I’ve been playing it a lot more since I got the OLED. It turns out that I disliked the LCD on the original Deck more than I realized. And not just the difference from OLED itself, but the screen size and 90hz refresh also. Those chunky bezels really did suck, and now the screen feels more like it “fits” the device size.

The larger battery capacity has sure helped too.

Definite wins for me:

• Weather widget small tile with added info (multi-day forecast especially)
• Shared Apple Music playlists
• Local awareness Emergency Alerts

And even if some prototype device is, that doesn’t mean the production device will be, once things like heat and power usage have to really be accounted for.

Maybe that’s the actual value they’re watching, did you ever think of that, Mr. Pessimist?

(Sorry, junior dev somewhere out there. I tried.)

Tile didn’t use Ultra Wideband until after AirTags existed, and I think even now it’s only the Tile Pro that has it.

I used Tile for years before AirTags came along. The difference is night and day.

Someone played on the hardest difficulty (along with enabling the option to “pistol start” every level), and left a Steam review complaining that the expansion is too hard. That got a developer response.

I think Heretic crossed with Unreal is an accurate comparison.

Enemies may have been more plentiful than in Unreal, but movement is much closer to Unreal than Heretic’s DOOM engine movement. And it’s much closer to Unreal than anything in the Quake lineage.

Also, the weapon arsenal’s style is very Heretic, but the weapon behavior is very Unreal.

Same with the levels, honestly. Style is Heretic, but the level design itself reminded me of Unreal pretty frequently. (And nothing like the puzzle-heavy, hub-based Hexen)

My Linux from Scratch install. It was built by a moron.

When a Steam Deck feels heavy, it’s time to start exercising.

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Does Slashdot still have value? I read Slashdot way back in the '90s and early '00s.

Anyone impatient with Lemmy bugs or downtime clearly wasn’t around for Reddit’s early days.

Scaling up social websites is never smooth. Expect bumps.

Cheap API access was letting the AI platforms pull Reddit data directly via API. That’s why the “fix” was making API access expensive, so that buying the data from Reddit instead becomes the more cost-effective solution.

Reddit’s not (as) worried about gathering more data to sell, they’re worried about selling the years of data they already have.

Tell me you’ve never worked in tech support without telling me you’ve never worked in tech support.

Using a backend service provides things like synchronization, which is useful to me. Previously, I was using Feedly as that backend, but FreshRSS let me self-host that functionality and was pretty trivial to setup and start using.

Part of my Reddit exodus plan was to get serious about my RSS setup.

I’ve settled on:

• FreshRSS as my feed manager (supported by Reeder app in iOS and MacOS)
• FiveFilters Full Text extractor
• rss-proxy site scraper

I may experiment with some replacements for rss-proxy, as I’ve run into a couple sites it doesn’t scrape well, but FreshRSS and FiveFilters have been smashing successes.

finally getting close to the original game we were promised

Ehhhhh… the things in that change list are nice, but I’m not sure they’re fundamental enough to get this to the game it was originally presented to be.

That said, it might be enough to where the game would at least be worth my time. But I’m not going to trust this list to be delivered (relatively) bug-free and as good as it sounds until it’s done and proven to be so.

Hard pass. The only reason I use Meta at all is because they acquired Instagram, and I’m barely on there as it is (but my family members are).

In the browser. It’s not confusing to me, but I’m a software developer. Millions of Twitter users aren’t going to make it past the server selection step. And many that do are going to be confused when they click to Follow someone and get a weird popup (because that someone is on a different Mastodon instance) instead of instantly following the person.

It’s nowhere close to a smooth enough experience for the lion’s share of Twitter users to transition over. I think people that are used to even slightly technical things vastly overestimate what the average end user is capable of handling. These are the people that ask for help to plug in an HDMI cable.

There (likely) won’t be any reconsideration. Reddit’s concern right now isn’t the health of its communities. They’re focused on taking the ball of data they’re sitting on and selling it to AI platforms while the AI gold rush is still happening.