• Twinklebreeze
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    1332 months ago

    What idiot would install windows on a steam deck. Defeats the whole point.

  • Lord Wiggle
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    1152 months ago

    Poor woman. Having a baby with some weirdo who installed windows on his steam deck, who brought his gaming setup when you’re in labor. Idiocracy was a prediction, not a comedy.

  • @[email protected]
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    832 months ago

    The kind of guy who installs Windows on his steam deck is the same kind of guy who won’t let his wife get an epidural.

  • shameless
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    632 months ago

    Why would anyone brag about any of this. His poor partner.

    • @[email protected]
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      I can see bringing the Deck, like you might be sitting there for at least 24 hours, you don’t need to be sitting there holding their hand the whole time…

      But the keyboard? The mouse? The HEADPHONES? It’s not like you’re in an extended stay. You’re getting that baby out and going. You don’t need all that.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          You wanna be able to hear if your partner needs anything. Ear buds would at least mean that they can only put one in at a time.

          • Norah (pup/it/she)
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            32 months ago

            You’ve never worn headphones with one half off your ear before? Arguably better than just putting one earbud in, because you can still hear the game audio.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 months ago

              Those are over ear closed backs with thicc pads, no way are those going to be comfortable to one ear. Some Grados, maybe, but again the more important thing is hearing things in the room, not the game.

              • Norah (pup/it/she)
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                12 months ago

                Okay you’re right about the one in the image, but I was more talking about a hypothetical here, bc this guy clearly did bring a keyboard and mouse too. Some Sennheiser HD650s would be perfect imo.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      Right… I hope this isn’t the begining of a shitty broken home and the birth of lost soul.

    • @[email protected]
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      You guys have clearly never had kids. It almost never goes like in the movies, you rush into hospital, and then you wait. Especially if the water broke, then you wait few days. There is absolutely nothing to do in the hospital. I would have killed for steamdeck, or even a switch.

    • Amon
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      152 months ago

      Windows on steam deck Is blasphemy

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮
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    I like how everyone is giving shit to the dude for “not being there for his wife,” because I remember the OG post from Reddit where OP and his wife were explaining that it was cool, she said it was okay and even encouraged it, and was unconscious most of the time during recovery anyway.

    I don’t even think the windows on steam deck part is even from the OG, but maybe I just missed that in the comments.

    • LiveLM
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      182 months ago

      For me it’s the bit about bringing almost a whole desk setup instead of using the portable as a portable

      • Natanael
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        12 months ago

        Yeah seriously use a gaming laptop at that point. The point of the Steam Deck is that it’s compact and quick to put away

    • @[email protected]
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      122 months ago

      People don’t realize how much downtime there actually is even in a normal pregnancy. Baby and mama get sleepy. But in something like an emergency C section scenario, especially if the baby is early you could be looking at a half week recovery period for mom and the baby gets locked up in NICU jail for a week… Where you only get visiting hours for your own kid.

    • @[email protected]
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      You shouldn’t just be there because the woman is important to you, but above all the child. From that point on, it shows that he’s not in the mood and is more focused on his hobbies. So he can’t separate himself from his shitty technology at such important events and maybe just read a book or something…

      I feel bad for the kids future

      • @[email protected]
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        102 months ago

        Bruh newborns sleep a lot.

        So do women recovering from childbirth.

        Most of what they’re doing is sleeping.

        For multiple days, you’re kind of just at the hospital to be support when needed. There’s not a lot to do if you don’t bring it with you.

        One thing is clear about a lot of guys here, and that’s that they don’t have children and are almost certainly single.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          Yeah at the very least you need a book cause shit gets boring and you’re luck if you have a tv in the room

          • @[email protected]
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            12 months ago

            pair a controller with my phone and use emulators on that. it’s good enough for the hospital

  • Muad'dib
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    422 months ago

    Who the hell puts Windows on a Steam Deck? What a loser

    Oh and he’s not being present with his wife

  • @[email protected]
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    402 months ago

    Not to rain on the anti windows parade, but he has to install windows to play Tarkov. You cant play it on linux due to anticheat.

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      Although I understand this on a factual level, I still question the set of priorities that leads someone to install an operating system in order to run a single game.

      Also, his wife must’ve been enthused to see he brought all his “performance upgrades.”

      • @[email protected]
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        82 months ago

        I imagine they’re dual booting.

        if they already have a copy of the OS anyways, I totally get it. If you have the resources to play the game you wanna play, any would you intentionally deprive yourself of that?

        But yeah, bringing all that to the hospital is fuckin nuts. God I hope that his wife is a huge nerd too and that this was like a joke between them and he didn’t actually use it during active labor or after the baby was born.

    • @[email protected]
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      I think you can play PvE Tarkov because the raids run on your machine (except for Streets). But if you’re already willing play PvE you might as well play SPtarkov which does work on Linux and has a modding scene that offers a significantly better PvE experience.

      EDIT: just a PSA that Tarkov uses Battleye, which supports Proton. Just like with almost every other game the only reason you can’t play Tarkov on Linux is because the developer doesn’t want to you to do that.

    • @[email protected]
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      Because there aren’t 100000000000000 other, much better games to play out there. Nope. Tarkov is the only game ever created that is any good. So good that people are willing to allow rootkit anti-cheat garbageware to be installed on their system to play this holy, godly, superhyper great game.

  • Dragonfruit
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    372 months ago

    I’m no audio expert, but I feel like “audiophile headphones” and “headphones you can power directly from a steam deck” are probably mutually exclusive

    • @[email protected]
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      272 months ago

      Not necessarily, some high-end headphones manage to have a low resistance and high sensitivity combo and are easy to “drive” without a dedicated amp.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      I use planar headphones which are not too bad to drive, but most of the time I need some extra power. The deck actually is capable of blowing my eardrums out still

    • Caveman
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      12 months ago

      There are good headphones that can work with a headphone jack.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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      I’m betting that it can drive 250Ω headphones. Verifying.

      EDIT: Yup. DT990s actually doing pretty decent.

      EDIT 2: Not that I expect that OOP has actually nice-sounding and comfortable cans (the latter, along with repairability, is the reason that I have em in the first place), since they referred to them as “audiophile” headphones.