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.

Here’s a little edit, my full questions and answers with the devs is available to read with the following link:

https://gardinerbryant.com/retrodeck-thtalking-about-their-bigget-update-yet/

  • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
    6·
    5 hours ago

    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, at least, I still have my spelling and grammar mistakes to remind people I’m human.

    • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOP
      12·
      15 hours 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!

      • Gathorall@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 hours ago

        And you’ve already deployed awkward phrasing and not forming coherent chapters, I don’t think you make a readable text and avoid allegations so maybe try to polish them a bit instead?