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While older SteamOS releases used to map the right trigger to the left mouse button by default, in current SteamOS you can only click by using the touchpad. However due to the way you hold the device it is really fiddly – especially if you try to ... [More] drag and drop something. Fortunately, there is a way to fix this via a setting in Steam. For this you need launch Steam when in Desktop Mode. There, switch to big picture mode and go to Settings > Base configuration > Desktop Configuratiom In this view you can configure the inputs to your liking My final configuration Trigger to click Left touchpad for scrolling I suggest you to go with the following setup Right trigger for left click (sounds counter-intuitive, but works well) Left trigger for right click Left touchpad for moving the mouse (doh) Right touchpad for scroll wheel With this configuration you can use the desktop mostly pain-free. 0 0 [Less]

While older SteamOS releases used to map the right trigger to the left mouse button by default, in current SteamOS you can only click by using the touchpad. However due to the way you hold the device it is really fiddly – especially if you try to ... [More] drag and drop something. Fortunately, there is a way to fix this via a setting in Steam. For this you need launch Steam when in Desktop Mode. There, switch to big picture mode and go to Settings > Base configuration > Desktop Configuratiom In this view you can configure the inputs to your liking My final configuration Trigger to click Left touchpad for scrolling I suggest you to go with the following setup Right trigger for left click (sounds counter-intuitive, but works well) Left trigger for right click Left touchpad for moving the mouse (doh) Right touchpad for scroll wheel With this configuration you can use the desktop mostly pain-free. 0 0 [Less]

The SLURM documentation provides you with the basic information that you can use Docker withing SLURM – as long as you use rootless Docker. However some crucial pieces are missing. The issue that you will immediately run into is that the SLURM ... [More] resource allocation is not propagated to docker at all. E.g. if you start your job with srun --gpus 1 docker ... all GPUs will be available to docker nevertheless. The issue here is that Docker uses a manager daemon that the docker CLI communicates with. And that daemon does not know anything about SLURM or any resources it allocated for the job. The solution is to start a daemon per job (instead of per user) as one user might want to run different jobs with different allocations on the same machine. The docker documentation gives you an idea on how to do that. You will need to set at least the following parameters to make the daemon fully job-specific # dockerd-rootless.sh requires XDG_RUNTIME_DIR XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/somewhere/including/$SLURM_JOB_ID # export, so docker client sees it later on export DOCKER_HOST=unix://$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/docker.sock dockerd-rootless.sh --host=$DOCKER_HOST --data-root=... --exec-root=... Here, exporting DOCKER_HOST makes the docker CLI use the correct daemon. The drawback of this method is that each job needs to pull the container again due to the separate data-root paths. Switching to podman might solve that. 0 0 [Less]

If you, like me, went with the entry level Steam Deck option with only 64 GB of internal storage, you likely realized quite soon that some games wont fit on it. One option is to use the microSD expansion card slot. For current-gen games the ... [More] throughput of only about 150 MB/s does not seem to degrade loading performance compared to a NVMe SSD.However, given that the internal storage is upgradable, the only logical choice for keeping your PC master race status is to cram in the fastest NVME SSD inside that thing. Specifically, you will need a one-sided SSD in the M.2 2230 for factor so it fits the space inside the Steam Deck.I went with the KIOXIA Client-SSD BG5 512GB. Kioxia is the Toshiba spin-off for SSD drives, if you wonder about the brand. Although it is a PCIe 4.0 drive, its peak read throughput of 3.5 GB/s is within the practical limits of PCIe 3.0 of the Steam Deck.Also, the active power consumption of 4.1W is quite close to the 3.8W drawn by the custom PHISON PS5013 E13 SSD that Valve uses. You can follow the iFixit Guide for the steps to actually swap the SSD. Make sure to transfer the ESD shielding wrap to the new SSD. To get Steam OS on the new drive, follow the official recovery instructions and select the “Re-image Steam Deck” script.This will install Steam OS on the blank SSD – similar to how you would install Ubuntu from a live USB. Benchmarking results Next, I wanted to actually compare the speed of the upgraded NVMe SSD with the one of the stock eMMC memory. To this end I used KDiskMark – an open-source alternative to CrystalDiskMark that runs on Linux natively. The tests were performed on SteamOS 3.3.1 using KDiskMark 2.3.0. eMMC NVMe The median of 3 KDiskMark runs In short, the NVME offers roughly one order of magnitude faster throughput over the eMMC.Whether you feel this in-game, highly depends on the given game. For older titles, even the eMMC is so fast, that you cannot read the hints on the loading-screen. However, for something like the Flight Simulator 2020 that shuffles huge assets around, it will surely be noticeable. Finally, the peak read performance of 3.5GB/s is not reached. This might be due to the PCIe 3.0 bottleneck – I did not bother putting the drive in a PCIe 4.0 device. Still, there is a significant advantage in writing performance over the older Kioxia BG4 series, that only do 1.4 GB/s. 0 0 [Less]

If you, like me, went with the entry level Steam Deck option with only 64 GB of internal storage, you likely realized quite soon that some games wont fit on it. One option is to use the microSD expansion card slot. For current-gen games the ... [More] throughput of only about 150 MB/s does not seem to degrade loading performance compared to a NVMe SSD.However, given that the internal storage is upgradable, the only logical choice for keeping your PC master race status is to cram in the fastest NVME SSD inside that thing. Specifically, you will need a one-sided SSD in the M.2 2230 for factor so it fits the space inside the Steam Deck.I went with the KIOXIA Client-SSD BG5 512GB. Kioxia is the Toshiba spin-off for SSD drives, if you wonder about the brand. Although it is a PCIe 4.0 drive, its peak read throughput of 3.5 GB/s is within the practical limits of PCIe 3.0 of the Steam Deck.Also, the active power consumption of 4.1W is quite close to the 3.8W drawn by the custom PHISON PS5013 E13 SSD that Valve uses. You can follow the iFixit Guide for the steps to actually swap the SSD. Make sure to transfer the ESD shielding wrap to the new SSD. To get Steam OS on the new drive, follow the official recovery instructions and select the “Re-image Steam Deck” script.This will install Steam OS on the blank SSD – similar to how you would install Ubuntu from a live USB. Benchmarking results Next, I wanted to actually compare the speed of the upgraded NVMe SSD with the one of the stock eMMC memory. To this end I used KDiskMark – an open-source alternative to CrystalDiskMark that runs on Linux natively. The tests were performed on SteamOS 3.3.1 using KDiskMark 2.3.0. eMMC NVMe The median of 3 KDiskMark runs In short, the NVME offers roughly one order of magnitude faster throughput over the eMMC.Whether you feel this in-game, highly depends on the given game. For older titles, even the eMMC is so fast, that you cannot read the hints on the loading-screen. However, for something like the Flight Simulator 2020 that shuffles huge assets around, it will surely be noticeable. Finally, the peak read performance of 3.5GB/s is not reached. This might be due to the PCIe 3.0 bottleneck – I did not bother putting the drive in a PCIe 4.0 device. Still, there is a significant advantage in writing performance over the older Kioxia BG4 series, that only do 1.4 GB/s. 0 0 [Less]

If you, like me, went with the entry level Steam Deck option with only 64 GB of internal storage, you likely realized quite soon that some games wont fit on it. One option is to use the microSD expansion card slot. For current-gen games the ... [More] throughput of only about 150 MB/s does not seem to degrade loading performance compared to a NVMe SSD.However, given that the internal storage is upgradable, the only logical choice for keeping your PC master race status is to cram in the fastest NVME SSD inside that thing. Specifically, you will need a one-sided SSD in the M.2 2230 for factor so it fits the space inside the Steam Deck.I went with the KIOXIA Client-SSD BG5 512GB. Kioxia is the Toshiba spin-off for SSD drives, if you wonder about the brand. Although it is a PCIe 4.0 drive, its peak read throughput of 3.5 GB/s is within the practical limits of PCIe 3.0 of the Steam Deck.Also, the active power consumption of 4.1W is quite close to the 3.8W drawn by the custom PHISON PS5013 E13 SSD that Valve uses. You can follow the iFixit Guide for the steps to actually swap the SSD. Make sure to transfer the ESD shielding wrap to the new SSD. To get Steam OS on the new drive, follow the official recovery instructions and select the “Re-image Steam Deck” script.This will install Steam OS on the blank SSD – similar to how you would install Ubuntu from a live USB. Benchmarking results Next, I wanted to actually compare the speed of the upgraded NVMe SSD with the one of the stock eMMC memory. To this end I used KDiskMark – an open-source alternative to CrystalDiskMark that runs on Linux natively. The tests were performed on SteamOS 3.3.1 using KDiskMark 2.3.0. eMMC NVMe The median of 3 KDiskMark runs In short, the NVME offers roughly one order of magnitude faster throughput over the eMMC.Whether you feel this in-game, highly depends on the given game. For older titles, even the eMMC is so fast, that you cannot read the hints on the loading-screen. However, for something like the Flight Simulator 2020 that shuffles huge assets around, it will surely be noticeable. Finally, the peak read performance of 3.5GB/s is not reached. This might be due to the PCIe 3.0 bottleneck – I did not bother putting the drive in a PCIe 4.0 device. Still, there is a significant advantage in writing performance over the older Kioxia BG4 series, that only do 1.4 GB/s. 0 0 [Less]

If you, like me, went with the entry level Steam Deck option with only 64 GB of internal storage, you likely realized quite soon that some games wont fit on it. One option is to use the microSD expansion card slot. For current-gen games the ... [More] throughput of only about 150 MB/s does not seem to degrade loading performance compared to a NVMe SSD.However, given that the internal storage is upgradable, the only logical choice for keeping your PC master race status is to cram in the fastest NVME SSD inside that thing. Specifically, you will need a one-sided SSD in the M.2 2230 for factor so it fits the space inside the Steam Deck.I went with the KIOXIA Client-SSD BG5 512GB. Kioxia is the Toshiba spin-off for SSD drives, if you wonder about the brand. Although it is a PCIe 4.0 drive, its peak read throughput of 3.5 GB/s is within the practical limits of PCIe 3.0 of the Steam Deck.Also, the active power consumption of 4.1W is quite close to the 3.8W drawn by the custom PHISON PS5013 E13 SSD that Valve uses. You can follow the iFixit Guide for the steps to actually swap the SSD. Make sure to transfer the ESD shielding wrap to the new SSD. To get Steam OS on the new drive, follow the official recovery instructions and select the “Re-image Steam Deck” script.This will install Steam OS on the blank SSD – similar to how you would install Ubuntu from a live USB. Benchmarking results Next, I wanted to actually compare the speed of the upgraded NVMe SSD with the one of the stock eMMC memory. To this end I used KDiskMark – an open-source alternative to CrystalDiskMark that runs on Linux natively. The tests were performed on SteamOS 3.3.1 using KDiskMark 2.3.0. eMMC NVMe The median of 3 KDiskMark runs In short, the NVME offers roughly one order of magnitude faster throughput over the eMMC.Whether you feel this in-game, highly depends on the given game. For older titles, even the eMMC is so fast, that you cannot read the hints on the loading-screen. However, for something like the Flight Simulator 2020 that shuffles huge assets around, it will surely be noticeable. Finally, the peak read performance of 3.5GB/s is not reached. This might be due to the PCIe 3.0 bottleneck – I did not bother putting the drive in a PCIe 4.0 device. Still, there is a significant advantage in writing performance over the older Kioxia BG4 series, that only do 1.4 GB/s. 0 0 [Less]

If you, like me, went with the entry level Steam Deck option with only 64 GB of internal storage, you likely realized quite soon that some games wont fit on it. One option is to use the microSD expansion card slot. For current-gen games the ... [More] throughput of only about 150 MB/s does not seem to degrade loading performance compared to a NVMe SSD.However, given that the internal storage is upgradable, the only logical choice for keeping your PC master race status is to cram in the fastest NVME SSD inside that thing. Specifically, you will need a one-sided SSD in the M.2 2230 for factor so it fits the space inside the Steam Deck.I went with the KIOXIA Client-SSD BG5 512GB. Kioxia is the Toshiba spin-off for SSD drives, if you wonder about the brand. Although it is a PCIe 4.0 drive, its peak read throughput of 3.5 GB/s is within the practical limits of PCIe 3.0 of the Steam Deck.Also, the active power consumption of 4.1W is quite close to the 3.8W drawn by the custom PHISON SSD that Valve uses. You can follow the iFixit Guide for the steps to actually swap the SSD. Make sure to transfer the ESD shielding wrap to the new SSD. To get Steam OS on the new drive, follow the official recovery instructions and select the “Re-image Steam Deck” script.This will install Steam OS on the blank SSD – similar to how you would install Ubuntu from a live USB. Benchmarking results Next, I wanted to actually compare the speed of the upgraded NVMe SSD with the one of the stock eMMC memory. To this end I used KDiskMark – an open-source alternative to CrystalDiskMark that runs on Linux natively. The tests were performed on SteamOS 3.3.1 using KDiskMark 2.3.0. eMMC NVMe The median of 3 KDiskMark runs In short, the NVME offers roughly one order of magnitude faster throughput over the eMMC.Whether you feel this in-game, highly depends on the given game. For older titles, even the eMMC is so fast, that you cannot read the hints on the loading-screen. However, for something like the Flight Simulator 2020 that shuffles huge assets around, it will surely be noticeable. Finally, the peak read performance of 3.5GB/s is not reached. This might be due to the PCIe 3.0 bottleneck – I did not bother putting the drive in a PCIe 4.0 device. Still, there is a significant advantage in writing performance over the older Kioxia BG4 series, that only do 1.4 GB/s. 0 0 [Less]

If you, like me, went with the entry level Steam Deck option with only 64 GB of internal storage, you likely realized quite soon that some games wont fit on it. One option is to use the microSD expansion card slot. For current-gen games the ... [More] throughput of only about 150 MB/s does not seem to degrade loading performance compared to a NVMe SSD.However, given that the internal storage is upgradable, the only logical choice for keeping your PC master race status is to cram in the fastest NVME SSD inside that thing. Specifically, you will need a one-sided SSD in the M.2 2230 for factor so it fits the space inside the Steam Deck.I went with the KIOXIA Client-SSD BG5 512GB. Kioxia is the Toshiba spin-off for SSD drives, if you wonder about the brand. Although it is a PCIe 4.0 drive, its peak read throughput of 3.5 GB/s is within the practical limits of PCIe 3.0 of the Steam Deck. You can follow the iFixit Guide for the steps to actually swap the SSD. Make sure to transfer the ESD shielding wrap to the new SSD. To get Steam OS on the new drive, follow the official recovery instructions and select the “Re-image Steam Deck” script.This will install Steam OS on the blank SSD – similar to how you would install Ubuntu from a live USB. Benchmarking results Next, I wanted to actually compare the speed of the upgraded NVMe SSD with the one of the stock eMMC memory. To this end I used KDiskMark – an open-source alternative to CrystalDiskMark that runs on Linux natively. The tests were performed on SteamOS 3.3.1 using KDiskMark 2.3.0. eMMC NVMe The median of 3 KDiskMark runs In short, the NVME offers roughly one order of magnitude faster throughput over the eMMC.Whether you feel this in-game, highly depends on the given game. For older titles, even the eMMC is so fast, that you cannot read the hints on the loading-screen. However, for something like the Flight Simulator 2020 that shuffles huge assets around, it will surely be noticeable. Finally, the peak read performance of 3.5GB/s is not reached. This might be due to the PCIe 3.0 bottleneck – I did not bother putting the drive in a PCIe 4.0 device. Still, there is a significant advantage in writing performance over the older Kioxia BG4 series, that only do 1.4 GB/s. 0 0 [Less]

If you, like me, went with the entry level Steam Deck option with only 64 GB of internal storage, you likely realized quite soon that some games wont fit on it. One option is to use the microSD expansion card slot. For current-gen games the ... [More] throughput of only about 150 MB/s does not seem to degrade loading performance compared to a NVMe SSD.However, given that the internal storage is upgradable, the only logical choice for keeping your PC master race status is to cram in the fastest NVME SSD inside that thing. Specifically, you will need a one-sided SSD in the M.2 2230 for factor so it fits the space inside the Steam Deck.I went with the KIOXIA Client-SSD BG5 512GB. Kioxia is the Toshiba spin-off for SSD drives, if you wonder about the brand. Although it is a PCIe 4.0 drive, its peak read throughput of 3.5 GB/s is within the practical limits of PCIe 3.0 of the Steam Deck. You can follow the iFixit Guide for the steps to actually swap the SSD. Make sure to transfer the ESD shielding wrap to the new SSD. To get Steam OS on the new drive, follow the official recovery instructions and select the “Re-image Steam Deck” script.This will install Steam OS on the blank SSD – similar to how you would install Ubuntu from a live USB. Benchmarking results Next docmentalhealth.online , I wanted to actually compare the speed of the upgraded NVMe SSD with the one of the stock eMMC memory.To this end I used KDiskMark – an open-source alternative to CrystalDiskMark that runs on Linux natively. The tests were performed on SteamOS 3.3.1 using KDiskMark 2.3.0. eMMC NVMe The median of 3 KDiskMark runs In short, the NVME offers roughly one order of magnitude faster throughput over the eMMC.Whether you feel this in-game, highly depends on the given game. For older titles, even the eMMC is so fast, that you cannot read the hints on the loading-screen. However, for something like the Flight Simulator 2020 that shuffles huge assets around, it will surely be noticeable. Finally, the peak read performance of 3.5GB/s is not reached. This might be due to the PCIe 3.0 bottleneck – I did not bother putting the drive in a PCIe 4.0 device. Still, there is a significant advantage in writing performance over the older Kioxia BG4 series, that only do 1.4 GB/s. 0 0 [Less]