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According to the article this has a built in adblocker.

That can work with any website, so you can probably just install jellyfin, have your local media hosted at 127.0.0.1:8188, and play that in the picture in picture plugin.

I think it was supported really early on (or was supposed to be supported), but it hasn't worked for basically the entire time I've had my Deck. I don't play with keyboard very often so it never impacted me, but I know I've heard people complain about it.

SimplyDeckyTDP has a few features that specifically care about the sleep and resume features. You can disable setting the TDP when resuming, as well as disable any suspend actions. For me, the most useful setting is configuring the max TDP when resuming from sleep. You can encounter audio stutters when resuming games sometimes, and forcing the maximum TDP when waking the Steam Deck gets around those issues.

That's interesting, I don't run into that issue often, but I know some games have issues with it. The pause games decky plugin already can fix some of those, but worth remembering this plugin as well for when people have trouble with that.

I've had Sekiro on my wishlist for a long time because a lot of people consider it the best souls like game. I know the main point with it is that it's supposed to be more parry focused, you're expected to really learn and master enemy attack patterns and parry/counter windows. The first playthrough is supposed to be able slow/steady progress and learning, and then on a second playthrough you apparently feel like a god who's mastered an intricate dance and can't be stopped.

At least that's how it was described to me, but as far as the smaller "what do I do now" level I don't know what to tell you with my general lack of souls experience.

There was a performance mod being passed around that I tried earlier, it had some significant performance gains but had some serious downsides like some fabric would lose physics and just stick straight out, and things like the paint bridges were completely invisible.

Valve employees are given time to work on self selected projects. I'm guessing that leads to more new projects than people taking over maintenance of existing projects.

Stellar Blade is UE4, while Wukong is UE5.

UE5 performance is pretty bad on nearly every game it's in unfortunately.

Yeah, I don't mention it very often anymore, but I'm always playing HSR on the side. I'm glad hoyo games work so well on the Deck.

I saw that water-cooled deck, I really love those unhinged deck mods like that. The Doom promo art is also amazing.

I thought it was pretty interesting that NineSols and Bō launched so close to each other with such similar themes. I wonder if that hurt or helped sales. Usually a close release to another similar game would hurt you, but I could imagine that people who enjoyed one of them might turn around and buy the other as well.

Edit: I tried the Stellar Blade Demo. It was kinda short compared to the more long form demos I've seen lately (games like MetaphorRefantizio have absolutely massive demos), but performance is pretty great. It's clearly been well optimized, at the default settings it's only pulling 16w or so in the starting area, so it looks like there's a lot of room to play around with higher settings. The devs even have the default control scheme use the Deck's back buttons. They clearly put a lot of actual attention and work into optimization and the deck experience, which is fantastic to see from a non-indie developer.

I'm still playing Clair Obscura Expedition 33 as my main game. I'm really enjoying it, I could take or leave the party/dodge mechanics, but the amount of build customization between weapon effects, skills, and equipable passives is incredible. A bunch of my friends have also bought the game, and we keep sharing builds we've found that feel super strong.

I recommend this performance mod, lets me play with a bit higher settings and raised my fps by 10 fps in some areas. It has a lot of different presets, I've been using default lighting ultra performance (and they using XeSS or FSR in game for upscaling)

To install the mod'a performance settings, copy the settings folder content to:

/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/1903340/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/AppData/Local/Sandfall/Saved/Config/Windows/

To unlock all graphics settings in the game, you need the launch option SteamDeck=0 %command% , or alternatively installing fsr via the DeckyFramegen mod will also seemingly unlock all the other graphical settings as well.

OEMs tailor windows as much as they can, but there's only so much you can do.

Not sure, GeForce now regularly has legal disputes with game publishers about games being available on their service, so Valve may want to stay out of that.

It's also possible that nvidia hasn't asked.

From looking at Bazzite documentation, ujust is a collection of scripts that run different updaters/etc. It does cover bios updates by running ujust enable-deck-bios-firmware-updates.

From looking at the Bazzite github, this runs a shell script that checks to make sure you have Steam Deck hardware and don't have the DeckHD replacement screen or 32GB ram mods installed, and then enables jupiter-biosupdate.service. I'm guessing that service is probably using fwupd for updates, but haven't been able to confirm it yet. If anyone else has some insight I'd be interested to hear it. I know the bazzite founder is active here but I'm going to restrain myself from pinging him and wasting his time over curiosity.

Valve just open sourced SteamOS manager, which among other things allows updating the BIOS. I suspect we'll see this get added into Bazzite and other Linux distros meant for the Deck, but I don't think it's been added yet.

In the meantime, the Arch Wiki claims that fwupd works fine for updating the Steam Deck bios on Arch, and I'm assuming that means it would work for Bazzite and other distros as well.

Here's the instruction page on how to install it on your deck.

And here's the download page

So you have it all sorted out now? Good to hear if so.

These are both on the Lenovo Legion Go S. The significance here is that there's both official OEM windows and official OEM steamOS for this device.

I was kinda joking, but the game still stutters and has fps drops regardless of the hardware it's run on. Digital Foundry has a pretty scathing performance review of it.

It's certainly playable on good hardware (assuming you aren't super bothered by dips), but it also performs way worse than it should at any hardware level.

I don't consider the game a good performance benchmark for any piece of hardware because it's performance is abnormally bad, and there's no hardware where it can run without issues.

It's always been weird to me that more handhelds don't use trackpads, especially when windows basically requires a mouse. As far as the first non-steam deck handheld to have dual trackpads though, that award goes to the Ayaneon Kun:

The SAG-AFTRA strike is pretty nasty for a lot of voice actors. Basically from what I understand, they're striking to try to protest AI taking over voice acting roles.

A lot of times unions help their members get jobs though companies that have a contract with the union. If the union strikes, these members are somewhat safe because nearly all of the workers for that company come through the union. However SAG-AFTRA encouraged their members to get non-union conteact jobs, and then also forced them to go on strike at those jobs. This strike has been going on for over 9 months now, and a lot of smaller voice actors are losing their jobs.

SAG-AFTRA is throwing a fit about the Darth Vader AI voice thing (when the family was fully on board and agreed to let it happen), while completely ignoring all the voice actors who have been forced out of work for 9 months by the strike and are losing their contracts.