I worry this may be some form of confirmation bias or something. Because at that I was like “huh, I hadn’t thought of that, but now that I do, I think you’re right! It HAS been slightly more lately!”

Then I realized that I’ve been purposely holding off updates since August, so it can’t be true haha.

I’m not saying the same happened to you, I’m just saying it happened to me, so it’s possible it’s happening to others 🤷‍♂️😂

I think high end smasnugs do that. But yeah same, I have a Chromecast and I just sling stuff to the TV. Its tuner hasn’t been used in a decade.

Speaking of decade… I should probably upgrade that thing. But it’s big enough, dark enough (LDC, but at least not a crappy LCD), and high enough resolution for it’s size and distance from my couch (1080, 50 inches, 10 or 15 feet) that I just can’t justify replacing it. I wish it would die already lol.

Maybe if I move and get a big enough bedroom, I’ll put it in there, and upgrade to something with HDR. I really wanna get in on some good HDR. Seems like it’s getting really good and really affordable if you buy the right thing.

Super awesome! I was looking at this, but don’t want a new phone right now

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!

This was the solution, deleting the pipewire and wireplumber folders and restarting was the solution.

To be clear though, I definitely swapped from one LCD model to another, so I’m still not sure why it was failing 🤷‍♂️

Glad it’s fixed though!

You absolute legend, this was it, now my headphones work perfectly, thank you!

Ok thanks I’ll check it out tonight. That menu definitely already looks different than what I was seeing, from my memory anyway