They are absolutely brilliant!

3.0 Exclusions
The Limited Warranty does not apply if the Hardware:
has been modified or repaired by anyone except a Valve-designated service center and the cause of the issue for which you seek service is the modification or repair, or damage caused by either;

Quote from Valve Hardware Warranty

In other words, simply changing SSD doesn't void warranty, but damaging the Steam Deck in the process of doing so does.

The title could be something descriptive like "The Beauty of Space", "Space is Beautiful", "Breathtaking Space Imagery", or just simply "Space".

Just as far fetched, yes.

For games that doesn't support Steam Cloud for saves etc., or in general moving files over to the Steam Deck from your PC, I highly recommend setting up Syncthing.

It's available on the Discover store in desktop mode and can be set up to run as a service to ensure that it's always running on Steam Deck, if you're so inclined. There's a myriad of guides out there if you search around, should you need help setting it up.

Not much was lost. Both Gizmodo and Kotaku content have already been indistinguishable from poorly generated AI content for ages now.

It's also worth taking a look at Fallout 4 VR for anyone that's into VR. Mods stealthily makes it into the best and most immersive experience yet, in my heavily biased opinion.

OVPN still seems to support port forwarding, though it's worth pointing out they were recently acquired by Pango.

The original Deus Ex is 86% off at 0,97€. Definitely worth it if you have yet to play this masterpiece! Just finished it myself on Steam Deck and worked like a charm.

• Shakedown: Hawaii - 80% off at 3,99€ - Think GTA for the 16-bit era.
• 2Dark - 90% off at 2,49€ - Think Alone in the Dark but top-down and in retro/voxel style, from the original creator of Alone in the Dark.
• UnderRail - 60% off at 5,67€ - Hidden or not, this one can't be recommended enough to fans of the original Fallout (1 & 2, isometric) games.
• Space Haven - 60% off at 8,79€ - In-depth colony/spaceship building & management sim with cozy graphics.
• Crystal Caves HD - 60% off at 2,63€ - A true testament to how to faithfully bring an old platformer into HD, while also innovating on the original. Also contains a lot of hidden gems.
• Supraland Complete Edition - 54% off at 15,71€ - First-Person-Metroidvania in a literal sandbox, lots of freedom, lots of puzzles and exploring. Contains the DLC. Get this to gear up for the eventual release of the sequel Supraworld. The standalone Supraland Six Inches Under is also worth getting, but is "only" at 45% off, which is still great.

• Shakedown: Hawaii - 80% off at 3,99€ - Think GTA for the 16-bit era.
• 2Dark - 90% off at 2,49€ - Think Alone in the Dark but top-down and in retro/voxel style, from the original creator of Alone in the Dark.
• UnderRail - 60% off at 5,67€ - Hidden or not, this one can't be recommended enough to fans of the original Fallout (1 & 2, isometric) games.
• Space Haven - 60% off at 8,79€ - In-depth colony/spaceship building & management sim with cozy graphics.
• Crystal Caves HD - 60% off at 2,63€ - A true testament to how to faithfully bring an old platformer into HD, while also innovating on the original. Also contains a lot of hidden gems.
• Supraland Complete Edition - 54% off at 15,71€ - First-Person-Metroidvania in a literal sandbox, lots of freedom, lots of puzzles and exploring. Contains the DLC. Get this to gear up for the eventual release of the sequel Supraworld. The standalone Supraland Six Inches Under is also worth getting, but is "only" at 45% off, which is still great.

Oh and the carrying/storage case it comes with seems to be different for the 512GB version. Not sure about the 256GB version though.

Does the eMMC version allow installing an NVMe drive?

Yes, the only hardware difference between the different version is really only the screen and the drive it comes with. You can technically buy the 64GB version and replace the screen with an anti-glare one at a later date, as it can be bought as a spare part for not much.

Personally I got the 64GB some time ago and am still happy enough with just an SD-card with good speed and decent size. I suspect that will change down the line, but right now I'm happy.

It's the second time it's been discounted so far. The first time was on March 23rd this year, on Steam Deck's first birthday.

I think so, yes. Made @DeusEx for this reason.

Anyone know if there is a consistent way to link to magazines/communities? !DeusEx@kbin.social seems to be something I see, but doesn't seem to work on kbin.

Edit: Neither does @DeusEx, strange. How about just DeusEx@kbin.social?

For what it's worth, the game works perfectly out of the box on Steam Deck via Proton, didn't even had to force compatibility to use any specific Proton version. So at least it does work, and you can see others being successful on protondb too as linked by @PeachMan.

If you still want to target reddit, without overtly giving traffic to reddit, I highly recommend one of the many LibReddit instances. And with something like LibRedirect you could still be doing !ddgr and click any reddit links, and always get redirected directly to an appropriate LibReddit instance.

Personally I am very happy with getting the ProCase with the flip cover. Now I can leave it around in more places without being as worried, as I've opted not to use a screen protector.

I was a bit worried first, having read about how the cover is a bit loose, but I found that this isn't much of an issue thus far. Once it's on there, I can tighten it a bit by pressing in on the hook or whatever, lift the magnetic part and pull on it to get a firmer grip. Also hear that the analogs could get pressed down on an earlier model, but the one I got hasn't had that issue at least.

The biggest problem I've had is that my SteelSeries dongle no longer fits as the case is in the way, so my next step is to try using a small extender just to get the dongle away from the case a bit.

Anyway, didn't see the ProCase Flip Cover in the list and would definitely recommend it.

It seems like a tricky thing to deal with technically due to how the Fediverse works, and I know far too little about ActivityPub to feel comfortable with coming with any ideas. I would however like to point out what I think we'll be seeing more of with this trajectory. Here's someone on kbin getting called out for downvoting and also explicitly named in a comment: https://kbin.social/m/wholesome/t/80838/To-the-one-guy-who-keeps-downvoting-m-wholesome-threads

Here's an example of what I think we'll be seeing more of: A user getting called out and named for frequently downvoting: https://kbin.social/m/wholesome/t/80838/To-the-one-guy-who-keeps-downvoting-m-wholesome-threads

Don't think this is the last we'll see of this, and I think it definitely has the potential to impact peoples participation in the long run, with people self-censoring themselves out of fear of being called out for voting wrong.

Wish the time played per operating system returned, that was highly useful to me in order to track my playtime on Steam Deck.

We call on all student monitoring tools to remove LGBTQ+ terms from their blocking and flagging lists to ensure that young people’s privacy isn't violated

Removing certain keywords is hardly enough to ensure their privacy. This type of surveillance has no business being in a school to begin with. As a kid I found domain blocking to be bad, more of a nuisance really due to the ease of getting around it, but this stuff is downright dystopic.

Neat, will give it a test drive for a while!

Might be good to post about this in m/kbinStyles. I went back looking for this after having installed it to write this, and didn't find it there where I would have expected it to be.

LibRedirect is a great way to access a wealth of sites like youtube, twitter, reddit, wikipedia, etc. via alternative privacy friendly frontends instead of directly.

While not an inherent guarantee of privacy, nothing really is, it makes the process of rotating randomly between these frontend instances for each visit a breeze, and easy to hop to a random new instance if the current one is down/not working as expected.

That is certainly a good point, and someone on the Steam Deck subreddit had a few things to say about that. I'd definitely say proceed with caution and not be too liberal in its use maybe. No one's been using this for very long at all, so nothing's off the table. Only time will tell.

Maybe use it in select games and not all the time. Besides, the way I understood it, 70Hz is only applied once in-game and if explicitly set, so it's not applicable when no game is running - though I'm not 100% on that.

Even so, the reduction in lifespan may be negligible for all we know, and right now it probably is just a matter if one thinks the potential tradeoff is worth it. I am using it now only in select games, but these are games that I play for extended periods, however being that I am quite sensitive to the flicker at 60Hz, the 17% increase does a lot to mitigate feelings of unease for me. So personally, right now, I'd say it's worth it. If the screen dies a bit prematurely, I'd probably bite the bullet and buy a new screen, and give a try at one of those full shell replacements.

The only real issue I've stumbled upon were random crashes, which crashes the whole Steam Deck oddly enough. Since changing to Proton Experimental I have had such crashes maybe once or twice in ~20 hours, so I would say that mitigated it.

800x500 is a great resolution to play at, I find. Every text is perfectly readable and HUD is at a great size, in fact, it feels like it's made for Steam Deck. Also changing to 32-bit color mode is a good idea.

The most important part really is the controller layout. There are some great community ones out there, though I found myself customizing it a lot to fit my personal taste.

To be frank, I haven't played further than playing through Liberty Island on GOTY, and a bit further. Personally I opted for Revision instead, with vanilla map type, vanilla soundtrack, all HDTP models to false, New Vision disabled, and normal Revision gameplay style (which brings a lot of QoL stuff, bugfixes, but nothing I've found to be really intrusive).

Revision on Steam Deck, with the changes I mentioned, is very stable and faithful enough experience in my mind. The only problem I found was that all data vault images are still for the Revision maps, so they won't line up and will quickly become confusing. I ended up manually swapping the images, which was a painstaking endeavor I wouldn't wish on anyone, but it worked out in the end. Might end up uploading it somewhere at some point, but I should instead really just report it to the team and hope it gets fixed. My main reasoning for choosing Revision was honestly the achievements, it's a fun bonus and a ton of them still apply to vanilla maps. That, and the fact that it just feels like integrates seamlessly into Steam, being a mod with its own store page. And once I'm done with this, I'm very tempted to just jump back in and play through actual Revision with Lay D Denton.

Though if I started out now, I would probably seriously consider taking a look at Transcended or Deus Ex Randomizer with Zero Rando mode (just heard of the latter first here, so I'd have to look into it more before choosing). I'm not sure how smooth the process of getting that into GOTY on Steam Deck is, and I'd miss out on those achievements from Revision of course, but it could be well worth it still.

That all said, just playing GOTY straight out of the box works, with the few things in mind which I wrote about above. There's a myriad of bugs and stuff in GOTY that are just there, of course, but it's not related to Steam Deck and still play very well.

Same here. Countless time. Doing my full complete playthrough right now thanks to the Steam Deck and just about to finally finish it! Definitely thinking about trying this randomizer afterwards.

Two words, Steam Deck!

This amazing device has awakened something within me, rekindling my passion for games in a way that I haven't felt in decades. After 23 years, and after restarting and attempting to play through it countless times, I'm finally on a solid trajectory to finish the original Deus Ex for the first time!

Sindome is pretty neat, though it's been years since I touched it. Seems to be alive still.