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%).

(A bit late to the party...)

That's exactly what happens:

If your device has been left on the charger for long periods of time, it may report less than 100% charge. This is normal. We allow the battery to slowly discharge after long periods of time under charge to optimize long-term battery health.

Source: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/69e3-14af-9764-4c28 [External Link]

On the same page, note the batter long term storage:

If you won't be using your Steam Deck for a while and would like to place it back into storage mode to increase long term battery health, you can use the following steps to do so:

• Power the Steam Deck down normally (choose Shut Down from the Power menu)


• Hold down the Volume+ button and press the power button. The Steam Deck should boot into the BIOS menu.


• Using the D-Pad and A to select, navigate to "Setup Utility"


• Navigate to the Power Menu


• Choose Battery storage mode, and confirm.

You should see the Steam Deck power off, and the power LED will blink three times to confirm battery storage mode has been activated.

To wake your Steam Deck from storage mode, plug in the provided power supply and power it on normally.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: WorMzySomeone needs to tell "Longhorn" about grep -i. >_>

I was thinking the same thing! :)
Given he's a "Kernel/hypervisor engineer", that ugly use of the cli makes me wonder about the quality of their code...

Am I missing something? No idea why `grep -i` directly would be better than using `strings` first. The former would print all *lines* matching the regex which is absolutely less useful, especially in a binary context where "lines" are just bytestrings that happen to be delimited by a 0xA byte. So the output would also be less useful due to the whole line being matched. You could change that using the `grep -o` option but that's GNU only. Further, this is probably even more efficient, since grep matching potentially huge lines is not a good starting point.

So this is actually the way to go: Converting a binary into a text "file" (a list of strings) and then using a text tool to work on this further. That's what pipelines are for.

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Personally, I'd like a better desktop mode that works on a touch/controller first device. And KDE is not (yet) that. Yes, some people like KDE but it is *really* not suited for the purpose of using it on the Deck without K/V/M attached. Be it GNOME or whatever else there is.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Even more attention on Deck Verified.

Both more attention to the ratings themselves and of course always lots of effort put into working with game developers to ensure their hottest new games are Verified if possible at launch.

My 2 additions...

1. Steam Deck Optimised

Basically a new rating which is even higher than 'Verified'. Optimised would mean the following guarantees:

• Native: No Proton needed, the game is native to Linux.


• Vulkan: Game uses Vulkan for graphics for best performance.


• 60fps @ 1280x800: The game's default graphics settings on the Steam Deck allow the game to run at the maximum resolution and refresh rate of the Deck.


• 3 Hours Gameplay: The game's default graphics settings allow it to run for at least 3 hours of gameplay.


• Offline: No connectivity is required to run the game for single player content, first time or any time.


• Verified: All the same guarantees of Verified apply as well, since this is the level 'above' Verified.

The first is a tricky one. Consider something like ETS2 which tricks all the boxes (except Vulkan rn), but runs faster on Proton than Native. There's *no* downside to running through Proton for the user experience. I couldn't care less. In fact, instead of the built-in translation layers that are sometimes used for porting, Proton, in a way, makes more of the code running open source ;)

Instead, I'd like to have Steam to default to the "best" configuration, which, for ETS2, is Proton and not the native version.

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Quoting: ljrkWell, ironSource built an opensource (!) SDK for installers... this isn't malicious at all. Many viruses used installShield or WinZIP to extract, this doesn't make either technology especially evil.

Further, they don't support this product anymore.

However they *do* focus more on ads which I find problematic indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIjv0f_2UuY [External Link]

Seems unity employees don't agree with you. Also, the most recent CEO of unity came from EA. Video does a great job laying out what is going on with Unity.

Uh... I don't see Unity devs disagreeing with my assertion there. I didn't say that Unity is currently a great place to be, on the contrary. But calling ironSource a malware company is bullshit, but also a claim that I have yet to see from a Unity developer.

What I do see is a video of someone narrating me text articles written by pcgamer or Kotaku, both websites not particularly well-known for being technologically well-versed. Which is indeed proven by things like "ironSource was behind a malware Snapchat installer". Which is simply not true in that form.

I could also say "Visual C++ is behind most Windows exploits because they're written in that language". Or "Microsoft developed the Windows GUI Toolkit used for many Virus software" -- yeah, well.

They developed an open source installer that could embed anything. The End.

Yes, people who can code and want to do malicious things can use this installer to rebundle existing software to distribute malware. That's... really not the kind of thing I'd blame the company providing the code for an installer for.

So much FUD. Which is especially frustrating because there's enough for reasonable concern about Unity. But *that* is not it.

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Quoting: fenglengshunas an accountant, every time i see a keyboard without numpad, i just feel so scared...

As a developer I am turned off by a keyboard without dedicated function keys, no insert key and no numpad (which is actually very handy with games like War Thunder, too).

It works fine if you use a modal editor. I'm not running a 60% (anymore) but it's not that bad.

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Well, ironSource built an opensource (!) SDK for installers... this isn't malicious at all. Many viruses used installShield or WinZIP to extract, this doesn't make either technology especially evil.

Further, they don't support this product anymore.

However they *do* focus more on ads which I find problematic indeed.

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Replace libcurl with cpphhtplib. Should be transparent, and fix some linux issues related to out of date libcrypt etc.

Is there any reason why so many devs struggle with using the correct libcrypt? There's a libcrypt bundled within the Steam Linux Runtime AFAIK, just... link against this one instead of the system one?

This HTTP library links against libcrypt as well, so is this some kind of issue while using libcurl?

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Quoting: RedjeIn the Dutch interview from tweakers, they also mention they wanna move to immutable OS. And that they probably cannot do it with Debian packaging. So maybe they move over to fedora or arch?

Since it's behind a paywall (and in Dutch), here is the snippet:

Dus een immutable OS kan niet goed boven op een op Debian-gebaseerd besturingssysteem?

"Als er een immutable Pop_OS komt, dan mag het Debian-packagingmechanisme in zijn huidige vorm ieder geval niet op het systeem staan. (...)"

Through GTranslate:

So an immutable OS doesn't work well on top of a Debian-based OS?

"If there is an immutable Pop_OS, then the Debian packaging mechanism in its current form should at least not be on the system. (...)"

While this fits the rumours I've heard, it seems they're still going to re-use some of their Ubuntu architecture. I'm looking forward to it.

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Quoting: propertyI've previously ordered a laptop from System76 before they had a German keyboard layout and learned the hard way that the US layout has less keys.

I'm really glad that they do well and can expand to other markets.

For me its the other way around, I'm residing in Germany but it's soooo hard to come by an ANSI pc-104 instead of an ISO pc-105 keyboard :(

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