Unfortunately Deck 2 timing is unknown right right now, haven’t had any leaks suggesting that we’ll be getting it soon. We know Valve is releasing SteamOS for more devices, starting with Lenovo handhelds, but it’s not clear if we’ll see SteamOS for any non-handhelds in the immediate future.

We are getting a new Steam Controller soon, which I’m hyped about.

That’s really bizarre. A lot of rhythm games have a calibration test you can do for both visual and audio lag, the visual lag test would be a great way to get some time measurements of the lag with different controller types.

Edit: Rift of the Necrodancer has a free demo that includes a visual latency test.

Didn’t really see any must buy deals in any of the winter sales. It’s a shame.

It’ll probably be ok if you let it dry out first. As others have said, rice doesn’t actually do anything beneficial, other than keep people from using their device for awhile.

It really depends on the specific game, many older AAA games or non-unreal games run fine.

It’s also interesting seeing how some games run much better now than they did on release. CP2077 (non-dlc parts) runs pretty well now for example, much better than it did when the Deck first came out.

Also key here is that the Deck needs to be off

Oh ok, I never shut my deck off. Closest I get is restarting to install updates.

Battery should be fine based on my experience.

If you have an OLED you can have the deck wake up when a BLE connects, but there’s also a bios setting to wake up LCD/OLED Decks when plugged in. I’ve heard of people getting smart plugs (or even remote toggled plugs) and plugging their dock charger into that. When you want to wake up the deck just toggle the power off and on, and the deck will wake up.

That’s really extreme, I’m pretty sure that’s now at all how it should be working.

I don’t leave my deck docked that long, maybe 10 hours at the longest, but I’ve never seen anything like the battery drop you’re describing.

I usually will trust that a game will run if it says verified/playable, but when a game says unsupported I check ProtonDB. Far too many unsupported games run fine with minimal tweaks or proton-ge.

Honestly I think you’ll have to get it RMA’d.

• When you unplug it while on, does it immediately turn off?

• What does it say battery percentage is when plugged in?

• In desktop mode, what does it say battery health is?

I don’t usually use headphones with my deck, but I’ve paired my Pixel A-series buds to it and they work pretty well for discord calls.

Speed wise 55Mb/s is fine. Higher speeds are nice for game downloads/etc but that’s plenty. I had to live with 3Mb/s until a couple years ago, and we were able to have multiple people watching Netflix/etc on different devices. Not 4k obviously, but surprisingly good video quality for the amount of data available.

The data cap could be a problem though. You’ll probably be fine if you don’t download many games, but that’s an easy cap to hit these days.

True of most 3d prints unfortunately, although ultimately it comes down to your printer.

The keyboard is a Logitech Pebble Keys 2 K380s.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/products/keyboards/pebble-keys-2.920-011777.html

It’s this keyboard, but I don’t see the details on the key mechanisms.

From looking at previous leaks, it looks like there will probably be two versions of the same device: One with windows and one with SteamOS.

I would assume so, but I haven’t tried it.

Not everyone needs a steam deck. I know a couple people who have them and barely use them.

But for people like me, it’s been a massive improvement to how often I’m able to play.

Yeah, I think a good approach to any type of government powers is considering that future presidents/parties you don’t like will also have access to these powers.

I would absolutely love it if the threat of the future Trumps is a limiting factor on government overreach.