A spot includes a downloadable file and accompanying metadata and is intended to be shared with other users. A spot can be compared to a traditional search engine index entry. However, the difference is that it is user-generated and is intended to help people identify, organize, and share content.

The layman would think of it as a file. So music, movies, text, whatever.

For those who are unfamiliar with the Spotweb client for Spotnet:

Spotweb is a Spotnet implementation in PHP. Spotnet only shows actual Spots - spots are manually created by humans which categorize them and provide an image and description for the spot. You cannot compare Spotweb with for example Newznab or other such systems as its a moderated and curated system with manual intervention.

This makes Spotweb slightly slower for new content but should most likely raise the bar on quality - depending on the Spotters.

Spotarr is an alternative client.

I’ve been using this for the last year, works great for me.

If you want to use WOL you’ll need an adapter/dock with an Ethernet port.

Then use nmcli (network manager cli) to accept magic wake-up packets: nmcli c modify “Wired connection 1” 802-3-ethernet.wake-on-lan magic

See more info here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wake-on-LAN

Then you just send a magic packet using your Steam Decks MAC whenever you want it to wake up.

Note: if you own an OLED Steam Deck technically you can just do this over Bluetooth with a controller instead, because of the hardware update.

EDIT: looks like 3.7.0 preview has added Bluetooth wake support for LCD models as well!

You can already wake the device up over LAN, USB, or Bluetooth. You could even have a separate device such as a PC or phone that sends the wake up signal to the steam deck if you wanted. I have other devices that work this way in my home already.

It’d be preferable to manage this all on device of course, but I assure you this is solvable where existing Steam Decks already reside, without needing to fix any low level firmwares.

It’d be nice if it could wake itself up, and then begin to update games while idle. When done it could just go back to sleep again if it’s still idle after some time passes.

Even better would be settings to choose auto updates from discover, the client, and any proton changes.

Surprised they don’t have anything like this after years, it’s not a particularly complex problem to solve. All of the update logic for the games already exists, it’s literally just managing the wake/sleep events that they’d need to program.

The high seas are calling for those who are patient

There are two, the original open source version and its forks, and then the closed source version.

Here are a bunch of local services I’ve used at one point or another from phone to PC or PC to PC. Not sure if any links are out of date.

KDE Connect

• Site: https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
• Source: https://github.com/KDE/kdeconnect-kde

Wormhole (Closed Source)

• Site: https://wormhole.app/

LocalSend

• Site: https://localsend.org/
• Source: https://github.com/localsend/localsend

SnapDrop

• Site: https://snapdrop.net/
• Source: https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

ShareDrop

• Site: https://www.sharedrop.io/
• Source: https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop

FilePizza

• Site: https://file.pizza/
• Source: https://github.com/kern/filepizza

Original Wormhole

• Site: https://webwormhole.io/
• Source: https://github.com/saljam/webwormhole

PeerTransfer

• Site: https://perguth.de/peertransfer/
• Source: https://github.com/perguth/peertransfer

JustBeamIt

• Site: https://justbeamit.com
• Source: https://github.com/justbeamit/beam

Send Visee

• Website: https://send.vis.ee/
• Source: https://github.com/timvisee/send
• List of instances at: https://github.com/timvisee/send-instances

I’ve cloned drives from an existing steam deck onto another brand new drive for a new steam deck. The swap you are doing should work the same without issue.

As long as we can never fully understand when or how it will turn red, and sometimes when you wrap it in towels it stops being red, I’m all for it.

BuildJet is a YCombinator backed startup with a ton of attention, and a million extra to burn on top of what investors have already given them. They would have to royally fuck this up at this point, most people would be so lucky to have the opportunity they have here.

In his article Jeff said:

They add a copper plating, and give it a polished gunmetal grey finish.

Apparently to do all that, they had to order a batch of 5,000 cases, which I hope means they also have a ton of these ready to go.

Yea I also just use LunaSea, especially when I’m not at a keyboard. I imagine the TUI will be pretty handy when I find myself well… at a terminal.

The man who originally invented this tech is a really good guy, can’t recommend it enough!

I’ve been doing this for the last 5 years using dynv6. Feel free to reach out if you need any help making it happen.

Proton is the gateway drug to us getting more Linux native games. In due time!

Probably for the same reason Nintendo shuttered the stores for 3DS and Wii U over the last year. They are attempting to consolidate infrastructure, support, user base, and sales.

It is likely due to age and popularity. At this point PCSX2 is the only widely popular emulator you’ve listed, but is older, in the same way Dolphin is old and less of a concern of harming their limelight. That isn’t to say those other emulators aren’t making waves lately, but there is a window between age and popularity that makes this software a prime target. Especially emulators for current gen, which has been historically very rare, and when it did exist were no where near as good as CEMU, Yuzu, and Ryujinx were.

In my experience they are held accountable.