The nexus poster on Twitter are often technically inept (journos, real life famous people, etc.). Therefore I understand the migration to Mastodon and such going slowly. But I have high hopes for the likes of federated Reddit-alternatives, since Reddit’s audience is a much more technical crowd. The only fear I have is the FOSS community’s infamous infighting over non-issues. As long as things like Lemmy or kbin are federating, this is probably a non-issue, but as soon as two or more of the major players get hung up on something irrelevant and cannot reconcile, the party is over as soon as it began.
shinjiikarus
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I am a diehard Apple fanboy and don’t see any viable alternative for any of their main product lines. But their multi monitor performance is comically bad: I have Thunderbolt docks and two monitors work fine through that from a technical perspective. Though dragging windows between monitors is not seamless and macOS even rubs it in your face with some quirky UI hints when you are “leaving” one monitor and enter another like it’s the 90s. Icons and real life data in the menu bar have had scaling issues for a decade now on the screen you are not currently active on with a window (but can still see in real life, because eyes). There is an old desktop wallpaper saved somewhere from when I first connected the monitors that stays on the second one (the first monitor has my normal wallpaper). I know I can change this independently, but why?! When opening monitor settings you can adjust things like refresh rate or color profile independently, which is nice, but each window for adjustments opens on the screen it is adjusting. Apple’s whole multi monitor experience feels clunky and dated and hasn’t been getting any improvements for years, which tells me, nobody at Apple uses multiple screens.
I have very mixed opinions about PWAs. Philosophically I love them (remember the Ubuntu phone? That would have been my iOS alternative!). But in practice most aren’t done very well and feel like a browser bookmark that has been opened from the home screen. But wefwef feels outright native, totally impressive!
Oh, I think you are right, my bad!
I had been using Feedly as well, as my GReader replacement. But they put a lot of features behind an arbitrary paywall with a few quite high. I understand people need to feed their families, but Reeder had the better value proposition for me (especially since I am already paying for iCloud storage).
Off topic, but what is going on with the air bubble in the lower left corner of the screen? Is that etched screen defect or just a screen protector?
You will receive vastly different answers by different people to that question, since different people have different requirements (and incidentally you didn’t stated yours).
My 2cts: If you want to use the Series S as your only current gen console on a nice large 4K HDR TV and expecting to be blown away by the graphics you will be disappointed, since the Series S’ graphics looks considerably worse. People may start to fight this statement, but consider this: the Series S held their own against last gen consoles quite well (even the X/Pro refreshes), since the current development for games is completely screwed we didn’t really enter current gen the first few years of this cycle, therefore Series S looked like a great value proposition. If people don’t play current games (which are just starting to begin being current gen only), they may have had a better experience with the Series S tha past few years, than they will have as soon as current gen really is upon us. The Series S - though marketed otherwise - is not a true current gen 4K console.
If you are planning to use the Series S as a companion to a PS5 either for GamePass or dipping your toes into some Xbox exclusives, I’d personally wait for Starfield to come out and get reviews how it’s performing on Series S, all other MS exclusives don’t warrant spending any money, in my opinion.
In case the Series S should accompany a switch (which is a less talked about scenario), graphical fidelity won’t really be the issue, since Series S vastly outperforms the Switch docked.
I’m very contrived situations, where one would be using a 1080p or 1440p desktop monitor and a PC not equipped for gaming or a mac, the Series S could be a nice companion for some casual gaming, but as soon as the monitor becomes too good, the Series S will hurt even more due to the short distance between the user and the screen.
Is there an update pending behind the red bubble on the settings icon?
Mlem is Great! But what really surprised me is wefwef, hands down the best PWA I’ve ever seen
We have known UbiSoft to be out of ideas and options. This seems like they are grabbing for straws. Yes, people liked Black Flag more than AC3 and more than Rogue, Unity, and Syndicate. But I don’t think the gameplay (especially the dull cities and the even worse reality levels) holds up really well today. They shouldn’t have crashed Skull and Bones as hard as they did and developed a full fledged Black Flag 2 without the AC ballast and more pirate stuff.
tl;dr: the “””unexpected””” adoption barrier are publicly available charge stations.
I wouldn’t word it that strongly, but I totally get what you mean. While I love the core gameplay loop and world much, much more than botw (I was one of the very few heretics who were just lukewarm on botw, instead of seeing it as game of the millennium; while I really love totk and get why people are raving about it), I feel like Nintendo did just one virtual currency too many. Needing to collect and exchange like three or four different zonai stuff to upgrade the battery and buying building materials and fabricating premades. While still needing the shrines and korok seeds, to upgrade health and stamina, collectible currency like the poes and obviously rubies, feel like a very imbalanced in game economy, which in turn makes the grind so bad, it’s unbearable sometimes. Even though each currency in and of itself is fairly easy to grind in my opinion, just not everything at once. At the same time totk gives the illusion of a fairly creative game, where grinding isn’t even warranted. Just let me build stuff!