steelplatedmech

I just use a redlib instance to lurk on reddit.

https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib-instances/blob/main/instances.md

Can subscribe and filter users and subreddits, and is an accountless experience.

I don’t find reddit anymore aggravating than lemmy, since I stick to subreddits I’m interested in which tends to be more mellow stuff like games and tech compared to if I was looking at news type subs.

I just do more actual commenting here due to having easy access to third party apps which reddit no longer provides. And I don’t feel like going through effort of getting stuff like reddit is fun working. I’m fine lurking reddit now and not bothering logging in.

Its either one address limitation or none at all, since a company isn’t going to make exceptions based on whether someone is related or not and verify it.

Why would a company care about the distinction. All they care about is limiting it by household.

Roomates or family are members of a household. One unit per address. I don’t see why relations would matter.

Others just quietly left like me with the last Sony console I got being the PS4.

Only consoles I’m interested in picking up are ones I can jailbreak.

Had so many arguments with console players who kept insisting PS+ games are free games and not rentals despite them ceasing to work without an active subscription. So seeing them flip out over disc ownership given their stance on PS+ games was a strange sight to behold. Paying for online subscription is ridiculous too, but they argued in favor of it when I’d call it out.

Lot of monetization practices they accepted after the PS3 led to the situation they find themselves in.

I love my DSi XL and it is actually pocketable and the dual IPS screen looks nice. I have a 3DS too but I use my DSi to play DS games, since it looks blurry on the 3DS.

I like stylus heavy games like The World Ends with You, Elite Beat Agent, Under the Knife, so I’m going to need the stylus to at least match the quality of the apple pencil or spen and have a pointy end before I consider replacing the original hardware for an emulation device.

Open source flash carts like the dspico are available too now, but not necessary with sd card all that is being needed to play on the DS after jailbreaking it.

DS isn’t too expensive with it being around the price of a new triple A title, but the 3DS has shot up in price. I haven’t touched my switch in over a year but play with my ds or 3ds on a weekly basis.

Nintendo DS I think have more stylus heavy games than the 3DS, and the DSi is still pretty reasonable in price. So I think getting a DSi is worth it. And seems to go around the price of a new triple A title and is easy to mod. There’s open source flash carts like the DSpico available, and a DS Pico with IR and PicoWalker said to be coming out too so you don’t have to get the official pokewalker and Pokemon cartridge. Those Pokemon cartridges are insane in value so it’ll be nice when the DSPico IR version is available for those wanting to utilize pokewalker with it.

If you are just playing Pokemon than stylus responsiveness doesn’t matter much, but if you are planning to play stylus heavy games then I think the actual DS is the route to go. DSi XL has the best screen among the DS line with it being dual IPS.

3DS can play 3DS and DS games, but those are like double to triple the price.

Who said anything about roommates not being allowed to have two systems?

Just making the point that when it is hard to even get one system for them to share it makes sense why until shortages are resolved why they’d limit it to one per household.

No surprise when the mod was behind a patreon paywall, and there has been a history of companies shutting down mods like that.

When it is hard enough for 1 person in a household to even get one steam hardware to share I’m fine with the one address limit. A household having multiple devices is a luxury when it is hard enough getting even one.

I have seen those flat games turned VR videos. I think one of the first ones I’ll want to try is Left 4 Dead 2.

Yeah it looks like I’ll be able to hold off on rushing right to Half Life Alyx. The flat gaming stuff looks cool.

I like it because free for all never worked for me and I experienced the worst of it trying to get a gpu during the crypto craze and everyone using bots and alerts to try to snipe something that would go out of stock in seconds.

EVGA game in clutch and did queue system and I got my card for msrp. And I liked it when Valve did it for the Steam Deck.

Hated when Steam Controller did a free for all and ended up wasting couple of hours clicking and coming up empty handed. They went to queue and I finally got one after a few months.

I’d rather wait and if it takes a year or longer so be it, but a free for all approach is one I know I’ll have zero chance at compared to the lotto.

Yeah, if I get into vr it’ll be with the steam frame due to refusing to get meta headsets.

I’ll be picking up beat saber and pistol whip since I love rhythm games. Will look into driving, flying, and fpv drone flying games.

Yeah, I expected much worse after the Steam Machine price and storage and ram costs going up. On the waitlist for the 256 model, but not sure I’ll actually buy it.

I don’t have VR, but I had been interested in Half Life Alyx and Beat Saber.

Just use gmail through the browser instead of installing stuff like the gmail app on your phone, and you can have it forward it to your email so you don’t need to open gmail to get school mail. You’ll probably just need to login for replies.

And when it comes to work in the future hopefully you’ll be a provided with a work device. I wouldn’t use a work device for personal use even if it were running Linux, and wouldn’t install work related programs on personal devices. I just consider work devices and programs to be spying on me as default.

Less than I expected yet still expensive. But, I would pay more than double to not get a meta headset.

Cryptomator being used to upload is an option to consider if cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft, or Apple are used. Then those companies will just get gibberish files as opposed to training data.

I just use a Garmin and gadget bridge. I don’t bother connecting it to the internet or using it to look at text messages.