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The humble $5 DP in to HDMI out adapter cable:

Regarding the Nintendo Switch, it’s because of their engineered malicious USB-C protocol design that makes the console “Not behave like a good USB citizen should”. It’s less of an issue with the peripherals as a whole.

You can look up most of the issues with the standard, but TL;DR: DRM, expensive licensing fees, suboptimal performance compared to DisplayPort, and not able to be implemented in FOSS or even OSS systems (because of the shitty DRM which can be circumvented by an AliExpress splitter lmao)

What display are you using as well? That sounds quite unusual.

The powered adapters are for the other way around. DP has support for HDMI out without additional components, but ofc the HDMI forum makes converting HDMI to DP like pulling teeth.

Adapting DisplayPort to HDMI with minimal quality loss is child’s play. It’s the other way around that’s misery.

Any cheap adapter cable that supports DisplayPort In to HDMI Out should be perfectly fine.

You’d just be adding additional weight, removing some ergonomics (as seen with how shit the switch grips are in handheld play), and adding many points of failure for things to break.

I would bet my steam library that having detachable controllers for the steam deck would have it fail most of the impact tests they do for QA, and result in more returns due to people accidentally breaking them.

CAD?

The way Valve set up the Deck is that the only storage initialized is the internal SSD and the SD card in big picture mode (home menu) which makes sense if you’re playing on the go - you’re not going to hold an external HDD in your offhand on the plane lol.

I believe using the dock doesn’t have any impact on how the Deck handles drives either, the official FAQ mentions it’s more akin to “plugging an external USB hub”, so that won’t solve the automount issue.

The steam deck doesn’t auto-mount external hard drives (you can confirm this by going into desktop mode and seeing the prompt to mount and browse the drive contents). Normally, SteamOS only initializes the internal SSD and the SD card currently inserted (if it’s in the file format that SteamOS expects, they provide a tool in settings).

You could purchase an SD card, place it in the slot, change over to Desktop mode, mount your external drive, and then copy your games over using steam (it’s even a feature outside of SteamOS - offline transfer between storage). That would probably be the best option.

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I’m sure it’s nothing a bit of cheese-grating the graphics and a little Lossless Scaling VK can’t fix.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the League of Nations largely the brainchild of Woodrow Wilson, US president during WW1?

It was structurally different to the UN we know today, but it was still pushed forward by a US president.

I’m currently hosed by the fact that I am in the middle of completing my Electrical Engineeing degree (approx. 2 years left), and I don’t believe my credits would be transferable to an institution across the Atlantic (never mind the cost, shudder), so I can’t even think about escaping until at least 2027.

If there’s a better way forward so I can safely leave the nation and still achieve my degree, I’m all ears, but at least to me it seems my hands are a bit tied.

Hey, just put the word out for my work visa, please! XD

Honestly, as an American living in Silicon Valley, I would be overjoyed if Europe became the primary kickstarter for open source alternatives to the existing US corporate infrastructure, that bends to the knees of the Federal government. Even here at home, myself and some of my co-workers aren’t too keen on the existing status quo tools because there are too many caveats - from rent seeking subscriptions to the inability to verify if something is tampered with.

In the same way Valve saw how having all their eggs in the Windows basket led them to dive head first into linux development, I hope the EU’s realization of the risks in the US tech sector lead it to developing unified, well funded OSS alternatives. I would certainly install them.