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RetroDECK 0.10.0b Is a Ground-Up Rewrite, Not Just an Update (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 hours ago by PerfectDark@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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So I asked my friends on the RetroDECK team if they'd be open to me asking them a few questions about their latest update (which is a full rewrite of RetroDECK), and they were more than happy to.

For context, RetroDECK is a Flatpak-distributed retro gaming platform designed to bundle clients, multi-emulators, game engines, tools, ports and emulators into a single, self-contained application. Built around the ES-DE frontend and targeting platforms like the Steam Deck and desktop Linux, its aim is simple in concept: make endless retro gaming easy to install, easy to remove, and easy to maintain, without requiring users to manually piece together emulators, dependencies, and configurations.

I've used RetroDECK for years now on my Steam Deck, and absolutely swear by it over the alternatives. I love their work, and definitely encourage you to try it if you haven't already :)

Anyway, if you're interested in the details on what went into it, you can read my little article on it here with this link. In a day or two I'll be sharing the full 'interview' (it was shortish, by my own standards) with the team as well.

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[–] greybeard@feddit.online 1 points 1 hour ago

It's been on my todo to check out RetroDeck. The screenshots on flathub look good. If it makes configuration and settings easier than retroarch than it will be great. I feel like retroarch is designed with the worst possible defaults for every single setting.

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 1 points 5 hours ago

Awesome! I've been meaning to try this out when I get the chance.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net -4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Is that "article" an AI written "summary" of a chat log? Would be quicker to just read the chat...

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

What the absolute fuck.

No. Jesus. What the hell? I've been writing on here for a long time. And I'm not A.I.

So gross.

In fact, tiny edit here. The moderator of this community will speak for me, I've been writing things for this space for a long time now. More than that I'm more than happy for you to come and join our discord if you'd like. I have friends in there like Jason Evangelho (the former lead tech writing for Forbes) who will speak for me and what I write.

I hate this shit. The mere face we can write and this whole new scene of A.I. replicating writers' work and then it is doubted and we have to deal with this is the worlds' most exhausting nonsense to deal with.

The invite remains, join our discord. There's plenty of devs and journalists who will attest to me being on the level.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I worry that one day all rambley people on the Internet will be assumed to be AI. Wrote more than 3 sentences and used proper capitalization? Must be a bot. I least I still have my spelling and grammar mistakes to remind people I'm human.

[–] PerfectDark@lemmy.world 1 points 51 minutes ago

I used to adore the en dash and em dash. If I see writing I did and submitted around with articles and guides from like three years ago, they're all through it. But then GPT boomed and I couldn't be bothered dealing with the allegations. Ironically, those claims still haunt me.

It can be so exhausting that we need to do this to appear human now. It can just be heartbreaking!

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net -2 points 35 minutes ago

Well, Im a sorry if I offended you, but some of the ways the article is formulated sound a lot like someone working of an AI generated transcript of an interview.