Comment on [Discussion] - What are some niche applications / use cases you've gotten working on your deck?
ekky@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
The Deck is a pretty nefty device. I used it for half a year as a daily driver, which included everything from gaming to light embedded development. I’ve also used it as a ground control station when flying my legacy drones, or as a relay for my main rig when tinkering on unhandy equipment (such as accessing my cars OBDII from the warm living room).
I’ve also tinkered with secured storage on the Deck, but found that LUKS needs the Deck to be unlocked (note: All of the above can be done without disabling the read-only system). I found a somewhat functional workaround using rwfus, which makes an overlay on top of the read-only system, on which I then can install packages such as veracrypt. I also tried NIX to this end, but found it to be way too much work to learn to use proper for my usecase.
And while not really anything mind-bending: I’ll be spending the next few days in our summerhouse with my sister to celebrate ‘Fastelavn’, where I expect to bring my Deck and a Steam Controller for some evening Kingdom 80’s co-op.
Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Nice!
I’ve found Distrobox to be a great way to access stuff I’m more familiar with from my Debian distros. Builds little containers that make use of some existing binaries from the steamOS environment. I even found some super curated ‘boxes’, specifically for Davinci Resolve, which is promising! (That box didn’t work in my case, but it’s cool that sort of thing is in development! 🙂)