u/random_character_a — Random_Character_A

• Nuclear Option + Saitek X52 HOTAS + LookPilot

• Factorio

I played first the Wing Commander + special operations with 8088XT 10MHz, 768kB RAM system. FPS was 20 when things were quiet, but when the shit hit the fan it was below 10.

Although there are few games that simply won't let go of the steam deck controls.

You need a 3rd party decky plug-in to get it resolved.

Haven't been playing much. I've been lerning to code with AI. Where it usually fails and how.

• Easy Red 2

• Factorio

• RV There Yet

Good. Too bad a this PVE game turned in to a PVP game and not a very good one.

Refunded and hoping that they tweak it a bit, but I'm not keeping my hopes up.

Had very little time to play, so it's:

• Brotato

• Snø

• ΔV - Rings of Saturn

True. For example lattepanda is not a bad option, if you don't mind the price and availability is not a problem.

If somebody is inspired to get one, I'd recommend getting raspberry pi 500. The 400 is OK, but needs a hefty overclocking to run most robust webpages smoothly. It can still get a little sluggish on really bloated webpages, like using steaming services from a webpage.

Good thing is that you can overclock it quite far before you need to modify the default cooling setup.

I have a privacy oriented raspberry pi 400, that i use for my web browsing, banking, office, microcontroller and video conversion stuff.

Steam Deck is for games and 3d modelling and other stuff that rp400 might not have enough power for.

Steam Deck is mostly 90% on desktop mode mounted on a dock with external display, mouse and keyboard.

I keep my personal stuff out of Steam Deck because I don't trust steam + games data gathering.

I allowed my son to scavenge my old desktop PC, because I didn't need it anymore.

Only gripe is that Arduino IDE is shit on both Steam Deck and RP400, but so far Thonny and micropython has been adequate.

...and nobody mentions WINE that did the work for years, before it was boosted by Proton development.

We were playing Windows games before Proton, although the library was far smaller and nothing rarely worked without some extra steps.

If you are planning to buy steam DOCK, don't. It has been a complete shitshow.

Updates fails dozen times before finishing without crashing. Sometimes you need to disconnect power, so it switches to deck power for the update process even start and same trick works, if the dock refuses to see the external displays. Connect power back after it spasms in the right direction.

30 euro garbage from local supermarket works better.

Quite sure there is PFAS that will some day make us all sterile. Humanity will go with a whimper. Last being small lab grown authoritarian societies.

Try and build a halfway house anywhere in the US and what happens? Thousands of people suddenly are motivated to show up to town hall meetings and sign petitions!

"Not in my backyard" is a global phenomenon.

Then again, so is "it's a halfway house, not a drunk tank -> it's a drunk tank"

Well, as long as there are Russian neo-nazis chanting "death to facism", we can be sure they don't know which way is up.

Military action on US soil after 3,5 years seems quite plausible about now.

It's gonna nuke everyone just for the name Joshua.

"We have a saying… where the foot of a Russian soldier steps, that is ours."

So, Putin is saying everyone should fire upon Russian forces everywhere outside Russia with no hesitation or questions asked?

Yeah. Goes without saying. One of the biggest survivors guilts in history

By quoting Monty Python:

*"You lucky bastard"*

They are not at war, because that would make Putin a criminal, so not much options then.