I’d say even cheap Androids can last long: Samsung A series receive 4 OS updates and after updates are over, you can get a few more years with last supported OS until battery or app compatibility becomes a problem.

This still works, it is my only method of interaction with Teams

afaik Android System Intelligence and apps using that will not show the mic icon

It is actually Valve allowing or denying refunds, not the developer. When GTAV Online stopped working on Deck, some people with hundreds of playtime successfully refunded the game, iirc someone even refunded their Deck.

cough S Mode cough Windows RT cough

The 25% of gamers not using Nvidia GPUs

*%10 unfortunately

https://lvra.gitlab.io/docs/hardware/ According to this your VR headset works with “✅Monado SteamVR plugin” on Linux

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BCM4360 doesn’t work reliably for me even to this day

Now imagine Linux withmitigations=off

I had to set up an app on Wine + macOS, the app spawns bg processes that have a window (on Wine, not on Windows) for some reason and each time that happens the main window app loses focus. Couldn’t solve it. On Linux + Plasma Wayland the problem is inverse ie. even the main window doesn’t have an icon on taskbar, if you minimize it you can restore with only Alt + Tab.

people who install Windows on their Steam Deck?

I see this way too often, nearly half of the 2nd hand Decks sold here have Windows🤷‍♂️

https://manjarno.pages.dev/ Manjaro’s Pamac took AUR down twice, also their website had its SSL certs expire 4 times

Where I live Nvidia GPUs are insanely priced or nonexistent while AMD sans 9070 has decent prices, check AMD cards too.

Ubo prevents ad resources from being loaded, not loading / rendering ads at all makes a major difference in battery and bandwidth usage in my experience. Most notably bandwidth usage drops by %90 in most extreme cases.

GNOME Web if on Linux

Which lemmy client are you using? Your reply has

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exceptionally hostile to new users

What kind of hostility have you seen? EDIT: You wrote all that lol, my bad

Smart Switch needs drivers so it doesn’t run on Wine.

Had to literally compile C code just to change my touchpad scroll speed.

I can change that by moving a slider in KDE Plasma System Settings