Local Autist at your service, analysis is what my brain is optimized for.

… I am just trying to ‘yes, and!’ this.

I think its awesome that someone modded a Switch this hard, I think its awesome the person I replied to loves their modded handhelds, and I am just sharing my own tales of modding and tinkering with the Deck to show what you can do with it as well, and how I angle my goals of modding a bit differently than the person I’m replying to, so its a better fit for me.

I did not at any point state that their approach to modding is any kind of wrong or inferior.

You can tweak and (hard and soft) mod a Steam Deck as well.

… Your starting point is just more powerful hardware, and a much more permissive software system that basically begs you to do whatever you want to it, compared to a Switch.

I get that this level of modding if a Switch is an accomplishment, because it is more challenging… that the modding itself is what is enjoyable for many people.

But many other people enjoy a different proportion of ‘tinkering’ to ‘actually using it’. Or different kinds of tinkering.

Like… I have an OLED Deck. For me, running RPCS3 is… well, I could either dl the flatpak of it and configure it myself, or let Emu/RetroDeck take care of that, or switch over from SteamOS 3 to Bazzite, set up a distrobox instance of Fedora (what Bazzite is built off of), then just literally download all the source code and required libraries… and completely compile the entire emulator myself, on the Steam Deck itself.

I actually did this with O3DE and Godot a few times… a bit buggy, but hey, its a fun way for me to get more familiar with just… how compiling works, as well as the Fedora ecosystem… most of my previous experience with compiling/development is within Debian based distros.

You can literally develop a game, in Godot, or Unity, or many 2D only/mostly FOSS engines… on a Steam Deck.

As far as hard modding?

A year (or two?) back now… somebody figured out that you can actually take the SSD out of a Steam Deck, run the OS from the microSD card… add an adapter to the SSD slot, and then connect that to a full, PC grade eGPU with its own power supply… and this requires you to actually physically cut out (or I guess remove the entire) a part of the back exterior housing.

But, if you can do all this, you now have basically a hyper charged Steam Deck with waaay more rendering power you can basically use as a decently powerful desktop PC…

But, this only works with Windows (running off of the microSD card), and your Deck is… no longer really portable, unless you consider detaching the eGPU and SSD adapter thingy, putting the SSD back in, and put a standard backplate back on the thing… as an acceptable level of portability, lol.

Less … nearly insane … degrees of hardware modding are things like swapping out the joycons with halleffect sticks, custom body shells (the translucent atomic purple n64 style ones are quite popular, and the translucence actually helps a bit with heat dissipation),

…custom colored button and dpads… sort of … skin like wraps for the touchpads, or whole bodyshell… semi squishy grip style wraps that can help if you have larger, or injured hands/wrists…

…oh right, the LCD variants have some fairly popular entire screen replacements that give you a higher resolution than the native screen… not sure if anything like that exists for the OLED variants yet.

… Does the Pope golf in the woods?

… I mostly found your comment pitiable, not offensive.

As in, your metaphor is so crass and demonstrates such a fundamentally unserious approach to understanding reality, that it barely even registers as offensive, and immediately transcends into pity.

If you think this is some sort of… brush off your hands, phew, glad we made it out of that! type situation… if you think the suffering is over, disproportionately for Americans but also for the rest of the world…

This conveys to me that you have an extremely naive and simplistic grasp of how history moves, how international relations work, how fascism works, how economics works… etc.

Hey, you know what?

You’re right.

This study focuses pretty much entirely on forced marriage as a punishment for men/boys who fail to live up to hypermasculine standards.

I misread it.

… It is nearly midnight, and I lost my glasses years ago now.

Doing this whole convo on a cheap phone I bought at a gas station years ago now, many states away.

Homelessness is not fun.

Either way, yep, my bad, I did not represent this study accurately, apologies.

Maybe tomorrow I’ll try to find a study that actually attempts to even document the male propensity to… act physically, and violently, on behalf of someone they care about, as compared to women…

But frankly, I am both baffled by how difficult it is to find like, statistically valid, large sample studies on this, as well as being baffled by your incredulity to the validity of this concept.

I… guess maybe a lookup of man on man v man on women v women on women assault and battery and murder statistics… if they all actually include some kind of ‘why did this occur’ in the records… could verify or falsify this… but it seems like I would literally have to do such a meta analysis myself.

That… or it is midnight and I am too tired to figure out how to search for such a study properly.

Either way, the… entire ingrained, toxic masculinity/patriarchy paradigm… men being both socially expected to, and being generally physically more naturally predisopsed to do acts of physical violence, often to uphold the honor of, of avenge an insult to a friend or lover…

This concept is so widely ingrained in nearly all cultures, through nearly all history… and is easily visible if one ever just… goes to a moderately busy bar or other social event with a good mix of men and women…

That I am incredulous at your incredulity of this being a phenomenon that happens, that a guy will insult another guy’s girlfriend, and this will cause a fight between the two men.

I understand your desire for actual empirical numbers to work with, but I do no comprehend how you can doubt that… this is a common thing that happens quite often, it is a huge part of patriarchy and toxic masculinity itseld.

Anyway… I’m off to bed now.

I am not looking for validation from you, as it is obvious from the start you aren’t interested in empathizing with a man, please stop talking to me like you just finished your BA in Psych or Social Work and are talking to a troubled teen.

You are intentionally playing dumb and trying to psychoanalyze me, to avoid addressing the actual totality of what I have said.

This is disrespectful.

It is a fairly basic and well understood fact that men tend to value respect and perceptions of being respected significantly more than women, on average.

…

I said what I said as a direct response to your response, to being asked:

‘What are men supposed to do with this besides feel bad?’

Your response was essentially:

Men shouldn’t feel bad about this.

and

Be an ally to women.

…

Ok, so…

For the first part, you are just outright denying men the capacity or right to … feel a certain way, express emotions about an experience they had.

This is fundamentally at odds with the conception of tearing down the enforced gender normativity of patriarchy, a huge element of which is men stuffing down their emotions, being told when and how and what they’re allowed to have emotions about, which is generally: suck it up buttercup, your feelings don’t matter, your emotions are not valid.

You are directly mandating all men abide by this rule.

You are directly enforcing the patriarchy, toxic masculinity.

…

For the second part,

I’ve been an ally to women (and many others) for 20 years.

Call that my sense of honor.

So have many other men.

I gave you an anecdote, a case study of one, my lived experience of how that worked out for me.

It didn’t work for me personally, and it isn’t working at a broader societal scale either.

The ‘gender wars’ are intsensifying, male incel edgelord culture got a fascist kleptocracy elected to run the US government, more and more marriages are failing and more and more young adults have never had a serious relationship of any kind, nor even a sexual partner… and all of this is fueling a … ‘return to the Handmaid’s tale’ wave of politics and policies that massively infringe upon the rights of women.

Your strategy is not working.

It is not producing an inclusive, more understanding, more empathetic, more tolerant or more patient culture.

It is producing the opposite.

…

‘Blame all men’ is your message, your strategy, distilled into a slogan. Be wary of all of them, all the time, you never know which one could hurt you.

A more sound strategy would not alienate allies, it would be more specific, targeted, with actually useful heuristics or rules that can be practically applied so as to actually be able to discern the difference between likely ally and likely foe.

What needs to be happening is the development of a constructive dialogue… not a hardening and intensifying of recalcitrance.

… Unless your goal actually is to escalate tensions.

Sorry, got that whole Anarchist thing going on, a system’s purpose is what it ultimately does, not what it claims to do.

… Its still all downhill from here.

I get what you’re saying, and you’re not wrong in that sense…

But we are heading for / already in the … general collapse of modern technological society.

Matrix code has too much technical debt?

Real world has too much fragile complexity, too much accumulated and unavoidable environmental destruction, too many cheaply extracted and expended vital resources (leaving only the expensive to extract), and too many mouths to feed, who can only be fed with those now expensive vital resources as part of the food production system.

The actuaries broadly agree with this scenario as well, though their timeline is a bit more optimistic.

https://actuaries.org.uk/planetary-solvency

50% collapse of world GDP in 2070 to 2100, as compared to right now.

We overshot 1.5C last year.

88% of the world’s coral reefs are bleached and basically permanently dead.

Hansen’s latest climate papers are trying to explain why our climate models have been wrong… in the optimistic direction, fundamental climate sensitivity is actually greater than consensus.

Antarctica melting faster than projections, Artic getting closer and closer to a Blue Ocean event, again faster than expected.

We might have the AMOC collapse in the next 10 years.

Etc.

Damn. I did not know you actually could litterbox train them, that’s amazing.

I’ve had ex partners with guinea pigs and ferrets… but never rabbits.

I’ll have to bookmark the wabbitwiki, thank you!

Adorable! =D

Ciel is a more creative name than Bunnicula, my first thought, lol.

Here’s a study.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0886260521997928

Its about ‘Honor Based Violence’ as it pertains to males being involved in violence against other males, when the inciting incident is a woman’s honor being insulted.

Also how forced marriages harm and are used to punish non gender conforming males in hyperpatriarchichal societies.

… The study begins by basically saying that uh, no one really bothers to study this within a feminist framework, almost all existing research is geared toward how women are harmed.

What I’d also recommend is being an ally to women in your life already. If women felt more male allyship during the inside/day, then maybe they’d be less fearful of men outside/at night.

Been doing that for about two decades now.

I’ve gotten guys slipping roofies in girls drinks thrown outta bars.

Gotten in many verbal arguments protecting LGBTQ folks against bigots, a few came to blows.

Much more than that as well, all the worldview of an anarchist that fundamentally believes any system, at any level of society, that perpetuates injustice is itself unjust, no matter how it claims to work, worked for nonprofits helping the homeless… particularily women domestic abuse survirors…

… Doesn’t matter, I am a white male, dress fairly tradtionally cishetmale most of the time, and I am now very, very used to being prejudged as potentially violent, getting insults thrown at me criticizing a worldview I don’t have.

Even more ironic in that I’ve actually been domestically abused (physically assaulted, if that isn’t clear) by a former female partner…

Wasn’t … part of tearing down the patriarchy… supposed to include encouraging men to be ok with being more vulnerable, being ok with crying, not being judged for expressing buried emotions, in a a non threatening manner?

…

Has anyone ever said to you, or have you ever said…

Wow, I didn’t realize what I was saying, the way I was saying it, was hurtful to you… I’ll try to be more conscious of how my actions affect those around me, in the future?

… And really, truly, mean it?

I’ve not been religious for a long time now, but I don’t know how else to phrase this:

I pray that one day I can put that knowledge toward just having a pet bunny.

… That would be nice.

Do… if you keep a bunbun as a pet, do they do better alone, or are they social enough that they need a buddy… or would two buddies in something like an apartment lead to fights?

… Can you potty train a rabbit like a cat, and let it roam around, or will it just relieve itself whereever?

… Turns out… if you go full ‘make line go up…’

… Line do not go up.

Line go down.

SAD!!!

(apologies to any readers who may have a PTSD reflex to boomer baby talk, their brains are mush, they struggle with complex concepts like ‘how does a tariff work’)

Noted.

I mean, will they eat each other if you can’t feed em for a while?

… I realize that is quite a grizzly thing to ask, and I don’t mean to be as flippant as the first comment…

But that would be a useful thing to know if you’re desperate enough to start a rabbit breeding pen for food, and you also have no idea what feed prices/availability will be.

… Is… is that seriously … the origin of this phrase?

That does… at least make a basic level of sense…

Close!

I used to compile all the high level analytics and projection reports for all the Vice Presidents and Board Members, but they didn’t even notice when I corrected a massive category of double counted revenue within a month of taking over from the person whose position I was taking over.

After a year of being absurdly overworked, doing the job of half of the IT department for them, so that I could actually access the data I needed, being hilariously underpaid, and becoming far, far too well versed in passive aggressive, buzzword heavy, actionable information empty, corpospeak…

I left for greener pastures.

(not Discord lol. did contract db admin type work for MSFT for a bit, then said executive reports for a massive import export firm… then nonprofits, serving the homeless)

… take notes, Americans.

Pope’s dead by the touch of the/an AntiChrist, Easter has passed, and I guess a whole lot of Russians are about to meet Jesus, delivery via the clouds.

… I mean, fuck it, the world is basically a Millenium Dawn submod being played by WhatIfAltHist at this point, why fucking not.