I just started going Independent in my field and the earning potential is way higher this way so yes I am happy with my wages. However the job security is way lower and networking is super important. It makes me kind of nervous but last year I made 5x what I did the previous year, so I'm hopeful that I can keep that trend up. Unfortunately this year has turned out to be a lot slower and more tedious than last year, so I had to revise my expectations. Being independent has given me so much more freedom though I don't think I would ever want to go back to working under someone else.
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That sounds like the dream. What field are you in?
Yeah I'm getting into the stock steam deck bios by doing as you said. It has worked numerous times before. The problem is that I do get into the BIOS I am just unable to select anything in there. It's like it's frozen or the controls aren't being recieved, even if I use an external keyboard.
I haven't tried a recovery bios or anything yet, I need to find my USB drive haha. The main problem I can see is that none of the controls on the deck do anything in the bios screen. I can boot into it but I can't move the selection or actually select anything. Even attaching a keyboard doesn't let me select anything. Ugh it's so frustrating.
Huh interesting. If the SSD was the problem though it seems like I could get back into the BIOS right?
Why use water to make coffee when you can use coffee to make coffee
I ended up solving this problem by reflashing the bios by following this reddit guide Everything works fine now, although I'm running into the buzzing left speaker problem, so I'm going to try to RMA for that.