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Steam Deck

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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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[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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…

[–] Sunbutt23@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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…

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] tunetardis@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

Oh ok. Thanks for the clarification. I couldn't remember the exact details.

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