Ironic username, but no, there are none righteous

Fortunately that plays really well via Xenia already in case it does not get the same conversion.

I give you my permission to claim it as your own when you finally get that time machine working.

More like Research In Place than RIM

That’s because there are a lot of marginlized folks here - gay, trans, autistic, linux users

I feel seen

I used to buy external drives when they went on sale, and I’d shuck the case off of them. In my opinion the quality of the drives in those externals went downhill sometime in the last several years. You might get lucky and get a drive meant for a data center, but I’ve stopped playing that lottery.

These days I just buy retired but warrantied data center drives from sellers on eBay. They’re big, tested, reasonably priced and the seller will replace them within their warranty period if they do die (I usually see 3-5 year as the warranty time). So far I haven’t had any of these die in the last couple of years. Seagates used to fail me constantly thought. I’m now down to only one Seagate still working.

Open Media Vault is another good choice that has a web management interface

Outrun 2006: Coast to Coast is a perennial favorite of mine. Plays fantastic on the Deck!

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All the development time went into the option that requires the user to agree to more surveillance. Did they even attempt to do QA on the “disagree” option?

If you have any plugins installed, I would start by disabling them. I do not get any noticeable lag off the Steam Deck controls, but to be fair I don’t play anything competitively.

Short of user modifications, I would contact Valve. Their support is excellent.

Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me

Getting $30 cables for $3 with my employee discount was almost the only good thing about working for Best Buy in the early 2000s.

I’m late for a useful reply, but I just want to say that I hope your Deck is okay.

I have a pair of the “Drop + Sennheiser PC38X Gaming Headset” that have a built-in microphone that can be flipped up and down. Unfortunately I almost never use the microphone, but the sound quality is great and I can still hear what’s going on around me.

I don’t care for ear buds very much because I find them uncomfortable.

That’s exactly why I avoided it. It’s a second job rather than fun (to me, plenty disagree of course). Thank you for confirming that. I’ll stick with more action heavy games.

You can always stream from your desktop to your Deck too if the performance on the Deck isn’t great.

I do this with my PS5 sometimes. I played the majority of Miles Morales that way.

Hey, what was it that you didn’t like about BG3? I haven’t played it yet because my patience for RPGs is low these days.

with the latest 1.5 patch you can easily reach 60fps during normal gameplay (all low settings, FSR3 frame gen enabled). you can even reach 90fps incertain cases. its honestly impressive what they were able to squeeze out of the steamdeck.

https://www.protondb.com/app/2420110?device=steamDeck

I’m sure your desktop plays it better, but it should now work on the Deck despite the unverified status (this is the case more often than not).

It’s looking increasingly likely that the US Department of Justice is going to succeed in their antitrust efforts against Google. Currently, Mozilla gets something like 85% of their funding from Google for being the default search engine in Firefox. That may be deemed anticompetitive behavior by a judge, at which point Mozilla will be left with very little funding compared to their current situation.

I’d bet these actions are in anticipation of that happening.

Yeah that’s a tough one to diagnose. Good luck with the hunt