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So, A1/A2 is yet another scale they invented because, why not.
A2 is supposed to have more IOPS than A1, although in benchmarks, some A1s perform better.
I wouldn’t worry too much about it tbh.

Kinda like people complaining Rage Against the Machine becoming political.
Always has been.

So, the SD Association is absolutely fucking insane when it comes to giving labels to literally anything.

The Steam Deck supports UHS-1 microSD cards.
That’s the name of the bus. There’salso UHS-2 and UHS-3, but they’re backwards compatible with UHS-1, so that’s whatever.

Speeds…
Some cards used speed “classes”, like Class 10…
There’s also U1 or U3 speeds (which is a speed rating independent of the bus. (A U3 cards is probably a UHS-1 card.
Some have a speed rated with a V, like V10, V30, etc.
They often have multiple labels too.
These can all be used to label the speed of a UHS-1 card:
UHS Speed Class

• U1: 10 MB/s minimum write speed.
• U3: 30 MB/s minimum write speed.

Video Speed Class

• V6: 6 MB/s minimum write speed.
• V10: 10 MB/s minimum write speed.
• V30: 30 MB/s minimum write speed.
• V60: 60 MB/s minimum write speed.
• V90: 90 MB/s minimum write speed.

Class 10

• Class 10: 10 MB/s minimum write speed (legacy).

Anyway, U3 is basically the same as a V30.
U3/V30 would be the minimum I’d get for the Deck. Price being the deciding factor for the rest.
I don’t really care if the card ever fails, so brand was (mostly) irrelevant in my choice.

Mount Rushmore already sucks ass but it could always suck more.

TIL half the people at my workplace have been reading this book for the last 2 decades.

They scared them more than killed them even.

What year is it? 1999?

I forgot to mention Ascent which is one of my favorites. I played it early 2024, which feels ages ago It’s a cyberpunk twin stick shooter RPG.
It was really fun.

It’s also one of the games for which I tweaked my SteamDeck controls a lot.
I vaguely remember the right stick “snapping” too much for my tastes to the horizontal/vertical cross, which went completely away when I mapped it to a fake keyboard/mouse input instead.

2024? Lots of different titles that I played for a while then moved on.
Helldivers 2 was nice enough, I’ve also played a lot of Slay the Spire and Deep Rock Galactic Survivor.

Most surprising (to me)… I got Moonstone Island on a whim.
It’s usually not a game I’d get, but id that was fun, it’s kind of a mix of Stardew Valley, with bits of Pokémon and Slay the Spire.