True, although Lemmy’s a public forum - there were no advertised illusions that no one would see your posts and comments.

Brother, I’m already living in night city.

How long until someone creates a plausibly convincing fake of these drones and uses them to perform a false flag or massacre with no chance of culpability?

I doubt you will find many religious people on lemmy.

And for the sake of providing an entertaining answer, DOOM had the most intriguing philosophy: shooting demons with a shotgun.

(Disclaimer: I am not religious)

I mean we do have the benefit of Waydroid on most Linux distros, so maybe it’ll be a Wine/proton situation where the new OS emulates Android apps in a separate container.

Woah, what’s a red username mean on Voyager? Are you an administrator?

This, but GrapheneOS

Everything’s accounted for! Found a setup that works for everything I need after past lessons learned… >_>

Yeah, maybe I was influenced by the hype - I guess the saying of sticking to the most common hardware for your productivity is still a good mantra.

Is 2.0 on the horizon? I was under the impression that OLED was the 2.0.

It wouldn’t make sense in my scenario sadly, but thanks for the suggestion! :)

Luckily, I’ve had experiences with my prior classes understanding class software on my distro (I only have engineering and programming classes remaining, with all relevant software either native, running through WINE, or a windows VM).

I guess hearing from the perspectives of yourself and others, sounds like a combo would be better - current laptop for productivity, steam deck for fun.

It’s not like I have to throw it away :)

Yeah, not the best wordsmith when it comes to posts lol

1. I did check, every single one of them is verified and playable, luckily.
2. When I signed up and made the initial payment I was given photos of the room, and it would already be quite cramped before I would set up the desktop inside.

After looking at all your replies, I think the answer would be a hybrid approach - use the current laptop for class notes, typing, light simulation work, and buying a steam deck for gaming in the dorm room/at hangouts (Since the room photos I’ve looked at don’t have space for my full desktop setup, and it seems like the most rational bang for buck choice).

Thanks for all your feedback, and some illumination on Framework laptop’s price/value suggestion and the Steam Deck’s capabilities.

“It’s part of my cosplay outfit” could also work XD

I was looking for a repairable device with longevity and open for software or hardware modding (No locked down firmware at the device level), which put Framework laptops and the Steam Deck at the top of my list.

(For context, I’m currently using a surplus HP laptop salvaged from work, and it has been an absolute POS to get everything configured and installed the way I want it)

Regarding security, you do have a point, although I could always bring my current laptop with me alongside the Steam Deck - I’d just prefer not to because of increasing the weight in the backpack I have to lug around each day.

I guess there’s more thought I should put into this than I previously expected regarding data management, but it sounds like a Steam Deck makes sense for a dorm gaming setup compared to a laptop with a powerful dedicated GPU.

If only my contract job didn’t pay me monthly ;-; I’d buy it right now!

That’s really enlightening! I won’t be using it as my main gaming device per se - I’ll just be moving into the dorms on campus away from home and won’t be able to access my desktop gaming setup at all during the semester.

I’m an engineering student, and I’ve had familiarity with schoolwork on Linux (albeit with some growing pains >_<). Sounds like I can get by with just a spare monitor + KBM setup in the dorm room with a Steam Deck as my main device in my backpack and a station in my room. Awesome!

It’ll be a nice change of pace from the heavy HP laptop I used to lug around for my job XD

We got Some Broke-man Fried over here lol

Please touch grass, or find a sustainable career.

This, 1000% this.