Devices don’t “need breaks”. This problem is indicative of a memory leak, which means they coded something shitty.

Sure, playing for 7 hours straight is excessive, but this shouldn’t happen.

It’s actually really neat. You should check it out.

Both are valid commands.

adb install is for individual apk files.

adb sideload is for compressed zip files to load images and system files that usually include apps.

But yes, I did conflate the two and forgot the command syntax.

Either way, I don’t fully understand the hate for the word “sideload”. I don’t find it has a negative implication, but I can see how some other people might.

Installing apps from Aurora, F-Droid, etc. are not “sideloading”, though, and that does bug me how people conflate the two like the Play Store is the only valid way of installing apps on your phone. If you’re installing them from within an environment on your phone, it shouldn’t be called that. Only when you’re loading apps from a PC via adb should it be called “sideloading”.

I mean… That command is “adb sideload”

Can’t. Too busy blocking side loading.

Why not stream it from Steam Link or via Game Pass?

I was in a similar boat. I’ve been using a Ryzen 5000-based mini PC for about two years now. It’s running:

Debian for stability

Flex Launcher for the 10ft TV UI

Flex Launcher has shortcuts for Plex HTPC, Netflix in a full screen Chrome page, etc.

An AirMouse Remote with a keyboard on the back and basic controls up front. It has 5 programmable IR buttons that I have bound to TV Power, TV Input, TV Select, and Sound Bar Vol-/+

My kids also use it for Steam and Retro gaming, so I have it launch ES-DE and Steam Big Picture Mode from Flex Launcher.

Other than the occasional tweaking, it has needed very little and been rock solid for about 2 years now. I have a cheap Android TV set top box still attached for when Grandma goes to use the TV. I can switch inputs and hand them the Google TV remote, but my wife, my kids, and I use the HTPC almost exclusively.

They stopped providing DeviceTree files for Pixel phones, so building Android 16 requires reverse engineering now. They only provided stuff for the generic system images, so building the Linux Kernel for third party ROMs is now much harder.

Linux Mint or Debian running Cinnamon DE. Stable and predictable.

This post made me buy and play the game through. I did my first playthrough in about 4 hours and… Wow … My brain is going to be contemplating the story for a while. Incredible. Just incredible.

There is a dd-like mode on Rufus as well called “RAW Mode”.

I used sed to replace my apt sources.list entries with Trixie…then ran sudo apt update, sudo apt dist-upgrade.

After one reboot my system was updated. Debian is basically that 80 year old tractor on the farm that still starts after sitting for 6 months with no effort. It just works. And that’s why I love it.

I have found WiVRn to be a delight to use on Linux with my Quest headset. Works with many other wireless headsets, too. Very little issues with it playing Windows VR games on Linux.

Flatpaks are just fine. Fuck off.

This is good. Hopefully it’ll be extremely slimmed down and allow for remaining X11 applications to keep functioning.

Yeah but who gets to build the re-education courses?

Things like that are dangerous, even though they sound kind of good as a knee jerk reaction.

Whaaaat! Anti-science, religious bigots drive social decline?

No that can’t be it. It must be that God is angry at us because of the gays and is sending this plague upon us. We must burn the gays. That’ll fix it. /s

Steam Deck’s OS is immutable. It’s pretty “locked down” already, although not quite as much as a Switch.

No no no…see they’re called criminals. Unlike slaves, they actually let them go sometimes…only for them to end up back there because they can’t get a job due to being a criminal.