Honestly, the best part of the OLED model is that it gets at least 2.5 hours of battery life on the more demanding games. The LCD Deck’s 1.5 hours minimum just isn’t enough time in my opinion.

I know SDHQ has a pretty large recommended sale list.

It’s not focused on indie games, but it does include a decent number of them thanks to how many games it includes.

It works on Linux which already a step in the right direction imo

I wasn’t sure from the title if it was “Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than [the US adults] are.” or “Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than [the LLMs actually] are.” It’s the former, although you could probably argue the latter is true too.

Either way, I’m not surprised that people rate LLMs intelligence highly. They obviously have limited scope in what they can do, and hallucinating false info is a serious issue, but you can ask them a lot of questions that your typical person couldn’t answer and get a decent answer. I feel like they’re generally good at meeting what people’s expectations are of a “smart person”, even if they have major shortcomings in other areas.

Check the discover store on the deck, there’s a program called “clicker” and another called “xclicker”, either one sounds like it should do what you’re wanting.

He did mention it was for desktop mode, which would mean he’s specifically trying to do this on the Steam Deck.

Huh yeah that’s weird, I didn’t know that either.

In addition to fixing Firefox, you may need to change the URL to tv.youtube.com

I don’t have YouTube TV anymore, but YouTube.com/tv now redirects me to standard YouTube, while tv.youtube.com takes me to the TV web app.

Yes, that would be it. It was very recently verified too, which is probably why it was selected as the thumbnail.

Still on x11 as far as I know.

Yeah, I want more details on that. Originally Bluetooth to wake only worked for BLE devices on the OLED as far as I know. Controllers like the steam controller had to have a ble firmware update before they could wake it.

However recently I’ve had my OLED deck (on beta steam OS) get woken up by my stadia controllers, which aren’t BLE and previously couldn’t wake the deck. I haven’t tested it well, but it doesn’t seem consistent.

Now they’re saying non BLE devices can wake the LCD deck, so I’m assuming that means they’re going to work for waking the OLED deck as well?

Edit: did some testing, and I seems like all my stadia controllers will now consistently wake up my OLED deck. A big improvement for me personally.

I will warn you that sometimes epic/gog games won’t work without some manual troubleshooting. You sometimes have to install windows components like .net and various dll files. Heroic and Junk store let you use winetricks to install these easily, but it can be tricky to figure out what components you’re actually missing.

Heroic recently added in UMU support which is making a database of these needed components, and will automatically install them as needed. Eventually that project hopes to make Heroic/Junk/etc as smooth of an experience as playing the same games through steam, but for right now it can be hit or miss if a game will “just work” or not.

Yeah, I have a pretty good list of Sony games I’m just waiting on better sales on.

Like the first Spiderman should really be selling for cheaper now that both Miles and 2 are out.

Have you installed anything else on your deck already in desktop mode, like Decky loader, emudeck, cryoutilities/etc?

Some of those have an option to set a default password to something like “deck”. If you clicked through the setup on those it might have set a password without you realizing.

edit: Decky loader can temporarily set the password to “Decky!”. It’s supposed to remove the temp password after installation, but that’s worth trying if you installed Decky. Right now I don’t see a default password for emudeck or cryoutilities, but it’s possible other deck install scripts might set one.

I had been assuming it was a linux specific bug, but looking it up it affects windows and linux users of the GoG version. It’s pretty wild that they let a major bug like this go unfixed for years when it affects everyone.

Great write up as usual! I really enjoy reading through these.

I don’t remember having any issues with the anchor boss in Control, and I don’t see any mentions of it on ProtonDB either. Is it just an issue for the non-steam versions of the game, or did I just get lucky?

You could do remote installs with games before, but not demos as far as I know.

Great writeup like usual, I really enjoy reading through these.

It does have PVP, and is generally online only.

They also make their money through in-game-purchases, so they want anti-cheat to protect people from unlocking that stuff for free.

This review by steamdeckHQ has a full section on Deck performance.

TL;DR (AI summary):

Surprisingly playable on the Steam Deck at a mostly stable 30 FPS. However, this comes with significant visual compromises, including dynamic resolution leading to pixelation and blurriness, noticeable ghosting, frequent model pop-ins, and framerate drops in towns. The game also suffers from high battery drain and occasional model glitches. While a significantly better experience is expected on more powerful hardware, the game is still enjoyable on the Steam Deck, albeit with these limitations.