Any particular device that you find appealing?

Well, I’m quite satisfied with my Steam Deck. If I wanted something a little bit more portable I’d just chuck a mobile controller from 8BitDo or so into my backpack to use with my phone.

I guess my ideal device would be an RG Slide if it could also work as a phone.

Most smaller handhelds are ARM based with Android as the OS. There are plenty of those in all kinds of form factor and price point available. So if you’re fine with emulation you can probably find one to fit your needs. Although x86 emulation on Android also seems to be on the up and about, so you should be able to run at least some less demanding Steam games.

The problem with higher performance (regardless of ARM or x86) is that it needs power and cooling, which need space. That’s why the handhelds that can emulate Switch games are much bulkier than the ones that are content with N64 emulation.

If you do want to go through with building something yourself I just found this video of someone ripping a Samsung Flip apart and building his own phone with a keyboard out of the parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy_9w_c2ub0 It should give you a good overview over the whole process and the difficulties one might find along the way. He also seems to have videos about building a handheld although that doesn’t look as clean as the phone, at least on the thumbnail.

Reminds me of the time I built a ghetto Switch out of a Raspberry Pi, a telescope controller, a powerbank and a touchscreen.

Sold two or so on ebay with the intent of earning enough money to build one for myself.

Until I realised I could have a much better handheld just by using that controller with my phone.

Anyways, there are many instructions out there to build a handheld with a Raspberry Pi and similar. But if you want to match the Deck in terms of performance and portability you’ll need a custom PCB and some serious electrical engineering and soldering skills.

They’re probably ashamed of an anatomical feature.

It probably doesn’t work with interactable objects and other edge cases. And it for sure doesn’t work with trees because they highlighted in the Witcher 4 showcase how they created a version specifically for trees.

Clair Obscur and Hellblade 2 also ran great on my Steam Deck. And I suspect Fortnite does as well.

My guess is that developers of the other games just pour in high def assets without using any of UE5’s crazy LoD techniques.

I bet it’s new Windows-only anti cheat.

Wasn’t that how 4chan turned to the right? At first it was irony, until enough idiots were there to take it seriously.

Kind of like https://xkcd.com/591/

Yeah, some people lack humour.

!fuckcars@lemmy.world

That shit’s got electrolytes.

Why? She’s awful enough on her own.

I picture a bored Russian agent trying to post some hateful comment only to see it’s already been posted.

They could teach Torvalds how to install Debian.

Ironic, Linux might have better WMR support than W.

The biggest issue nowadays is kernel level anti cheat. For that developers have to turn on Linux support (where it won’t be kernel level). You can see the status of games on that front at https://areweanticheatyet.com/.

If you’re ever inclined to to go back, OpenSUSE (at least Tumbleweed, not sure about Leap) still supports the old drivers. I’m starting to be in the same boat with my 150 MX.

Although I rarely use it. Putting the laptop to sleep often ends up in a crash with the nVidia drivers. Luckily I also have Intel onboard graphics in the thing.

My son was convinced to use Linux by wobbly windows.

Although he does have a second SSD now with Windows to be able to play the big popular multiplayer game of the day with his friends. But they are back on Minecraft often enough.

Arte is literally where I learned what hentai is.

Love KDE’s Dolphin. In the file properties you can just paste a hash and it will check the correct one for you.