CalcProgrammer1

Sodium batteries have considerably less energy density than lithium, at least at the moment. They’re best for stationary use such as solar and grid backup, not for portable devices. Not really even a good fit for EVs yet.

The myriad of reasonably priced unofficial batteries on eBay and AliExpress.

Yeah, this feels like extreme price gouging. I generally like what iFixit does, their toolkits are great and I’ve bought Steam Deck parts in the past (a replacement fan when mine got noisy). However, if they’re going to participate in price gouging I’m done with them. There’s no reason a Steam Deck sized battery should ever be even close to $180, and given how numerous third party options are, there’s zero reason to pay that price for an “official” one. It’s a battery, it’s as generic of a component as it gets. Sure, it has a charge controller, but so do the third party ones. It’s a custom shape, but that’s probably just two standard sized cells taped together. If the shape were a real problem the third party ones wouldn’t be any cheaper.

You can run postmarketOS on Fairphone 5 and 6 AFAIK.

IE was the first unusable browser

Same, no interest in anything Rockstar puts out after they poisoned GTAV with that garbage kernel anticheat and excluded Linux players. I had every GTA game since in my Steam library as well as RDR2 and LA Noire, but no more. I won’t be buying anything they put out from now on. No Tux, no bux.