kaseijin

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[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Wow, that actually helps a lot, thanks for the tips. Holding it like you described helps a lot. I can tell this is more like I hold my Steam Deck (a looser grip, especially with the thumbsticks being higher on the Deck).

[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yea, it'll probably be fine in the long run or at night when I'm likely to use it. Gotta finish Baldur's Gate 3.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by kaseijin@lemmy.world to c/playstation@lemmy.world
 

Did anyone else get their Playstation Portal? I'm having issues with couch seating and my natural grip position. The grip is fine, but the screen angle points upward too much, resulting in glare from whatever is behind and above me (a window, no less). I can change my grip to angle the screen downward towards me, but it's really uncomfortable. Things are better if I sit straight up and hold the Portal lower.

But I'm a a creature of comfort and I'm going to be sitting chill on the couch using this thing. I honestly don't understand how this is even a problem; I never even thought about this ever with my Switch or Steam Deck. Did Playstation not, like, survey a bunch of 30-50 year olds who are probably gonna kick back on a couch to use this thing?


Update: I changed my grip a bit and it helped! Also, holding it upright closer to my face feels okay, too. Lost track of time and my hand wasn't in any discomfort after a few hours, trying various games in different genres.

[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've probably spent as much or more money on my Deck than I ever did on Steam, and I haven't even gotten it yet (tomorrow is shipping day!). The SSD upgrade and SD card alone cost as much as the base Deck (on sale)!

Most of my gaming has been on the Switch or PS5, but I'm excited for some portable PC gaming, emulation, and game streaming to the Deck. I used to be way into PC FPS games when I was younger, so I'm excited that the Steam deck can provide that Mouse & Keyboard feel with the touchpad (and/or gyro).

[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't scratch the same itch yet. I have to cheat and go check out reddit every now and then.

[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

I couldn't even get pass the login screen since I only lurked and never made an account (despite spending over a decade browsing reddit). I remember they used to let you use the app without logging in.

[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe we need an extremely strong and centralized non-profit with their own Reddit/Twitter/etc. clone. As long as it's open data and open source, I don't really care that it's centralized. We need some entity with enough resources and trust so they can fend of corporate takeover. My vote is Wikipedia, Mozilla, or Linus Torvalds (I want the man himself, not the Linux Foundation).

[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Third party apps present a username and password field to log into a Lemmy instance. They can easily just steal your credentials. There are standard auth flows to solve this problem. The fact that Lemmy devs have willfully ignored this issue for years, and that they aren't warning users not to trust third party apps, lead me to believe they don't really care about security, which is the biggest red flag. There's finally an open github issue that seems to be acknowledged, but it'll be some time before this feature (if ever) ever gets implemented.

-Posted from a third-party app; yea, i gave them my password blindly.

[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't see what the big deal is even. Developers can just continue using the same tooling, and just target a higher graphics budget. Surely Nintendo isn't so crazy as to introduce some backward incompatible changes?

[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Treated myself to an ultrawide and rtx 3070 during the pandemic for Cyberpunk and Battlefield 2042... and for work and study, of course. Cyberpunk was a bit choppy, but I got used to it--thankfully only ever crashed a few times during my playthrough. Played Horizon: Zero Dawn, Apex Legends, Star Wars: Fallen Order, Titanfall 2, and some other games, mostly FPS/shooters (NMS, hunting games)... then it became a glorified Fall Guys machine for a bit until I got a PS5... next upgrade may be when the 4090s come down in price, or whenever 24 GB of video ram is more affordable (I actually could use the extra ram for work-related experiments). Maybe a sidegrade to the steam deck?

[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

2009, 2015, M1 MacBook Pros. All solid laptops that gave me years of productivity. Touchpad, screen, and form factor are all extremely important for me; I work 75% of the time on the couch with the laptop on my lap (on a laptop pillow of sorts), and having a quiet and cool M1 has been great.

I don't need my esoteric linux setup on my laptop. I've had to use a Windows laptop for work for two years, and I did not enjoy the random lockups, file explorer crashing, driver notifications and malfunctions, windows filesystem, managed spyware by both microsoft and my company slowing things down considerably... and this was a more expensive engineering grade workstation laptop. If I could trim the fat and make it as stable and bloatfree as my gaming PC, it probably would have been a better experience.

[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Nice. I'd replace the plastic buckle lock with metal ones, too, if you're already opening up the joycon.

[–] kaseijin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No special features besides removable usb-c hub. I did replace the fan and thermal paste on my Switch last year, which may help if you're overheating.

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