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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's whats awesome about the Steam Deck in comparison to something like the Switch. I have taken my Deck completely apart (because my screen broke), and all i needed were some standard tools. You can put whatever OS you want on it, you can play whatever you want with it, you can replace parts as you see fit - mine is currently waiting for the moment i have to open it up the next time, i got myself a completely transparent body for it.

That makes me think: is there a LED controller somewhere in the Steam Deck?

[–] DeLancre@piefed.social 18 points 1 week ago

It especially cool that steam deck basically set the rules upon arrival:

  • Being cheap (not anymore tho) — it was two to three times cheaper than competitives
  • Providing best user experience with SteamOS — showing that UI matters on such devices
  • Being serviceable — you can easily fix or at least replace components

It's not like they was first company to present x86 handheld, but they was first one who was able to take off. I bought asus rog ally year ago (with z1extreme) and I already swapped os, nvme and sticks in it, battery will be next, cause in this model it abysmally small. And I can bet if not for stream deck, even if asus would release rog ally, it would cost x2 and repairability would basically none existent. And chance are it would have problems with linux (like their rog ally xbox version)

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I replaced the battery on mine already. Only problem was that damn glue you got to melt.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, i got myself the iFixit toolkit for the screen replacement, which comes with this nice heating pad you can warm up in the microwave to loosen the glue from both the screen and the battery. Still have it, it's now in my general toolkit, because there's always something glued down nowadays.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I used a heat gun, I was still afraid to over do it and blow up the battery. Other than that, easy fix with a knock off battery as the official ones were sold out.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah that's also the thing i like about the heating pad - it's really hard to overdo it, even if it takes a while for the heat to penetrate down to the glue. I experienced thermal runaway in a damaged LiIon battery once on my old phone (thought i could use leverage to remove the battery, but it shorted internally) - i was just fast enough to throw it in a bucket and place it on our tiled terrace and watched the fireworks.