The Steam Deck ships with WireGuard

Published on 06/28/2024, 321 words, 2 minutes to read

One less install required!

While I was poking around SteamOS, I tried to run wg-quick and was surprised to see it was preinstalled. I've been wanting to get into my Deck from my MacBook over a stable IP for a fair bit, and this means I can just add it to my private fly.io network.

So I did that:

$ fly wg create personal yul mipha mipha.conf

And then I imported the config to my deck over normal SSH and activated it:

$ sudo cp mipha.conf /etc/wg-quick/fly0.conf

$ sudo systemctl enable --now wg-quick@fly0.service

And then I can ping it as normal:

$ ping6 fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502 -c4
PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) [scrubbed] --> fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502
16 bytes from fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502, icmp_seq=0 hlim=62 time=35.587 ms
16 bytes from fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502, icmp_seq=1 hlim=62 time=22.683 ms
16 bytes from fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502, icmp_seq=2 hlim=62 time=29.850 ms
16 bytes from fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502, icmp_seq=3 hlim=62 time=95.205 ms

--- fdaa:0:641b:a7b:9285:0:a:2502 ping6 statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 22.683/45.831/95.205/28.870 ms

Et voila! I'm in. Now it's easy to copy off the videos I got with Decky Recorder. Here's a few screenshots I've copied over:

Hope this gives you ideas!

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