOard aNd MoUSe othERwiSE I CaNt dO iT!!

        • Drew Belloc
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          120 days ago

          You don’t really need when the controller has touchpads and gyro

          • @And009@lemmynsfw.com
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            119 days ago

            Does gyro work with PC games? Only ever used them on mobile. Don’t think Xbox controllers have em either.

            • Drew Belloc
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              119 days ago

              Some games support it, but the ones that don’t normally let you move the camera with a mouse while using a controller, for thoses games is really easy to set up the gyro as a mouse inside steam, just remember to set it to only activate when pressing a buttom, i normally use the same button as the scope. You can also set a button as a switch so you press once and the gyro kicks in, press again and it turns off

              • @KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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                Bro. The gyro is ground breaking but anyone that tells anyone that they play fps with a controller have been smoking very bad meth and stay away for a while then ask how they are doing later

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                  Honestly there’s a learning curve and the gyro by itself without a touchpad doesn’t really replace a mouse, but i also can’t play with a mouse and keyboard while laying in bed, so i took the time to adapt to it and now i’m playing games that would probably been rotting in my library because i don’t like to stay in my chair after working for hours on it

    • @riodoro1
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      I mean it was probably consensual so the only person I feel bad about is the kid.

  • @taiyang
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    9021 days ago

    The kind of guy who installs Windows on his steam deck is the same kind of guy who won’t let his wife get an epidural.

  • Dragonfruit
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    I’m no audio expert, but I feel like “audiophile headphones” and “headphones you can power directly from a steam deck” are probably mutually exclusive

    • @SomGye@dormi.zone
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      Not necessarily, some high-end headphones manage to have a low resistance and high sensitivity combo and are easy to “drive” without a dedicated amp.

    • @moonburster
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      I use planar headphones which are not too bad to drive, but most of the time I need some extra power. The deck actually is capable of blowing my eardrums out still

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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      I’m betting that it can drive 250Ω headphones. Verifying.

      EDIT: Yup. DT990s actually doing pretty decent.

      EDIT 2: Not that I expect that OOP has actually nice-sounding and comfortable cans (the latter, along with repairability, is the reason that I have em in the first place), since they referred to them as “audiophile” headphones.

    • Caveman
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      120 days ago

      There are good headphones that can work with a headphone jack.

  • shameless
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    6821 days ago

    Why would anyone brag about any of this. His poor partner.

    • @BigPotato
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      I can see bringing the Deck, like you might be sitting there for at least 24 hours, you don’t need to be sitting there holding their hand the whole time…

      But the keyboard? The mouse? The HEADPHONES? It’s not like you’re in an extended stay. You’re getting that baby out and going. You don’t need all that.

        • @BigPotato
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          120 days ago

          You wanna be able to hear if your partner needs anything. Ear buds would at least mean that they can only put one in at a time.

          • Norah (pup/it/she)
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            320 days ago

            You’ve never worn headphones with one half off your ear before? Arguably better than just putting one earbud in, because you can still hear the game audio.

            • @BigPotato
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              120 days ago

              Those are over ear closed backs with thicc pads, no way are those going to be comfortable to one ear. Some Grados, maybe, but again the more important thing is hearing things in the room, not the game.

              • Norah (pup/it/she)
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                119 days ago

                Okay you’re right about the one in the image, but I was more talking about a hypothetical here, bc this guy clearly did bring a keyboard and mouse too. Some Sennheiser HD650s would be perfect imo.

    • @TwoBeeSan
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      120 days ago

      Le setup. I love these guys posting their balls like this

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      You guys have clearly never had kids. It almost never goes like in the movies, you rush into hospital, and then you wait. Especially if the water broke, then you wait few days. There is absolutely nothing to do in the hospital. I would have killed for steamdeck, or even a switch.

  • @mlg
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    4920 days ago

    Windows on steam deck

    Explains the behavior lmao

    • Amon
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      Windows on steam deck Is blasphemy

  • 2ugly2live
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    4821 days ago

    He’s didn’t bring a second controller. Divorce.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    I like how everyone is giving shit to the dude for “not being there for his wife,” because I remember the OG post from Reddit where OP and his wife were explaining that it was cool, she said it was okay and even encouraged it, and was unconscious most of the time during recovery anyway.

    I don’t even think the windows on steam deck part is even from the OG, but maybe I just missed that in the comments.

    • LiveLM
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      2120 days ago

      For me it’s the bit about bringing almost a whole desk setup instead of using the portable as a portable

      • Natanael
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        Yeah seriously use a gaming laptop at that point. The point of the Steam Deck is that it’s compact and quick to put away

    • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      People don’t realize how much downtime there actually is even in a normal pregnancy. Baby and mama get sleepy. But in something like an emergency C section scenario, especially if the baby is early you could be looking at a half week recovery period for mom and the baby gets locked up in NICU jail for a week… Where you only get visiting hours for your own kid.

    • @IceFoxX@lemm.ee
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      You shouldn’t just be there because the woman is important to you, but above all the child. From that point on, it shows that he’s not in the mood and is more focused on his hobbies. So he can’t separate himself from his shitty technology at such important events and maybe just read a book or something…

      I feel bad for the kids future

      • @SippyCup@feddit.nl
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        1020 days ago

        Bruh newborns sleep a lot.

        So do women recovering from childbirth.

        Most of what they’re doing is sleeping.

        For multiple days, you’re kind of just at the hospital to be support when needed. There’s not a lot to do if you don’t bring it with you.

        One thing is clear about a lot of guys here, and that’s that they don’t have children and are almost certainly single.

        • @Amanduh@lemm.ee
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          Yeah at the very least you need a book cause shit gets boring and you’re luck if you have a tv in the room

          • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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            120 days ago

            pair a controller with my phone and use emulators on that. it’s good enough for the hospital

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    Who the hell puts Windows on a Steam Deck? What a loser

    Oh and he’s not being present with his wife

  • @Deralax@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Not to rain on the anti windows parade, but he has to install windows to play Tarkov. You cant play it on linux due to anticheat.

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      Although I understand this on a factual level, I still question the set of priorities that leads someone to install an operating system in order to run a single game.

      Also, his wife must’ve been enthused to see he brought all his “performance upgrades.”

      • I imagine they’re dual booting.

        if they already have a copy of the OS anyways, I totally get it. If you have the resources to play the game you wanna play, any would you intentionally deprive yourself of that?

        But yeah, bringing all that to the hospital is fuckin nuts. God I hope that his wife is a huge nerd too and that this was like a joke between them and he didn’t actually use it during active labor or after the baby was born.

    • @riodoro1
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      Can’t run it on linux? Can’t run it at all.

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        It’s almost as if kernel level anti cheat is no match for heuristics and more secure game code.

    • @GoodEye8@lemm.ee
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      I think you can play PvE Tarkov because the raids run on your machine (except for Streets). But if you’re already willing play PvE you might as well play SPtarkov which does work on Linux and has a modding scene that offers a significantly better PvE experience.

      EDIT: just a PSA that Tarkov uses Battleye, which supports Proton. Just like with almost every other game the only reason you can’t play Tarkov on Linux is because the developer doesn’t want to you to do that.

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      Because there aren’t 100000000000000 other, much better games to play out there. Nope. Tarkov is the only game ever created that is any good. So good that people are willing to allow rootkit anti-cheat garbageware to be installed on their system to play this holy, godly, superhyper great game.