Going back and forth between Little Kitty, Big City and Tape to Tape.
There are quite a few post-game things I need to do in LKBC but I’m trying to spread things out so I don’t rush through it all.
I’ve maxed out just about everything in Tape to Tape but still have some achievements left.
Hopefully they do a PC port of this one, too, eventually. The first game (and Miles Morales) worked great on Steam Deck.
Happy to see it return. I would have really missed secure face unlock going from a 4XL to 8 Pro. Though I doubt the 8 Pro will work in complete darkness like the 4XL could.
I don’t understand the recent trends of ditching the upper camera bezel and doing questionable things like cutouts, islands, etc. that disturb the dimensions of the screen in odd ways. Did people really dislike having a dedicated area just for the camera and other sensors? I’d rather have a complete uninterrupted screen and upper bezel.
I hope so! Allegedly they have made it easier to swap out the battery on the 8/8 Pro as well but I’ll believe it when I see it. Google said in the keynote that they are partnering with ifixit for replacement parts and so on. You can already get parts from ifixit for older pixels but the process is rather complex.
I was tempted by the 7 Pro last year but my 4XL still works really well. After being without updates so long, though, it’s hard to justify staying on it any longer.
There is some more Tensor G3 info here: https://blog.google/products/pixel/google-tensor-g3-pixel-8/
Biggest takeaway from that is that the Pixel 8/8 Pro will once again have secure Face Unlock that’s been missing since the 4/4XL.
I ordered an 8 Pro to upgrade from my 4XL, along with some Pixel Buds Pro. I already had a Pixel Watch last year and it still works great, so now I can pass that old one on to someone else.
I can see someone being undewhelmed if they already had a 6 or 7, but for those of us coming from farther back it’s still quite an upgrade, and unlike other OEMs, it’s still the whole Pixel software experience.
With 7 full years of OS updates, too, maybe I can keep this one going even longer. My 4XL is still decent, the battery is starting to show its age but otherwise it runs well, just no more updates.
I have 5 different Orange Pi devices of varying types and they all work well. I don’t have the higher end one that was competing with the Pi 4 and such, but some of the smaller/low end ones. They all run Armbian and do what they need to do for me without any fuss. Given my experience with the smaller ones if I needed something faster now I wouldn’t have any reservations about buying the bigger ones.
The main problem I had was finding reputable sellers, even when I did find one it only shipped from China. Took them a while to get here but otherwise it was fine. I think the more popular/faster models may have some resellers on Amazon that ship from the US now.
From what I’ve seen the preorders should open up on October 4th at some point during or just after the Google event which starts at 10AM Eastern time.
Stray. There were lots of times I’d perch up high and look around at everything going on below.
Inertia was carrying me as well. First it was $35 for premium, then $70 for several years, and then last month they announced it was going up to $130 and that’s when I bailed.
At $70 it wasn’t too bad and I stayed the last year or so also because they actually published a native Linux app that worked on par with the Windows and macOS app. I won’t say it worked great because since they moved it all to Electron or whatever it’s been slow/clunky all around. But at least it was available and consistent.
They still have a free tier but it’s locked way down (2 devices only, and accessing the web site counts as a different “device” from each system).
There is a recent thread discussing Evernote alternatives at https://beehaw.org/post/986939
Personally I exported my notes from Evernote, imported them to Joplin, and setup Syncthing to handle synchronization of note content between my devices. Not exactly a trivial setup but not difficult either. Also fully open source and much more secure.
I agree, it’s great on the Steam Deck. I played for a bit on my laptop and it was fine there but it was a much better experience on the Deck.
I’ve been looking into Logseq and Joplin over the last week or so, trying to figure out how I want to migrate away from Evernote since they are massively increasing their prices.
What I like about Logseq and Joplin both is that at their core it’s just Markdown files and you can sync them around in a number of different ways however you feel like, including self-hosting, various cloud providers, or locally and securely via syncthing (which is what I chose). With syncthing the content of the notes is never exposed during transit and it’s never stored anywhere I don’t control.
At the moment I’ve moved almost entirely over to Joplin since it’s pretty close to Evernote, but I do plan on trying to use Logseq and see how I like its journaling/block tagging type approach.
I went around and unlocked all the towers and found all the stables before I did 3/4 of the regional quests and ended up with it pretty early on. I haven’t needed it that many times, but it’s been invaluable the few times I needed it.
I like them both for different reasons and in different ways. In BOTW I liked the champions better, felt more of a connection to them. Also Revali’s Gale was the best. In TOTK, I am really loving the device building and fusing in general. I miss some of the weapons from BOTW but it’s great being able to fuse different objects for different effects.
You can cheese both in various ways if you want (Revali’s Gale, or a Hover Bike, can get you pretty much anywhere).
TOTK seems to have a lot more stuff around everywhere, on the ground, in the depths, and the sky. It’s even more fun to explore than it was in BOTW in some cases. Also Tears of the Kingdom / Tiers of the Kingdom is a great pun/double meaning.
Also the froggy suit finally lets you climb wet surfaces (and ice) without slipping.
I don’t like the grinding materials to upgrade armor in either one, though. So TOTK wins because I’m a cheating cheater who refuses to update the game so I can keep duping materials as I don’t have months to spend hunting down and killing monsters.
If you like that, check out Recursive Sans & Mono
I wouldn’t pick it over Fira Code but it has a bit of whimsy to it that reminds me of Comic Mono.
It looks alright. I might give it a try. I tested out a bunch of different mono fonts recently and landed on Fira Code. I’m still getting used to ligatures but so far I’m liking it more than I expected.
Nothing at the moment on the Steam Deck, still working my way through Tears of the Kingdom on Switch.
Before TOTK I was going back and forth between the recent Sackboy: A Big Adventure port and Pedestrian. Before that I played through the Spider-Man and Miles Morales ports as well.
Not to mention all the various emulation I’ve setup and been experimenting with, I can’t even remember all the games I was testing out there, dozens of them!
I remember back when this was going around as
cokegift.exein the 90s.