That’s disheartening about the battery times.

So with all that said, if it takes around 1-2 hours for it to die after starting from full, and it takes a minimum of 2.4 hours just to get it almost full… that means it’ll still run out of battery eventually, even if plugged in.

Once again, battery charge speed is slower than what the charger can provide. Look at it this way, it has a 21.6 Wh battery. If that battery drains in 1.5 hours, that means it drains the battery at an average rate of 14.4 W. It charges at a max of 45w. So when plugged in you can fully power the Steam frame for about 14.4w, and still have about 30w of power left over to charge the battery. It won’t always use 30w to charge the battery, it will further reduce that amount based on heat and charge level, but it won’t ever have a problem maintaining the 14.4w needed to keep it powered up while plugged in.

According to the Ars review, the 1.5 hour battery life is when running games on the Steam frame itself. Battery life is supposed to be a lot better when streaming from a PC I believe.

Also all lithium batteries slow down charging speed a lot as they get closer to being fully charged, so taking 3 hours to charge doesn’t mean that it can’t charge faster than the battery drains. I’m sure it can just do power passthrough to power the headset indefinitely.

This is strange, this post shows up for me through API access, but won’t show up for me when viewing this community online. There’s a duplicate post from someone else that does show up everywhere, and is getting more upvotes, although this post is actually older.

Not sure what’s going on.

Didn’t know that, was literally just the first source I found.

Wikipedia’s article has a section on it, with about 4 difference sources that all seem to conclude the same though. Maybe they’re all bug circumcision propaganda, I haven’t really looked into that part of it.

Here’s a study on it. Basically the foreskin nerves are “touch” nerves, and all touch nerves get reduced sensation with arousal. The number of those touch nerves drops significantly with age as well, with a 90% reduction by the time your 45+. It’s other nerves (mainly in the corona and near the frenulum) that are focused on vibration and temperature, which mainly contribute to pleasure.

Ultimately the “ejaculatory latency time” doesn’t show a difference, even across various reasons for a difference in the quantity of touch nerves.

The sensitivity loss thing is mostly an internet myth, most studies on it show no difference with some studies reporting increased sensitivity instead. The foreskin does have nerve endings, but those are mostly “touch” nerves and aren’t really the nerves that contribute to pleasure/arousal.

As anecdotal evidence, I have a family member who got circumcised as an adult due to medical issues, and he’s very positive about it. I haven’t questioned him on if he had a change in sensation, but I know he’s happy with the outcome.

While I’m talking about benefits, I’ll mention it lowers penile cancer risk, reduces the chance of UTIs, reduces the chance of some STDs, and prevents phimosis/paraphimosis. Only real negative I’m aware of is the procedure itself.

I ended up dropping CSS loader because it was one of the most common things to break with beta updates, but I’ve really missed that look. So it’s super exciting to be getting it back.

It’s a new pre-configured hyprland/arch distro, that raised $15 million dollars somehow. The founder of Omarchy is DHH, the creator of Ruby-on-rails.

The distro is probably AI/vibe-coding, setup to give LLM agents easy access to the system. Some of the previously mentioned $15 million is actually in the form of donated AI credits to code the distro with.

The distro has some controversial decisions like bundling Spotify and Zoom into the install, when Linux (and especially arch) is known for low bloat and user choice.

Some of the money they’ve raised is going to Vaxry the dev of Hyprland. There are various opinions on this, a lot of people like hyprland but Vaxry is kinda insane polish dude obsessed with anime porn.

Overall I think most people care because it’s a lot of money raised for a distro, especially when people disagree with the developmental decisions and goals. People would rather see that money go to other places, and are questioning why so many companies were willing to sponsor Omarchy specifically.

Itch.io is a game store, specifically popular with indie devs.

There’s no fee to publish a game on itch, and devs can choose what % goes to itch if they choose to charge for the game. They can also sell games where they let the customers pick what price to pay. Overall it’s very dev freedom focused and is very popular for smaller/experimental games and game jams.

Hopefully I’m just being cynical, but they’re probably saying that just to appease user’s fears, while fully intending to enshittify to make it profitable.

Oh that’s tempting, they’ve been teasing the CoQ mobile version forever now (7+ years?), and I’ve always wanted to play it on the go. I’ve got it on my Deck always, but I need good game on my phone much more than on my deck.

To be honest it was a weird hole in my gaming history. I’ve played later Castlevania’s, and I’ve always been a huge Metroid fan.

I think I’m largely judging it by comparing it to Super Metroid. Both games were ones I returned to after playing newer titles in their series (mainly on GBA and DS).

Playing SotN for the first time, I find it good, but it feels like it hasn’t held up as well as super metroid. When I went back and played super Metroid for the first time, I found it to be a great metroid game with slightly outdated controls. Going back to SotN after playing newer Castlevania games has felt rougher. SM is famous for how it guides players with an invisible hand, but SotN progression often seems more obscure, I’ve been trying to play without guides, and while I’m doing great at finding health/heart upgrades, I’ve been struggling to find the actual abilities for progression. The game also likes destroyable ceilings/floors for a game that doesn’t give great options for attacking up or down.

Anyways it’s good, I’m enjoying it, but playing it with no nostalgia and no prior knowledge on patching/puzzles has involved a lot of meandering around the map.

Pragmata was great, I really enjoyed it. Some of the simulation trials were brutal though, I never felt like beating them. I also always felt like there should be a better control setup for playing it on the deck.

Expedition 33 is really good, I played it shortly after launch and the default performance was a bit rough. I installed a performance mod (that disabled lumens among other things) and it let the game run and look decent. The game itself is fantastic, gives a lot of options to play it from mastering enemy parry/dodge patterns or mixing and matching the skills and bonuses to make broken combos. It really rewards experimenting, you constantly feel like you’re discovering new broken strategies, but then the game always introduces new much stronger enemies that force you to come up with something even more broken.

I’m still mostly playing Dragonsword Awakening. Really fun game, and a great value for it’s asking price. Plus the devs have been quick to patch bugs (including steam deck specific bugs) and add in quality of life changes. There’s also a lot of free content updates planned.

Also have been playing through Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Pretty good game, although I had to look up advice on some of the puzzles/breakable walls I missed.

I’m holding off on getting into any other games that are too large at the moment, want to make sure I’m not tied up when Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter releases later this month.

Yeah, should be a fantastic addition.

Unfortunately a lot of free out-of-warranty repairs just come down to what support tech you ended up talking to.

Size and speed issues aside, this probably won’t work at all. My understanding is that many m.2 slots are multi-purpose, with nvme, data, and USB data pathways. Most adapters like this just connect the micro SD to the USB pathways in the m.2 slot.

As far as I know, the deck has a NVNE only slot, so something like this that requires the USB part of the m.2 slot won’t work.

UWP may get support eventually, but not anytime soon. They’ll have to get other stuff working first

It has an public codebase, so you can review the code yourself if inclined.

Yes, Doom 2016+ are great games for it.

I recommending doing a mode shift with the right bumper (that opens the weapon selection wheel) to revert the Thumbstick to a regular stick when held, which makes swapping weapons easier.