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- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 20 hours ago:
The Deck’s controls. The Steam Controller was a bit too drastic of a change for me. It’s great for games not designed for a controller but having no D-pad and only a single analog stick is a deal breaker for most people who get a controller to play games designed for controllers.
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 days ago:
The problem is that it was easier to get people to move to Telegram since it had an abundance of features compared to WhatsApp which was compelling for the average person that doesn’t care about encryption. Signal doesn’t have any of these features that make it enticing for the person.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
Because there were still plenty of good games that came out after that?
- Comment on A couple of Switch 2 owners are already reporting expanded back panels, Nintendo investigates possible causes 6 days ago:
I think the New 3DS had the best implementation. The swappable backplate were cool and provided easy but child safe access to the batteries behind 2 normal Phillips screws.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 1 week ago:
Because the people that would or can switch would already switch after it’s been posted for the 1000th time. It’s not realistic because the vast majority of people simply don’t care. People hate windows updates enough as it is, to most average people this is good news.
- Comment on Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console 1 week ago:
They added mod support to MS Store/Game Pass games ages ago. If locking it down like that was their intention they would’ve never even done that to begin with.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Finding it hard to multitask and lacking confidence is fairly normal as a new driver. I found it helpful to have someone who’s confident in driving to accompany you while you drive until you’re confident. They’ll be able to point things out to you and warn you while you drive. It’s important that at the start they let you focus and only speak when necessary though. Gradually over time, they can speak to you more to get you used with multitasking while driving.
These things take time to get used to so don’t fret it but if course, this is only if you’re comfortable to give it a try and commit to improving.
- Comment on Are foldable phones as good/bad as they say? 1 week ago:
I had a Samsung Fold 3 and then upgraded to a Fold 6 which ended up costing less than half after the trade in bonuses and promotions. It’s insanely useful for me to be able to open it up for watching videos, reading books or articles, sketching ideas and more. Being able to just unfold it halfway to stand it up on a table is also pretty useful at times. It definitely enables you to do a lot more things that would’ve been a pain on a regular phone.
Durability is surprisingly much better than I had expected. I’ve dropped it a few times and it’s still pretty solid, though I’ve never dropped it while it was open.
I also like that it’s narrower than a normal phone and thicker since it really helps for one handed use which is why I’m not a fan of the Chinese ones or the rumours of the Fold 7 being much wider and thinner. Honestly, it’s an unpopular opinion but I thought the Fold 3’s width was perfect, they just needed to trim the bezels further.
So yea, I can’t go back to a regular phone anymore. Even though I spend 70% of the time folded, the 40% where is unfolded more than makes it worth it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Windows Phone may have been a lot more successful and we’d have much better UI than we do now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They’re also much better for local party games. That’s essentially what my Switch has become.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 2 weeks ago:
Compatibility for one. Also unpopular opinion here, but I actually like Windows and use it on my main desktop. So having everything run the same thing does add some conveniences. The only thing I really like about SteamOS right now is really just the battery life and the quick resume from sleep. If Windows gets those through this initiative, then I don’t really have any reason to stick with SteamOS.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if the price matters that much to the demographic. Their main target audience isn’t gonna consider a handheld gaming PC to begin with.
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 - Official Teaser 2 weeks ago:
I think Black Ops 6 did a lot of really cool things for the story with a few open ended levels and a really cool segment in the middle won’t spoil. Story wise I think it is actually one of their better ones, it had the potential to be almost as good as Blops 1 if the ending wasn’t so rushed and failed to tie up the plot lines properly. I have a feeling it’s so that they could reuse the characters in Warzone which is a huge shame.
- Comment on Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience 2 weeks ago:
I would be interested if it also supported quick resume from sleep like the Deck does. Imo that’s the killer SteamOS feature that’s keeping Windows alternatives from being even a consideration.
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 3 weeks ago:
Imo people should start with C first since it is a lot simpler than C++ while still providing a lot of what you mentioned. C++ adds a lot of things like name mangling, templates, L & R value references that can quickly make things a bit more daunting for beginners.
I also generally find error messages for C a lot more parsable for beginners than C++ ones.
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 3 weeks ago:
I’m so grateful for Kotlin, it gets rid of so much of the annoyances in Java.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 3 weeks ago:
It’s only better imo if you set it to native resolution for the AA. If you set it to anything below that, there’s definitely still artifacting. It’s not crazy obvious but no way it’s not noticeable, especially if you have a larger screen.
- Comment on Alien Isolation VR is finally here with immersive motion controls and much more 3 weeks ago:
Downloads are distributed via Discord.
Who the heck thought this was a good idea?
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 3 weeks ago:
Drivers possibly? I don’t mean it as a dig at SteamOS, I’m just curious where the discrepancy is from.
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 4 weeks ago:
Do we know if it’s entirely coming from SteamOS? Iirc the advantages it had over Windows on the Steam Deck were not even anywhere remotely this pronounced.
- Comment on Toei Animation To Apply AI to ‘Various Processes of Animation Production’ in the Future 5 weeks ago:
Haven’t watched anything Orange or Ufotable have put out have you?
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 5 weeks ago:
Like they did so the past few times which still led to this happening again?
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 5 weeks ago:
I’m not American, but my country has largely moved off phone and SMS but we still get spam messages on WhatsApp and Telegram. The spam and scam will chase you wherever you go, if they haven’t, it just means those platforms aren’t popular enough in your region for them to switch to.
- Comment on Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system” 5 weeks ago:
Didn’t they get fined or something by the US for lying about policies related to this issue? I can’t imagine the EU wouldn’t be even more strict on this considering existing precedence.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 5 weeks ago:
Plenty of singleplayer games are from indies, those more or less support the developer.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 1 month ago:
Contrary to what Lemmy would like you to believe, some of us actually like using Windows. Is it annoying sometimes? Yes but Linux can also be really annoying and a pain. I’ve wasted days trying to get a GPU to show up properly among other smaller issues for work purposes. I’m not gonna even try to bother with it when I just want to get home and relax.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 month ago:
Sometimes all I need a small compact SSH machine when I’m at a client’s site. This is a perfect use case for it.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 month ago:
Well there’s that, but I was talking more about how they were selling it when hey first announced it. My point is that they’ve lied before. I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 month ago:
So like how Huawei was hyping up their new mobile OS which was really just AOSP?
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 month ago:
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic here. I hope you are. If not a quick search on Wikipedia would show China’s aggressive behaviour towards its neighbouring countries.