Checking out the Lemmy side of the sea—
It does supports WoL. Well, the OLED one supports WoL over WiFi, the LCD doesn’t. But it doesn’t support queuing an install on a currently offline device.
Even disregarding the tens of minutes it takes for the app to realize that my Deck has come online after I wake it up for me to be able to install a game on it from my phone, i can’t really WoL it when I’m not home.
Well obviously.
Even still, it is perfectly feasible for Valve to implement an install queue that we can add to from a phone that starts downloading only when a given Deck turns on. Maybe even put a device’s required or scheduled game updates on that interface too for us to manage and for the Deck to pull on wake.
Secondly, the Deck’s might not actually have any hardware to turn itself on on a schedule like phones do, but at least if it had a remote download queue, we could automate sending our own Decks WoL packets every now and then and have them automatically install new games.
Plus, the Decks can turn themselves on from S4 when plugging in at least, so maybe even with the current hardware there are things Valve can do here that I can’t imagine.
Having a power-saving download mode is only the first step. There’s still a lot of useful features we’ve long been requesting left to do that can be achieved, and I’m hopeful more of them will!
Hopefully this leads to being able to queue game installs remotely without the Deck having to be on. And if it can wake up when charging to do the same, even better!
I only use the 256GB LCD Steam Deck as my desktop that I do all my work on (graphic design, web development, illustration, Blendering, etc.)
I have it permanently hooked up to a stamd/dock connected to my monitor external storage and graphic tablet, with the keyboard and mouse being wireless. I get to put videos or reference boards on the built-in display that works as a cute little secondary monitor too.
I’m still on SteamOS stable. Almost all my apps are Flatpak, but I also have Nixpkgs set up for anything else. Also Distrobox, I suppose, but since installing Nixpkgs I’ve not had to use Distrobox at all. Occasionally I miss having a newer kernel. But not enough to want to install any other distro.
It’s been a blessed couple of years. No complaints!
Fell asleep waiting for the update yesterday. Decided to stretch the weekend early today.
~🌒DEATH TO CHRONOS🌘~
Telekinesis. Not “Omega Level” telekinesis, but being able to catch my phone when I drop it would be enough… Let’s say “Charles Xavier’s wimpy-era telekinesis.”
And I would definitely want everyone on the world to have it so 999 other small fry telekinetics is fine with me. I’m sure that wouldn’t be problematic _at all!
Surely it’s a mechsuit?
Noting wrong with the IA whatsoever. But given how harshly they’ve been treated by basically every government and corporate interest groups they’ve been forced to contend with foot the last few years, and the regular DDOSes, I personally always feel guilty downloading things from them and spending more of their resources on “relatively frivolous” things.
My neighbor’s dog certainly thinks so, given the volume of barks that reach crescendo just as they exits their apartment.
…And like everyone else in the comments, their dog also forgets about it within minutes!
“I’m already apart of the Fediverse” 🥲
I’m also mapping the wrapper over a list and combining it with unmodified packages.
I suppose that is the Nix-y way, but I can’t help but feel like it’s a bit…manual? I always wondered if I should just wrap all of my home-manager packages that way!
I thought this was going to automatically wrap all my packages in NixGL. But this is about the way more convenient NixGL set-up that happened to home-manager last year, yes?
Played the game for an hour or so on a Steam Deck OLED today. Works fine out of the box, didn’t make any changes.
Just as I got used to waking the LCD deck I use as a desktop with my Bluetooth keyboard… Hopefully it’s back by stable.
Need to try out the gamemode OBS fix!
I just finished my chapter 2 play-through of Pokémon Flux; what a blast.
Also playing Control on the side. I finished it for the first time last month, but still a lot of side-quests to do, and the gameplay is still very fun.
Aside from that, the dailies/weeklies in Genshin Impact, Zenless Zone Zero, and Tabletop Simulator.
Been seeing a lot of these threads with impossibly open-ended barely tenuous one-liner quotations being posted around technical communities. Is those a new AI thing?
With the gift of suspenders
What are you moving away to? I’m assuming you’re still keeping your VPNs and DNS ad-blockers etc?
And thanks to the Next Fests, I crave this remote install queueing feature more and more lately!