Interesting, ive been OK lugging my deck around but i mainly travel for work so it just goes in my daybag for train use/hotel use. And as i work from home mostly thats not daily - it gets most of its use around the house plugged into various chargers i have scattered by every casual seating spot…
Different strokes for different lifestyles i guess.
Interesting, i love the size of the steam deck - its a positive for me not a con. Im tempted to check out one of the smaller ones for fun if the price is right, but i also love the ‘all in one’ solution (so i dont have to sync game saves between devices etc) My 5yo daugher got heavily into Mario Odysee too! We have a switch so we let her on it, but had to wind back game time as she got a bit too obsessed. She went from being barely able to jump on boxes (as jump + move at the same time was hard) and like 3 weeks later she bet the basic game, and now is nearly 400 moons… She keeps asking me for help finding them and im like ‘kid, you surpassed my knowledge of the game a month back’
And from my reading, helps secure against a situation where an police officer (AKA attacker in the US apparently…) coerces you to unlock the phone (or perhaps even just takes it off you in a locked, but active state), and stores it in a faraday bag with a charger. They do that to keep it ‘alive’ so their experts can break in - a dead-mans reboot can help circumvent even that (as it will just reboot and restore itself to an encrypted rest state, which is much harder to attack)
Yeah, seems like its a move to follow apple after custom ROMS offering it as a security feature (Im on GrapheneOS and had it set for a while)
Thanks for the clarification, I forgot that (somehow)
Got a list of suggestions?. I have 50 tbh free and slowly doing a big clean/replace with prefered groups, would love ‘forever’ reccomends. Little tinfoil hat but looking to buffer the enshittification of commercial services.
A few a year - currently festivals as my eldest has heavily got I to 'our music’s - so I’ve had to take time off work to take her to slipkot, korn, baby metal, electric callboy, etc.
Parenting is so hard.
Kudos. Been donating plasma for a bit in AU, it’s very worthwhile even if there’s no cash incentive (yet). They’re pretty desperate for people
After a reboot all the data is encrypted and needs a pin/fingerprint to unlock.
So if it’s stolen (or feds get it) a planned reboot resets it to a highly secure state that is much more difficult to hack into than when it’s just locked from timeout.
Edit: removed fingerprint, corrected below.
9k USD, one steam deck in there, 20 year old account. Zero micrograms, all collecting games
I have a plan at $job that will reduce our CO2 emissions a year by ~330 tonnes.
Almost makes you wonder why bother sometimes
I’ve still got mine, it’s probably 15 years old at this point
Very exhausting, especially when your stupid brain makes you roleplay possible future conversations with people in your head all day. Difficult to focus and so exhausting
The AI bullshit has totally pushed me into full Linux/grafeneOS. I’m glad I upgraded all my tech before AI/tarrif wars started, looks like I’m riding all this out with a focus on FOSS software.
Never been so glad to have always run a homelab.
Why would you go for these devices over a steam deck + emudeck? My steam deck is my powerhouse that plays all my Indies, sreams more demanding games from my gaming PC, has a massive retro library and works as a Plex media streamer for travel. It’s my dream all-in-one device. The only reason I could see to add this as well would be the form factor?
I’d be a lot more worried about being sent to an El Salvador prison without cause, not just being denied entry
Good work supporting foss
I want to wake up in this timeline.
I remember doing work experience at school in the computer lab. Thought I was gonna learn fun stuff on the servers, ended up cleaning gunk from the rollers if every mouse in the entire school (And cleaning every PC out, and flashing entire labs one by one with updates OS…)