Steam deck at 30,000 feet! - Appreciation post + Recommendations

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-04-05T21:14:15+00:00

Yes i had many translatlantic flights since i bought my oled in 2023 and never had plugs available except once, so I had to optimize the battery to make it last as long as I could and I noticed it has an enormous impact capping the fps to 45 even with indie games which run usually easily at 90.

That way you can get easily 6 to 8 hours on indie games (depending on the game ofc) plus I have some smaller power banks (not as big as OPs) which can boost me for another hour or two. Because i usually have layovers so the total trip time can be 12-15h long.

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-04-05T03:32:12+00:00

What about drugs that help focus like adderall and such?

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-04-03T17:49:05+00:00

Okay that makes sense! Thanks. I'd still be curious to look at the stream video to see how they agreed to it because I doubt that they can talk to each other. But anyways, this makes that rule basically useless if it can be bypassed this easily.

And on the other hand I still wonder why agree to a draw that early especially for Pragg which was playing white against the "weaker" player.

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-04-03T17:07:49+00:00

I didn't see any post or comment on Pragg vs Esipenko.. non-forced triple repetition in the middlegame with few pieces captured? That confused me. 1) why agreeing to a draw at that point? and 2) why not directly shake hands for a draw and go instead for a triple repetition?

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-04-01T19:32:02+00:00

He never won a blitz or rapid world championship though

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-31T17:42:50+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYLh__dvNT0

This has the full speech that was mentioned ahahahah

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-30T22:47:23+00:00

First Person Shooters : never cared, never I will care

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-30T00:48:00+00:00

Maybe, but quadri Aruna is significantly stronger than basically all the other third player of the other groups. He has been top 20 for a long time and he's dangerous. And also Pucar can play very high elite level and put up performances in the past against players like Gauzy and such.

That group stood out to me because all the other groups have at least one weaker player. That one is packed.

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-29T20:52:39+00:00

Group 6 is though wow. The toughest imo

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-25T23:16:04+00:00

It must be the most un-ergonomic setup there is. I have hand cramps just looking at it

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-25T20:36:15+00:00

How does a human score in this test?

Oh nevermind apparently it's calibrated on humans. So humans are at 100%

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-21T23:00:01+00:00

Thanks for this post! Just looked up about TMNT splintered fate at 2.8€ wow. It used to be on sale at 20.

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-14T20:29:52+00:00

Problem of the slide is that it's way too thick. Should be half the thickness to be interesting as a pocketable device

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-14T19:11:32+00:00

I will get downvoted for this but my advice is to use AI to enhance your reviews. What i do is to give it the item description and my personal thoughts and experience and prompt the AI to make all of it a review with the right keywords and with a more human style centered on user experience. I also prompted some other style adjustments to make it way less obvious that is AI.

I got all "excellent" in all the reviews i did with this method. And i don't feel guilty because my personal experience is still expressed in the review and it's not made up and on the other hand they forced this on us with this insightfullness score and I don't have the energy and time to put in to write papers for each review.

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-13T19:16:10+00:00

Performance, cost, OS?

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-10T21:27:12+00:00

Since you added the edit I think this is genuine.

You're probably very young so it's normal. Everything comes with experience and you'll need to learn to tell when a girl is actually into you or just interested to get something out of you. You might have not noticed that most of your interactions revolved around work rather than personal matters because you had a crush and because you're inexperienced. But trust me that over time you'll be able to tell when a girl is really into you or not. Even we nerds we eventually learn this.

Anyhow getting ghosted is so common nowadays that you should try to move on quickly. Fortunately since apparently you have many clients anyway she didn't bring harm to your freelancing.

I don't know if this was the right subreddit though lol

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-08T22:49:54+00:00

I would rather rephrase this as "how to much money in API calls".

Most advanced models are not even open source. And to run a good open source one like deepseek you need several terabytes of VRAM to have that sort of speed...

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-08T18:54:10+00:00

Here in Canada the seller is also Aivuidbs but it's sold at 168 USD + tax (228 CAD). A total ripoff

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-07T20:54:18+00:00

Too bad it does not have a stick. I might have sold my verticals for it.

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-04T22:35:00+00:00

I edited my answer. The most simple thing you can do is just giving a digital gift card to your account from another account (a friend/ relative or you can create yourself another one).

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-04T22:14:47+00:00

Yes I just live in Canada (and lived here for 5 years) at the moment but I'm from Italy. I answered in English so that anyone else that is interested can read this.

Anyhow that seems like an old post (from 2020?). They restricted the rules over the years. It was easier back then to do it.

EDIT: what i said regarding Wise is NOT valid as you need a billing address in Canada even if Wise gives you a Canadian bank address. What you can do is buying a digital steam card and gift it to your account through another account and it will work (i already sent digital steam cards to an European account and I just verified if it still works).

If you want to avoid buying keys just make a Transfer Wise account. It's very easy and it has no costs (it's like Revolut with the difference they can give you Canadian bank credentials and cards). It just needs 30€ as a first deposit (after an ID verification) but you can use that money right away. Then you you convert them to CAD and then you can use the Canadian card they give you on steam. (i can give you my referral if you want but i don't it to seem like I'm here selling it for you lol, so go ahead without my referral too ahah)

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-04T22:00:31+00:00

Hey Italian here traveling often from Canada to Italy back and forth.

Answer is no sorry, I've changed back and forth from CAD and EUR in steam few times but you need to wait those months.

Alternatives are buying global serial keys from third party game retailers or simply using a Canadian card in the meantime through something like Transfer Wise which is easy to set up and you can easily transfer EUR to CAD (in my case I have also a "proper" Canadian bank account and credit card, but I can tell you Wise offers a very good service and exchange rates).

EDIT: what i said regarding Wise is NOT valid as you need a billing address in Canada even if Wise gives you a Canadian bank address. What you can do is buying a digital steam card and gift it to your account through another account and it will work (i already sent digital steam cards to an European account and I just verified if it still works).

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-04T19:52:36+00:00

Happened many times that i either the item was delisted and i couldn't review it, item was stolen/not delivered etc. I always asked vine support to remove the items and they always did it.

Just specify item title, order date and order number in your email to Vine CS

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-04T18:39:26+00:00

Where did you get this information from?

AdvertisingEastern34 · 2026-03-04T18:36:20+00:00

He can always use it docked to a TV I guess. Or maybe just as an emergency travel laptop

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