Didn't really see any must buy deals in any of the winter sales. It's a shame.
It'll probably be ok if you let it dry out first. As others have said, rice doesn't actually do anything beneficial, other than keep people from using their device for awhile.
It really depends on the specific game, many older AAA games or non-unreal games run fine.
It's also interesting seeing how some games run much better now than they did on release. CP2077 (non-dlc parts) runs pretty well now for example, much better than it did when the Deck first came out.
Also key here is that the Deck needs to be off
Oh ok, I never shut my deck off. Closest I get is restarting to install updates.
Battery should be fine based on my experience.
If you have an OLED you can have the deck wake up when a BLE connects, but there's also a bios setting to wake up LCD/OLED Decks when plugged in. I've heard of people getting smart plugs (or even remote toggled plugs) and plugging their dock charger into that. When you want to wake up the deck just toggle the power off and on, and the deck will wake up.
That's really extreme, I'm pretty sure that's now at all how it should be working.
I don't leave my deck docked that long, maybe 10 hours at the longest, but I've never seen anything like the battery drop you're describing.
I usually will trust that a game will run if it says verified/playable, but when a game says unsupported I check ProtonDB. Far too many unsupported games run fine with minimal tweaks or proton-ge.
Honestly I think you'll have to get it RMA'd.
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When you unplug it while on, does it immediately turn off?
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What does it say battery percentage is when plugged in?
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In desktop mode, what does it say battery health is?
I don't usually use headphones with my deck, but I've paired my Pixel A-series buds to it and they work pretty well for discord calls.
True of most 3d prints unfortunately, although ultimately it comes down to your printer.
Meta thought it would be the next big thing, so much that they renamed themselves "meta". A lot of companies have been courting VR as a future big market, but we definitely haven't seen it blow up like companies hoped it would. I wouldn't say it's a dead market, but I would definitely put it as more of a novelty than a mainstream success.