Yeah, that’s all beyond my abilities to figure out. Looking at my 602 it looks like the side buttons have their own board which is connected to the main board via ribbon cable. I thought it might be possible to do something similar with this one but I don’t know enough about electronics/mechanical engineering to figure that on my own. It’s still a really cool project though.

That is really cool. I think there’s ways to get more switches on one port on Arduino but I don’t remember for sure.

Interesting. It’s a start at least.

Already every commercial I hear on the radio is talking about “tariff pricing”.

Can I 3d print something like the g602 mouse? I can solder components together and do a little programming if need be but designing something like that is way over my head. Not being able to find a replacement for that thing is killing me.

But… it’s not the only place to play mario…

As I said I can fill that with ease. Leaving no space for apps. If I have everything on the separate card that is a non issue. Using USB dongles is not a solution. It’s more crap we have to carry around when we already have an ideal method with the SD card. It takes up practically no space and offers great utility for those who need it. It’s not like they’re using the space on the board saved by taking it out to add new features.

My LG V20 is starting to have serious issues running apps I need and I’m really bummed about it :(

SD cards are cheaper than paying for more storage on the phone and easier to manage. I have mine loaded up with my entire music library and game roms for emulation as well as a smaller selection of movies. I spend a lot of time at work in places with little to k ow network so it’s great to have on hand. I could fill the storage on any phone available today but I’d be constantly dealing with space when I wanted to install a new app or take video or whatever. I prefer to keep my media library separate.

Same I’m going on almost a decade on both the ones I have in my devices now. If they died I’d replace them for cheap. Breaking is a non-issue. They’re great.

Cool. More phones I won’t buy.

1. Yea, I had a throwaway account already to use for the login so I didn’t bother trying it. They still managed to make it annoying even when I did it their way and agreed it is horseshit.

2. Agreed.

3. I DID forget about that. Thanks for reminding me I need to figure out how to opt out (assuming it’s even possible).

Yea just set up a windows 11 pc for the first time and the experience was basically:

It forces you into making a Microsoft account or log in with one, then it told me mine was locked even though I was able to log in fine elsewhere. I had to use the alternate log in method to get in (I know you can make a local account but I already had one set up for this).

Then it tries to force you to “back up from your old pc” which this was an entirely different system so I’m not even sure why I would want that.

Then it tries to convince you to send them a bunch of telemetry while reminding you that you’ll still get ads if you don’t, they just won’t be targeted towards you.

Then it tries to push microsoft office on you.

Then it needs to do updates which took like 45 minutes.

Then you’re finally at the desktop where you get probably half a dozen othe pop ups between windows and the vendor.

Then it’s “usable”

By comparison Bazzite took like 20 minutes to get to a usable desktop and isn’t nagging me about ads at all. I have a laundry list of things still to figure out but so far way less annoying.

Just bought a laptop and put bazzite on it to try it out and figure out if I can do all the things I want to do on it. If that all works out I’ll be switching my desktop over.

they didnt account for much differentiation between the kitchen and the bathroom sinks.

Right which Is why I said they needed to differentiate them. Someone else responded to say that’s what they ended up doing in later games.

There’s more to it then that. There’s a bunch of different “clean” activities. Washing dishes, showering, washing hands, etc. Different objects can do different things. For example you can’t wash a dish or take a bath in the shower which is a “clean” object. To wash a dish they have to have a dirty dish to do so, meaning it’s a separate activity from other things you might do with the bathroom sink.

Just take the dish washing activity off bathroom sinks.

Yeah it’s not something you play all day. I usually pick one or two of the challenges to do and by then I’m either de-stressed enough to do something else or I just go to bed.

This feels like the modern bathroom book as a game. Fun but just enough to be over when you have finished something more worth your time.

Sometimes that’s just what you need. Vampire survivors is my go to for when I burnt out from work and don’t want to think anymore but need something to do.

I forgot about that game. It was great.

People kept finding exploits to fuck the economy so they kept turning off trading which made it difficult to progress. I think my issue was lack of storage and you needed money to get more if I remember right. I got bogged down with inventory management and never touched it again.

I don’t see it that way but Steam has never enshittified in way that was noticeable to me and the features they offer along with the games are valuable. They are also a big driver of Linux development for games. That earns them a lot of points. If they flip or something better comes along I have no loyalty to them.

Thanks. And yeah don’t really give a shit about graphics when I’m dealing with constant usability problems. I guess if all you care about is playing video games that would be more of a concern but my eyes are too shitty to appreciate high end graphics anyway.

K

HDR implementation

I don’t even know what that is. I use Windows 11 at work every day and it fucking sucks. It has been non stop annoyances since I got upgraded from 10. I don’t have any problems on my windows 10 pc at home.

Yeah well Windows 11 fucking sucks. What do they expect? Maybe if you have to do all kinds of shady shit to get people to accept the newest version of your shitty product you should take a good look at yourself and evaluate why that is.

Once, Diablo 3. I figured it could not miss. It missed.

I’m enjoying x4. I also liked Elite Dangerous but that one was more limited in what you could do. They have added more in the years since I’ve played it though

You can have your SD card and headphone jack, or you can be secure*. You can’t have both.

What about either of those compromises security?

I’ve needed my phone to be water proof exactly once in the 20ish years that I’ve had one and that was in 2006. I think I’ll manage without it. I use my headphone jack and SD slot every day.

I don’t want to have to carry a dongle around to use things that should be built into the phone.

I would include any phone that doesn’t have basic features like a headphone jack or a SD card in the “shitty phone” category. Pixel phones come to mind.

Yea, it was one of the last things I watched off a streaming service when I was really scraping the bottom of the barrel before I cancelled them and I was surprised to find it pretty entertaining.

Can I ask when you played it? I didn’t have that perception at all. There was some kind of “hub” you could jump to and plenty of stuff around wherever you were at. It was mostly about finding a planet that had whatever combo of resources you needed but that didn’t take very long either. I only played for a couple weeks but my understanding is there were quite a lot of quality of life updates between launch and when I played. Maybe you just tried it before I did. Either way you’re entitled to your opinion.

I played NMS ~2 years ago and thought for a huge procedurally generated game it was pretty good. The planets had lots of POIs and trading posts and stuff to go to. I quit mostly because the flight mechanics were too “on rails” compared to something like Elite Dangerous or X4. I just didn’t get the rush I was looking for from dogfighting and stuff. I had constructed a series of bases that let me craft a ton of tradable items that gave me plenty of money but there was just nothing to spend it on because my ship was already plenty strong enough for everything I encountered…

10 is tolerable at best. Still get annoying notifications about shit I haven’t asked for and nag screens about how my PC isn’t compatible with 11 and what I need to do to update. Also the settings menu is dogshit compared to 7.

Gunstar Heroes

Pokemon Silver. Beat the Elite 4 and surprise now you get to go back to Kanto.

Wouldn’t the battery indicator already be fucked because of this? Do those cells match what it came with?

Honestly I don’t really give a shit if China invades my privacy I have nothing they’d care about anyway. I just don’t want American corporations doing it to try to sell me more shit.