It’s what keeps things fun! I don’t want a system that I don’t have to troubleshoot every once in a while.

Luckily my entire neighborhood doesn’t have gas and I have a heat pump.

But rest assured, I’m designing the system with 20% less mental illness

I just use the companion app for now. But I am designing a HAL9000 system for my home.

I’ve integrated mine into Home Assistant, which makes it easier to use their voice commands.

I haven’t done a ton with it yet besides set it up, though, since I’m still getting proxmox configured on my gaming rig.

How good are you at database administration?

Your phone is an mp3 player. It just does other stuff too.

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I’d have to dig through my Amazon orders, but I ran one such adapter in my work desktop for a while.

Just read the 3 and 4 star reviews and go from there

They’re also useful to be able to gracefully shutdown your systems in the event of an outage. Mine has a desktop app that’ll do it for you.

One thing you need to consider is the temperature in your car. In the summer, the inside of a car could possibly get hot enough to damage the pi.

Because then you don’t have to push the button yourself at all. You can still use the smart outlet if you want to track power usage and prevent it from drawing ghost power when not in use.

Take it one step further and wire a smart relay to the start button.

Metrics and the metric system are two different things.

AMD used to be a huge pain in the ass to get working, but that hasn’t been true for a while now.

My R9 390 was a huge pain in the ass to get working on any distro, but I think it was the last card before they fixed whatever issue it was.

My point is that the majority of steam deck owners are likely only vaguely aware of the existence of desktop mode, if they even know about it.

But, it’s really easy to assume that the communities that discuss Linux and the steam deck have the same knowledge that the general population does, but the truth is the majority of people just bought a gaming handheld to play games and will likely never leave big picture mode

Just because the deck has a full fledged Linux OS doesn’t mean that it is going to speed up Linux adoption. And Desktop mode isn’t exactly the best transition OS for laypeople.

Exactly. People on Lemmy think Lemmy users are representative of the general population when in fact even knowing about Lemmy means you have more technical knowledge than the average person.

I’d be willing to bet the majority of Deck owners don’t even know Desktop Mode exists.

It ships with Linux, but the majority of users aren’t going to be using anything other than steam in big picture mode.

Bro, you’re on a forum where most people have technical knowledge beyond that of a standard user.

The Lemmy population is by no means representative of the general population.

That’s kinda like saying Android is helping the mass adoption of Linux.