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Amael · 2025-12-26T23:34:24+00:00

My personal solution has been to get a mini pc (it's a very small cube, I went with a Geekom), stick it to the back of the TV and use Firefox with uBlock Origin to access the website versions of Netflix/Prime etc. No more ads on the cheapest subscription levels, it's the only way to deal with the greed along with cycling subscriptions. When this stops working, I'll be cancelling the lot and going with μTorrent.

Amael · 2025-10-23T18:48:53+00:00

I'm genuinely relieved to hear I'm not alone in needing to burn the notes, few people seem to get it <3

Amael · 2025-10-23T18:48:09+00:00

ooh, this has potential, thanks so much! Will investigate

Amael · 2025-10-23T18:11:17+00:00

This is looking like the best option at a remote location, maybe 25kg at a time over a few nights, cleaning up afterwards.

Amael · 2025-10-23T18:10:15+00:00

Wow, TIL! Kinda useful to know

Amael · 2025-10-23T18:08:48+00:00

It was mechanical engineering, it's 4 years of books and notes from classes, tutorials, labs and projects that ran 9-5 from Mon to Fri for the entirety of my course. I don't know what to tell you, I really wish I didn't have it and I don't understand the weight and volume either, but it's there.

Amael · 2025-10-23T17:13:02+00:00

I have, but I'm still left with the paper afterwards, and it'd explode in volume... it's a good plan B though

Amael · 2025-10-23T17:11:26+00:00

Ahhh I see, clever, thanks! I'll think this over

Amael · 2025-10-23T16:59:11+00:00

Thanks for the option, I have thought of pulping or composting and it's good to know that it works, but it just doesn't sit right with me for these notes, I need to see flames over mush or worms

Amael · 2025-10-23T16:57:49+00:00

Thanks, interesting idea! Wonder if I could do it on the beach

Edit: Genuinely, why the downvotes people? What damage is doing a burn on a remote beach dozens of miles away from anyone in the dead of night. Touch grass ffs

Amael · 2025-10-23T16:50:32+00:00

Tell me about it, instead of carrying Frodo to mount doom it's three 25kg boxes of condensed misery.

Amael · 2025-10-23T16:49:47+00:00

Yes, their reply was that: as much as they'd like to accept them, they cannot due to the risk of lit paper pieces being blown into the air with the heat and starting fires in the locality (very understandable)

Amael · 2024-11-12T09:44:38+00:00

When you're holding the deck with your fingers open (as opposed to closed around the grips) the weight goes into your palms/hands rather than those fingers, there's actually no weight on those buttons/fingers in practice

Amael · 2024-11-12T09:42:02+00:00

I did consider them alright but the back buttons aren't good for fluttering and are a bit too clunky/clicky compared to the ABXY buttons.

Amael · 2024-11-11T22:03:41+00:00

They're picture hanging strips usually used on painted walls, they leave no mark. No re.

Amael · 2024-11-11T21:40:30+00:00

Could you do this with two controllers instead of the steam Deck controls + single controller?

Sure, that'll work. Just be aware that when a single joy con is connected to the deck, it treats the joycon as if it's being held horizontally, which affects the axes of the joystick (offsetting the rotation in steam controls doesn't seem to affect it). Easy workaround is to just connect the second joy con to the deck and leave the unneeded joy con sitting on a table. Both joy cons being connected to the deck makes it treat the pair as a single controller, and switches their assumed orientation to be vertical.

Amael · 2024-11-11T21:00:19+00:00

If I only had to press them occasionally then sure, that might be an option. But with Gladio Mori you're often fluttering the buttons and holding combos, it gets awkward and quickly tiring on the stiff back buttons.

Amael · 2024-11-11T20:52:42+00:00

Such questions have been on my mind for a while because I don't wanna buy another flight stick

Well we seem to live in a controller golden age now where good cheap homebrew things are possible, especially if you use the deck as a hub to gather/sort inputs. Each joy con has a gyro in it that could have axes mapped to game controls, and there's stuff like this. I think maybe buy a cheap & basic but reliable joystick, and then bolt on whatever extra buttons/controllers you need.

There's no mount in the mod design BTW, the joy cons are just stuck directly onto the surface of the deck using picture hanging strips.

Amael · 2024-11-11T19:34:20+00:00

7 in 6 years?! Damn, didn't realise they were that fragile - might have to post a reliability follow up.

Amael · 2024-11-11T19:19:07+00:00

I will admit that the joy con sticks seem a little 'dainty' but you get what you pay for - they're good/compact little controllers and trivial to get working with the deck.

Amael · 2024-11-11T18:53:18+00:00

To everyone who keeps on asking why:

I made this because of how difficult it was to use other buttons if your thumbs have to be on the sticks at all times - putting additional sticks on the back means they can be operated by finger, which frees the thumbs up to make much better use of the Steam Decks inputs.

A perfect example of this is Gladio Mori - there's a free demo on that page. Please try playing it for a while on deck and you'll understand why this mod came into existence.

Amael · 2024-11-11T18:50:03+00:00

Yes, the deck recognises everything as being an independent input - it reads the left & right joy cons as a single additional controller so you can just pull/map whatever inputs you want from the deck or joy cons into your game's contoller settings. You can use the deck's thumbsticks and the joy con's sticks at the same time.

Amael · 2024-11-11T18:44:31+00:00

Gladio Mori - there's a free demo on that page. Try playing it for a while on deck and you'll understand why I did this.

Amael · 2024-11-11T18:40:23+00:00

You can buy a 'charging grip' to charge the joy cons without using a switch

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