so i got a steam deck (i wanted one for a while & the threat of them running out of DRAM because of AI demand is looming)

[tonyg@pubsub.leastfixedpoint.com]

@whitequark The first bitsteam (I can't help myself, it started when I had a kid, I'm so sorry)

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@tonyg amazing

[pikhq@social.treehouse.systems]

@whitequark agreed. it is very good at what it is designed for, and also works quite well in other uses like, y'know, desktop linux. i've loved mine and every other steam deck alike, which just run windows with An Application on top, make me sad

[pikhq@social.treehouse.systems]

@whitequark and of course, as a gaming device it's still more pleasant than other "more powerful" things because they optimized for the power and thermal budget a literal handheld has? it does 720p but that's fine, guess what the screen is

[ladytel@masto.hackers.town]

@whitequark the thing I love about my steam deck is they're like "hey there's a full ass desktop environment and it's Linux so your hardware do what you want"

I respect that design choice

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@ladytel yeah it's excellent

[thezoq2@mastodon.social]

@whitequark Catherine NO!

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@thezoq2 too late

[julius@layer8.space]

@whitequark Downloading Vivado via Steam must be a huge improvement. Do they have DLCs?

[krutonium@social.treehouse.systems]

@whitequark FWIW: The memory is slightly underclocked by default; You can speed it up quite a bit with some firmware tweaking, which amounts to loading an alternative GUI to change the CMOS settings.

IIRC it runs slower because some early on models of the Deck were unstable at the higher clocks and they never adjusted it back up.

[ppxl@social.tchncs.de]

@whitequark I have no idea what pnr means besides Place'n'Route. What's the meaning in your case?

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@krutonium ty, how do i do that?

[whitequark@social.treehouse.systems]

@ppxl exactly that

[ppxl@social.tchncs.de]

@whitequark ooooooooh now I got it. ‍️‍️‍️

I thought of doing hardware preparation like solder screening, not computational multi objective NP hard calculations. I am obviously not smart

[ftg@mastodon.radio]

@mei @whitequark

[krutonium@social.treehouse.systems]

@whitequark https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1144w09/guide_for_ram_overclock/

Your Mileage may Vary, if you mess it up you're on your own.

Worst case scenario you should be able to fix it by clearing the CMOS though, unless you go wild with voltage settings or somthing.

[azonenberg@ioc.exchange]

@whitequark i feel like you should start a YouTube series called "will it FPGA" as you try to synthesize, P&R, and JTAG an FPGA from increasingly exotic platforms.

Start with easy peasy: Android phone, steam deck, Windows 98 laptop, etc. then step it up... Nintendo 3ds? Smith-Corona PWP-80?

[craigjb@fosstodon.org]

@azonenberg @whitequark Vivado on a car infotainment system could be nice — take long running P&R jobs with you!

[craigjb@fosstodon.org]

@azonenberg @whitequark how many LUTs could a smart fridge route in a hard day’s work?

[th@social.v.st]

@azonenberg @whitequark an Underwood Portable might work if you can fix the C compiler