"Sure, you can do everything it does with a phone"
No, you can't do everything with a phone. A phone doesn't have the same radios, GPIO for expandability, IR transceiver, etc. Not to mention the radios a phone does have doesn't like it when you start forcing it to do fun things.
I think it's a bit of an unfair comparison because rental places had more overhead. Location, employees, physical media purchases/storage, etc etc
I think it's a bit of an unfair comparison because rental places had more overhead. Location, employees, physical media purchases/storage, etc etc
I pretty much always use an external mouse with my NexDock, cause the touchpad is pretty unusable imo. The keyboard is.. okay. I wouldn't really have a good place to put an external keyboard without pushing the nexdock screen too far back.
My NexDock doesn't charge the steamdeck fast enough with the single cable solution, so I end up using a USB-c hub and power it separately which makes it extremely clunky. You end up with: 2x usb-c cables for power, usb-c hub, hdmi cable, usb cable to nexdock<-> steamdeck. You can get it down to 1x usb-c cable for charging if you alternate between the charging the steamdeck and the nexdock.
I use my NexDock + SteamDeck when traveling and LAN parties. It works fine, a little clunky. I haven't tried resolutions above 1080p, but as long as you're not trying to play AAA games, I don't see it being an issue. Personally I would go with the external monitor. The Nexdock keyboard and mouse is horrendous.
I agree with the other posters, your hardware is going to hold you back. But you could try switching to a lighter desktop environment like LXDE instead of GNOME. This user found a small increase in performance: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/dg87jp/does_the_desktop_environment_matter_for_gaming/
But they had somewhat beefy hardware. If you're truly at the limit of your specs, 100% CPU/RAM usage, your performance increase could be even more.
Most trips I don't use the cart, I also just do short walks on a semi daily basis for most things. I was just pointing out it's still possible to do big trips without a car. I mainly cart for the bulky/heavy items. Bags of rice, paper towels, cat litter, etc. Or if I'm doing a bigger trip to a specialty market across town like an Asian grocer.
Try setting RADV_PERFTEST=rt in system options->environment variables in Lutris.
You could also update to Mesa 23.2 since it has raytracing enabled for all games by default.
I wish more gaming benchmarks for CPUs included games that are CPU heavy. The only one in this list seems to be Total War, but I skimmed the video and I'm not sure if they even tested campaign turn times vs battle.
Show us Stellaris, Civilization, Oxygen Not Included, etc. Some of them aren't that popular, but they would at least be a good indicator for future CPU bound games.
TTY was great for multiplayer. Instead of handing the save file back and forth, we would just take turns on the server.
What? Green hydrogen seems very likely as an alternative for shipping.
I think air/spacecraft are the harder problems to solve.