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Cake day: June 29th, 2023

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  • Having not read the article yet:

    I’ve used it on my Steamdeck. It saves a fair bit of battery, and can look quite nice for it - but you’ll obviously need a fairly reliable internet connection.

    It’s hard to try and super sample, and the official “installer” will trash your non steam games. I was using the flatpak available until this week, and I’m thinking I’ll move back.

    Another thing I’ve found is if you limit the Steamdeck enough, GFN will drop the visual quality and it can look pretty awful.

    That said, it’s pretty neat to be able to run some windows only games that I might not consider playing on the 'deck, or to easily play Xbox game pass games, or whatever. I played a fair bit of AC Valhalla like this.

    Any specific questions?














  • For what it’s worth, I subscribe to the “use your TV as a screen, plug another device in to deal with content” method. It’s not connected to the network.

    So, whatever my TV wants to do, I’m not using it’s janky apps that might get slow over time or try to advertise to me - my Nvidia shield (which is on the ropes/way out due to some updates it pushed) CEC wakes the TV and plays content without having any particular insight into my emotional state. But I can replace that relatively easily/cheaply until my screen literally stops working, rather than if some new service isn’t supported on it or an old one is deprecated.

    I’m being tempted to replace the shield with a NUC or other device due to the updates I mentioned above - but I can probably replace the launcher more easily.