I can’t speak to the others, but I have a couple 8bitdo controllers and they’re fantastic. If the aliexpress listing is legit, I’d go with that one, no question.
I’ve never heard of the other two brands, but cursory googling doesn’t sound promising for them.
Interesting. Thanks for the extra effort to help out an internet stranger!
I’ll dig some more into these little buggers!
Awesome, thanks!
This little thing looks very interesting. What is the battery life like? Is the handwriting-to-text stuff only viable in specific apps, or can it be used in place of keyboard input?
I would probably use it just like my Kindle, keeping it in airplane mode until I actually need to download something (or in this case, upload notes).
Fair. I did stray from the “rpg” theme on… Most of my responses.
Will look up Spirit of the North though! It sounds right up my alley
For real. Its high time I replay it, too. Been long enough that I just remember general themes.
You sound a lot like me, and probably get annoyed with a lot of grindy mechanics. Especially when you have limited time to play games.
Sea of Stars and Chained Echoes will really scratch that Chronotrigger itch.
Outer Wilds is also incredible (don’t read spoilers, just go in blind). It’s mini space exploration with cartoon-arcadey newtonian physics.
Sword & Sworcery is also great, and a good point-and-click adventure with an amazing soundtrack. I’d almost argue it’s better on a tablet or largeish phone through. It’s very touch input focused, which is OK with a mouse, but I think is better with a finger (as intended)
Others I enjoy :
Just a cheap and reliable bucket to rsync my local backups to. I’m leaning toward Hetzner, but was checking out filen after your suggestion, too.
An over-complicated solution I was tossing around with some friends was to set up a cheap NAS at our respective homes, and just rsync to one another. Then we can just sneakernet the drives if we need a recovery.
I’m in the same boat, actually. I’m hosting at home, but want to set up off-site backups, and am looking for something cheap and reliable.
As for the actual process, rsync is probably the best method. I just need to find a good host
I know you can register a google account with an external/non-gmail account. However, you can’t transfer the workplace accounts, or reassign them to other things. Once you close your workspace account/subscription, they’re vapor.
If there’s a way to do it, that would be fabulous, of course!
Unfortunately, that’s not an option. I’m going to continue using the same email address, and I don’t want to continue spending the $30ish a month for services and storage I’m no longer using.
This is the first I’ve heard of this remaster. Absolutely adore this game. And I appreciated the work Nightdive put into the new System Shock.
But seeing the screenshots for Dark Forces… it very much looks like a half-ass job using computer-assisted upscaling (possibly some sort of generative AI, too). I’ve played the original using DarkXL/The Force Engine, and I feel like Nightdive is just reproducing this (albeit with “new” cutscene artwork).
I would love to be pleasantly surprised.
Worked for me, too. Thanks friendly stranger :)
Seconding this. Frigate is great, and I’ve been running it on an ancient Debian box with a coral tpu for a few years. The only dedicated camera I’ve had has been at the front door, but cams I’ve used for testing and “goofing off” have been great at motion detection and object recognition.
Maaan I got so excited by this and grabbed Connect. It was great until I saw it completely blocking comments in threads by users from those instances. :(
I’m considering just making a script to get a list of communities from an instance and submit them to my block list automatically. Heavily rate limited, of course.
I think my big irritation is that it’s super distracting to keep hitting block on the seemingly infinite supply of communities on lemmynsfw ;D
But it’s also annoying that none of the apps (lemmy pwa included) actively clear the feed of your newly blocked user/community.
I enjoy scrolling All to find new and interesting things, and that’s how I built my sub list on the oldsite. It’s just frustratingly difficult to filter signal from noise at the moment.
This is a pretty apt analogy, I think.
We’ve been using copilot at work, and it’s really surprised me with some slick suggestions that “mostly work”. But I don’t think it could have written anything beyond the boilerplate my team has done.
(I also spend way too much time watching Copilot and Intellisense fight, and it pisses me off to no end.)
Yeah, they’re a skip to endgame content. But they’re not any kind of “instant win.”
The couple types of pvp aren’t tied to your character level, and the most difficult raid content is best run with a group that you practice with. If you’ve never played, simply grabbing the game and one of those packages isn’t going to give you an immediate edge.
XIV is sort of a single player game with a bunch of coop boss fights.
And, not to be cliche, but you can play through the entire first two arcs (A Realm Reborn and Heavensward) completely free, with no real limitations. The only things locked out of the free tier are the more social aspects, and any content above level 60. A handful of jobs are locked, but there is a ridiculous amount of content available for free.
I’ve played a few other mmos and hated them all. XIV is something weirdly different. And the overwhelming majority of the community is chill and friendly.
Good to know!