One of the biggest problems right now is AI=LLM which could not be further from the truth

I still find in general super creepy that anti cheat systems (most of them) insist on having kernel access instead of using, you know, actual statistics and machine learning.

There are a couple of things that can be done. Do keep in mind that most of these require some maintenance and checking, since windows updates are notorious for re enabling stuff:

• for windows itself, there are utilities like o&o shutup windows. This usually works quite well to go into the well hidden reg options to disable telemetry
• another good advice is to use such tool to straight up uninstall what ships with windows that you don’t need
• at the network level in your house, having a DNS block level service is great. Pihole and adguard come to mind. This solution is more involved and requires more time to setup, but has tremendous benefits not only on windows telemetry, but overall network telemetry
• if you are not in the capacity to have a network level service, setting up the machine to use nextdns is another good step. It is also a DNS block level kind of solution, but works by pointing the machine to the DNS to be used system wide. Do keep in mind is certainly possible for the system in places to use hardcoded DNS and ignore your options (at network level, you can always force to reroute to your local DNS. The case of DoH is a bit more tricky)

Hopefully this helps

Slaying pillows in dream tactics

There is certainly a very big amount of fuckery going on right now with nvidia drivers. I simply did not know it was getting this bad. Also, I find very interesting the nvidia “open source” bit got the criticism it deserves (is just not open. There was a transfer of responsibilities, and one small part got open)

I find great the devs of the respective projects took time to actually tell how things work for gn. Sure, they get the attention because it’s a known channel, but on the other hand, Microsoft would never give them this much detail and attention to actually understand what’s happening

Upvoted because Lil panda content (where are the pandas at around here?)

send the DB entries of your Downvotes on a Thumb drive (or anything else from SSD to 3.5 inchHDD, depending on your preferences), and shove it up your rectum.

Do not threaten them with a good time

This is very cool that is possible. However, is such an involved process that I am sure I won’t be doing… And I am not planning on getting a soldering station for this.

Also, find every interesting an hex from a legion go works here

Although you are correct (I think), with verified status you can actually open a ticket in case something does not work with proton. Usually the verified status is good for this use case. I do not know if games that are not verified can actually get support inside steam for proton (I doubt it).

Octopath traveller

2 you say? That is 2 more the amount I actually have of real friends

You can use on any computer really (with network connections of course).

I use on a minisforum PC with 2 NICs attached to it. For this solution is usually needed APs (which tends to be better in general, just more expensive). There are people that even use opnsense with proxmox (which is a VERY advanced use case) to have the machine for more things.

One interesting detail: with opnsense you can actually have on the same machine adguard for DNS installed as a service for opnsense (and use opnsense to actually force all DNS to to there, as long is not doh, but that is a bit of a different story).

I also run stuff via steamos so I cannot tell much from your setup. However, maybe there is a trick that could potentially work. On the steamos, when you are on to desktopz it is possible to switch between desktop mode and gamepad mode controllers (not sure on exact naming here). You can do this by pressing for a second or two the upper right button from the front (I believe the legend is 3 stripes or similar). On the steamos it changes modes and can help you unblock controls on weird situations.

Maybe this can help?

This is also a good one. Do you notice any battery life changes after the tdp changes that are substantial? I never looked into it too much, but I assume there are very subtle ways to get a bit more battery without too much sacrifices

Decky loader is actually very interesting, thanks for sharing!

Interesting one. I was aware of btrfs but never thought about for the deck. Heroic is on my toolbox already

Thanks for pointing out. Usually I didn’t fiddle with settings at all, much less with the steam deck ones, since usually things look good enough without much effort

Right, didn’t even think about steam settings. Half rate shading is off

OK, finally managed to sit with the deck after a long day. So from what I see, no fsr enabled. For the screen resolution, is at windowed at 720p, no framerate limit, motion blur is on (turned off now), chromatic aberration is on (what is even that??), Asus aura ready on (for… Some reason. Turned it off now). As for advanced settings, all low except texture quality and mesh quality on high