Also key here is that the Deck needs to be off

Oh ok, I never shut my deck off. Closest I get is restarting to install updates.

Battery should be fine based on my experience.

If you have an OLED you can have the deck wake up when a BLE connects, but there’s also a bios setting to wake up LCD/OLED Decks when plugged in. I’ve heard of people getting smart plugs (or even remote toggled plugs) and plugging their dock charger into that. When you want to wake up the deck just toggle the power off and on, and the deck will wake up.

That’s really extreme, I’m pretty sure that’s now at all how it should be working.

I don’t leave my deck docked that long, maybe 10 hours at the longest, but I’ve never seen anything like the battery drop you’re describing.

misconstruing something that is clearly a rule about profit making services

To be honest I don’t think that’s clear at all, it feels like it’s more a rule about being skeptical of free stuff online. And many for profit companies have open source projects that can be used safely even though the source is a for-profit.

Yeah, it’s wild how close PayPal came to killing Minecraft early on by locking all of Notch’s money as soon as MC started to take off.

Yeah, I feel like that’s usually a very accurate saying, but it doesn’t really work with a lot of open source projects.

I hate that you’re getting downvoted by so many people who don’t realize you’re pointing out an exception to the rule, and instead think you have some fundamental misunderstanding about how Linux works.

I know a lot of subreddits like that have rules that you have to be part of the profession to post. Reason being that they don’t want amateurs/etc to fill up the community with posts asking for advice, but instead want it to be a place for people in the profession to be able to talk to other professionals.

I can fully understand that approach, and how following that rule would directly lead to posts like this getting locked. At the same time, this is an interesting post and seems like it would have interesting discussion.

So basically this post probably breaks the written rules of the community, but is the kind of content that they wanted the rules to encourage. If it was my community I’d let the post stay (maybe with a mod comment on why it was allowed to stay up), but it’s always risky to enforce the written rules inconsistently. I’ve seen a lot of communities get upset about inconsistent mods.

I usually will trust that a game will run if it says verified/playable, but when a game says unsupported I check ProtonDB. Far too many unsupported games run fine with minimal tweaks or proton-ge.

Honestly I think you’ll have to get it RMA’d.

• When you unplug it while on, does it immediately turn off?

• What does it say battery percentage is when plugged in?

• In desktop mode, what does it say battery health is?

I don’t usually use headphones with my deck, but I’ve paired my Pixel A-series buds to it and they work pretty well for discord calls.

Speed wise 55Mb/s is fine. Higher speeds are nice for game downloads/etc but that’s plenty. I had to live with 3Mb/s until a couple years ago, and we were able to have multiple people watching Netflix/etc on different devices. Not 4k obviously, but surprisingly good video quality for the amount of data available.

The data cap could be a problem though. You’ll probably be fine if you don’t download many games, but that’s an easy cap to hit these days.

True of most 3d prints unfortunately, although ultimately it comes down to your printer.

The keyboard is a Logitech Pebble Keys 2 K380s.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/keyboards/pebble-keys-2.920-011777.html

It’s this keyboard, but I don’t see the details on the key mechanisms.

From looking at previous leaks, it looks like there will probably be two versions of the same device: One with windows and one with SteamOS.

I would assume so, but I haven’t tried it.

Not everyone needs a steam deck. I know a couple people who have them and barely use them.

But for people like me, it’s been a massive improvement to how often I’m able to play.

Yeah, I think a good approach to any type of government powers is considering that future presidents/parties you don’t like will also have access to these powers.

I would absolutely love it if the threat of the future Trumps is a limiting factor on government overreach.

Definitely feels like it.