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morgan423

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  • [Meme] How Time Flies

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  • Isn't there an easy Decky plugin that lets you set a visible timer for yourself? I don't really need it but I thought I saw it going through the Decky store one day.

  • Do you think of making a SponsorBlock report as a doing a Civic Duty ?

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  • SB is my good friend. I love gaining my time back, and it does my heart good when I'm given the opportunity to give time back to others.

  • Is the Steam Deck still worth it in 2025? I'd argue yes — but with caveats

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  • There's also the fact that even in the future, you'll be able to have a current-for-the-time PC, and still be able to stream to the Deck locally anywhere in the house if you're playing then-modern games.

    It just has the perfect form factor and ergonomics to be the champion of that job, and i don't see that changing any time soon.

  • Valve 'Fremont' APU breaks cover on Geekbench, most likely for a future console

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  • Don't know about their next console, but I'd love that new Steam Controller. Hop to it Valve!

  • how can i decide what language to learn?

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  • That's awesome! ¡Diviértete!

  • What's something incredibly useful you can buy for roughly £100 or less?

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  • I can definitely recommend the Shokz OpenRun.

    I picked up a pair in February, and they've been solid. They're extremely compact, the sound quality's pretty good for BC headphones, and the battery goes for quite a while. They also have a decent mic if you need to use them for phone or Discord or anything like that.

  • [Discussion] What's something that has improved your Deck experience?

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  • Hardware-wise:

    I have to say that when I'm docked, it's my 27" 1440p monitor. I love the way it looks, and it perfectly integer scales with 720p, so I have the option of running stuff in 720p native with no jaggies, and it looks fantastic.

    When I'm handheld, I use a pair of light and thin bone conduction headphones so I can be anywhere in the house and have my ears open. I also use a simple pair of clip on 2x reading glasses to blow up the native screen, they cost me maybe $10 and really help out my 40s eyes.

    Software wise: This is my main PC, and you know I always sing the praises of Nested Desktop because I'm always needing to bounce to Desktop mode. Decky Loader has also been transformative over the years with so many good plug ins.

    But finally, I would have to say that the most impactful thing in recent times has been the Lossless Scaling frame gen... that's a literal game changer. If you had told me three months ago that I'd be playing Baldur's Gate 3 on my Steam Deck at 90 FPS, I'd have looked at you like you had a third eye growing out of the middle of your forehead, but here we are.

  • how can i decide what language to learn?

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  • Don't sleep on Spanish if it's being offered, it's the 4th most spoken language on the planet and is heavily woven throughout the US.

    I took it in high school but didn't solidify it until adulthood, when we had Venezuelans marry into the family. And it's a fantastic and fun language. Can't recommend it highly enough.

  • Companies are monitoring and enforcing office attendance at the highest rate in 5 years

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  • I do a job in which I produce countable digital product for my employer. I keep records of everything I complete (it only takes a couple of seconds per item).

    I went back and looked at my logs for the last six months (to shake out any "on this day I was working on Xs, on that day I was working on more time-consuming Ys" biases) and wouldn't you know it...

    The three days a week I'm at home working alone and not getting interrupted every five minutes by a coworker, I'm almost 20% more productive on average than the two office days where that's not the case. I know, I was as shocked as you are.

    And guess whose employer just announced a third office day per week upcoming? It's almost like they're saying, "Oh boy, I can't WAIT to get less worker productivity! But at least they'll be collaborating!"

  • Easy to play instrument for tavern music / easy music

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  • The simplest wind instruments are things like your basic wood flutes, recorders, ocarinas... simplest stringed instruments are going to be 3 and 4 stringed stuff like cigar box guitars, tenor guitars, and ukuleles. But none of them are just pick up and play.

    Realistically even the simplest instruments are going to require at least 50 to 100 hours of practice and instruction to reach an advanced beginner / early intermediate level, where you start to be able to intuitively do things that sound good. The great news is that good YouTube teachers can help you reach that point, if you're willing to put in the time and practice.

    I learned to play guitar and tenor guitar in my 30s, and it's been extremely rewarding to just be able to unwind and create some music whenever the mood strikes. It was work... but enjoyable work, if that makes sense? I liked the practice and getting the results of my progression. I'd definitely recommend learning to play an instrument to anyone with the time, patience, and inclination.

  • Has the afterlife already been disproven?

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  • Oblivion isn't as scary as one thinks it is. Science actually believes in a reincarnation of sorts, and oblivion would help us easily pass the time in between lifetimes.

    Basically, with no ability to experience stimuli or the passage of time, and no way to have any thoughts or experiences whatsoever... the quintillions of years until the end of the universe, and potentially through universes beyond where you don't exist, would pass in what would feel like the blink of an eye to you.

    It's thought that after an absolutely ridiculous amount of time, we'll have a Poincaré recurrence of the entire current universe, history and all, and you'll end up being conceived to live your life again. The good news is that once you have died, oblivion would make it so that you don't really have to experience that in-between period at all.

  • [Solved!] Swapped nvme from old deck into new deck, now headphones don't work

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  • Yay! Glad to hear that you found the solution!

  • [Solved!] Swapped nvme from old deck into new deck, now headphones don't work

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  • Not that I'm an expert, but I could have sworn I've seen people in the past who were talking about accidentally messing with the physical stuff involved with the headphone jack when they hard drive swapped.

    I might be misremembering but just wanted to suggest that you may want to check into whether it could be physical, and not software related, because if you're troubleshooting the wrong cause you can get stuck on it for quite a while.

  • Most wholesome death-by-spider on record

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  • Well if you're going to get eaten by a giant spider, I guess that's the best way for it to happen.

  • I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good

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  • When I hit the mid-40s, I realized I was running into at least five things a day that turned me into the "man ages 50 years in five seconds" meme from the end of Saving Private Ryan.

  • There is now a Decky Plugin to use Lossless frame gen on Steam Deck

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  • Hey, I figured out what I had done wrong, I dropped the files in the wrong place. Everything seems to be working now.

    If you're still struggling, this YT video shows you where you have to put everything to get it all to work. If CachyOS is Arch based it should be pretty similar.

  • There is now a Decky Plugin to use Lossless frame gen on Steam Deck

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  • There is now a Decky Plugin to use Lossless frame gen on Steam Deck

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  • So I'm 0-1 so far (Samsung-screened SD OLED). Tried Baldur's Gate 3 with a large variety of settings, it either crashed upon boot or booted with no video.

    I know it's a DX11 game so it rarely agrees with tools like this, but I was hoping, lol. If I try anything else, I'll edit this same post so as not to take over the thread.

    EDIT: OMG. Make that 1-1. It was user error, I'd accidentally slid the files into the folder next door instead of the plugins folder.

    After fixing it, I booted it up and... WOW. I already had BG3 set to 720p Balanced, after doing the x3 multiplier (because who cares about input lag in this game) I'm now up into the 75 to 90 FPS range.

    This is absolutely NUTS, I've never consistently gotten more than 30 on the Deck on this game. What a game changer, at least for non-action games. Will have to see how bad the input lag feels on action titles, but just speeding up modern/slower RPGs alone is a big, big thing.

  • There is now a Decky Plugin to use Lossless frame gen on Steam Deck

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  • Since it didn't crash you, but didn't seem to kick in, check and make sure that you're not full screen on your in-game settings. Go windowed or bordered instead.

    I have used it a handful of times on Windows and that was always a prereq to get it to do anything.