You can check battery health in desktop mode, by clicking on the battery.

I’ve had my OLED deck for a little over a year now, and it’s still reporting 100% battery health.

  • tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Mine says 99% health. I don’t know how reliable a metric that is?

    Lately, I’ve been playing on battery exclusively and basically going with the 1 gaming session = 1 battery charge regimen to self-regulate. I may need to re-evaluate this as the battery ages, but it’s good discipline for me at the moment…

    • Sunbutt23@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 days ago

      I do this too. I can get about 2hrs on most games which is great for keeping me from staying up all night. Alas, Factorio sips battery though… sometimes I still fall down the dark hole of growing the factory for many many hours at a time.

      • tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        I think I read somewhere that Factorio is more efficient running under Linux/Mac because it takes advantage of some quirk in the Unix forking mechanism that Windows can’t use? I don’t know if this means it would burn through battery even faster if the SD ran Windows, but it wouldn’t surprise me…

        • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          25 minutes ago

          Uh, that’s used to keep the game from pausing when it autosaves, like it does on Windows. I don’t think they use it any other time.