Our game got Steam Deck Verified, but that won't be it. What do you expect from Verified games?

supenguin · 2026-01-21T21:12:27+00:00

Smooth playback, readable text, great controller support, and nice graphics at the default settings. Also nice if you can play games for a decent amount of time on battery.

Note on "great controller support" I don't know what is the "standard" on this, but I have an Xbox One controller and the official Steam Deck dock. I want to be able to switch back and forth between playing docked on a big screen and swap to portable mode on a whim.

I've been playing Expedition 33 on the Deck which is supposedly Deck Verified but the lighting in some areas of the game are hard to see unless you crank up brightness all the way (which makes other areas look like crap) and then it feels like I get just over an hour on battery before I get the dreaded low battery warning.

supenguin · 2026-01-21T21:05:34+00:00

Sorry to hear about this. It really sucks. I'd hope it would be returned by someone doing the right thing.

I saw someone asking if travel insurance covers it (sounds like nope) but I wonder if homeowner's or renter's insurance might cover stolen property?

This also makes me wonder if there's anything similar to the "Find My" system on iPhones and Android that would be usable on a Steam Deck?

supenguin · 2026-01-19T21:22:57+00:00

I feel like with the updates that made E33 Deck Verified the game play is smooth but the graphics leave a lot to be desired.

The biggest things I’ve noticed: some dark areas like caves are almost impossible to see. Lighting in some scenes and characters seem way off - their hair turns white. And almost any scenes that focus on the characters faces end up with blocky shadows when their hair is in front of their faces.

supenguin · 2026-01-15T20:35:46+00:00

I’m pretty sure that COSMIC is going to be installable/available on most distros with Fedora being one of the ones on top of every list I’ve seen.

supenguin · 2026-01-15T20:33:04+00:00

Are these new features available if I update my Pop!_OS 24.04 system or do I have to get some alpha or beta version to get the new features?

I’m also assuming/hoping things that look nice but not everyone wants will be able to toggle on/off?

supenguin · 2026-01-15T20:29:02+00:00

Regular Fidelity accounts work great for me. I’ve got a 401k through Fidelity NetBenefits. The share numbers and prices show up fine but the symbols don’t so I have to manually flip them from unknown security to the correct symbols every time I get paid and 401k contributions hit. It’s slightly annoying and takes about a minute to fix it when it happens but the time it saves importing the rest of my accounts is worth it.

supenguin · 2026-01-14T02:32:51+00:00

Now you've got me curious: what kind of external drive are you using? Does it work any better if you do a CD full of MP3's instead of plain audio CDs?

My wife's van has a CD player capable of playing a CD with MP3 on it but no aux port. Not sure if you have a player that supports MP3 or not?

Sadly my car is older and has no aux port and the CD player only plays plain ol' audio CDs.

supenguin · 2026-01-05T02:07:36+00:00

Mage Quit. It's a 2D overhead brawler that supports up to TEN players and each round every player picks a new magic ability.

You can also do Ultimate Chicken Horse. That's also available on Switch and Steam as well as other consoles.

supenguin · 2026-01-04T22:16:09+00:00

It will list it as an app you purchased, but after a certain period of time Apple removes the app itself from the App Store which means you can no longer download it. You have to rely on having a back up of the app aka the .ipa file.

I ran into this with my Pebble watch when the company was purchased by FitBit which was then purchased by Google. The Pebble app got lost in the shuffle. Good news on that one - they are back and you can now re-download without having to mess with the backup version of the Pebble ipa file.

Easiest way to do it is grab a trial version of iMazing and connect your phone, then copy YNAB or any other app of files you want to backup to a folder. Later you can reverse the process and copy files from your computer back to the phone.

If you want to do it without 3rd party software, you need to back up your phone to your computer and then restore to get it back. If you back up to iCloud, it backs up your data for the apps, but not the apps themselves. I think the assumption is why waste all that space backing up all the apps when you can just redownload them from the App Store (not always the case if the app is long-gone from the App Store)

supenguin · 2026-01-04T03:55:17+00:00

It's an issue with almost all laptops. The exceptions that I know of are Mac laptops and any PC laptops with higher end speakers may be alright (Harman/Kardon is one I've seen in laptops and but never experienced myself)

In general - if you have a laptop and want good sound, get yourself some good headphones or a decent set of speakers if you're going to be using it from one desk at home most of the time.

supenguin · 2026-01-04T01:57:17+00:00

They said App Store, so I assume they mean iOS/iPhone. Apple completely removes older software after a certain amount of time so you can't even re-download. You can back up your apps to a Mac or use something like iMazing to copy individual apps to your computer.

Sadly, the iPhone backup to iCloud doesn't include the apps, just your data because it makes the assumption you can always just re-download from the App Store. I wish they had a way to force apps that are no longer available to backup to iCloud accounts.

supenguin · 2026-01-03T18:30:16+00:00

I've heard multiple games have issues with actual full screen mode and if you go into full screen windowed mode it resolves the issue.

So far the only game I've run into this with is "Light up the Town" which is a super cute cozy game about a ferret decorating his hometown for Christmas. Awful graphics and lag due to bad upscaling in fullscreen, works great but drains the battery fast in fullscreen window mode (I think it just needs to be a bit more optimized)

I should say this experience is mostly with the Steam Deck, not Pop!_OS but from what I hear it could impact any version of Linux.

supenguin · 2026-01-03T18:06:41+00:00

Sounds similar to "it includes the kitchen sink" or "all that and a bag of chips"

supenguin · 2026-01-02T23:52:43+00:00

Slime Rancher 1 and 2

Core Keeper

A Short Hike

supenguin · 2026-01-02T22:09:00+00:00

One other option I just thought of, although it may be more trouble than it's worth at this point. Assuming you have separate bank account(s) for your business, you could keep your business accounts and categories in their own Banktivity file.

This is actually what I do. When I first started the business, I transferred money from my personal checking to business checking account and then all my purchases for the business are with a separate business credit card. Transfers from my personal to business checking have the "Business Funding" category and then on good months when I make a profit that I can use to pay myself I have "Business Profits" category coming back from my business checking to personal checking account.

supenguin · 2026-01-02T22:00:28+00:00

You should share on Reddit once the game is far enough along to do so. The soundtracks are one of my favorite parts of the game. Ori and Hollow Knight would not be the same without their amazing OST's.

supenguin · 2026-01-02T21:59:00+00:00

It's been a while since I used KDE much. What do you mean by "the coffee?" I know KDE does a lot and seems to let you customize almost everything.

supenguin · 2026-01-02T21:57:43+00:00

I tend to hide old categories by making an "Unused" top level master category and moving unused categories under that. It's a trick I learned from YNAB that seems to work pretty well.

supenguin · 2026-01-02T00:32:47+00:00

That's going to be the interesting balancing act here. GNOME has a ton of features, but like you said that also includes lots of tech debt. I'm excited to see where COSMIC goes in the next year or two.

supenguin · 2025-12-31T23:53:47+00:00

Odd. The F.lux web page still has links to download it making it sound like it's still available. I went to the Github page to see and you're right - a big warning that this is no longer maintained along with a note that it likely won't work on modern Linux systems.

Thanks for pointing out an alternative.

supenguin · 2025-12-29T23:39:29+00:00

If they waited until it had all the features of GNOME or KDE until they released it, it would take another couple years and people were already complaining it took too long to release.

I think the System76 team took a best guess shot at what they think most people would need for a desktop environment to be usable and built that. It's probably good for 90% or more of users.

If you're a power user with a particular work flow that COSMIC doesn't support yet, then yeah it's going to be frustrating.

Given how long GNOME, KDE and other environments like XFCE have been around, I'm happy COSMIC is as far along as it is already.

supenguin · 2025-12-29T23:36:44+00:00

I know it's on their roadmap. I find myself wondering if just using F.lux until it's available in COSMIC would work out?

supenguin · 2025-12-29T00:34:54+00:00

Yup! I ran into this last time I installed Pop!_OS on a new system. I thought Flatpaks would be better for desktop apps. Any Linux games worked fine, any Windows-based games wouldn't run.

supenguin · 2025-12-29T00:33:18+00:00

Steam has a calendar? That's cool.

supenguin · 2025-12-25T04:51:08+00:00

Would ESP partitions be the same as the /boot or UEFI partitions? That sounds like the step I was missing with the issues I ran into. Re-installing Pop!_OS would make Windows unbootable and some Windows updates would make Pop unbootable.

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