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Hey lovelies 🩷

Just in case this helps any Steam users, we found a solution to the mouse offset issue that occurs where:

  • You're streaming through Steam using Steam Link (app or device) or Remote Play.
  • Your host PC is Windows-based.
  • The application being streamed is running on a monitor with scaling >100%.

This issue can commonly affect users streaming to tablets or Steam Decks :SteamIconLogo:

We've already written about this previously here, here, here, and here, but we wanted to compile the key info in one place to help others. We have also written up a post on the Steam Community forums with all the details here, in the hopes that Steam devs will pick up on this and improve the Steam client for Windows.

Basically, it seems that the issue is caused by the Steam client for Windows being DPI unaware. DPI awareness was introduced in Windows 10 Version 1607 (aka Anniversary Update). You can read the technical details about these below:

The below website was what caused us to realise that Steam is DPI unaware and how to force DPI awareness for Steam and any applications running through it:

In short, you can force the Steam client and any relevant DPI-unaware applications to run as DPI aware by setting the default DPI awareness for a process.

e.g.,:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\steam.exe]
"DpiAwareness"="PerMonitorV2"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\streaming_client.exe]
"DpiAwareness"="PerMonitorV2"

You can do the same for any application you're streaming through Steam: just use the name of the exe.

e.g.,

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\rs2client.exe]
"DpiAwareness"="PerMonitorV2"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\RuneScape.exe]
"DpiAwareness"="PerMonitorV2"

Hope this helps some folks 🩷

The Cult of ShivSleepyCatten (@SleepyCatten@cultofshiv.wtf)Bit of a random question, but if anyone knows the answer to this, it'll probably be someone (or some folks) on fedi :FediverseSymbol: The problem involves using the Steam Link android app to stream a game from a Windows 11 host :SteamIconLogo: :Windows_11_Logo: The problem is that if the game is loaded on any monitor with scaling >100%, the mouse co-ordinates are offset 🫤 The issue can be worked around by reducing the scaling on any such monitor to 100%, but it's not a viable option for me sadly for accessibility and productivity reasons. We believe the issue could be resolved if Steam Link were to call the [SetThreadDpiAwarenessContext function](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/nf-winuser-setthreaddpiawarenesscontext), which we've reported to Valve, but we're not expecting an acknowledgement or answer any time soon. Anyone been able to resolve the issue without reducing scaling to 100%? Pretty sure the issue can also occur with folks playing mouse-requiring games via Remote Play on a Steam Deck on a host with scaling set to >100%. #Steam #SteamLink #RemotePlay #Windows11 #AskFedi #SetThreadDpiAwarenessContext

"The hypermarketization of everything", Quinn Slobodian, 2025

Bean counters are attempting to put a monetary value on the complexity of nature

Think of a logged forest.

"The value of the timber produced counts towards Australia’s gross domestic product. But cutting trees down also produces a loss. For example, the forest is no longer there for the community to enjoy. And it no longer provides “services” such as filtering water and preventing soil erosion."

"There are many reasons to measure the value of those services. For example, governments might then be able to charge a logging company a licence fee which reflects the community value of the forest. A government may decide the forest is too valuable to allow logging at all, or the fee may just be set too high for any company to find it profitable to log it."

"To date, the value lost when trees are cut down, or other ecosystems are damaged, has not been included in the national accounts. The new environmental accounts seek to change this."
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theconversation.com/new-report

Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War,
Quinn Slobodian, 2025 >>
press.princeton.edu/books/hard
#nature #Biodiversity #EPBCAct #NatureNegative #Naturepositive #complexity #ecosystems #degradation #value #loss #NativeForests #extractivism #hypermarketization

The ConversationNew report slaps an official price tag on Australia’s precious natural assetsThe first-of-its kind report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics looks beyond GDP to a broader measurement of what nature is really worth.
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And, if the answer is, ‘yes, it has value’, then – logically – the task should be respected, seen, and supported within society.

I’d go so far as to say it should be recompensed, too – in fact, I’d propose that should be in direct proportion to how much value it has.

Only, how would we ever be able to assign anything approaching true value to things?

A quotation from Leopold, Aldo:

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The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, “What good is it?” If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
wist.info/leopold-aldo/6818/

WIST Quotations · Round River, "Conservation" (1953) - Leopold, Aldo | WIST QuotationsThe last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something…