Quoting: whizseYou can't over-charge a battery by keeping it at 100% but you will up the charge cycles and age the battery prematurely.
By limiting battery charge/discharge you will charge more often but have a longer life span for the battery:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/623358/wouldnt-charging-a-lithium-battery-to-80-only-defeat-the-purpose-of-putting-th [External Link]

This is a fun reason to keep them charged as well (if you own Samsung devices)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OfM0GqsIB6c [External Link]

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: PompesdeskySeems no one said it yet, I'd like a battery charging limit so that I can play with the AC plugged in without the device charging the battery to 100% and leaving it there. When you're exclusively playing plugged in it's a waste of battery life (it would degrade less in the long run if we could set a charge limit at 50 or 70%).

Pretty sure batteries no longer work that way.

Reference?

https://www.dell.com/community/Inspiron/AUTO-POWER-CUTT-OFF-WHEN-BATTERY-CHARGES-TO-100/td-p/8129375 [External Link]

Here's one. But basically there is a cut off at 100% so it'll stop trying to charge it.

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Quoting: PompesdeskySeems no one said it yet, I'd like a battery charging limit so that I can play with the AC plugged in without the device charging the battery to 100% and leaving it there. When you're exclusively playing plugged in it's a waste of battery life (it would degrade less in the long run if we could set a charge limit at 50 or 70%).

Pretty sure batteries no longer work that way.

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Also a quick note; the dbrand Killswitch case 100% does not fit with the Steam Deck Dock from Valve. The USB-C cable itself won't fit.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyAt least it doesn't require Windows to update the firmware . . .

Every company should get on the LVFS https://fwupd.org/ [External Link]

Funny thing is, I have a couple Dell docks that I use for work... couldn't update them via Windows on the Dell machine because of the corp bios password (no clue why the firmware update requires that level of access), so I tried plugging it into a Windows laptop I had (Asus) and it told me to get bent... that it'd only run on a Dell.

Well found out that one of the docks had support via fwupd, so I was able to update it anyhow, even with the same Asus laptop, I just put Linux on it instead.

At this point, any manufacturer who doesn't support fwupd should be considered Anti-Linux, and should be put on a list of 'Don't buy their stuff'.

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If you want a hassle free update for the Dock when it shows up... disable the pin entry to unlock the dock! Clearly they did NOT test for plugging it in while it was locked and then turning it on...

I basically got caught in this weird loop of trying to tell it to apply the update or cancel but couldn't click some of the buttons, as behind the update screen it was waiting for me to unlock it.

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At least the new version doesn't take an hour to load my library up... But something should hook it into firefox/humblebundle for easier redeeming of keys...

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: slaapliedjeIt isn't simply a notion. If you're coming from say Windows or mac (macs don't even let the users deal with drivers outside of random third party devices) and either your video driver is updated via Windows Update, or via downloading some installer from a website. Coming to Linux you are suddenly asked to enable third party package repositories to replace your kernel and 3d libraries?

Well, no. Only if you want something later and greater than the distro just naturally provides and updates. I personally have never messed with my AMD driver at all, and I'm on Mint. But my gaming isn't heavy, heaviest thing I ever play is Stellaris and it's not exactly new, so I have no need to worry about what's current.

This is really only needed for newer cards. Though there for sure are times when you also would need to do this for newer games. I blame this on the whole industry abd the fact we still have a weird case where new games use new features that are available on older hardware, but only with newer drivers. I tend to think it was one of the main issues with OpenGL that they still didn't really fix with Vulkan.

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Quoting: Marlock

Quoting: slaapliedjeAMD requires kernel updates and using out of band (meaning not the standard repository) mesa libraries (unless you're running a rolling release, neither of these are easy)

This is a widespread notion but I honestly don't get it...

If we were talking about some cryptic app that only exists in AUR I would be agreeing, but we're talking about Mesa here.

How's adding Kisak's (Stable) Mesa PPA in any way difficult on Ubuntu and derivates?

On Linux Mint (even though it's the anthitesys of rolling release, because it's always based on Ubuntu LTS with a bonus ~6 month delay) we have a GUI for adding PPAs (and even 3rd-party Debian repos) called "Software Sources". It's not out-of-the-box, but it's at least a go-here-paste-this-click-ok do-once-and-forget procedure, so not that hard at all, right?

As for kernels, Linux Mint has a GUI for kernel version management offering whatever is available on kernel.ubuntu.org HWE stack for the Ubuntu LTS version it's based on, and kernel updates also follow through the Update Manager. 3 clicks will move you over the newest branch available then normal updates will keep it at the last revision.

On Ubuntu itself this is AFAIK a bit less friendly, but there is UKUU (3rd-party app) to cover the GUI-based kernel management gap and this even supports vanilla kernel.org releases, branch auto-upgrades, etc. There are other similar-purpose apps too, and they work across Ubuntu derivates as well.

All of which should NOT be required for video card drivers.

Installing PPAs only works for Ubuntu based distributions, and will break the entire purpose of running an LTS release. As will installing unsupported kernels. In this case, generally speaking, the only valid 'stable' release would be Debian, as it does support the backports.

It isn't simply a notion. If you're coming from say Windows or mac (macs don't even let the users deal with drivers outside of random third party devices) and either your video driver is updated via Windows Update, or via downloading some installer from a website. Coming to Linux you are suddenly asked to enable third party package repositories to replace your kernel and 3d libraries? So yeah, neither nvidia nor amd are great. Intel, sadly, is probably the best supported. Hopefully that continues with the ARC cards. If it does, I may consider the loss of performance worth it.

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I feel we should have a 'Beat the crap out of Liam in MK11' weekend. (It's done out of love.) Or maybe just a MK11 tournament :) Put those Steam Deck Docks + 8bit do arcade sticks to work!

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