It has a gaming mode which is essentially the big picture steam interface and it has a desktop mode which is a fully functional Linux pc. If I wanted my deck to be my plex/immich/file server, I could do so without making a single change to the stock os.
A lot of games are going to work without you having to do anything and some will need some tinkering. In that case, https://www.protondb.com/ will be your best friend, telling you exactly what you need to do to get things running.
That being said, some games simply can’t be run under Linux. They might work in the future as compatibility improves but some won’t. If it’s an issue for you, you might want to dual boot windows as a workaround.
I’ve seen what happens when image generating AI trains on AI art and I can’t wait to see the same thing for “knowledge”
Old reddit does the same thing on desktop but if that goes away I’ll be fully done with it. As it is I am about an 80/20 split between lemmy and reddit now so it’s probably going to happen regardless but that would speed things up.
Where are you guys finding mom’s with 1950s sensibilities?
It feels like one of those AI hallucinations that sound plausible if you don’t actually know anything about the subject matter.
A switch playing breath of the wild non stop for a month would use about 8kwh. I don’t know what rates are like where you live but that would cost me about $1.20. If you are looking to reduce your power consumption, the switch is not going to get you there in any meaningful way.
A ps5 uses as much power in 1 hour as a switch does in 18. A mid range gaming pc will use as much electricity in an hour as a switch will in about 30-40 hours.
Mobile electronics use very little electricity and aren’t going to cost you very much to operate.
Hypothetically, if I have tailscale setup, would that be a viable workaround since everything looks local on my tailnet?
When I stream from my plex server it’s a direct connection between my device and the server. The only time it proxies through plex is if your server isn’t directly accessible, like ports are blocked or not forwarded properly.
Isn’t that a 1‰ growth or am I mathing wrong?
Edit: I’m wrong and that’s why I shouldn’t comment first thing in the morning. The math is mathing, I’m just not braining.
Agreed. They are definitely the best open world survival (lite) games I have played but I also dislike survival games. Overall they are probably my 7th and 8th favourite Zelda games while removing the survival and crafting elements would push them in to my top 5.
I read an article recently comparing w10 and w11 performance and the numbers were basically the same as this. No gamer should be running w11.
Resolution scale, not resolution. On my monitor I run a 4k resolution with a 125% resolution scale. When I undock the resolution scale stays at 125% so everything looks too large on the decks display.
I find that happens if my docked and undocked resolution scales are not the same.
Qbittorrent let’s you set a torrent to download in sequential order and download first and last pieces first. This let’s me play files as they are downloading.
Even understanding all this, a 2 hour movie in a 2.5gb hevc file is still a very tempting thing. Every movie I could ever want, at acceptable quality, all in under 8tb of space is really amazing.
The electricity bill shouldn’t be that bad. Seeding torrents doesn’t put a lot of load on the system. Depending on your hardware it could be pretty low power consumption. On the high end it might hit 4kwh a day.
My experience with Linux is very limited other than my steam deck. For cracked games, if there is no Linux version available, I usually install them on my windows pc first, copy the games folder to the deck then add it to the library as a non steam game. After that you just specify the proton version in the games steam properties and it runs.
Ideally you would want native Linux versions. Those are few and far between but they do get released from time to time.
I’ve never paid for a private tracker but users can donate if they want. Like I said, I have a firm belief that piracy should be free. Never paid for it, never will. A good tracker with top site bots and well seeded torrents is good enough for me. Releases are on there within minutes, download speeds that max out my connection are good enough for me.
I read up on this the other day and their claims are 8 tons produced per gigawatt of energy consumed. Even if they manage a quarter. Of that, it’s enough to obliterate the value of gold. I doubt this will actuary go anywhere either way but it would be nice to see.