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.

Had the opposite happen as it happened to me on mobile and not on desktop.

To resolve, scroll down to the absolute bottom. There you’ll find a dropdown menu for selecting language.

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.

Currently the only way I know of favoriting a magazine is via the excellent Kbin Subscriptions Panel userscript. The pen icon can be used to edit subscriptions and star magazines, after which they will appear at the top in the subscriptions panel. Quite handy!

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.

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.

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.

Highly recommend both the script Kbin Federation Awareness and kbin social add home-instance name to username. Makes it a lot easier to tell where things are originating from at a glance!

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.

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.

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.

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!