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That seems like it would let you use an SD card in an M.2 slot? Why not just use the Deck's micro SD slot? If you're going to open up the Deck you ought really find an SSD to put in the M.2 slot.

Update: Valve says iFixit will keep selling Steam Deck batteries after all

Why would Valve stop stocking the most important replacement part just as people are starting to need it?

Here is Valve’s answer to The Verge, as of 5PM ET: “We just confirmed with iFixit that they plan to have batteries back in stock by next week.”

“iFixit will be getting the same OEM parts sourced through Valve’s partners that they always have,” spokesperson Kaci Aitchison Boyle tells me.

The Reddit story wasn’t necessarily false. Earlier today, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens confirmed to The Verge that it had indeed heard that Valve would no longer make replacement batteries or screens for the original Steam Deck LCD.

But by afternoon, Valve and iFixit had already managed to change that. “They have hooked us up with a supplier, we’re working on it,” Wiens now tells me. And if Valve does decide to sunset the part in the future, iFixit says it’ll be ready to take up the torch by using an aftermarket supplier instead. “I want people to know we are going to find a way to get batteries for these things,” says Wiens.

It's gone beyond the EU. Last week Apple announced third party app stores will be coming to Brazil and

Apple has already allowed alternative app stores and/or third-party payment systems on iOS in the EU, Japan, and South Korea, and it will likely be forced to do so in the UK and Australia too, due to similar regulations in those countries.

410 CAD to go from 512GB to 2TB, and sadly that's pretty much just what a 2TB drive costs these days.

"Hot-swappable" is above and beyond replaceable. To me hot-swappable sounds like you'll be able to swap the battery pack without turning off the device, which seems like it would require the device to have another power source to cover the changeover.

Accounting for patches will also be interesting, especially for newer games that are still working their way towards a decent state.

That's what the Steam Frame is for.

RPS's example use case was making the Yakuza and Like A Dragon games show up in the right order. You could set the sort title of Yakuza Kiwami as, say, "Yakuza 1 Remake", to make it follow Yakuza 0, and make the Like A Dragon games sort like they're Yakuza games.

The trade agreement with Canada and Mexico that *Trump signed in his first term* will be up for review next year, but he decided to "negotiate" with tariffs this year instead. Any country can look at how Trump has handled the USMCA for a preview of how an agreement with Trump will go.

TIL I have about 5% of all Deck verified/playable games

Just like Trump's tariffs

Smart for the people relying on stupid people to keep them in power

There's going to be an election this year, so he may not be PM that long.

Part of the agreement allows for a review next year and his complaints could have been addressed them, but apparently negotiated such a lousy deal he can't wait that long.

The offer might have gone over *slightly* better if the US Secretary of Defense hadn't already ruled out NATO membership and a return to Ukraine's 2014 borders.

They should start now. Countries should cut off trading with the US once Trump starts making threats in their direction, instead of waiting for him to make up his mind and do something. He's too used to there not being any consequences.