In my case I don’t even have the choice of upgrading to OLED yet because geography (although apparently I have the option of preordering a 512GB OLED via a local retailer with a “direct import” program for 840 USD, ew), but I guess I should be thankful for that since I’ve mostly gotten over the FOMO lol.

It also helps that I’ve either found workarounds and/or just gotten used to the things the LCD model is worse at than the OLED, like for example none of my devices have OLED or HDR capable screens so I’m quite blissfully ignorant there, and I tend to play older games at lower detail settings and FPS caps so I can lower the TDP (to the point where I’ve set up all but one of my games to run at 10W or under, probably more like 7W or under even), which improves the battery life, heat and fan noise levels to the point where I’m not really bothered anymore.

Open Konsole and run the flatpak list command to see what apps are actually installed, then to uninstall stuff run flatpak remove com.app.id, replacing com.app.id with the app ID that you want to remove.

For the offline thing, when installing the game Steam will say “Singleplayer gameplay requires an active Internet connection” for such games (in that dialog box that appears showing the verified criteria and which one(s) the game fails, if any), but yeah agreed that those things should be made way more prominent.

Actually I’m not sure if disabling auto update completely would have the same effect as limiting the auto update time, but the point is to NOT have Steam automatically update because that’s the broken bit as far as shader cache updates go for whatever reason.

At least, that’s what I think the problem is, I’ve never actually tried letting it actually run automatic updates by itself anymore lol.

I used to have pretty much constant shader updates until I changed the automatic update time range to somewhere out of the way (like 6-7AM), and I haven’t seen anywhere near as many of them even when I look manually in the downloads menu, so might be worth a try if you haven’t already.