Steam Deck - Display-Off Downloads - Steam News

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• SatyrSack@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This may not be a revolutionary feature for me, but this addresses one of the biggest gripes I have had with the Steam Deck since release.

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• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hell yeah

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  • iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it possible to make it to only activate when plugged in?

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    • cron@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the default, if I understood this correctly. But I haven’t tried it yet.

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    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s the default mode, you have to manually toggle a setting before it will do it on battery.

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• favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Only took 3 years

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This might, just might, make me take part in installing a beta update.

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  • Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve been on beta for years with no issues, if that helps.

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    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I turned on beta within the first week of getting mine and have only had issues at all with base behavior.

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• Midnitte@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wonder if they’ll also add an option to wake up periodically to enter this mode when plugged in.

  Would be nice for the Steam Deck connected to the dock and making sure updates are applied while at work…

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• Devadander@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The future is now

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• Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I do wonder how low-power it is. Like is it just low power because the screen is off, or are some part of SteamOS shutting down as well to save power.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The steamOS UI uses a decent bit of power by itself, but that power drain goes away completely once you’re in game (you can get much better power life in low power games like Stardew than you can on the steam library screen for example).

    I’m guessing this turns off the UI while downloading, which should drop power usage a fair bit. However downloading itself can be quite power consuming, so there’s definitely going to be some drain still.

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• TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ll take it!
  Next i hope they let the damn thing remember wifi passwords after restarts. It seems to have been doing that more recently, which makes me hope for it to eventually treat WiFi like a phone or laptop or tablet etc does

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  • TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve had two release day LCD and a release day OLED. None of them have ever forgotten their WiFi password running the stable OS release.

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    • BurgerBaron@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I run beta brsmch and no forgor passwords yet.

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cool beans. Good for you.

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  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve had it act like it forgot the WiFi password, but I think it was just a connection issue. I think I just backed out without entering anything and tried reconnecting, and it reconnected fine with the stored password.

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• Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hurrah! I don’t download much - I don’t have a lot of screen time and I tend to play games slowly - but I also have slow internet, this is great for me. Don’t know why steam deck didn’t do this before but I’m glad it will now.

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