Dell was my first thought as well

You’d think! Used to be that way, I used to follow that rule. But now I own a set of sheets with the tag on the lower left corner 🤦‍♂️

I think the point you might be missing from the OP, is that the person in question doesn’t actually possess this knowledge or skill, but instead of being humble and admitting the gaps in their knowledge, perhaps asking a question or two when they don’t understand, they just plow ahead.

I know people like this. It’s not malicious I don’t think, maybe it’s more of a defense mechanism? They don’t want to look uninformed, so they try to fill the gaps in their knowledge with assumptions. Maybe they’re right a decent amount of the time, or close enough to fool people who aren’t knowledgeable on the subject. But people who are knowledgeable, will recognize what they’re doing, and the lack of humility comes across as arrogance, even though that may not strictly be the case.

It’s normal to know a lot of stuff and like a wide variety of things. But you need to be humble when you don’t know something.

When I don’t know something for sure, I like to say “I think it’s this way, but I could be wrong.” Or something like that. Or heck, if someone else has the knowledge and skills I don’t, I’m right up there asking questions, I want to learn. Maybe I’ll try to impress them with what little I do know on the subject by commenting or asking questions in a way that shows I understand what they’re talking about, because we all want to have self worth. But faking it isn’t cool, and can be harmful, or just annoying.

I guess I didn’t realize these could gravity feed, is that normal?

Glad to hear they are so resilient though

Nice! How long between trips? I only really go a few times a year

That’s good to know that drying it out works. Same filter? 7 years? Awesome! Maybe I just need to do that. I’m surprised it can dry at all, honestly.

I wonder how the filter material differs to that of the life straw. The life straw has instructions that if you let it dry out and it stops working, you can fix it by soaking it in coconut milk. Something about the milk helps reduce surface tension or something, it’s crazy.

I have one coming, I don’t think the area is that much smaller. The screen resolution being non native 720 bugs most people.

I’m excited because I just bought a broken-screen steam deck, so even with the high-ish cost ($130 ish for the etched version), I’ll still come out at the end with a premium deck experience for less than base model deck 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the tips! I’m not gonna attempt it till I’m back home Sunday or Monday night

I bought a day one Deck. I didn’t think the Delta fan was that bad. I honestly never thought about it. But then one day it died. I replaced it with a huaying, and the difference is definitely noticeable. It was a pleasant surprise, even though I usually game with headphones anyway 🤷‍♂️

I bought a broken steam deck to fix for cheap. Needs a screen, left bumper, and theoretically a joystick, though the joystick seems fine to me.

Halfway through the process I realized the previous owner left half an SD card in the slot. Crazy. Haven’t had time to attempt removing it yet. Hopefully the slot is ok.

Small point, just for the sake of discussion, since you seem knowledgeable and I’m sure you already know:

Upgrading your storage doesn’t strictly require starting over. When I went from 512 to 2tb, I just cloned the drive, then expanded the main partition to fit. Worked like a charm 👌

For most people though yeah it’s probably easier starting over than fussing with cloning.

I’ll be cloning my buddy’s 64gb drive as soon as he buys something bigger.

Glad you found it, and glad it worked for you too!

Let me know!

That makes sense, definitely weirdness. Funny it didn’t bother it the other way around, the other deck is fine 🤔

At any rate, I’m done worrying about it haha

Thanks for the write-up!

I might try bazzite at a later date, but for now, Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, and that’s solved my problem for now, thankfully!

Not sure if this will solve your problems as well, crackling sounds like hardware to me. But Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, that fixed it!

I wasn’t sure how to do that, but it’s fixed just now.

Max_P suggested deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting, that did the trick!

Thanks! Funny enough, that was my first assumption,I was worried I ruined something. But taking it apart everything looked fine.

In the end Max_P gave me the solution, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting. Worked like a charm!

I did those steps to no avail, unfortunately.

However, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting did the trick!