And do you reveal which instance you are using? Or is it a private one?

Yes…most of these news recently is then followed up by:we are on bluesky now… Well it’s fair enough but they should at least also join mastodon … I don’t know. It’s frustrating.

Can you give more detail? I was a lifetime windows user and recently switched. I’m running Linux mint and steam and every game I tried on it was working as expected (admittedly my samplesize is not that big but from what I remember hades 2, slay the spire, horizon zero dawn, doom, civ5, rimworld, pal world were tried. No difference to windows. Maybe not the newest aaa games…)

How fast are response times and how useful are the answers of these open source models that you can run on a low end GPU? I know this will be a “depends” answer, but maybe you can share more of your experience. I often use Claude sonnet newest model and for my use cases it is a real efficiency boost if used right. I once mid of last year tested briefly an open source model from meta and it just wasn’t it. Or do we rather have to conclude that we’ll have to wait for another year until smaller open source models are more proficient?

Mh I don’t know. Guess it depends on the game then. I play most games with the touch pads. Just so much better if configured right. The touch pads can also be used for abilities or menus or inventory slots etc. It gives the steam deck so much versatility. You can play everything from a joystick only game To mouse dependent games to shooter.

Any heldhand without touch pads is basically useless, no? Why are they all going this route? Are those patented by valve or sth.?

In more general terms, you can look up the item at e.g. Idealo.de or other product comparison sites and then decide where to buy. Amazon is most often not the cheapest, even including additional delivery cost