How is your Steam Deck's battery holding up?
You can check battery health in desktop mode, by clicking on the battery.
I've had my OLED deck for a little over a year now, and it's still reporting 100% battery health.
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Mine says 99% health. I don't know how reliable a metric that is?
Lately, I've been playing on battery exclusively and basically going with the 1 gaming session = 1 battery charge regimen to self-regulate. I may need to re-evaluate this as the battery ages, but it's good discipline for me at the moment…
I do this too. I can get about 2hrs on most games which is great for keeping me from staying up all night. Alas, Factorio sips battery though… sometimes I still fall down the dark hole of growing the factory for many many hours at a time.
I think I read somewhere that Factorio is more efficient running under Linux/Mac because it takes advantage of some quirk in the Unix forking mechanism that Windows can't use? I don't know if this means it would burn through battery even faster if the SD ran Windows, but it wouldn't surprise me…
Uh, that’s used to keep the game from pausing when it autosaves, like it does on Windows. I don’t think they use it any other time.
Oh ok. Thanks for the clarification. I couldn't remember the exact details.