Steam Deck, Gaming Platforms, Tech-High and Tech-Low

I am a Linux User and Windows Hater, not by conviction but by circumstances.

I started with Sinclair and Later Compaq and ultimately settled down with Linux Debian.

I used Windows for my research work (thank you) and games.

When my thesis printout was not according to the requirement of my University (on Microsoft Office) I switched to Sun Solaris OpenOffice and that would have been the trigger for me to switch gradually and totally to Linux.

Why I hate Windows is once you install it one has to add each and rvery  application and game, one by one.

Linux has bundle of utilities in one install but lately probably due to proprietary issues, especially Ubuntu and Mint that bundle has become smaller and smaller.

Windows was very good on cheap games and Linux was known for lack of games.

I was critical of this scenario (lack of games) and used to write a review on every distribution I have tested on all the issues including games. 

Valve and Steam was available  for a long time but without games.

I welcome the Steam Deck mainly because of its portable or mobile Linux distribution, not so much on the availability of games.

I use to carry Puppy and multiple Linux distributions on USB sticks for ages but I need to find a computer and monitor to run them "on the go", especially at an airport.

I hated bulky laptops and messy tablets.

I was thinking of a cellphone with Linux.

It has taken a long time for PINE phone to come up a solution but PINE has become very expensive and I cannot afford it, in my retirement.

Steam deck was like dream come true but it is beyond my purse,too.

Instead I went for a Intel NUC.

Valve will never come to Ceylon with people struggling with economics and hunger.

I have laptop with Endless OS and  an old PC with several Linux distributions on a rotating disk.

I have several portable hard disks with Linux and assortment of USBs running Puppy and Linux.

In fact, with NUC (I have not loaded it with games) adding to my armament, I don't think I should go for a gaming deck.

Even my son is not interested.

My son's first computer with 1MB Video and 4MB RAM I just got refurbished but I haven't got an operating system to boot from a floppy.

This is the computer on which I did my research thesis with lot of statistical diagrams. 

I think Linux does not have a statistical package.

I am not into coding for ages and if I did I would have made the basic framework for a Tiny Linux distribution for one of my Nokia phones.

I suppose I should wean myself off from Linux and computer addiction and enjoy only food and drinks.

Perhaps, I may go back to writing mode and who will buy any of my books with global economic meltdown.

I haven't done a book for over 3 years.

I am still wondering about my writing if not blogging. 

Gaming, Gimmics and My Gut Feelings

I just saw an advertisemet for modern mechanical keyboard.

I am a mechanical keyboard man not a digital keyboard lover.

Digital keyboards prompts words but never synonyms which is someghing I want.

Using the same word is ugly and shows one's inability to use the correct and appropriate word.

This piece is about human physiology and his limitation in eye movements, hand eye coordination and brain function.

What we see is what the brain projects to our eyes.

Number one point in physics is when the light penetrates the lens of the eye it is upside down and left and right inverted.

Let me be in for some diversion.

Mind you these things were not taught to me as a medical  student and I am working them out in my retirement.

Thankfully we did not have fancy hand held gamers when I was a kid and I mastered my phydics, quietly and secretly and my teachers were horrible. 

My target was to enter university which I achieved first time and some of my cohorts achieved it 6 to 8 years later.

That speaks of their dedication. 

The criss crossing of fibres at several levels correct the physical light  aberrations and we sense and think them as real upright. 

In real terms it is illusion of some sort.

This illusion is exploited by gamers.

When fps or frame rate is below 36 the picure appears static.

When it is above 36 the illusion of movement is projected to the eye.

When photo films were made before world war II they realized unless films are spinned at higher rate the picture  would look static.

So fps of higer rate gives the sense of speed.

So setting a game rate to user's desired level is optional.

At slower rate one can beat the game player and at a higher rate one loses. 

What the kids wants is a win,  so a smart parent should adjust the rate to suit your kid at 7,10 or 16.

After 16 kids are interested in opposite sex and patent should put the gamer back to the box.

If you let he or she keep playing at home is a sure way to promote homosexuality, for me up to a certain age it is physiological and seriously and biologically abnormal beyound the formative years.

The point about the visual resolution is the clarity of the image which depends on the pixel rate of the image. 

The eye contrast above a certain level of pixel rate is non existent and having a bigger graphic capable card does not improve limitations of the eyes.

Of course it is more expensive to the parent who buys it.

We can distinguish only 256 colours and only 16 with clarity.

Computer can resolve millions of colour shades.

What matters is to match the graphic redoloution to the speed of the CPU.

So buying the latest and the fastest is ill conceived.

As children  grow they outgrow the previous interest and move to a different base level.

Additionally children should learn to share experiences and their gaming  habits and making them feel their gaming machine is better than the neighbours kid is detrimental and encourage jealosy and political paranoia which is an adult disease. 

Worse scenario is addiction which will lead to gambling and drugs. 

My advice is if one has no understanding about children either do not marry or if married do not have children.

In my case if one who is above 25, it is no concern to me he or she  is homosexual or not but leave kids alone and do not prey on them.

There are enough homomosexual parties even in Ceylon and become a subservsnt party member or a priest with sexual disorientation.

I believe that man with correct senses do not need a party or a religion or even a racial orientation to be a real human being worth his or her  weight in gold.