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I noticed the back of my steam deck feeling uneven yesterday. Opened it up to find a spicy pillow inside.

Replacement is underway, but I'm gonna remove this one now, already. Wish me luck...

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[โ€“] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 10 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Dang. You understand batteries. I was really hoping that it wasnt chance that the battery went poofy.

Time to do my paranoid check again

[โ€“] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (9 children)

If he understood batteries he probably wouldn't have left it plugged in all the time. That wouldn't be an issue unless he always left it in sleep mode, so it would short charge cycle every other day.

[โ€“] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I thought the Deck would discharge it to like 80% if it detected a long charge period. Maybe I'm just really lucky

[โ€“] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I thought it was 90%, but baybe it is 80. If you leave it plugged in while asleep all the time you may still be charge cycling to max capacity a lot, which is bad for the battery, though.

Regardless, having to replace the battery every few years isn't terrible, except for the price of like $85 is damned expensive for it.

[โ€“] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the latest beta update for the steam deck offers an new option to limit charging to 80/85/90% btw!

Oh, sweet! It's about damned time.

I don't mind the replacing thing. It's the unexpected spicy pillow I don't like.

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