XDA will write articles these days like:

• How this wallpaper has proven how I’ve been using computers wrong for 30 years
• These gloves improved my typing speed 300%
• I painted my NAS red and you won’t believe the improvements

This includes not in the Google play store so like f-droid or like how people would get software from a places website or GitHub or sourceforge or wherever and installing it like you can on Windows or a Mac or Linux

I swear this is like the third date in the last ten years that is supposed to be the flashpoint year and it will probably pass like the previous. After 2027 it’ll be another year to try and get people hyped up for war

After Fallout 3’s success, they should have expanded into a multi team studio. By then they’d been a publisher and developer for like 20 years. Since then they became a major publisher owning studios like iD and Machine Games and then bought by MS in 2020. It took another like 15 years and a successful TV show to realize 15+ years between entries in a series is pretty inoptimal. It’s a pretty bad fostering of talent. Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim - there’s got to be at least a few people that worked on those games that could have succeeded leading development on a Bethesda style RPG

Whoa, end of 2027. I guess it’s not end of the world because really it’s just targeting the Windows store environment GDK so a specific dev kit isn’t a barrier to develop for it. It’s not like anyone’s going to optimize for the pillar Xbox Helix hardware. I’m betting it ends up being the lowest selling Xbox

That thread is mildly hilarious with the people snarkily saying if someone doesn’t like it, fork it and remove the AI slop and develop from there — and then people admitting they don’t have the skill to do the software development/they don’t want to learn/they wouldn’t be able to recognize the AI generated code from the human written code/they’re not going to fund AI free development and generally glossing over that these are unpaid hobby projects and they’re getting mad at a volunteers free work. Like damn the community gardens volunteers keeping the plants alive using unnatural big agriculture’s chemical products rather than dedicating even more of their free time to the community garden I want to consume

A bunch of these people I’m certain would not work for free and make that a moral and political statement about the value of labor but not extend that energy to the work of open source software developers. The guy works on a project that I’m certain would have a low ceiling for amount of monthly donations. People whining about him using AI who themselves won’t contribute any more than words of affirmation. So pretty much worthless. Absolutely worthless after like half a year of a demanding user base whose only contribution is prey much like a kid grumpily saying, “well I said thank you! You happy!? Now can you do what I said!?”

Ubislop 2.0

LPDDR6 is the upgrade from a Steam Deck that I’m waiting for. Not holding my breath though. Memory is expensive

I would guess not. Don’t see any USB ports listed in the controllers specs and haven’t spotted anything that looks like an port on the controllers in the little videos they have of the Frame

Putting some money aside each month to feel like I’m being responsible when buying a Steam Frame and Machine for the living room

AA batteries are what it shows on the Steam Frame store page. Text is

Easy battery access​

Each Steam Frame controller runs on a single AA battery, offering ~40 hours of play time.

PS5 will keep being a dust collector for me. Unplugged it once the ROM keys leaked. It may someday be useful as a normal PC

The tegra boards are good on Linux. They need to get this out so software developers can work out the software kinks and hardware integrators make some good designs. I want a whole lot more Steam Machine sized devices to choose from

Just need AI to contract significantly so the 20-30TB drives are priced reasonably enough again to get back to filling out my NAS drive slots

I’m interested in what levels of locked down it may be. Fully open software platform where I can install any OS on it. Maybe locked soley to Microsoft/Windows signed OS image. Open to install any software or only open to a selection of software stores so like Windows/Xbox store, Steam, EGS, etc. Expectations low. Microsoft and hardware devices have no consistent long term vision or identify so they keep pivoting strategies

When I paid for nordvpn with a credit card and decided to cancel, it took like a week and a half of emails with them to cancel and remove my payment info. A lot of, are you sure you want to cancel, are you sure you’re who you say you are

After that no more nordvpn. Pay for these services with crypto

I want to see the price on that Steam Machine. The size of it is great and it’ll come with a controller. Be great for the living room

Nice. The upcoming Razr Ultra flip phone. Those are nice. Pretty much exactly what I want. An outside display that can pretty much do everything and an inside display that’s very wide for streaming PC games from my desktop. Movies too look great with the nearly 21:9 inner display.

Hoping to see low end devices too. Would love a trial phone. Those Razr flip phones are expensive. Would rather wait for those to be less than half the price used on ebay

Tried the demo. Pretty solid in my opinion. Probably picking it up when it releases

I should have bought a couple more Seagate external drives to shuck for my NAS. I knew HDD prices would jump so I bought a couple thanksgiving last year but couldn’t stomach spending more. I should have spent more then