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I Spent More Than I Saved on this Refurbished Steam Deck (www.youtube.com)
submitted 10 months ago by lemann@lemmy.one to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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Never realised that quite a few third party mods for the deck are available - such as a transparent chassis, colourful buttons, and even an aftermarket APU cooler.

Linus pretty much pimps the heck out of the refurbished deck in this video.

The main downsides shown (aside from the difficult chassis swap) were the aftermarket chassis joystick tolerances being a bit tight, and the new HD screen increasing system power consumption by at least 10W - while also bringing a noticeable performance penalty, with ~37 FPS on the HD screen vs 60 FPS on the standard deck screen when playing F1

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[-] IronSage@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 months ago

Linus bad

[-] fraydabson@sopuli.xyz 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is that why this is being downvoted? I’ve heard of Linus for years in my Reddit days but never actually watched or listened to anything he did. I thought people liked him? Maybe not anymore lol

Edit : Thanks for the info. Glad I have no reason to give him any further thought. While I never expected him to be like that it doesn’t surprise me lol

[-] Cheesus@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Recent events this year came out with claims of inaccuracies in their videos and a former employee is also levelling allegations of a toxic work environment and sexual harassment

[-] Holyginz@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

His tech info is dodgy at best. He isn't actually very technically knowledgeable so he tends to cause problems because people follow what he says instead of learning from people who know what they are talking about.

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 13 points 10 months ago

His union stance was what made me start viewing him less positively. What is good for the company and the founders is going to be different from what employees consider beneficial for them. But, taking the stance of the benevolent dictator of how he would consider it a failure on his part if a union formed while trying to sell it off as though it wasn't really profit motivated but concern for the workers made me roll my eyes.

Of course it would be profit motivated with impact on payroll, hours, and benefits being impacted and him having less control over what he considers to be fair compensation.

Linus having his podcast and having a platform to start going off the script made me start not liking him much. Lot of his takes gave the impression that if Linus were an ISP he'd be completely for caps.

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 3 points 10 months ago

Lot of his takes gave the impression that if Linus were an ISP he'd be completely for caps.

Ew. Getting (former) CEO of Unity vibes.

[-] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

Based

[-] Rayspekt@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago

Not to be confused with Linux

[-] the_q@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

Everyone is bad... Some just haven't hung public yet.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 24 points 10 months ago

Great, but I can't trust anything he says now. More concerned with shoving inflammatory videos out than he is in being correct.

[-] peter@feddit.uk 3 points 10 months ago

Why is that?

[-] David_Eight@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago
[-] peter@feddit.uk -1 points 10 months ago

Didn't he respond to a lot of those things though?

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 points 10 months ago

With a lot of corporate double speak. Until I see change the trust is broken

[-] peter@feddit.uk -2 points 10 months ago

Understandable, but the response he gave that wasn't ultra sanitised PR also got a bunch of shit so it's natural that they would go PR

[-] David_Eight@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

The response was covered in the second video and just made things worse. Lying and trying to gaslight people isn't a good response.

[-] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

the new HD screen increasing system power consumption by at least 10W - while also bringing a noticeable performance penalty

Who could've ever predicted that /s

this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2023
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