Nice! I'm jealous.
Even using Wi-Fi in my house, it constantly drops connections. I was hoping to use it to basically VNC to my desktop but it is so slow and disconnects constantly. There's some speculation that some of the antennas were not soldered properly or something like that.
Mine also has large black dead spots in the bottom corners of the screen, seems like it was over tightened during manufacturing. Maybe that's also what broke the antenna!
Mine has been collecting dust. The signal is so bad, even on Wi-Fi, it's nearly useless. I'd feel guilty selling it. And i paid around $800 USD...
The keyboard's the star here, and it has all the important keys for terminal use (though it's a little too wide for my hands, I'd prefer a 4 or 5 inch screen version)
Aside from the keyboard it is like a 2018 era generic Chinese android phone with no support or updates.
Physically I feel the balance of the phone is a bit top heavy, with the curves it's very slippery to hold onto especially using while lying in bed etc.
Sadly the phone's mother (fxtec) died in childbirth, so to speak. And the whole "XDA phone" thing was a dud, XDA was a ghost town by the time this thing was in our hands.
Big thanks to the guy keeping lineage working on it!
Despite all that i said, the OLED special editions were very tempting!
I had a fairly opposite experience. I bought a Steam Deck when it first came out and had to return it during the refund period because of a software bug making it basically unusable with my account.
A year later, the bug was finally fixed and I rebought. And... I like the fact that it runs Linux and the efforts done to make windows games playable in Linux in general. But I've found that i actually don't enjoy the form factor of the Steam Deck at all.
I find it to be too big and heavy to hold comfortably without resting it on something. The buttons are tiny and too close to the edge. The d-pad sucks, at least on mine. Staring at the little screen gives me a headache and text/icons are too small in a lot of games. The Wi-Fi is really slow (at least in the original LCD model) and downloading/installing takes absolutely forever. I've literally spent more time installing games and downloading updates than actually playing games in it.
It has been months since I last turned mine on. In hindsight, it was a poor purchase for me.
I do still like it as a concept and an happy to see it is successful. I welcome the new Linux users. I follow the steam deck communities and read the news.
... But it's just not for me, apparently.
I still have my Dual Standard one somewhere, was 16800 i think and upgraded the board in it a couple times to bring it up to 56k eventually. It was a beauty. I think it was like $800? An insane amount of money in hindsight, but worth every penny at the time.
Wow, that is a startling shift over a relatively short period.
Consumers aren't gonna be happy when all their Amazon and Temu no-name made-in-china garbage becomes dramatically more expensive.
I've been using solid black desktop background since the 90s!
Heliboard for normal communication (glide typing) and Hackers Keyboard for shell/remote desktop/programming type usage. Generally i find the keys too small and typing on a touch screen is slow and annoying, so i use a real computer to type whenever i can.
My typing accuracy is much better with gboard, but I don't use it because google...
I have never used voice to text nor voice controlled assistant etc. as I have no interest in doing that. My phone is muted 99.9% of the time, I prefer to operate in silence...
I had a 256GB phone and after 1 year had used less than half the space, without ever deleting anything, so when i upgraded this time I saved money and got the 128GB model. I sync my photos/videos to my NAS so can purge those from my phone at any time to save space. That's really the only thing that takes up any significant storage.
Gentoo. Literally the entire system is a build environment. Imagine a single environment that's capable of compiling thousands of different packages and managing dependencies etc.
I once fully updated a Gentoo system that hadn't been touched in 4 years. That was an adventure in troubleshooting.