I use Steam + Proton in an LXC so I can share the graphics card among several other containers. It works quite well with streaming once I got it set up.

If you stream games or play multiplayer you may want to consider disabling that anyway as it dramatically improves the WIFI speed and reliability.

Most of the time it’s pretty simple to play non-Steam games. It’s made even better with Decky and SteamGridDB.

In a similar vain, enabling ssh and using that for config or moving files around has saved me a lot of typing.

Similar to how there are Mastodon hosting providers, I imagine Lemmy providers will eventually appear to make being your own admin even simpler.

My understanding is many SD cards have sub-optimal wear leveling compared with SSDs so there may be more to it than just writes per sector.

If it helps, I took mine apart this last weekend with no issues whatsoever.

No typo. I had my games on a 1TB microSD card and now they are on a 2TB SSD.

SanDisk 1TB Extreme microSDXC UHS-I. I play a lot of Diablo IV and Forza Horizon 5 and the loading screens are much faster.

My observation is that the SD card tops out around 30mb/s.

I did this for a while until recently I put in a 2TB SSD and the performance difference is night and day.

I at least suspect there will be a community porting some variant of SteamOS to the more popular handhelds.

Sometimes I’ll find myself streaming the Xbox or PS5 on the couch in front of the TV with it turned off.

Before I got a Deck I thought the hype could not be real. It’s over a year later and I still can’t put it down.

Not only does it work well for Steam games, it’s also really convenient for streaming PlayStation and Xbox games.

This is correct. Other servers will not connect with you if you don’t have a valid certificate.

You do need valid TLS and a cert can’t be directly issued on an IP.

Diablo IV runs really well on the Steam Deck.

Advanced data protection is across your entire account, not per device. According to Apple’s documentation they rotate the keys locally on your devices and then delete them from their services so they no longer have a key to give.

My understanding is that an aircraft picked it up and subsequent searches haven’t found anything. Hopefully this is a good sign but it doesn’t seem convincing that the sub is actually what was heard.

I’d use some sort of generative “find on page” or “summarize page” where I could have a quick Q/A without needing to read a long article.

+1 If you can’t clearly state why you need Windows, you’ll probably be happier on Steam OS.

You’re missing out ;-)

Theoretically I agree with you, but I finally broke down and changed mine due to some instability and I haven’t had a problem since.

It’s completely possible that’s just placebo since my understanding of how it should work says you are right.

Were you using yuzuEA?

The other thing that helps is increasing the VRAM to 4GB.

I run my own FreshRSS and it’s been a great experience.

Diablo IV runs great on the Steam Deck and low-end PCs. I’d lean toward PC since you don’t need to pay every month for for online access and it will work on your PC and Deck.

I find this really useful for small instances that don’t have a large communities tab.

It may be worth taking a look at https://lemmyverse.net/communities to see if you can find anything you are interested in.

Things got much nicer in Mastodon when a user could migrate instances. The problem with all of Server A blocking all of Server B is it’s very difficult for a user on Server B to migrate.

I have similar questions. I’ve noticed it’s incredibly easy for me to crash Lemmy and then it is down for a second or two while it reboots. I’m not sure if that’s what’s causing the couple-second downtimes that I keep seeing on larger instances.

Browsing Lemmy on my small instance has been a pleasure though.

I’d love to see feedback from admins on the scaling problems they are having. Hopefully that scales per server and not per user per server.

The vast majority of servers run Linux and the simplest way to deploy services is with containers. Unix and Windows are much less supported and even running outside containers is fading away.

If you are interested, it may be simpler to spin up a small Linux VM.