Belmonkey

Now that I've had an injection for Carpal tunnel, should I start taking any steps now while the pain is potentially relieved for some months? I've read all sorts of stuff like doing hand strengthening (with grippers) to try to bulk up the wrist area so the median nerve has more space, or doing neck / shoulder stretches for the nerve further up.

I'm also about 30+ pounds overweight, so would losing weight be beneficial as well for it?

Basically, is there anything I should start doing now to help prevent carpal tunnel from being a problem again in the not too distant future?

Steam Deck adds support for new games all the time, but anti-cheat has left some big games like Fortnite or Valorant (with it's kernel level anti-cheat) unavailable on SteamOS / Proton for years. I've heard people say "it's up to the Devs", but is that really the end of it and there are no more software approaches available to make it happen? I never thought Proton would have come along and make loads of Windows games simply playable on Linux, but is anti-cheat just an un-crossable red line for Linux support? Is there no way to make games handle anti-cheat the same way as a Windows system so they could simply "just work" like Proton does?

I've got a glossy 512GB OLED, but I'm struggling to decide whether to keep using a JSAUX matte glass screen protector. It seems to have some very slight colour / clarity distortion, and I can't quite tell how much of an effect it has without taking it off and potentially ruining it in the process. But on the flip side, the screen is way more protected now.

Do ya'll think a matte screen protector is worth using for the glossy OLED? Without it, I'm worried that the screen is going to get damaged somehow through normal use, yet with it, I'm worried it is affecting the image too much, or if it is partially just a placebo effect.

Is there any way to set this up? I currently have a 9 button touch menu, but every button is too easy to accidentally activate because it only requires the default amount of pressure. Trying to set each button to a soft press just seems to make them not work.

I got Leatherworking to Lv 55 so far, but it seems kinda stuck without grinding Renown for recipes. Enchanting sounds like a potentially good alternative because that can both make items and also break down other items. Would it be feasible to go pure Disenchanting and make money buying stuff from the Auction house and breaking it down to something potentially more valuable?

Since WoW has so many keybinds, I feel like there are too many options to choose from when it comes to binding on the Deck. The options I had in mind are:

1. Action bar hotkeys on ABXY face buttons + LB and RB, then use LT and RT as modifiers to multiply that to 24+ hotkeys.

2. Same as 1, but move ABXY to grip buttons so that I have constant camera control with analog stick.

3. Move hotkeys to a 9 button touch menu on right pad, then use modifiers to multiply that to 36+ hotkeys instead of using face buttons.

4. Same as 3, but have the right pad be a mouse with the touch menu on click so I can also use pure mouse controls.

Does anyone else have other ideas on the best way to set things

I've heard of Overwatch bans on Linux before, so I'm a bit worried about playing WoW on Deck if there's the possibility of getting suddenly banned in the future at some point due to Linux somehow triggering the anti-cheat or something.

Is there any definitive answer on whether or not Deck is fine to use for WoW?

I had the idea of buying the expansion (with 30 days game time) and seeing if I could make enough gold to keep the sub going. I've seen people talking about using both herbalism + mining to make the money, but also a video of someone using Tailoring + Enchanting to farm mats to break down and sell on market. Between either option, which is probably a more reliable way to reach my goal of in-game WoW tokens?

I was thinking of doing paid commissions sometime (not necessarily a lot), but I'm not really sure where the best place is to receive payment for it. I have a personal PayPal, but that has my real name in it, which isn't ideal. Is it worth looking into a business account where it could just be named for my fursona or something?

I've also seen people use Ko-fi for some stuff, but never really looked into it.

I've seen a rear-mounted SSD, but has anyone tried out something like a USB hub or similar attached to the back? I'd like to think that a hub with a flexible 90 degree USB C cable could be attached to the back (preferably with a 3d-printed clip-on to hold the hub) so that you could have access to extra USB slots and (micro) SD card slots as well.

I've seen people try mods to add an external NVME SSD to the back of the Deck, but has anyone tried any method of adding more Micro SD slots? Storage would feel a lot less tight if more cards could be used at once (but at least it's not hard to swap them out).

Nyrna was a Linux option to suspend games to RAM and stop them taking up GPU / CPU power, but I haven't had any luck getting that to work on Deck (it'd be pretty sweet as a Decky add-on), and I don't know if there is anything else out there. Just thought it would be nice to have the option to suspend a game that takes a long time to load up and leave it in that state so it's faster to get back into later.

I noticed when installing the Decky-loader plugin on Steam Deck that you can basically just copy-paste a "curl" command into the terminal and that will neatly add it into the Deck interface.

Can you do something similar, but for a whole game? The game I had in mind is one where you download the installer from a site, add some patch files, and change the game's target location in Steam to the newly generated exe file. It's a bit of an involved process to do purely through Steam because of the installer, so it's a bit difficult for people trying to correctly install the game on a Steam Deck.

I was just looking for any way to make the process easier for anyone to easily install the game corr