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Not exactly?
If they make it work nicely on surfaces that aren’t perfectly straight, you could use it while playing on the couch.
Would be particularly amazing if games support switching between modes instantly, so you could for example be playing a game, open your inventory, slap your joycon on the couch to organize your stuff w/ mouse mode, close your inventory and pick it up resuming play in joycon mode 🤯
Oh you should read the next part
The pandemic gave us an unnatural pop for gaming, where we thought, ‘oh my god, gaming is the biggest thing in the world’. Yeah, when you’re locked down, it is the biggest thing in the world. But in a regular world scenario, you’ve got to combat against all the other distractions that are available to young people. And I’m afraid that we’re not facing that threat head on as an industry.
Motherfuckers see unnatural conditions caused by a once-in-a-lifetime event, think they’re the hottest shit ever, and when the numbers come back to normal levels they see other forms of entertainment as a “threat” that should be “faced head on”.
Lmao. How can an industry be so full of itself?
- A bespoke user interface
- A gaming-focused OS
- [Play] More than just Xbox
- Bring old Xbox games to PC
- Multiple hardware tiers
- “Made for Xbox”
Steam Deck already does 1, 2 and 3.
Now pair it with constant nags (Enhance your experience by signing into a Microsoft account, Subscribe to Gamepass! Have you tried Copilot???), and Microsoft’s inability to ever add anything new to their controllers (bye bye Gyro and Touchpads) and you’ve lost me.
It would be much easier to use Java mods to do this than wait for a MC recomp, check out Splitscreen Support
I think the only thing that could come close to what you want would be an automation centric app like Tasker or Automate. Neither are FOSS, but they’re really good.
Edit: Found exactly what you need on F-Droid, it’s called HTTP Request Shortcuts.
Lol, same, I’ve played some games at such abysmal resolution it became a testament of how good the art direction was, making it possible to recognize things amidst that jumble of pixels.
Funny how we grow accustomed with what we have. I was hyper-aware of my disk usage when I had a tiny HDD, nowadays I’m like “Why am I low on storage???”, then I go check and find 200GB of junk I no longer need on my downloads folder. Whoops.
Yeah I have, for a looong while. I understand a stable framerate is much better than a “high” one, but like, were not talking about a “Low-end” PC here, we’re talking about the current, still marketed generation here.
How come 30’s still the target when all the marketing is talking about how powerful it is and how amazing the upscaling is? And it’s a fixed target on top of all that, like common man
Never have I ever wanted “Portal 3” to be a thing more than after I played this.
I don’t know how well it would play on the desktop, since it’s reliant on Steam Deck specific controls
Valve actually made the game adapt itself to the hardware present.
I played it on my desktop with a DualShock 4. The game let me use my mouse to write my name instead of touch. When it came to the section requiring the back buttons, it let me use the regular triggers instead. Looking at some YouTube videos, it seems it’ll let you use sticks for aiming if your controller doesn’t have gyro.
The only hard requirement is a controller of some kind, as the game will put up a huge red watermark asking for one if you launch it without one connected, other than that, any standard controller works.
This type of thing has just about killed any desire to continue using Stock Android for me. Couple years now it seems they’re half-assing all new features: Either they bring a years old feature back (that they shouldn’t have killed in the first place) as a shadow of its former self, or they add a feature that does the bare minimum, then take multiple updates for it to have functionality that should have been there from the first release.
* Circle to Search is just rehashed Google Now with a whole lotta marketing and less functionality.
* Lock Screen Shortcuts have been a thing forever, but only NOW in A13 they made a proper UI to let you customize then, previously you only could in custom ROMs, Root, ADB Trickery or the SystemUI Tuner. And how many shortcut options do you have? 8.
Why is Google insisting on making these features have 0 third-party support???
On Apple, thanks to their App Intents API third-party apps can expose quick actions on the Control Center, as a Lock Screen shortcut and a one-press action for the Action button.
Android has let third-party devs add custom Quick Setting Tiles for years, so you’d think expanding this API so they can also define Lock Screen shortcuts and Power Double Press shortcuts would be the obvious way forward but NOPE!
8 puny little Lockscreen Shortcuts and that’s it.
Google Assistant and Camera for the Double Press Power. Now they’re adding Wallet, upping the total to 3, how impressive.
How the fuck is Apple doing customization better than Android???
* Multitasking is so clunky it might as well not even be here.
Previously you could Split Screen your current app, drop to your launcher and select another one to take the remaining space, then they removed this for no reason, so if Split Screen your current app and the other one you want to use isn’t already running, you gotta cancel the action, launch it, then start setting the Split Screen again, all in all it’s such a slow, workflow interrupting process that 9 times of 10 I don’t even bother.
The best AOSP is annoying as hell to use (and all they’d need to fix it is undo one boneheaded change) meanwhile all the other OEMs are doing Floating Windows on their skins. Even Motorola who keeps their skin close to AOSP did it.
Why the fuck hasn’t Google? They’ve had a half-broken implementation of this for years in the dev settings but are moving at an absolute snails’ pace with it, and I really think it wasn’t the Pixel Fold and Tablet they wouldn’t even bother finishing it.
* What’s new in A15? So little it should have been called 14.1
At this point I’ve given up on Google ever bring true new innovation in AOSP.
When they’re not tweaking things for the worse, they’re
- Locking down Android more
- Adding features so “Automagic” they’re useless if you don’t fit their perfect usecase
- Locking features to the Pixel (ffs Circle to Search ain’t even exclusive and they still pointlessly locked it down to specific phones even though it can run anywhere the Google App/Assistant can)
Swear I’m gonna jump to OneUI on my next phone and I’m not even very fond of Samsung’s offerings 😒
I’m so screwed when my current rig dies…