• Dandroid@dandroid.app
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    1 year ago

    I wish you told me this two years ago before I bought one. It was just too underpowered to work for my use case. I was expecting like the power of a low/mid range smartphone.

    It was 10x more expensive, but I got a steam deck for my usecase, which involved real time video decode for live streams of sports games. Raspberry Pi kept having micro stutters that made watching sports impossible.

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      1 year ago

      My far cheaper CPU with iGPU can also do hardware video transcoding ;)

      My PI4 is still in use, but it’s only running Proxmox Backup Server to backup the main server ;)

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        1 year ago

        My far cheaper CPU with iGPU can also do hardware video transcoding ;)

        I have no doubt there’s something in between a raspberry pi and steam deck that would have worked fine for me. But I also just wanted an excuse to buy a steam deck. 🙂