Kodi and a MicroSD card full of local media files. Boom, Steam Deck becomes an offline entertainment kit that’s a one stop solution while traveling… Bored of games? Watch some movies or a show. Go back to games when your mood changes. Bring your dock and plug it into your hotel TV for either.
Just thought that maybe reviewers should mention that, but for some reason they hadn’t, and I’ve seen a lot of reviews.
That’s because they all referred to the ‘smaller bezel’ which is what that’s called. That’s… That’s just not ‘letter boxing’, you’re just calling it the wrong thing.
Basically nothing, it’ll just work.
Basic local wifi is plenty fast for any local video streaming situation unless you’re operating on the edge of signal range due to distance or problematic physical materials in the way.
I can literally stream UHD Blu-Ray Remux’s over an Asus AC68U wireless access point to my unremarkable Wal-mart purchased Asus laptop or my Steam Deck.
Multiple concurrent clients could be an issue at some point of course, but for just ‘you’? Nah, most stuff is more than enough.
I use Xbox Series controllers over Bluetooth.
The Steam Deck is ‘just a PC’ and just like any PC, you can pair a wide range of controllers to the device. Heck, I use an infrared remote on my Deck when docked to control Kodi for media. :P
Some games will use as much performance as allowed, they will run as fast as possible, meaning they will max out the CPU. The Steam Deck can’t tell if the game ‘needs’ that performance or not, it just fulfils requests for performance from the game. So the TDP cap lets you limit it.
Not asserting this isn’t the case, I’ve not noticed it, but I can’t see why this would be the case for the actual encoding. Decoding I’ve seen it make a difference but that’s mostly the pre-Skylake iGPUs using a poor implementation of QuickSync.
No, it’s totally a fact. Software encoding yields you better results in terms of ‘quality per megabyte’ over hardware encoding unless you are using some real bad sloppy software encoding results. If size efficiency matters more than anything, you use software encoding or you’re basically leaving money on the table. Of course the downside is that hardware encoding is a whoooooooooooooole heck of a lot faster.
How about ‘Not Your Drive, Not Your Data’?
A 1TB upgrade is going to cost me $150 CAD from amazon after tax
1TB MP600 is $109.99 on Amazon right now. That’s $126.49 with 15% sales tax if you live in the Maritimes, and obviously less if you live in other parts of Canada.
If your family member’s who leave their TV’s frame interpolation setting enabled are the bad guys, this OP is the boss fight.
RCT and RCT2 have received nor real updates in about 20 years, not even wide screen support.
Best bet is to buy RCT2 on Steam them use Luxtorpeda to swap in ‘OpenRCT2’ on the Deck.
Holy hell, buy a webcam and a microphone and at least do the basic work yourself.
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black friday deals havent been that great in 20 years. it used to be a major deal.
This is bullshit.
Black Friday was insane for a handful of years following the Great Recession of 2008. Lasted till the very early 2010s. Retailers were desperate, desperate, to get you in the door or buying things on the website.
I’ve seen it, but I collect a lot of magazine cover discs, 90s PC games and stuff, it’s def pretty darn rare. ‘Did the previous owner(s) abuse the disc?’ is a vastly higher concern for me in my eBay adventures.
Ahh yes and steam stands behind the couriers paying them extra and giving them plenty of time to deliver?!
Believe it or not, most of the carriers Valve uses (I have no idea why you think the company is named ‘Steam’.) are unionized. :P
OPs post: and maybe Amazon spoiled me a bit
OPs replies: Actually, Amazon has not spoiled me a bit and I will fight to the death over any suggestion that I’ve be spoiled by Bezo’s Army Of Minimum Wage Delivery Slaves Who Are All On Suicide Watch.
That’s not a foot print. The patter exactly follows the bubbles in the envelope. It just got dirty, and dirty in such a way that the dirt only contacted the slightly raised bubbles, so it must have come into contact rather gently.
And seriously, your drive packaging is not crushed, wouldn’t that have been you first hint that it had not been stepped on? Like, for comparison, put the drives back in the envelope, stomp on it with your foot, and compare the results.
By ‘DVD Player’ I’m gonna assume you mean ‘DVD DRive’ on a computer, and not a box you plug into your TV.
The drive region only matters for legit playback on licensed DVD playback software. For ripping software, they’re effectively agnostic, they’ll rip any disc no matter the region code of the drive or disc.
Console Gamers in The PC Space: Hey, I blindly followed a guide, having no comprehension of what it was telling me, and renamed .local to local, now my Deck is dead, please help. :(
This is not an ideal scenario however. Your power bank will attempt to recharge the Steam Deck as fast as possible and lithium ion batteries lose efficiency as draw increases. The most efficient route would to instead run the deck, charged at 100%, off your battery bank until that bank is depleted, then allow the deck to run off internal batteries.
That said, as the Deck charges in the 20-25w range, this efficiency gain would be eliminated if your game demanded 20-25w system power.