Several people have already done that better

Plus that’s the version that most mods are built for

Fair, but the title for the PC Gamer title sounds like the writer is taking it seriously, and they’ve had enough braindead takes they they don’t get the benefit of the doubt from me anymore. I refuse to even click on the article.

Personally, I’m not a fan of Deck Mate, but I don’t have a beef with the designer. My issue is with PC Gamer magazine

PC Gamer magazine and shilling dumb ideas. Name a more iconic duo

Like a lot of stuff, I blame “popular science” tech youtubers like Linus Sebastien. He thought it was funny to lose his mind with a butter knife and stab at his steam deck and everyone pointed out how dangerous that was while memeing it around.

Stuff like this is why I can’t watch LTT anymore. He’s effectively become the PewDiePie or Logan Paul of tech and has become net negative for the industry.

Lately he did a video where he downloaded HoloISO as an analogue for a SteamOS 3.0 review (why would you review it when it’s actively discouraged for download on non-Steam Deck hardware?). While he doesn’t spend a ton of time on the problems (like connecting to printers), it’s still negative exposure to things that will most likely be sorted out before release (if they’re not already fixed within Valve).

That being said, I shouldn’t expect much from the guy who did the equivalent of deleting System32 in an attempt to install Steam when all he had to do was open the app manager and click install

If the Steam Deck’s airflow wasn’t so delicately balanced, they could probably just skip the glue and add some foam or rubber patchs on the corners to prevent rattling. Then it’d be fairly easy to replace.

I remembered hearing some people set up timed syncs to avoid the issue. Like, only sync at 2am. Though that might not work when the Steam Deck is in sleep mode

and also for autobackup of emulation save files.

I thought the advuce was to not use it for save files due to the risk of trying to sync while playing the game?

Even completely empty my arms will get tired after a few short minutes, much less several hours.

Sound like a you problem /s

And nothing of value was lost

Nintendo’s well-known record for being litigious makes it firmly auth-right imo

Are you telling me you don’t use multiple screens while gaming?

Or it being 5 years in the future with significantly more efficient SOC’s and batteries

That being said, the Nintendo DS’s last US patents should expire in November. Maybe they could do a dual screen?