… I am just trying to ‘yes, and!’ this.

I think its awesome that someone modded a Switch this hard, I think its awesome the person I replied to loves their modded handhelds, and I am just sharing my own tales of modding and tinkering with the Deck to show what you can do with it as well, and how I angle my goals of modding a bit differently than the person I’m replying to, so its a better fit for me.

I did not at any point state that their approach to modding is any kind of wrong or inferior.

You can tweak and (hard and soft) mod a Steam Deck as well.

… Your starting point is just more powerful hardware, and a much more permissive software system that basically begs you to do whatever you want to it, compared to a Switch.

I get that this level of modding if a Switch is an accomplishment, because it is more challenging… that the modding itself is what is enjoyable for many people.

But many other people enjoy a different proportion of ‘tinkering’ to ‘actually using it’. Or different kinds of tinkering.

Like… I have an OLED Deck. For me, running RPCS3 is… well, I could either dl the flatpak of it and configure it myself, or let Emu/RetroDeck take care of that, or switch over from SteamOS 3 to Bazzite, set up a distrobox instance of Fedora (what Bazzite is built off of), then just literally download all the source code and required libraries… and completely compile the entire emulator myself, on the Steam Deck itself.

I actually did this with O3DE and Godot a few times… a bit buggy, but hey, its a fun way for me to get more familiar with just… how compiling works, as well as the Fedora ecosystem… most of my previous experience with compiling/development is within Debian based distros.

You can literally develop a game, in Godot, or Unity, or many 2D only/mostly FOSS engines… on a Steam Deck.

As far as hard modding?

A year (or two?) back now… somebody figured out that you can actually take the SSD out of a Steam Deck, run the OS from the microSD card… add an adapter to the SSD slot, and then connect that to a full, PC grade eGPU with its own power supply… and this requires you to actually physically cut out (or I guess remove the entire) a part of the back exterior housing.

But, if you can do all this, you now have basically a hyper charged Steam Deck with waaay more rendering power you can basically use as a decently powerful desktop PC…

But, this only works with Windows (running off of the microSD card), and your Deck is… no longer really portable, unless you consider detaching the eGPU and SSD adapter thingy, putting the SSD back in, and put a standard backplate back on the thing… as an acceptable level of portability, lol.

Less … nearly insane … degrees of hardware modding are things like swapping out the joycons with halleffect sticks, custom body shells (the translucent atomic purple n64 style ones are quite popular, and the translucence actually helps a bit with heat dissipation),

…custom colored button and dpads… sort of … skin like wraps for the touchpads, or whole bodyshell… semi squishy grip style wraps that can help if you have larger, or injured hands/wrists…

…oh right, the LCD variants have some fairly popular entire screen replacements that give you a higher resolution than the native screen… not sure if anything like that exists for the OLED variants yet.

Damn. I did not know you actually could litterbox train them, that’s amazing.

I’ve had ex partners with guinea pigs and ferrets… but never rabbits.

I’ll have to bookmark the wabbitwiki, thank you!

Adorable! =D

Ciel is a more creative name than Bunnicula, my first thought, lol.

I’ve not been religious for a long time now, but I don’t know how else to phrase this:

I pray that one day I can put that knowledge toward just having a pet bunny.

… That would be nice.

Do… if you keep a bunbun as a pet, do they do better alone, or are they social enough that they need a buddy… or would two buddies in something like an apartment lead to fights?

… Can you potty train a rabbit like a cat, and let it roam around, or will it just relieve itself whereever?

Noted.

I mean, will they eat each other if you can’t feed em for a while?

… I realize that is quite a grizzly thing to ask, and I don’t mean to be as flippant as the first comment…

But that would be a useful thing to know if you’re desperate enough to start a rabbit breeding pen for food, and you also have no idea what feed prices/availability will be.

… Is… is that seriously … the origin of this phrase?

That does… at least make a basic level of sense…

Close!

I used to compile all the high level analytics and projection reports for all the Vice Presidents and Board Members, but they didn’t even notice when I corrected a massive category of double counted revenue within a month of taking over from the person whose position I was taking over.

After a year of being absurdly overworked, doing the job of half of the IT department for them, so that I could actually access the data I needed, being hilariously underpaid, and becoming far, far too well versed in passive aggressive, buzzword heavy, actionable information empty, corpospeak…

I left for greener pastures.

(not Discord lol. did contract db admin type work for MSFT for a bit, then said executive reports for a massive import export firm… then nonprofits, serving the homeless)

… take notes, Americans.

Utterly tangential, but:

… wtf is the origin of the ‘waiting for the shoe to drop’ phrase … to indicate waiting for a twist in a plot, or a secret to be revealed, an impactful complication to be explained?

How… what is the metaphor here?

???

Holy shit that was fast, good lord.

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Yep lol, golden parachute deployed!

… For the pilot.

Passengers are still in the plane, lunch cart just came around!

None of that changes or even addresses what I said in the comment you are replying to.

Yes, a corpo flex often involves throwing a ton of money and manpower at something…

Yes, Skyblivion development will probably continue… doesn’t change the fact that Bethesda just did a giant corpo flex on them.

The… whole … point of a corpo flex … is to showcase that you have a disproportionate amount of legal and monetary power, and you can use that to humiliate upstarts, show others how insignificant they are.

Have… you never worked in a large corp? Or… studied how they make business decisions?

Have you ever worked in software development?

… never even picked the corpo background for cyberpunk 2077?

Yeah they spent years working on a remaster just to dunk on a small mod team.

Yes, that literally is what they did.

If Skyblivion had released first, even for free, far more people would be going… wait, why would I pay for yet another Bethesda remaster… when a free one already exists?

This is the company that routinely releases broken buggy games, because they can’t figure out how to actually fix their engine, their games routinely have to be fixed and patched by modders… who keep trying to figure out how to monetize mods or any kind of additional content the way record labels monetize artists.

At this point, it is difficult for me to think of a game company that is more absuive and exploitative of its most truly dedicated fans… aside from Roblox.

Ok then, keep paying all your favorite artist’s bills with ‘appreciation’.

… They call it a labor of love, without the stated goal of making money…

Because if their stated goal was to make money, Bethesda would sue them into poverty induced early graves.

Oh, well, ‘Bethesda apprectiating what the Skyblivion people are doing’ would look something like hiring the mod team to complete their work in house, as an actual official product.

… So that they could be, you know, paid for their passionate work.

Passion doesn’t pay bills.

Does… did everyone just now not remember how that was a thing that used to happen? Mod teams actually getting hired, paid?

Particularly with Valve, back in the late 90s through 00’s?

Bethseda certainly wouldn’t love to see that, they’d sue them into… ahem, well, Oblivion, if they tried.