Oh shit, thanks for the reminder

I’m dying of stupidity, apparently.

I’m glad my tinkering could be of use to you!

I run my Deck as my primary computer and have been for about a year or so now. About 10 months without any Windows computer or alternative computer around. It’s been shugging and tugging away at all my projects where I do audio editing, gaming, voice chat, using my Sony camera as a webcam, editing sheet music through MuseScore, intensive web development and managing my servers.

There’s a lot that can be done with the Deck and I’m sure I’m in the 1% if not less of people using it as intensively as I am. I’ve made sure my Deck has a lock screen and has full disk encryption through LUKS as well which both is important to me since I work a lot on it when I’m away from home.

If you have any more thoughts regarding using the Deck as more of a PC I’ll happily share some tips and answer any questions!

I’ve actually done a tad bit of video editing on my Deck through Kdenlive and in short, it works.

I think a general issue is that Kdenlive tends to crash in of itself a bit. The biggest limitor is probably the lack of GPU based hardware exporting available for the Decks APU in Kdenlive. As well as the 16GB of RAM.

What I specifically did was load in a video file about an hours length, cut it down and overlay some recorded audio to it, sync it up and export. It was sluggish, froze every now and then and crashed a couple of times. RAM and CPU usage was continuously at high. If I remember correctly, the video was in 4K recorded on an iPhone in HDR. At least the source video was, I can’t recall if I scaled it down to 1080p or not.

I do want to mention that I’m not running SteamOS on my Deck however. I believe at the time I was running Bazzite and now I’m running Nobara. I haven’t tried doing this on SteamOS but I would imagine the experience would be more or less the same.

Will it work? Yes, kinda. Will it be as good as an experience as running it on a full fledged desktop with more RAM, higher end CPU and a somewhat modern dedicated GPU? No, it won’t. It’ll work in a pinch or if you have time and patience.

What is the cure to make loneliness?

Sweet, we’ve started pirating redditors now too

There is not. But I’d say keep SSH closed on the NAS or whitelist only your local IP in the firewall. I do that and turn it off when I don’t need it. It can be a bit risqué messing about with SSH on Synology because of how funky they’ve made the distro it’s running and any changes you make might not persist on reboot or after updates.

It’s basically a front-end GUI to Docker, like how some use Portainer. Synology has pretty alright documentation here. If you’re on mobile, click the menu button on the top right to view the sub-pages for the docs, was confusing at first to find what more it had to say about it lol.

But in short, to spin up individual containers you can go to the “Container” page. But there’s a big lack of control because Synology so I recommend to use Docker Compose under “Projects” for more fine grained control if needed. When you start a project you have to select a location for the project files and you can use dot notation for sub directory and files when doing volume mounting, eg. ./nginx/config:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.

There’s a lot to read on for containers in general and working with them on Synology is a tad different and sometimes a lot of hoops to jump through. But it’s definitely nicer in the end than running almost anything outside of Synology’s Office Suite through it!

I’d recommend to make a Dockerfile for it and run it that way. It’ll be quite a lot easier than to manage installing a bunch of dependencies.

Here’s a guide I found pretty good!

Here’s a bit of a shorter one too to get some more reference.

I got a pre-order LCD Deck (256GB) from mid-October. While I don’t game too much on mine but mainly do desktop work, mostly server management and web development, it holds about 3 or 4 hours depending on how heavy the task is. When I play No Man’s Sky it’ll last about an hour.

I can’t see battery health as easily in GNOME tho. But I’m not complaining. This is while being plugged into a USB-C external 1080p OLED monitor and mouse and keyboard connected with Bluetooth.

For people wondering how the battery health is calculated, I’m guessing it’s what the factory max charge was in watt hours and how many it comparably holds now during max charge. That’s at least how I’ve seen battery health being calculated before!

I knew 2025 is gonna be the year of the linux desktop

I had emotional regulation and hyperfixating on intrusive thoughts and memories big time until I started on Elvanse. It was really really bad by the end. It turned out that Elvanse was quite a life saving medication for me and if I forget to take it for a few days it becomes a lot harder to maintain the dysregulation.

The last one sounds like some type of pasta and now I can’t stop thinking of HRT in stereotypical pasta boxes. Help

Average Lemmy moment

Why is this so accurate??

I actually really like this illustration! Very well done!

While I still hold my opinion about there being a disregard of general graphics optimization I did look up the specs of the Xbox Series S compared to the Xbox One S and they seem to be a lot worse. 2GB less RAM, half the compute units on the GPU with 2 TFLOPS less on it as well. It seems like a bit of a ridiculous cost saving on that end. At that point they could almost keep publishing One X ports too lol

I just looked up the specs comparing the Series S and One X and you do indeed seem to be right about it actually being worse than it. That’s a bit crazy. I would’ve thought it was at least on par with the One X. 10GB of RAM in today’s world is also a bit shite. Only thing better seems to be the speed of the RAM and the CPU. I’m a bit baffled honestly. They definitely cheaped out a bit too much here.

I dunno. I have an Xbox Series X where I play the more demanding games. Then I have a Steam Deck to play everything else on.

As someone who uses the “Low end” side of PC gaming and had to combat config files and weird and obscure settings in them to get a playable 30 FPS when I was younger. I’m glad cheaper alternatives are being pushed. Not everyone is well off to even slightly save up to a Series X, PS5 or a gaming PC these days.

From what I’ve seen with UE5 and what not, there seems to have been a big push in increased graphic fidelity with lack of optimization too. Now I’m not gonna pretend to know a lot about that subject but from videos and articles I’ve read I feel like we should rather put a bit more of a push, not on those who try and sell affordable hardware, but those who don’t optimize enough.

In Danish, which the OG image is from, Stop is with only one P. Interestingly it is with two Ps in Norwegian as well.