Clair’s default graphics on Deck are unbelievably ugly, doing the SteamDeck=0 thing is mandatory. I was never great with reaction games, so the slight framerate loss means I go from “missing counters 98% of the time” to “missing counters 98.2% of the time”. I’ll take that.

Haven’t tried these out on a calibrated six year old, but some that I liked which might be in the ballpark are Tinykin, a Short Hike, Smurfs Vileleaf, Loddlenaut, Lil Gator Game, Little Kitty Big City, Costume Quest, What the Golf/Car.

Luanti is all the minecraft a kid needs these days

I think the xray is from ifixit? I nudged trimming it until the port and volume up button lined up just so.

I don’t think that systemd has a whole lot of sleep-management architecture that does what you want? What it does have is the ability to do “suspend-then-hibernate”, which would suspend for some set time, wake up, and flip over to hibernating. I’ve set that up on Debian (not too hard), Ubuntu (pure hell), haven’t tried on SteamOS.

What you want is technically possible without changing the hardware or firmware, but I think it would take an unreasonable amount of systemd coding.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Changing_suspend_method

The best place to buy Samsung cards is from Samsung’s site, the best place to buy Sandisk cards is from … Western Digital. Sometimes they even have sales that approximate Amazon.

It’s pretty safe to assume that you will get a real card from the horse’s mouth.

Apple’s solution is to integrate a heating strip with the glue. Put some power into it, and the glue warms up and releases.

If you want to read within Linux, Papers is touchscreen-friendly. KOreader is probably the best touchscreen experience, once you get past its awkward but incredibly configurable interface.

My eyes are too old to read on the Deck’s screen, personally.

I heard that some people even have phones nowadays without a single SFP port. Madness.

The Steam Deck’s controller is usable without Steam running, except for that long, looong pause when Steam has taken over the controller but isn’t doing anything about it yet.

I wish that Steam would not put the mouse buttons on the triggers, just leave them on the trackpad-click. And put “high res trackpad scrolling” on the left pad. But you can’t have everything.

Sony is going to have to invent a new “shittier than SD and ten times as expensive” memory card format first.

The Vita already proved how serious Sony is about the handheld market. “Someday, we’re going to make a system that is ten times as powerful as the Steam Deck and runs for a week on a single charge”. The only purpose of making such a nothingburger announcement is to try to Osbourne Effect the rest of the handheld market.

If it was your only copy, then it wasn’t a backup.

“Two pointers” makes a lot of sense if you actually have the ability to pay attention to two things simultaneously. Most froods are not hoopy enough for this.

Nouveau or Nvidia’s own drivers? X11 or Wayland?

Looks like you need winetricks to install CJK_fonts.

*journalctl

Is anything going down in the system log when you mount a drive, or trigger an access error? If it’s (one of the many) security systems clamping down, they tend to log that.

Considering how poorly “the remarkably well supported ARM” Raspberry Pi is at playing video, I am shocked.

It’s fucking crazy how much work goes into shitting out thousands and thousands of slightly different models of android phone and tablet and chromebook. Slap together a board design based on buying two trays of some SOC. Open up the Android source, slap some NDA drivers in, build an image, burn it into a production run. Don’t bother saving your changes, these devices will never get an update. Two weeks later, change out the whole design for a different chip, repeat.

The vast majority of xz’s blobs are accounted for, too.