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I had some performance problems. Suddenly, steam deck lost about 60% of its performance in games. My troubleshooting didn't help. After that, I contacted steam support. We were talking for about a week, but nothing helped, so they agreed to send me a replacement.

I have to say… The fresh vent smells even better than I remember.

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[–] timi@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Apple will sell you a laptop with dead pixels on the screen and refuse to replace it unless a certain minimum number are dead. I was furious.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wow, I'd expect that from a knock-off monitor company, but Apple? That's crazy.

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

They mostly do that these days. Not many monitors have dead pixel policies.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I used to work for a company that made an ultra low budget android tablet. We had dead pixels on like 10% of them. Our LCD provider would tell us the same thing. Unless there are at least 3 dead pixels, they aren't taking them back. We changed our LCD provider ASAP, but we sold probably 1-2K of those POSes. That's probably 100-200 $50 tablets with dead pixels.

But at least our tablets were $50 pieces of trash, not $2000+ MacBooks.

[–] radau@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I had a 3 day old Macbook Pro have the screen shatter when opening it. The store said it would be covered then the repair center said it would be $2000 which was only $600 less than the entire laptop. Took like 3 hours on the phone and finally the freaking store paid out the repair center. Thinkpads from now on lol