I think high end smasnugs do that. But yeah same, I have a Chromecast and I just sling stuff to the TV. Its tuner hasn’t been used in a decade.

Speaking of decade… I should probably upgrade that thing. But it’s big enough, dark enough (LDC, but at least not a crappy LCD), and high enough resolution for it’s size and distance from my couch (1080, 50 inches, 10 or 15 feet) that I just can’t justify replacing it. I wish it would die already lol.

Maybe if I move and get a big enough bedroom, I’ll put it in there, and upgrade to something with HDR. I really wanna get in on some good HDR. Seems like it’s getting really good and really affordable if you buy the right thing.

Dell was my first thought as well

I think the point you might be missing from the OP, is that the person in question doesn’t actually possess this knowledge or skill, but instead of being humble and admitting the gaps in their knowledge, perhaps asking a question or two when they don’t understand, they just plow ahead.

I know people like this. It’s not malicious I don’t think, maybe it’s more of a defense mechanism? They don’t want to look uninformed, so they try to fill the gaps in their knowledge with assumptions. Maybe they’re right a decent amount of the time, or close enough to fool people who aren’t knowledgeable on the subject. But people who are knowledgeable, will recognize what they’re doing, and the lack of humility comes across as arrogance, even though that may not strictly be the case.

It’s normal to know a lot of stuff and like a wide variety of things. But you need to be humble when you don’t know something.

When I don’t know something for sure, I like to say “I think it’s this way, but I could be wrong.” Or something like that. Or heck, if someone else has the knowledge and skills I don’t, I’m right up there asking questions, I want to learn. Maybe I’ll try to impress them with what little I do know on the subject by commenting or asking questions in a way that shows I understand what they’re talking about, because we all want to have self worth. But faking it isn’t cool, and can be harmful, or just annoying.

Super awesome! I was looking at this, but don’t want a new phone right now

Never thought of that haha, sounds rough, but I like it

Just to add to this, you can do poor mans multi color by just telling the printer to pause at the exact later required, then change the filament by hand, and hit resume. It’s tedious, but it works, if you need it in a pinch 🤷‍♂️

I have one coming, I don’t think the area is that much smaller. The screen resolution being non native 720 bugs most people.

I’m excited because I just bought a broken-screen steam deck, so even with the high-ish cost ($130 ish for the etched version), I’ll still come out at the end with a premium deck experience for less than base model deck 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the tips! I’m not gonna attempt it till I’m back home Sunday or Monday night

I bought a day one Deck. I didn’t think the Delta fan was that bad. I honestly never thought about it. But then one day it died. I replaced it with a huaying, and the difference is definitely noticeable. It was a pleasant surprise, even though I usually game with headphones anyway 🤷‍♂️

I bought a broken steam deck to fix for cheap. Needs a screen, left bumper, and theoretically a joystick, though the joystick seems fine to me.

Halfway through the process I realized the previous owner left half an SD card in the slot. Crazy. Haven’t had time to attempt removing it yet. Hopefully the slot is ok.

Small point, just for the sake of discussion, since you seem knowledgeable and I’m sure you already know:

Upgrading your storage doesn’t strictly require starting over. When I went from 512 to 2tb, I just cloned the drive, then expanded the main partition to fit. Worked like a charm 👌

For most people though yeah it’s probably easier starting over than fussing with cloning.

I’ll be cloning my buddy’s 64gb drive as soon as he buys something bigger.

Glad you found it, and glad it worked for you too!

Let me know!

That makes sense, definitely weirdness. Funny it didn’t bother it the other way around, the other deck is fine 🤔

At any rate, I’m done worrying about it haha

Thanks for the write-up!

I might try bazzite at a later date, but for now, Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, and that’s solved my problem for now, thankfully!

Not sure if this will solve your problems as well, crackling sounds like hardware to me. But Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, that fixed it!

I wasn’t sure how to do that, but it’s fixed just now.

Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, that did the trick!

Thanks! Funny enough, that was my first assumption,I was worried I ruined something. But taking it apart everything looked fine.

In the end Max_P gave me the solution, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting. Worked like a charm!

I did those steps to no avail, unfortunately.

However, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting did the trick!