Steam Deck

It should be theoretically in a company's long term financial interest to keep customers at least reasonably happy, but the infinite growth mindset is such a cancer that you can see it tearing apart any number of old established brands these days (cough Boeing, eg).

Looks like GabeN decided that going to sleep each night on piles of billions of dollars was enough and he didn't need to supplement his pillows with the customers' nickels and dimes as well. Feels like that shouldn't be such a strange mindset, but apparently it's rare enough to stand out.

It's cos they're privately owned and so don't necessarily have to be shit, where publicly owned companies are legally required to maximize profits for shareholders.

Just to add to this, Valve is a company with a very peculiar organization, in which the structure is very horizontal and that does its own thing (the structure is not without problems, but it's still very interesting). They also have a surprisingly little amount of employees for such a company! Numbers vary between 350 and 1000!

I won't lie I was super tempted to add a pro toolkit with the part order, but talked myself out of it and ended up with just a spludger and moray driver kit lol.

It's great for electronics, but be careful with the bits on non-electronic stuff, they are quite soft and wear easily against stronger screws.

as has been repeated into oblivion, it's just a PC, so it's perfectly usable for non-gaming stuff!

If you want something more portable than a laptop and are alright with the slightly strange input method for a computer, there isn't really anything better.

Hall sticks are on my list to do eventually, that's a great point the general upgradeability is awesome too. Appreciate the Bluetooth idea but I chose to leave the deck disassembled until the trigger comes in. The back screws inserts are molded plastic so the less times screws are removed & reinserted the better.

Go for it, definitely!

Fairphone ist your answer. It got a maximum score from iFixit and you can order and replace all components easily. They also promise support until 2031, even picked an IoT Chipset for longer support.

Project Ara, the future that never happened

I think Fairphone is pretty repairable. It is also quite durable. I have had it for years now and dropped it very often, but it hasn't broken yet.

@filister @CaptDust #fairphone https://www.fairphone.com/

I am very sad they don't sell individual keyboard keys.

But at least the input cover is reasonably priced, and I can upgrade to the extended battery while I'm replacing the keyboard.

The trigger assembly is 19,99 EUR excluding shipping

It'll be a large markup on the cost. Ifixit is not a charity. They are not a company any of us should be celebrating when it comes to parts. I do appreciate the guides, though.

$20 part + $3 shipping. It includes the mount, spring and trigger as one piece

I sense a pattern here. Does iFixIt offer anything to fix these so-called "toddlers"?

Sony did something similar for me for my PS3. It was out of warranty and the drive stopped reading Blu-ray discs. CDs worked fine. I couldn't find the receipt to see how old it was but contacted them anyway. They said can I find an old bank statement or something to see if it is still in warranty. The only thing I found was it showed up in the loyalty points of the game shop I got it from. They accepted this as enough proof however the unit was out of the standard warranty. They said they will still accept it. They sent out a postal guy with a thick plastic box with foam insulation with a replacement PS3 in it. He took away my broken PS3. Great! All free of charge. I was well happy. Then a week later a letter arrived and contained the SD card that I accidentally left in my old PS3.

Sony went the extra mile here. Very happy with the outcome.

Lenovos used to be even better, with quick access to a lot of internals via various hatches on the bottom

That's fantastic! It should probably be a legal mandate for companies to make their parts easily available, it would reduce e-waste significantly.