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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ?⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It would work in desktop mode. All Decky plugins do, because Decky itself sets up system level hooks for the plugins. You can also access your Decky plugins by launching Steam in Big Picture Mode while in desktop mode.

  But yes, the custom limiter would not trigger if the battery level crosses up past the threshold. It would continued to charge untill the stock behavior of tapering off past 90%.

  It would continue to limit your charge if you were above the threshold before the Deck goes to sleep. It would also continue to “idle” the battery of you force it to idle regardless of the charge level. It’s the custom charge threshold limit that won’t trigger if the Deck goes to sleep while still under it.

  I’m going to dump a walk of text trying to describe this with an example because I don’t trust my ability to explain this any better otherwise— Realistically, if you, say, set the threshold to 60%. Watch a few shows with it plugged in until it ticks up to 60% and then go about your business, letting it go to sleep, it would not continue to charge your battery. A couple of days later you might return to the Deck at 50% charge or something, even though it is plugged in. And then it would start charging again once you wake it up. Assuming you keep it awake long enough to get it to 60% again. Surely with an hour of tv a week it’ll cost under that 60% mark despite the limitations!

  OR, you can just not bother with the limiter at all. Force the battery to be idle all the time. You intend to only use this Deck docked, unlike me or Stampela from the comments, you don’t need to unplug the Deck and play a few games on battery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ?⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC the stock behavior is to switch to AC at every charge level, but after 90% charging very slowly to 100 and then doing until it falls below 90 again which it would take a long time to do while still powered.

  I worded that initial description pretty poorly, given the default behavior is that it always uses AC power if it’s connected to AC.

  Thankfully, with that Powertools plugin you will get to see exactly what the Deck is doing in terms of power and disable even that slow charge above 90% (which I have done), or even force the battery to charge at full rates above 90, should you need to prepare for a trip or something… Give it a try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s very alarming!

  Thankfully, I’ve not had this issue, I can see the battery go down very slowly over the day once it stops charging while plugged in. I normally play games in the evening on the battery, and haven’t noticed any reduced capacity in the last couple of years…

  Hopefully, before I get something like this I’d’ve finally built a new PC 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good point. I lose about 5% a from the charge limit after a whole day of the Deck being plugged in and mostly on. I suppose doing a weekly power cycle could also work.

  There’s also the BIOS setting that turns the Deck on when connected to AC, just in case it does run out of battery and won’t turn on after a power outage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] Using my Steam deck as a mini PC ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The Deck can bypass the battery when plugged in. And in fact, does so by default if the battery gets above 90%; it would stop charging the battery and just draw power directly from the USB cable.

  With the Decky Loader plugin Powertools you can customize this threshold. I use my Deck as my only PC for work, and have the threshold set to 70%.

  For video watching, I can’t imagine having any issues! If you have the OLED model (I think), you can even get Wake on WLAN to work if you plan to store it out off view (although that does feel a bit unfortunate for the poor guy)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[help] Getting my first steam deck tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you find yourself taking and sharing a lot of screenshots outside of Steam. Install the Shotty plugin for Decky Loader to have then organized and accessible without needing to dig into Proton prefixes.

  And then, access your ~/Pictures/Screenshots folder over SFTP from your phone or some other PC for efficient shitposting!

  P.S. I use Solid Explorer on Android for SFTP.

  P P.S. Set up SSH as soon as you can. It’s saved me a lot of effort when I boot-looped my Deck by creating a bunch of circular symlinks 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[help] Getting my first steam deck tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Comparatively, yes. But trying to install apps or programs on the Deck if they are not on Flathub is quite a common use-case, I find. And it’s a lot less stable or frustrating than temporarily installing packages through Pacman!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[help] Getting my first steam deck tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Setup Nixpkgs. Learn Home-Manager. If anything doesn’t exist on Flathub, install it through Nixpkgs instead of disabling immutability and resorting to pacman. And for temporary tinkering, use nix-shell.

  The determinate.systems Nix installer directly supports the Steam Deck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if you could use your phone to type in text fields when playing docked?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it works in gamemode. You might want to also get the Decky loader plugin that lets you control KDE Connect is enabled from gamemode though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your Deck for non-gaming purposes? If so, what do you use it for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks to Nixpkgs I’ve not had to worry about programs, but I sometimes miss having quicker access to DE and driver level stuff.

  Does Bazzite have KDE 6 and fresher Bluez setup on the Deck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your Deck for non-gaming purposes? If so, what do you use it for?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also use it as a regular old PC. I work from home (design, illustration), and do all of it on a Deck plugged into a dock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck OLED Limited White Edition announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eternally thankful this isn’t a rerun of the translucent black edition. I too got my first OLED delivered last week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS 3.6.20 Stable Update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was hoping the regression introduced in 3.6.19 where the bluetooth earbuds I could connect to just fine before but now only worked once until I reboot the Deck was addressed. But alas…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] SteamOS 3.6 is nearly here, with Valve focusing on bug fixes before release. What are some bugs you've encountered (on either Stable or Beta) that you're hoping to see fixed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want some updated stacks: Bluetooth especially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YONO soft case - carry case compatible?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t directly answer the question, as I don’t use one. But I would like to mention that I put on a pair of joystick caps which are frankly pretty thin layers of silicon all things considered, and now the Deck won’t fit inside the case unless I firmly close hold it closed and then pull the zipper.

  The case is designed to fit it very snugly, it would seem! But third-party based usually have more give inside for covers and joystick caps etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What have you been playing lately?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much just Zenless Done Zero and Hades II for the past month or so.

  And a bit of Terraria with the boys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hori Announces Controller Made Specifically for Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the four horse-controllers of the apocalypse — Xbox, PlayStation, Gamecube, and Mountain Dew

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you use the back buttons for?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Often as a lazier way to press the face buttons for slow games. But also custom turbo patterns for fast games. E.g.:

  • In Genshin Impact, the back buttons are all face buttons, but with select ones set to turbo for automatic item pickup, or dialog skipping, etc.
    • Also very comfy to use them while swimming
  • In Hades II:
    • L/R4 are the two shoulder buttons for comfier portal/character interaction
    • L/R5 do autoattack and aurospecial on turbo
  • In Valheim, one lets me Dodge with a single button press instead of the chord the game demands you use
  • In Balatro
    • L/R4 switches hand sorting modes, which has no in-game shortcuts, still
    • L5 restarts a run on long press
    • R5 quits to main menu and resumes with a multi button sequence, to "soft reset"
  • In Tabletop Simulator, the most common actions like clicking, selecting, flipping a card, and drawing, are all mapped to the back buttons for ergonomics, freeing face/shoulder buttons for more advanced stuff
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck - SteamOS 3.6.0 Preview: Remote-Controlled⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But but my dynamic tiling 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Solution To Web Browsing (in Qutebrowser) And Text Input Without Touchscreen Keyboard Or Mouse (piggybacking on Vim keybindings)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I too would like to test out this control scheme

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SN30 Pro+ connection issues⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great news!

  Don’t have any Windows PCs nearby, so… 🤞🚫🧱

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Steam Families⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With cooldowns for abuse prevention now on the table, I wish Valve will consider adding something like a “day pass” for Steam friends where they can share their libraries—or perhaps specific games—for a short duration to someone they know without having to adopt them.

  With cooldowns they would find appropriate, of course. And I hope that isn’t a whole year…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SN30 Pro+ connection issues⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless something has changed since I bought it, the Pro+ can still only be flashed on Windows, at least officially. But the Pro 2 can be flashed on the Android app. Typical, eh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SN30 Pro+ connection issues⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this why I have to wait upwards of 5 minutes to be able to actually use my SN30 Pro+ even after it’s connected? I’ve only ever tried this docked, will try undocked today.

  In my case, I just assumed it’s Steam taking it’s time to realize the external container takes precedence. After three few minutes of waiting it works just fine, and the UI instantly switches between XBox/Nintendo layouts and the Deck controller’s layout when I press buttons on either device.

  I have also done this while in desktop mode, and while the system starts registering the controller events as soon as it connects, Big Picture still takes its sweet time, and by extension using the controller to control the desktop does too.