Sony hate thread

[TVB]

It's more like an Apple TV than anything else.

As for their laptops and phones, VAIO was spun off into an independent company that Sony has a minority stake in, and still manufactures laptops. Sony themselves still manufacture phones, at least under the Xperia line, and they're actually pretty decent. I switched to one when LG stopped making phones, and I'm fairly happy with it.

Sony might be decent with technology and stuff, but they are also shit with entertainment, see also movies and games.

 

[Two Dollars]

I went ahead with the 512GB/anti-mat screen unit though, because I'm not personally confident to change internal parts in portable devices. Yeah there are Internet guides for replacing the default SSD, which can save up a bit of money too, but sometimes I can fit the description of the people you complain about when it comes to unfamiliar things too.

You know you can just get an SD card, right?

 

[BananaSplit²]

You know you can just get an SD card, right?

I already have a 1 TB Sandisk Extreme microSD inserted in it, for the PC games.
The internal storage is mainly to leave a large room for the shader cache (necessary for the PC games to run on Linux/Proton) in addition to store my library of retro console isos too. The base 64GB model would have definitely been a problem for me and the mat screen was my second reason to obtain the 512GB model instead.

 

[Epoch]

For those wondering, swapping the SSD in a Deck is as easy as removing the back plate, then removing a metal shield (there is a heat shield sticker you have to lift for one screw), then taking the SSD out like a laptop or any other computer, slide the shielding off and swap it to the new SSD then just install like a regular M2. You need to re-flash SteamOS but Valve provides a boot ISO on their site. The hardest part is probably re-flashing the OS, but anyone who has used a computer beyond basic stuff has probably done this already.

I got a 256gb model used for a bit more than the price of the 64gb model, dock and 128gb sd included, then swapped to a 1tb SSD, and then I can get a 1tb SD later if I still need more space. You can even just hot swap SD cards and have different games on each because its seen as external storage and works like a portable steam library.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

You can even just hot swap SD cards and have different games on each because its seen as external storage and works like a portable steam library.

I don't have to log back in or anything annoying like that? Simply swap and that's it?

I was also wondering, can you swap games out under a different account?

 

[Epoch]

I don't have to log back in or anything annoying like that? Simply swap and that's it?

I was also wondering, can you swap games out under a different account?

Nope, its seen as external storage by linux and steam just reads the game library folder from that location, Valve even said its completely fine to hot swap SD cards while in game mode, while in desktop its probably a good idea to eject it first though.

As long as the account has a license for that game you can play it, but you can have anything installed into a library folder, if you don't own it and have it installed it will link you to the store page instead of a play game button. There is family sharing, where you can share libraries with another account, but if the account shared to starts playing something from the sharing account, the sharing account cannot play anything while that is happening.

 

[Waifu Denier]

I don't have to log back in or anything annoying like that? Simply swap and that's it?

I was also wondering, can you swap games out under a different account?

I've had Steam games on external storage for a while, it's literally just plug and play, sometimes you may have to point Steam to the drive but otherwise, it will then just pick up all the games installed.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

There is family sharing, where you can share libraries with another account, but if the account shared to starts playing something from the sharing account, the sharing account cannot play anything while that is happening.

I see, that's a bit limiting, but good to know, thanks. One more question if you don't mind, is there a maximum number of accounts you can add per Deck?

 

[Epoch]

I see, that's a bit limiting, but good to know, thanks. One more question if you don't mind, is there a maximum number of accounts you can add per Deck?

I don't use the multiple accounts thing since its just me, so I don't know, sorry. It might just be like logging in to multiple accounts on a PC, with all the user files stored in a folder with the account ID, don't think there is a limit for that.

 

[Waifu Denier]

I see, that's a bit limiting, but good to know, thanks. One more question if you don't mind, is there a maximum number of accounts you can add per Deck?

Have you seen Steam's new login interface? It's easier than ever to have multiple accounts on a single device.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Have you seen Steam's new login interface? It's easier than ever to have multiple accounts on a single device.

No, I think I only ever logged in twice; once initially and then again once because I didn't touch it for like a month and it booted me out or something. That's good to know though, thanks.

 

[Waifu Denier]

No, I think I only ever logged in twice; once initially and then again once because I didn't touch it for like a month and it booted me out or something. That's good to know though, thanks.

I'm pretty sure it's a setting you can now toggle, so that when Steam initially loads (after restart or manually changing account) it will show you all the accounts that you logged in and saved signed in on, and prompt you which one to use.

 

[Two Dollars]

I already have a 1 TB Sandisk Extreme microSD inserted in it, for the PC games.
The internal storage is mainly to leave a large room for the shader cache (necessary for the PC games to run on Linux/Proton) in addition to store my library of retro console isos too. The base 64GB model would have definitely been a problem for me and the mat screen was my second reason to obtain the 512GB model instead.

It’s been a while since I used my deck, but I’m pretty sure there’s an (easy to use) softmod that stores cache on the SD card instead. And I think a mod that makes the cache itself take up less space, but again, it’s been a while.

 

[ChefKiss]

Sony lost astronomical amounts of money on the PS3 (though, to be fair, since the PS3 launched when almost zero households had hd tvs, sony thought that every PS3 sold would also sell a $3000-$4000 sony tv, instead they helped sell a lot of $1000 samsung tv, so most huge losses came from the tv division), and barely anyone regards it as a failure.

The PS5 could end the generation with fucking destruction all stars as its only exclusive, and even then only because it bombed so bad it's the only one they don't port to pc, with more peripherals and hardware revisions than games, and normalfags will still eat that shit up because people don't buy a PS5 for games. They buy it as an all in one netflix box and as a status symbol. It's like getting an apple fan to admit that they're being ripped off, never gonna happen.

Even when PS3 was a laughing stock, it still sold software, PS5 software sales are horrific, never before seen levels of bad. Even "failure" systems like dreamcast and wiiu sold more games. PS5 owners seem to just get their Call of Duty/FIFA/MADDEN a year and nothing else, or just play APEX, Fortnite and other F2P games

 

[Epoch]

And I think a mod that makes the cache itself take up less space, but again, it’s been a while.

You might be thinking of SteamOS-BTRFS, which converts the file system to a more space efficient one.

https://gitlab.com/popsulfr/steamos-btrfs

 

[Two Dollars]

You might be thinking of SteamOS-BTRFS, which converts the file system to a more space efficient one.

https://gitlab.com/popsulfr/steamos-btrfs

I was actually thinking of CryoUtilities, but that looks good too.

 

[BananaSplit²]

Even when PS3 was a laughing stock, it still sold software, PS5 software sales are horrific, never before seen levels of bad. Even "failure" systems like dreamcast and wiiu sold more games. PS5 owners seem to just get their Call of Duty/FIFA/MADDEN a year and nothing else, or just play APEX, Fortnite and other F2P games

It sure gives me back memories of Marissa Moira who tried to argue against the reality of things far too many times, no matter how much the facts and proofs were piling up, and refused to listen to reason whatsoever.

 

[ZMOT]

I see, that's a bit limiting, but good to know, thanks. One more question if you don't mind, is there a maximum number of accounts you can add per Deck?

don't know if there even is a limit (probably, but on a level they it won't affect many people). steam just checks if account X has the license to play it, it's not like playstation where you can work around that with a local account. so I assume if there is a limit it would be in family sharing - especially since most families are not that big - but then again that's already limited to 5 (although it would be interesting to check if 2 shared accounts can access the same game from the main account, I'd assume not but who knows).

EDIT: also noticed games can disabled being family shared by itself (even valve does that shit with alyx btw, thanks gabe), so ignoring all that it might be worth to check if the game can be shared in the first place.

 

[TVB]

It sure gives me back memories of Marissa Moira who tried to argue against the reality of things far too many times, no matter how much the facts and proofs were piling up, and refused to listen to reason whatsoever.

I wish @Marissa Moira was online so we could still shit on her about Sony so she could sperg out

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

It sure gives me back memories of Marissa Moira who tried to argue against the reality of things far too many times, no matter how much the facts and proofs were piling up, and refused to listen to reason whatsoever.

Here's an old SA quote that applied to some poster I can't remember but it still works.

A better analogy would be if someone walks into a championship tournament, says "GEE I THINK I MAY HAVE TRANSCENDED THE UNDERSTANDING OF SOME OF YOU GRANDMASTERS HERE, WANT TO JOIN MY NEW SCHOOL OF CHESS STRATEGY?", then loses by scholar's mate twice in the first round.

This person then refuses to leave his seat, claiming that he needs additional proof that the queen in f7 actually ontologically exists before he will admit defeat, and that the rules of the CHESS ESTABLISHMENT were unfairly biased against him by disallowing the possibility of his king being able to leapfrog pieces.

Then he pulls out an ancient shopping list from 1905 and claims that "1. Eggs" means 'The King', "2. Butter" means 'can', and "3. Milk" means 'leapfrog'. This is admissible evidence for his case because he has lived according to the dictates of this list since he was a teenager, and it has drastically improved his quality of life. When the referees tell him that this makes no fucking sense, he drags them into a three hour debate over the precise meaning of the words 'makes', 'no', 'fucking', and 'sense'.

When people point out that there is more than enough evidence to suggest his list is just a scrap of paper from some long-dead housewife's purse, he rather proudly points out how close-minded they are in dismissing outright the possibility that the list was in fact a secret coded message on the best way to live life, originally formulated by Atlanteans and passed down through the ages disguised as everyday documents. After all, if one starts with the presupposition that such a document exists, then it would be very fair to argue that it is indeed in the form of his shopping list.

Never mind that his previous interpretations of the list led to three convictions and time served for robbery, hate crimes, and murder. These were just unfortunate misinterpretations on his part of the list's true intentions, he says. The list itself is blameless. In fact, the Atlanteans deliberately obfuscated the true meaning of the list in this way, so that it would require multiple failed misinterpretations before one would happen across its TRUE meaning, and in doing so appreciate it all the more.

In fact, he does have some evidence to back up his claims. Why, just last week during his daily meditation on the list, he felt it telling him that something good was about to happen in his future. And yesterday, wouldn't you know it, he found a twenty dollar note on the sidewalk! Evidence of the list's prophetic powers if I ever saw one. And believe him, he has many more stories where that came from.

By now, the debate has splintered off into innumerable tangents, with the one man against literally every other player and referee present at the tournament. Finally, he graciously accepts the possibility of defeat in some of the myriad topics now being covered. OK, maybe the tallest player doesn't always get to go first. Fine, I will concede that there isn't much evidence to support my third-invisible-knight hypothesis. But that's all irrelevant. What he wants to concentrate on, and what nobody has yet been able to disprove, he adds, is the ability of the king to leapfrog over other pieces.

The argument drags on for weeks. Finally, one afternoon, the beet-faced referee exhausts his last reserves of decency and throws his arms up in frustration and despair. "YOU FUCKING RETARD, HOW CAN YOU LAY CLAIM TO KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT CHESS STRATEGY WHEN YOU DON'T EVEN GRASP THE MOST BASIC RULES!?" He shouts, just as a new entrant walks through the door. "I'm sorry," replies the man calmly, "I simply cannot discuss the rules of chess with such an 'official' if you insist on using such strong and uncouth language. Please retract your insults or I will be forced to plug my ears whenever you say anything from now on."

Seeing only this last exchange, the new entrant pipes up. "He's right, you know. If he did something wrong, then you as the referee have every right to tell him he is so, but it should be done with a patient and thorough explanation of the details of his error. Hurling ridicule at him solves nothing and won't change anyone's mind."

The lazy eye of the retarded List-following, King-leapfrogging man twitches almost unnoticeably, as he cranes his head towards the source of this new voice. A welcoming smile cracks, inch by beaming inch, across his face. He licks his lips. He clears his throat.

"So glad to know decent people like you still value a polite discussion. Care for a game?"