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- Comment on Question: Is it possible to put Linux on an x86 Chromebook? 1 week ago:
I’ll second this, seemed to work without any issues. You can even install ChromeOS Flex on it if you still want to use a Chromebook after they stop getting updates!
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 week ago:
They both seem to cover that fortunately
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 week ago:
Oh that’s cool
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 week ago:
Not something I have any interest in using, so afraid I’ve never tried it
- Comment on [Android] How is Florisboard not popular? 1 week ago:
I tried it out recently but the gesture typing seemed way worse than heliboard
- Comment on Timesplitters Remake 1 week ago:
Excellent news!
- Comment on Fifo's Night - An Excellent (Free) 3D Platformer 1 week ago:
Why no link to the actual game?
- Comment on Timesplitters Remake 1 week ago:
I’ve been hurt by every TimeSplitters announcement I’ve seen for the last 20 years, do I dare to believe that it’s once again time to split‽
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
This is the key thing that everyone comparing it directly to consoles seems to be completely missing. Even if you’re only buying new steam games the costs are going to be way lower, but you could buy this and just play free giveaways or emulate your own old console games, and suddenly it’s a bargain (like any PC).
- Comment on Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard 2 weeks ago:
Did we really need an article saying “I think this other bit of text might be written by a robot”? Of all the things you criticise Microsoft for, that’s the one to go for? Or perhaps it’s the other side of the coin, Microsoft unusually did something quite nice so the author had to find something about it to criticise?
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 2 weeks ago:
You didn’t fill in the survey when the password inspector sent you that email? Rude!
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 2 weeks ago:
Can’t run the risk of being fingerprinted, privacy and anonymity first!
- Comment on In 1982, a physics joke gone wrong sparked the invention of the emoticon - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
“After all, when using text-based online communication, we lack the body language or tone-of-voice cues that convey this information when we talk in person or on the phone.”
This quote is from 1982 and yet we all still fall into the same trap today
- Comment on The story of a crazy Half-Life 2 bug, as told by former Valve dev Tom Forsyth (Mastodon thread) 2 weeks ago:
This is actually an incredible coincidence; I love reading these stories but it’s usually in the context of a speedrunner exploiting them rather than a poor dev asking “how did this ever work!?”
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 weeks ago:
I recently played the original via Primehack, a fork of Dolphin Emulator which (among other things) modernises the controls
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
That’s the thing, for many Windows users it has been giving you a good time for years. Windows 10 was actually pretty nice to use when it came out; it’s life has been a classic death-by-a-thousand-cuts of becoming spyware, but the users are so used to it they aren’t aware that their delicious drug isn’t giving the same high and is now fucking them up.
- Comment on How Google’s DeepMind tool is ‘more quickly’ forecasting hurricane behavior 2 weeks ago:
Is “AI” just a meaningless buzzword? Like, is there actually anything in common between this hurricane tool, the LLM chatbots, and the image-generation stuff?
- Comment on Valve has ‘a pretty good idea’ of what Steam Deck 2 is going to be, but it’s not ready yet [VGC] 3 weeks ago:
Do we think it’ll be ready when they can give it specs to match the steam machine so there’s a single target for developers, or the more exciting option of building something arm-based using whatever fex wizardry is going on in the frame?
- Comment on fragile masculinity 3 weeks ago:
Male gardeners as depicted in popular fiction:
A real alpha male helps you carry The Ring to Mordor
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 4 weeks ago:
Don’t go for a whole guide, pick something smaller like all the recipes or a map of Dry Dry Desert (two things I remember printing off back in the day!)
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider (SteamDeck) 4 weeks ago:
Well if you add the games to steam then you can launch them all from game mode
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider (SteamDeck) 4 weeks ago:
The official itch launcher works on Linux too!
- Comment on Musk Exploits AWS Outage To Unfairly Slam Signal, Promote His Shittier Chat Software 1 month ago:
Amusingly the last Signal outage I remember was actually caused by Musk when he tweeted “use Signal” and so many people did that it took down their sign-up servers
- Comment on egg time 1 month ago:
The pope approves
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 1 month ago:
Not even based on, it is Android
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 1 month ago:
I played Metroid Prime for the first time recently and Samus Aran is an absolute badass. She crash lands on a planet and kills every single thing she encounters. If you read the logs of the space pirates you find scattered around they basically say “oh fuck the hunter is here, she’s coming for us next”.
The atmosphere is almost a little survival-horror-esque, but the experience is more like doom: you’re not locked in here with all these monsters, all these monsters are locked in here with you.
- Comment on Switch 2 continues to break US launch sales records, selling more in its first three months than PS4 | VGC 1 month ago:
Odyssey wasn’t a launch title and BotW was a WiiU game, but I get your point. Plenty of consoles don’t have many unique games at launch.
- Comment on More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC 1 month ago:
Since I started !freegames@feddit.uk I’ve not bought a single game but my backlog is growing way faster than I can play through it. Not a bad first-world problem to have, really!
- Comment on Android/Phone Alternatives? [Discussion] 2 months ago:
There’s !linuxphones@lemmy.ca / !linuxphones@lemmy.ml which often have some interesting chats about projects like PostMarketOS. I’ve not seen anything that is a viable replacement for a “daily driver” smartphone yet, but if you’re keen to tinker then there’s probably some cool stuff to try out.
- Comment on Being a noob in heist games 2 months ago:
I loved that game. It’s been a while since I played but I remember the only way I could reliably do the max-difficulty missions quickly was by using the brick spaceship to smash directly into the room where the target was or something insane like that!
