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  • SteamDeck’s isn’t the same at all. It is a fake sleep: “Go to sleep but you can finish downloading whatever you need before” (inside the steam software, outside of it it has no idea).

    On OLED screens you get to have the screen powered off. On LCD we see the screen is still powered. Maybe they just turn the brightness to the minimum and send black color of pixels?

    Anyway, once the download queue finish, the SteamDeck goes to proper hibernation and does only get to wake up when using the power button. Not at any notification or when a background process want it like I see explained on comments in this thread.

    Edit: The SteamDeck version looks a lot more like the “Finish the update and restart/shutdown/hibernate button”











  • Maybe you should join forces with YuNoHost. It let peoples selfhost on a Raspberry Pi or any old computer. Can be a “when I start it spare board only visible at home”.

    They already have a lot of apps packages that are 1 click to install. Maybe you can discuss to propose an option in their package script to reduce network to the current machine?

    The only downside to this approach is that their solution is targeted at being an entire OS. So I suspect most of the work would be to extract the app management from the rest?

    One issue I have with your idea is that most open source servers/app are designed to be run on Linux right? Not every users use it on their main machine. You also talk a lot about docker… does it work on Windows? I mean WSL sounds like a nightmare to manage with script, for other peoples. From my point of view, YuNoHost solution is easy enough for a layman, and they will be happy not to break their main PC, have access from their phone, … even if only at home.