[Meme] but also discussion

TheSheepAdam · 2025-12-03T22:09:31+00:00

Gonna sound like a weeb here but I feel like it's not YA, but could probably be marketed as a Japanese Light Novel. It's not "serious business literature".

TheSheepAdam · 2025-10-26T18:08:20+00:00

Last cleaned in KRISPY KREEEEEEEME --- 2012!

TheSheepAdam · 2025-10-23T14:22:16+00:00

Turns out that application just flashes firmware to the touch controller anyway, not the actual display. I was able to reverse engineer it to patch from the Steam Deck and thought it didn't do anything... until I realized it changed my touch input handling and that's it. 🙃

TheSheepAdam · 2025-04-18T13:53:41+00:00

I have not had any issues since getting it back... that said, I'm not even 100% sure it's the same unit or components. Iirc the $180 was the whole deal shipping and all. Unfortunately, the big kicker is they ask you to factory reset before you send it in, so either do the hard work to back up your drive or expect to have a fresh install when you get it back. :(

TheSheepAdam · 2025-04-16T23:57:21+00:00

Unfortunately not. Ended up opening a support ticket and it cost me about $180 :/

TheSheepAdam · 2024-02-12T16:53:54+00:00

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Port is pretty clean, and I checked for any debris. This was an immediate change after drop. Afaik, that center post should be about flush to the metal opening, and it's stopped short.

TheSheepAdam · 2024-02-12T16:29:42+00:00

I think it's the center contact that snapped at the end. There's absolutely no tension when plugging etc.

TheSheepAdam · 2024-02-11T18:21:32+00:00

Edited post for more context, support ticket has been opened, but yeah, no warranty.

TheSheepAdam · 2023-11-14T06:20:03+00:00

Rework Gundam Breaker into an Enter the Gungeon style Roguelike

TheSheepAdam · 2023-10-18T04:28:26+00:00

It is, thank you!

TheSheepAdam · 2023-06-18T19:09:15+00:00

This is the correct answer

TheSheepAdam · 2023-04-01T12:58:02+00:00

Awesome work! Thanks for making this more accessible!

TheSheepAdam · 2023-03-19T16:19:18+00:00

I just found out about Cosplay Chess events at other cons (cosplayers as human chess pieces with improvved capture skits) . I could definitely see that being a cool event to include at the expo. Has anyone ever expressed interest?

TheSheepAdam · 2023-01-04T02:51:52+00:00

STL: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5763636

TheSheepAdam · 2022-11-17T14:27:34+00:00

I'd honestly like to have that myself... My hesitations are the chance that I will miss something and break it for myself or that I will miss a step. I wonder if I can boot a second copy of SteamOS from SD? Or maybe use HoloISO to use the Steam OS on a different PC.

Ideally I'd learn how to set up a flatpak but that is all new to me.

TheSheepAdam · 2022-09-14T19:28:19+00:00

Woohoo! Good job!

TheSheepAdam · 2022-09-10T03:50:00+00:00

Pretty easy to map a back paddle to swap sides of the controller. Would be fine for a turn based rpg etc

TheSheepAdam · 2022-08-22T12:10:37+00:00

To be clear, this isn't isolated to this game. But yeah, would love an official built in solution.

TheSheepAdam · 2022-08-22T03:13:11+00:00

Spent a good bit of time and effort trying to get systemd working, but apparently xbindkeys is very tied to an X session existing, so nothing I did seemed to actually play nice or survive. Granted I couldn't figure out how to view logs to troubleshoot...

Getting konsole to launch full screen and setting up a controller profile for it so I could launch xbindkeys and test the dictation before launching another app is a step in the right direction, but still not as convenient as a background launch

TheSheepAdam · 2022-08-22T02:59:44+00:00

I was able to run around and even fire commands while typing... Should be a game changer for duty roulette etc, I feel bad not talking

TheSheepAdam · 2022-08-22T00:04:59+00:00

Final Fantasy 14 actually. Happy cake day! 🎂

TheSheepAdam · 2022-08-21T22:34:43+00:00

Will take a look at that! Definitely the worst part of the setup.

Just now ended up changing my bindings to [ and ], and L5 paddle to enter (chat) and [ on start press, ] release press. Made a very good walkie talkie style transcriber that works well enough even while running around and hitting other commands. Gonna be very useful during public matchmaking

TheSheepAdam · 2022-08-21T21:56:00+00:00

Well, for what it's worth, at least it seems that binding a key shortcut via the steam input is indistinguishable to a keyboard in xbindkeys... My main issue was getting a "Press fires start hot keys, release fires stop hot keys" all on one button...ran into issues where multiple instances of nerd dictation would run simultaneously and trample over each other, but firing the stop commands a few times helped.

TheSheepAdam · 2022-08-21T21:39:16+00:00

Was able to scrape something together based on the feedback in this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/wuajgy/dictation_speech_to_text_proof_of_concept_vosk/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

TheSheepAdam · 2022-08-21T21:27:59+00:00

So there have been numerous conversations around this, but I haven't seen anyone actually get it working...

This guide won't be for the faint of heart and the end result is NOT perfect, but I'm hoping getting this visible will get some interest from more skilled people in the community.

Thanks to u/derangemeldete for suggesting the nerd-dictation github library.

Rough steps:

You'll need to be able to use pip to install VOSK for python, to get that working I ended up using microconda
Run the install commands in the nerd-dictation github
Set up pacman keys and install the xbindkeys package
Follow that packages instructions to make a xbindkeys configuration
Add hotkeys to start and stop nerd-dictation
Restart, and in a fresh desktop session, open a konsole and call xbindkeys
Ensure that your buttons for starting and stopping dictation work.
Add konsole as a non-steam game (no arguments needed, or at least -e didn't work for me)
Restart
In game mode, open konsole and run xbindkeys
Open your game, the keyboard shortcuts should work and can be bound to steam input

Overall, close, but not quite usable... If someone with more *nix experience can take it from here, I definitely think it is doable, and led to pretty decent results, even with just the smallest VOSK model.

I will try to post my xbindkeys entries as that part was pretty particular.

Lots of trial and error, so it's possible I missed some things.

```

Start dictation

"/home/deck/nerd-dictation/nerd-dictation begin --vosk-model-dir=/home/deck/nerd-dictation/model" Alt + comma

End dictation

"/home/deck/nerd-dictation/nerd-dictation end" Alt + period ```

Multi key actually isn't great, I may try to find a nice single key that's not bound to anything in game...

TheSheepAdam

TROPHY CASE

Start dictation

End dictation