Quoting: EriI love the grey one so much but i don't like TKL keyboards :sad: I want my numpad like others pointed here, I work with numbers and I can be very fast typing in a numpad, the TKL and small keyboard trend is not for me. And I don't want to use an extra USB port for a standalone numpad, I heard that before.

It has a hot swap board, a full version would be an instabuy for me, but nope.

On my ergodox, I just have a numpad layer activated by a button... The layout is the same on ortholinear keyboards, which I've also found to increase typing speed (and makes learning touch typing much easier). I can easily touch type on numpads and ortholinear keyboards, but never could do it effortlessly on "typewriter" staggered layouts, hence why I'm complaining about them, and will not consider any for a new keyboard!

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Typewriter layout and closed source firmware, I am not really interested, though the design is cute.

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I really liked this mod, the puzzles are quite hard.

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Now that's interesting. I have been booting my Steam Deck off a USB nvme drive for a while.

My takeaway is: the Steam Deck could really use a second USB port, even if the second couldn't do video output.

As for this one... The form factor makes and breaks it. It's the same size as the internal steam deck SSD, so more expensive and relatively hard to find, and you might as well upgrade the internal one. I'm glad the format is getting more common though, that will make finding spares easier.

I would prefer it to be metallic and hermetically sealed, personally. I can live with throttling, and don't need ludicrous speeds.

I'm also curious about the cable. Is this a male to female cable? I thought these were disallowed by the specification?

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Alyssa is such an impressive dev, I'm excited to see what she does next.

Go Alyssa, you're a rockstar, show Carmack what you're made of :P

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Quoting: PikoloI'm confused. Why add Pluton to the same CPUs then? So you get open-source firmware with a backdoor?

From Wikipedia:

Pluton is a Microsoft-designed security subsystem that implements a hardware-based root of trust for Azure Sphere. It includes a security processor core, cryptographic engines, a hardware random number generator, public/private key generation, asymmetric and symmetric encryption, support for elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) verification for secured boot, and measured boot in silicon to support remote attestation with a cloud service, and various tampering counter-measures.

I don't see anything that constitutes a backdoor here. It's more akin to a TPM. From what I'm reading above, this processor probably can't access system memory, spy or change anything on the main machine.
Measured boot is typically done "manually" by bootloader, IIRC, each stage providing a hash of the next stage before executing it.

One should maintain a healthy dose of skepticism against Microsoft-provided solutions, but this doesn't mean spreading FUD :)

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Quoting: Pengling

Quoting: MayeulCI started detailing the technicalities, then realized that is not what you were after... Well, if I can't use the Steam deck, I can plug the SSD into another computer to retrieve data. I can also boot it up on another computer, but the SD is better (my desktop randomly loses the USB controllers sometimes, which makes USB boot unreliable, and my other laptop only has 4GB of RAM).
I have priority though, as this is now my "work laptop" replacement (where the SSD originally comes from).

Thanks much for taking the time to reply. :smile: I'm most curious about using it in place of a laptop - do you use the dock (not necessarily connected to an external monitor) for this?

No worries, I always check my GoL notifications, even if I don't visit the website every day :)

I use the USB-C input (Display Port Alt mode plus PD charging) of my DELL monitor (Daisy chained to a second one via a DP->VGA adapter), and connect the SSD to one of its side ports via USB. The setup is pretty solid, though it's tempting to disconnect the Steam Deck or turn the screen off (either would interrupt the connection to the boot drive, which would be a bad idea). No issues so far though, and the Steam Deck, even with this complicated setup, has had one of the most robust suspend and resume implementation I've ever encountered on Linux. There were a few hiccups with Daisy Chaining due to an AMD regression on recent kernels, but it's getting quite stable these days.

I would be in the market for more esoteric USB-C adapters, such as a simple USB-C -> USB-C + USB-A hub (that retain PD and DP Alt). Or something that injects DP Alt signals from a separate video output. I might need to design these myself, though.

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Quoting: PenglingI find it interesting how Elden Ring, Stardew Valley, and Vampire Survivors are so often battling it out for the top spot in the monthly Steam Deck most-played charts - they're all so different, and on most platforms wouldn't be in such close "competition" like this, so I find it pretty interesting to see. :tongue:

Quoting: MayeulCIt's a pain to manage a single one, especially as I often use it as a computer, booting on an external SSD, docked.

Just curious, how well do you get along with it in this use-case? :smile:

I started detailing the technicalities, then realized that is not what you were after... Well, if I can't use the Steam deck, I can plug the SSD into another computer to retrieve data. I can also boot it up on another computer, but the SD is better (my desktop randomly loses the USB controllers sometimes, which makes USB boot unreliable, and my other laptop only has 4GB of RAM).
I have priority though, as this is now my "work laptop" replacement (where the SSD originally comes from).

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Quoting: KimyrielleGreat to see a game running on Linux that's certainly going to become a big hit. Personally, I am not going to get it. I don't own a single Blizzard game, so there is that. I just don't like that company and their business practices.

Seconded :)

How does Victor Vran compares with Diablo, BTW? I played a bit of both, and they felt pretty similar.

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Hades...When I can pry my Steam Deck from my SO's hands... (Hades too, but a second run). I guess I need to buy a second one at some point.

It's a pain to manage a single one, especially as I often use it as a computer, booting on an external SSD, docked.

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