So then it is a word

A concept of a source

If this is what they're like, I'm probot

I mean. With 530 hours of play time, I've gotten to the point of like $0.11/ hour of entertainment and I'd gladly pay them for more lol

Agreed

I certainly do!

I've never noticed any creaking from mine, before or after the swap. Any specific pressure/motions you can think of that I should try?

It took me around 3 hours, because I was following along with their guide (skipping the part where they removed the cooler from the motherboard for some reason). I could have probably done it much faster without the guide, honestly - The important stuff to see was how to attach various sticky bits (mesh and such) to the new shell. I'd say most of that time was pause/watch/unpause of their video, even at 2x speed.

As for difficulty, I’m probably not the best person to answer that for the general public, as I have a fair bit of experience with disassembly, repair, and mods to handhelds - I’ve got several old Nintendo handhelds, a GPD Win 2, and a GPD Win Max that I’ve had open at some point or another, along with some experience doing the same for friends.

As such, I did it with proper tools from iFixit and not the ones that came in the kit.

With that context though, it was probably one of the easiest/least finnicky handhelds I’ve ever disassembled. The most nerve-wracking part was moving the screen over, which is something I’ve never had great success with until my Deck. A hair dryer + lots of patience, worked out nicely.

Now that I've done it once, I could probably do it again in about 30 minutes.

Yeah, my favorite part is the stability, honestly. I don't have my HA instance facing the internet in any way, only accessible via my Nebula overlay network. No pressure to update the OS regularly or expect that I'm suddenly going to lose features because some big tech company decided they wanted to paywall or disable it in an update.

The fact that I moved earlier this year and was able to bring my whole smart home setup with me, and have it working at the new house before we even had an Internet connection is just golden.

Whoever is in charge (like a CEO)

That's the fun of the Fediverse; there isn't a CEO. You're in charge if you want to be. Go setup your own instance if you find you don't like the one you're on, or find one whose admins you like. Don't like Lemmy? Go write your own activitypub software to do the same stuff!

Your username is amazing btw

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