Yeah you definitely can't expect extended runtime on battery for anything other than light games like rimworld. I haven't had any particularly large performance issues with the majority of my library thankfully but I also have a portable battery pack capable of 65 watt charging that is also larger than the steam decks own internal battery so I'm able to more than double the life of my steam deck when I'm not directly next to an outlet
And I guarantee you it has more than that because honestly the verified system is kind of bad. I literally have five games in my library marked as not supported but they play perfectly fine with no issues¯(ツ)/¯
or you can be gnome, and "accept pull requests" by letting them stall for 8 years for no reason, refuse to elaborate, then claim your getting bullied when users get upset. that's a solid third option
i won't argue with you there. i fucking hate people who push mint,Ubuntu, popos, or anything based on apt. it's literally not designed to be up to date and rolling. People try to band-aid it on with repos but it just leads to systems eating themselves.
valve went with arch Linux on the steamdeck for a reason, it's designed, from its core, to be rolling. which gaming needs. you need the latest drivers, libs, wine, etc. and there are easy to go arch installers. my favorite is EndeavorOS. sadly you get a similar problem in reverse with shit like manjaro. where they take a perfectly working rolling system and attempt to "stabilize" it with custom repos that arbitrarily hold packages back. and it tends to break a lot.
it's the double edged sword of open source. i can do what i want, but so can everyone else. and the voice of the stupid is almost never a minority
Lutris appears to have installers available for both of those games. And I know some people that play Elite dangerous on Linux I asked them and they said they didn't have any issues with it. Was that perhaps very close to its initial release or something? It could just be better now
Could you perhaps give us some examples of these games that don't work? There aren't really that many of these days, thanks to valve's work on proton and thanks to the steam deck making developers want to at least not actively break their games the majority work out of the box. Even non-steam games and launchers
Have you looked into diy? Over 60% of the installation cost from an installer can just be labor which is ridiculous because it's actually quite easy to do. Safely and without a ton of specialized tooling. They have inverters now that's basically everything you could possibly need in a single box which makes the install trivial
I didn't see that, but I would not put it past them. However as mentioned the Aging Wheel videos shows how trying to actually charge your car anywhere other than home is a massive pain in the ass with anything other than Tesla which would still be a huge deal breaker.
Which really sucks because when you do the math for range and efficiency honestly nothing else really approaches the Tesla still. The closest is Hyundai with their iconic series but as aging Wheels did a video on recently the charging situation for non Tesla cars is just abysmal at the moment most Chargers are broken, derated, or just otherwise somehow not easily functional whereas the Tesla charging stations rarely have issues
They really puts a wet towel on my desire to own an electric vehicle
How is star citizens progress not consistent and plentiful? They are pretty constantly releasing new content. Single player might be behind closed doors but the multiplayer gets all of the upgraded Tech New Missions new planet development new ships. There's a pretty steady flow of new stuff and you only need $40 to get in.
If the only thing you're interested in is the single player then that is unfortunate but it's not as if they've delivered nothing over all this time. There is a game that is playable and has a surprising amount of content that you can go play right now
plex let's you choose the target bitrate. 1080p can be done at 8Mbps so a cable connection with 30Mbps up could do 3 with some spare room. like yeah if you are rural or just stuck with dsl.
but generally people with their own media library to share have okish net
Rather it is because you don't do those things that you are not. I personally still like to have at least a box spring, but for the most part my bedroom is, well, a room that I put my bed in. I don't understand the need for $1,000 of pillows that we aren't allowed to actually sleep with overly fancy blankets that look nice in a photo but aren't anywhere near as comfortable as a cheap down blanket at Costco.
Don't get me wrong I do enjoy things looking nice, but there has to be some value to the item other than just it looks nicer. Function over form ideally function with form but in the bedroom form rarely follows function
try induction stoves. they require certain pans (magnetic so test with a fridge magnet if it sticks you good) but its got INSANE temperature control on the high quality units. like, if something starts boiling and you don't want that you adjust down and it almost instantly stops boiling. the only thing to watch for is getting a unit with variable power not duty cycles. this is a great counter top unit for trying it out tho!
I did consumer electronics recycling and repair for 5 years, and then did like another 5 years of just generic home call repair. You would be shocked how many people basically use their laptop as nothing more than a weird underpowered desktop and it literally just never leaves that spot
Instead of building one from scratch why not simply use one of the already made router operating systems? I would personally recommend opnsense, it has a nice easy to use web UI and can be setup in like maybe 20min.
as for hardware you can use just about anything but i highly recommend these cute little dedicated router boxes. It is passively cooled, plenty powerful to handle wireguard VPN at gigabit speeds and should easily last you many many years without an issue.
Yeah you definitely can't expect extended runtime on battery for anything other than light games like rimworld. I haven't had any particularly large performance issues with the majority of my library thankfully but I also have a portable battery pack capable of 65 watt charging that is also larger than the steam decks own internal battery so I'm able to more than double the life of my steam deck when I'm not directly next to an outlet