Ok: I'm done with that knowing. I am in fact the "other" who has repeatedly come across Valve's issue with the display settings not working right. I have somehow permanently lost the ability to adjust resolution after a previous update was applied to my Steam Deck.

Do you know why I wrote "their?" Because when the internal code inside of the released updates are this slipshod and messy, it means that Valve might as well just own or lease the device to me. I must use the Steam Deck's little LCD screen because somehow I've bricked functionality in the display's setting through updates or something unexpectedly changing. I've done everything possible to try and fix this issue with both 1080p and 4k monitors. I am telling you now that nothing fixes this little constraint that Valve put in there. In the future, businesses like Valve must take responsibility for what they make and sell to the public.

When I wrote "based on Linux" I meant that a person is able to switch to the Steam Deck's desktop mode (it is the KDE environment) within the device itself. I don't use Steam's apps other than their download manager and I sure as hell won't install Windows 11 on anything like this.

This is absolutely untrue since Steam's architecture is based on Linux. Also Steam is supposed to be hardware agnostic when you hook up a peripheral. For example I am able to use a Microsoft mouse with my Steam Deck and some random brand Bluetooth-based keyboard.

PS - I am sure I got 0 stars for a reason. I am sure Slashdot's ratings system is unmanned. It's almost as if they know about me in advance through using some algorithm.

Maybe it's because I'm too verbose and Slashdot hates bots. I write so well that /they/ don't even know the difference between me and some machine's narrative.

I am headed back to school later this summer to restart my journalism career. I am interested in working in tech media after I graduate. Here's something that's not discussed much in the pro-industry tech media about Steam... The Steam Deck's rather serious problem interfacing with 4k and 1080 pixel monitors. Anytime an update is run it is total and absolute risk taken by the typical Steam user. Steam designs ad-hoc software for their system's display settings which are borderline garbage right down at the crucial software level.

I have lost the use of my own Steam Deck's HDMI capabilities with my dock and hooking up my Steam Deck to a 1080p monitor. My Steam Deck no longer operates correctly and I did not do anything wrong. I've changed my Deck's settings and applied all of the required updates. There is no support now for me (my warranty's expired) and there's not much help online -- just commiseration from other Steam Deck users facing the same issue. Never again, Steam.

I think that the Steam company is getting into consoles because they have idiots in charge of development. Those people can barely handle graphics drivers so they've scaled down and are now dealing in consoles: https://nickwinlund.dev/~nick/...

Recently I was building an AMD-based PC system for a client. I started with 32 GB of DDR5 and there was some kind of systemic lag occurring while I was making changes in this PC's mobo UEFI BIOS settings. My USB mouse was lagging inexplicably. I eventually recalled that the usual A-B-A-B method for assigning dissimilar memory still applies. When I inserted my memory in the correct order everything seemed fine.

Undaunted, I got this system with its two SSD's each separately running Ubuntu Budgie and Windows 11 to boot, however my boot time is now on the order of 12 to 15 seconds start time. This seems an extra long time from my viewpoint. In the past — a similar setup would take 5 to 7 seconds, tops.

Slashdot: please stop sharing links to the sites that disseminate X links. Does Boris use Mastodon? X CEO Elmo Musk is a little fascist and a Trump ally who really wants to paywall the entire Internet through his own profit motives. To hell with Musk.

Incidentally, the pre "pre-alpha" releases of KDELinux are available only in raw (not ISO) format, and so one has to use an AppImage program called KDE ISO Image Writer on another Linux machine or your other Windows machine to burn the *.raw KDELinux installation image to your USB thumb drive.

I was unable to find Python 2.7 after running updates via flatpak, so I'm using Homebrew on my "pre pre-alpha" KDE Linux.

One difference is that KDE Linux uses flatpak. It can take a bit of getting used to! I'm already learning how to use flatpak in place of apt.

Saw this on KDE Linux's webpage: "Lots of internal Plasma-aligned apps haven't been Flatpak'd yet (Icon Explorer, Emoji Picker, Info Center, etc) and should be."

This could mean that the installer is itself a Plasma-aligned app. Maybe that's why I encountered a fatal install error. I don't think it's my GPU because the system launches into desktop mode quickly.

I'm just a software progressive -- I don't work directly with KDE Linux's developers. I also won't tell -- or really push the envelope in any way. I'm now aware in a sense that some of our global competitors would rather not see these people succeed.

I'm going to check out the pre-alpha release! I was having just one install problem:

My attempt at installing KDE Linux several days ago complained about a /system/@flatpak configuration that went awry. The read-only filesystem KDE Linux uses creates an interesting problem for the user if something internal is not working correctly during the Linux installation. I didn't know or couldn't understand how to take out entries that were using flatpak IN THE INSTALLER itself (likely due to the read-only filesystem). I was only able to somehow modify a *.conf file and doing this did nothing to fix the broken installer.

"You can only install sandboxed apps that go in their own corner of the OS, and here the plan is that users will install Flatpak (and possibly Snap, "if it's not too hard and the UX is OK") packages using the KDE Discover app"

No, it won't be anything of the sort. Because bureaucracy never dies and that goes for all of Europe, too.

^ That is a major "no shit" statement right there. It really took me a while to learn this.

I don't think Wi-Fi drivers for RPi 4 or RPi 5 will ever be supported by AARCH64 FreeBSD. Every time I look into this I get a NIMBY vibe from the FreeBSD devs. They just don't care about something that small.

What's astonishing to me is that FreeBSD, after all of this time, still does not have an additional part included in their installer to install and test Xorg and say, XFCE or GNOME desktop environments. That right there just seems to be "in error" and does not sit well with me. Sure, I could use Ghost BSD or something else. It does beg the question: why does FreeBSD do this to their whole base? Do they enjoy making the non-server crowds who run FreeBSD on their PC's and laptops miserable?

A few years ago I tried to use an older version of FreeBSD on a RPi 4 but the OS didn't have Wi-Fi support for Pi boards. Has the status for this changed with AArch64/ARM64?

In other words, would you know if they got it working and this page is now out of date, or is Wi-Fi still unsupported?

https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/R...

ok thanks for clarifying that. That makes more sense now.

This is dumb. Where are our clean, safe cores? Why are there always compromises with chip and software security? Why can't Intel stay ahead of the curve?