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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great, just make sure this never gets near some elevator control logic like in the movies “The Lift” (1983) or “The Shaft” aka. “Down” (2001).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Help] Buying Steam Deck locally vs internationally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, yes. And you would be able to ask for those taxes back upon returning to your home country (with the same phone). But since this would create huge queues at the airports, nobody actually enforces that.

  However, travelling with e.g. 2 Steam Decks or with one in its original packaging raises suspicion and you could get stopped when going through the green portal at the airport.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Help] Buying Steam Deck locally vs internationally⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  …gouv.fr/…/volume-and-value-based-customs-and-tax…

  Value-based allowances, which apply to goods you’re carrying (purchases or gifts), mean that you don’t have to fill in a customs declaration or pay tax or duty. You don’t have to declare goods (including gifts) so long as their total value or their quantity doesn’t exceed the allowance limits.

  The overall market value of goods cannot exceed the following amounts:
  Arriving by plane or ferry: €430

  Any item whose value exceeds the limit must be declared and you will need to pay the amount of value added tax (VAT) and customs duties that would usually apply. These duties and taxes apply to the full purchase price on the receipt or an agreed-upon estimated value.

  If you are bringing multiple items into the country, each item will count toward your overall limit; once you reach the limit, any surplus goods will be taxed.

  Also note that the Steam Deck contains a Li-Ion battery and thus isn’t allowed in the cargo hold. So you’d have to take this into your carry-on onto the plane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new SSD will literally self destruct if you push the big red button it comes with — Team Group posts video of data destruction in action⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t tell your friends! They WILL push that button the moment you’re not looking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve entered the serial number of my Germany-bought model and it said it’s not from the affected batch and safe to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are (in your opnion) the must tweaks for steamos?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve got a slow-ish SD card and a game that compresses very well, then this might be the case. But with a modern card from e.g. SanDisk or Samsung with U3 and A2 certifications, this probably won’t do that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are (in your opnion) the must tweaks for steamos?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And BTRFS with compression and deduplication are great to save space.

  I’m not sure I’d go as far as replacing the file system. There’s a plethora of tools to do deduplication on ext4 as well. Albeit manually (or via cronjob).

  Also, btrfs seems to be slower for random reads than ext4. At least that was the case back in 2019.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - April 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, The Outer Worlds is quite different to Outer Wilds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - April 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After I really enjoyed “The Outer Worlds” on my Switch, the first games I’m playing on my (only recently bought) Steam Deck are the Fallout FPS games. Finished Fallout 3 last week and am currently enjoying New Vegas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using the Steam Deck docked has been a dreadful experience for me. Is it just me going wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try to enable “Game Mode” or “PC Mode” on your TV for that HDMI input. Also check the audio settings for supported formats and play around with the settings.

  Also, what dock are you using?