The Elden Ring one actually isn’t so rare. It feels more like a 10%. Every time I boot up the game I half expect it to crash.

Really cool! Love to see some modding. And wow, that full kit of IFixIt.

Thanks for the suggestions! 😃 I will take the two phone method into consideration in the future.

I see, perhaps changing my approach & mindset towards privacy is the next thing I should work on.

Will definitely still do more stuff like boxing & containing non private services.

Thanks for the suggestions!

I will give more office alternatives a shot, and see Windows more as a “tool” that I don’t prefer, rather than something to banish.

And yeah, Google sees all on stock android. I definitely will make Pixel+ custom ROMs my top choice when I next switch phones.

Guess I tried to push privacy a bit too fixated. Thx for the reminder👍.

Dead By Daylight! This game is very comfortable at low wattage. 45Fps @7w all low. The deck basically turn DBD into bite sized excitements.

Bought an OLED model for 6 months. I still use it for 60% of my game time.
Sure, 40% of the time I need to have online experience with friends (Fps games / long gaming session), or the games simply don’t feel right on The Deck.

But being able to use it everywhere is just so nice( friend’s place / sitting in garden / on my bed). Plus, I regularly use it as a mini TV, watching YT and Netflix on it.

It’s surprising they’ve paid for an anti-tamper for THAT long, instead of spending those money to keep updating the game.

Using the Tomtok ultra slim carrying case. It feels very close to the NS’s one , and make carrying it much less of a chore.

Would like to try out the Killswitch, but I remember it takes the place of grip case too (Meaning I can’t use other grip cases).

Typing this on a Zenfone 10.

The good thing is that this phone don’t really have bad querks like ZF8&9, and the 2 years update only means not getting new android features, Zenfone still works perfectly fine a long time after the 2 year mark.

And yes, Asus has been quite an A** hole in the whole bootloader situation, but putting that aside there are still plenty of ways to tinker a phone without root(Fdroid, adb, launcher, netguard, etc…).

I would say If custom ROMs are too important for you, get a Pixel, they are just that good with it.

But if you are willing to look past that, Zenfones are great.

And the science gets done, and you made a neat distro.

For the people who are using linux.

I agree. Context matters!

1. The bigger/closer the screen is the more you’ll be discomforted by low fps.

2. Different genre of games feels different. (Fixed camera games are less likely to dizzy you compared to FPS)

3. I found that input method plays a role too. M&K or Gyro input will feel sluggish in low fps. Wile pure stick inpit might be fine.

One tip for Olauncher is that you can put emojies in the app’s names! It makes things a lot less text heavy.

I can see this method useful for Wii games that utilize pointers!

OMG This is so much quicker, Thanks!

Super Tux Kart and MineTest. Both are on fdroid and have amazing modding capabilities . I will say modding them is part of the fun too.

Do you mean feeling dizzy? Keep the FPS >= 60(you can try to push for 75), and increaseing the fov might help.

Also keep a good 30+cm between eye and deck. I too often found myself sticking my eyes to the screen when really engaged. That cause a lot of dizziness. 🤘 and 🪨

Been playing a lot of Deep Rock Galatic! The deck is surprising good at handling FPS games. And the performance is very good.( mostly 60fps @10 watt. Gpu pinned 1100Mhz)

Played a lot less single player game than I expected tho.

Huge thanks for the fixes!

First I tried changing accounts(With ethernet). No luck there, steam deck ended up showing “Issue connecting with Valve servers”

Then I tried reverting to previous Steam OS partition .

And I goofed 😂, I failed to mention that my Deck is a fairly new one (Yes I encountered this problem twice within 3 weeks). So the last version was literally the factory setup/out of the box one. Ended up wiping my steam data(Tried going back to previous A and B, both resulted in factory setup screen).

The good news is that desktop side of things seems to be right where they were (even emulator saves!), and getting gaming mode back on track will be speedy.

A shame I can’t experiment with more potential solutions（Getting resetted does the job）, but my takeaway is that.

【Unless you absolutely need the insurance offline mode provides, or else just turning off wifi (even using airplane mode when needed) will be a much safer bet. Whatever offline mode did to Valve related connections, isn’t totally bugfree and have chances of failing.】