- cross-posted to:
- right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
- cross-posted to:
- right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
I dropped my launch edition steam deck last night on carpet and while all the buttons still worked- something was rattling inside of it. After I opened it up I discovered a missing chunk of plastic from the R2 trigger, that piece presses against another to keep the button from over articulating. I suspect this trigger absorbed most of the impact, there was no other visible damage.
Of course I was upset that I broke it, but so very pleasantly surprised to find ifixit had the trigger in stock and reasonably priced. This availability made me love the deck even more, and really the fact valve made these parts available places the deck above any other competition in my mind.
This machine is built to last, I am so excited to get it fixed and get back to gaming.
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Gotta appreciate Valve continuing to be a master class in how a successful company should behave
It should be theoretically in a company’s long term financial interest to keep customers at least reasonably happy, but the infinite growth mindset is such a cancer that you can see it tearing apart any number of old established brands these days (cough Boeing, eg).
Looks like GabeN decided that going to sleep each night on piles of billions of dollars was enough and he didn’t need to supplement his pillows with the customers’ nickels and dimes as well. Feels like that shouldn’t be such a strange mindset, but apparently it’s rare enough to stand out.
Should see if somebody modelled something similar to print on 3D printer. Could make it glow in the dark, or wood infused filament.
I like showing my repairs a bit, make them stand out slightly, makes me love my devices more knowing they’ve been repaired.
Ifixit fucked me on a MacBook battery I bought. So do NOT trust their products. The guides are wonderful, though.
The battery didn’t even last a single year, and they did not replace it.
That’s good news! How much was the trigger incl shipping?
$20 part + $3 shipping. It includes the mount, spring and trigger as one piece
The trigger assembly is 19,99 EUR excluding shipping
It’ll be a large markup on the cost. Ifixit is not a charity. They are not a company any of us should be celebrating when it comes to parts. I do appreciate the guides, though.
And they still can’t manage to start selling it in Australia. Completely different things but still frustrating nevertheless.
I have never bought anything from Valve/Steam as I’m a PlayStation gamer, but their support for Linux and repair ability makes me think about a Steam Deck when my Surface Go is gonna be too old (but it’ll last for quite a while since Fedora isn’t as demanding as Windows).
I’m pretty sure Dell is partnering with ifixit on something as well.
Such great but slightly annoying news. Dell have been notorious for making black boxes. Great that they’re improving, but never forget!
That’s fantastic! It should probably be a legal mandate for companies to make their parts easily available, it would reduce e-waste significantly.
they’re headed in that direction in EU (including requiring companies to plan for end-of-life/recyclability of their products) whereas American companies are fighting tooth-and-nail against right-to-repair laws (looking at you Apple) …
I’m so glad they did this partnership as well, my first deck had a whiny fan (pretty bad), bought a new fan that was fairly easy to install and made it so much better to use the device! Ifixit tools are pretty good, too.
Doh why didn’t I think to do the fan while I have it open! Mine is loud as hell… Well, there’s always next time when I do the SSD I guess.
Mind if I crosspost to !right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de? Or you could if you’d like. I think it’d fit very well.
Go for it, definitely!
Great! Here it is: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/12311551
You make me want to buy a Steam Deck, even though I don’t play games much.
Yes. Let’s all go buy steam decks! Yay, capitalism!!1!
Yes, if you intend to buy some, let’s buy from the companies which have some values and respect their customers so they are successful and more companies may get inspired, instead of from the other ones. See also Patagonia and Fairphone for other rare examples.
as has been repeated into oblivion, it’s just a PC, so it’s perfectly usable for non-gaming stuff!
If you want something more portable than a laptop and are alright with the slightly strange input method for a computer, there isn’t really anything better.
