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Valve has been doing a GREAT job of making gaming better. Their push to be the primer, customer focused, gaming platform is obvious by every release of the Steam Client and update to the SteamDeck. This is about how they have taken another step to make family gaming time even better. BackgroundSteam SettingsEnable Family ShareFinal … Continue reading Steam’s New Family Share | A Digital Dream Come True
As I have been enjoying this well-built, hand held computer / gaming console, I have had to do some problem solving to get things to work. I am building a resource that, I hope will be beneficial to more than just me. it is something I do refer back to from time to time but … Continue reading Building a SteamDeck Resource
I recently had an issue with my SteamDeck where the touch screen would not respond to any input. Rebooting, even turning off and back on didn't seem to solve the issue. I was a bit worried. Had my new favorite hand-held console broken? Did one of my kids do something nasty to it? What could … Continue reading Restoring SteamDeck Unresponsive Touchscreen
I bought the SteamDeck for a number of reasons. One such reason was to turn it into a portable retro gaming station. I know there are a lot of other options out there to do this task but this one was the most economical and already had Linux installed on it. That meant, very little … Continue reading SteamDeck | RetroArch and mGBA for Trading Pokémon
Seems like I've been doing a lot of SteamDeck writing lately. It's well overdue. I have a backlog of things that I need to clear out that are all partially done. My experience of Project Killswitch by dbrand is one of those items. I received it, after I purchased my JSAUX case and am really … Continue reading Project Killswitch Travel Case Review | SteamDeck
The SteamDeck is a great retro gaming platform. I have loaded it up with many of my retro games and one of my favorites to play on it is Super Mario World but in a widescreen format. I have seen this done elsewhere but wanted to do this for myself. After a few tries, I … Continue reading Super Mario World Widescreen on the SteamDeck
Originally I was going to make a video of applying a screen protector to the SteamDeck but... why? It's not like it would be all that interesting and would probably be another turd of a video so just a blathering is just as well. The production time for writing something out is far, far less … Continue reading JSAUX Screen Protector for the SteamDeck
The SteamDeck might be my favorite electronic gadget, off-the-shelf device I have purchased, possibly ever. The newness has long worn off but the amount of use has maintained or perhaps expanded as it has moved into the home theater arena as well. One drawback of being a fairly early adopter of the Steam Deck was … Continue reading JSAUX Advanced Dock and Protective Shell for the SteamDeck | Review
It is true, you can indeed play Fortnite on the SteamDeck and it is not so difficult to make happen. It does require a moderately stable Internet connection and of course, like anything online, your results may vary. There are many other guides out there, I know, I have read many of them and decided … Continue reading Fortnite on the SteamDeck | With Xbox Cloud Gaming
When it comes to my tech, I am reluctant to add anything that has the potential to become a technical liability that I cannot accommodate. I am also not interested in any tech that locks me into a cloud based ecosystem where my future with the technology is at the whims of some faceless corporation. … Continue reading SteamDeck | What Makes it Awesome for an openSUSE User