They need a bigger screen, too. The Ask! bar, Yahoo bar, Google bar, Bing bar, and browser search bar take up so much space.

4 mm wider than the 10V. :(

This model series used to be the only decent option for a narrow mid-range phone. Not much separates it from the competition aside from the 3.5mm jack, now. What a shame.

I see FFT, I upvote. I love that game so much. I should play it again… It would be perfect for the Deck, too.

Please follow the instance rules if you’re posting here. Reported for breaking the only rule: Bee Kind.

Another consideration is whether you’re a “patient gamer”. If you want to play the latest and greatest, then I have no idea. But, if you’re like me, then there are literally thousands of slightly older games you’d be happy to play.

If that’s you, then you can’t beat the Steam Deck for value. With game bundles, I often get 8 games for $10 or less. Even if I only play one, that’s incredible value compared with $80 new titles.

With a tiny bit of work, you can get Epic and GOG working on the Deck, too. If you’re a Prime subscriber, you’ll get 1-4 GOG/Epic games/week for free in addition to Epic’s weekly giveaways and GOG’s occasional giveaways. Some of those are AA/AAA games from a few years ago, too.

If you’re tired of AAA games entirely (like me), then the Deck is also likely the best since there are so many incredible indie games. I’d much rather play 20 unique 1-10 hour games than a single 100-hour AAA repetitive slog. And most can be had for $10 or less if you wait for a sale or bundle.

It’s also a great emulation machine for everything Nintendo that came before the Switch and everything else up to the PS2 generation, I guess? (Switch emulation is a bit of a pain to get working well, and for anything 360/PS3 or newer, they mostly have PC versions anyway, I think? I’ve never had a reason to emulate any of 'em so idk.)

The OLED has a great screen and great battery life, so I have barely touched my smaller emulation devices since getting it. Why use a tiny device with cramped, limited controls when I can play on a great screen with Steam Input (so I can easily write my own game macros, or use the back buttons on twin stick games instead of the face buttons so I never need to take my thumbs off the joysticks, etc.)

I guess if you actually want a device on the go, then something smaller might be better, but for longer trips the Deck works great in my laptop bag, and for short, mobile gaming breaks, I’ll just play Minion Masters or Space Cadet Pinball on my phone.

Yeah; that’s not much time, and I’m not a lawyer, but this seems a complicated legal question. I just assumed any tool that circumvents any sort of digital lock would be hosting in countries that DGAF about US laws. Even better if they have a .onion address to avoid any network blocking attempts, like z-library.

Film 1 is the crew desperately trying to make it home in the prologue and dying, then the alien mind control worms slowly take over a NASA research facility until it’s finally eradicated in the closing scene, with Sigourney Weaver the lone human survivor. But if you wait until after the credits, you get a 5-second teaser of a single worm wriggling out through a crack in the side of the facility.

A similar strategy works great for me, but I frame it slightly differently based on my personal anxieties:

• I’m procrastinating this important task because it’s overwhelming
• But I can’t think about anything else because I’m worried I’m going to forget to do part of the task/some important detail
• To be able to relax about this, I’ll just write down a list of things I need to get done/don’t want to forget

Then, often, I’ll realize there’s a small part of the project that I am motivated to get done now so it’s not looming over my head anymore. Or, if not, I’ve given myself a Hemingway Bridge to starting the task whenever I do have motivation.

One of my bigger concerns from all this is that reduced access to users to install apps might have chilling effects on app development. It’s great being able to get apps from Itch.io, GitHub, and FDroid, but will developers continue releasing there if the user base dries up? I guess apk-mirror will likely still continue, since they’re ripping from the Play store anyway.

You had me until multi-account Outlook access. Why not just use different browser profiles?

That said, the Outlook application is necessary for lots of things, like saving email files (record keeping) and mail merges, but the number of accounts has never been a problem for me. I have 9 active email accounts spread across three/five different platforms (depending if you separate corporate vs. free), and I use web apps (by choice) for all of them, aside from popping Outlook open for the aforementioned mail merges and digital record keeping for email files.

But absolutely true for Excel. It frustrates me so much when I’m stuck on a computer with even slightly outdated versions of the Excel application. SORT, FILTER, TEXTSPLIT, and so many other functions are so much simpler than the many workarounds I used to kludge together.

But fuck Teams. The application is just as garbage as the web app. Those two fail/crash ten times more than all the other apps on my computer *combined". I’ve crashed three times in a single meeting. It must be vibe coded, bolted together, janky, spaghetti code.

I’m Canadian, but I was diagnosed with a 15 minute phone call with my GP. Granted, I have professional training in this area, and had examples prepared to match DSM criteria, but adult diagnosis can be very straightforward.

Me too!

I hate working with other people’s spreadsheets.

Or my old spreadsheets.

The worst is “can you just add a small feature” to a huge, sprawling, mission-critical, often reused spreadsheet.

But I love how quick and powerful it is to spin up a new spreadsheet to analyze something or clean up messy data!

They’re also used as cleaning tips for small/targeted applications, especially when you don’t want lint from a Kleenex or paper towel lingering. Makeup application/removal and electronics cleaning, for example.

I think (not a doctor) the ear thing is because if you go too deep you can cause some serious damage, and they can make wax buildup worse by compacting it. If you stay close to the ear opening, and do circular motions to swipe wax away, and clean your ears often enough that you don’t get dense wax build up, and don’t “double dip” to introduce potential pathogens, then I think they’re pretty safe to use? But that’s too many caveats for lots of people, so I think ENTs often deal with people damaging themselves with them.

My (major Canadian) Bank app (TD) has always just worked, no matter the state of my bootloader or root, and I’ve never bothered with Magisk Hide or anything like that to try to dodge root checks.

Which ones? It’s pretty easy to pass Strong Integrity.

With a web browser and user agent spoofing, that’s basically how it works. I don’t want any Facebook/Meta apps on my phone, so I use a desktop Google Chrome rule for all Meta URLs in my browser and user the web versions. Mobile is slowly taking over, but most things have a web version.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t work for everything. The Quest 3 requires an Android or iOS device to set up. At least an old cell phone on a throwaway Google account works for most of these, since they don’t need to be used often.

With Star Wars, they didn’t even do the main film franchise well. Episode 7 was okay, but 8 was such hot garbage I read up on why and found out there was no overarching plan for the trilogy, and different directors for each. No wonder they pulled a J.K. Rowling to completely change the rules of their own systems to meet the needs of the (bad) plot, and shit all over their own franchise. Skywalker might as well have been given a Super Time Turner to save the day in 8.

Disney Star Wars films are bad fan fiction, not canon.

For me, it completely messed up my whole-word and multi-word reading by shape. Like, I don’t read by syllable because I’m not pronouncing the words, I’m just reading the meaning of the whole word directly from the shape of the whole word (or several words), if that makes sense?

Like, when I’m reading, my inner monologue is only “saying” a handful of key words in each sentence, as it fluidity skips over “mentally pronouncing” all the filler/context words.

This completely breaks that. It splits each word into two chunks, neither of which is the word, so I need to show down to “mentally say” both chunks of each word to read them. Like, it’s still fast, I guess, but I’d estimate it slows me down by ⅓-½ish and disrupts my reading comprehension significantly.

I assume that if I read like that for a few hours, I’d likely get used to it, but why bother?

On the other hand, I think that could be a great reading tool, I imagine especially for people with dyslexia, but probably most fluent but slow readers.

2025 is (finally) my year for Linux. I’ve used Linux periodically fire 2 decades, but I’ve always used Windows as my main boot partition on my desktops/laptops.

I recently fucked up my Windows install, which is a whole other story, but point is I need to reformat and start fresh. I’m so sick of Microsoft’s shit, and I’ve been super impressed with Linux on my Steam Deck, so I’m going to be installing CachyOS soon.

My wife’s aging laptop is being killed by Windows bloat, too. Works great until Windows decides it needs to lock up 100% CPU, 100% memory, and 100% disk bandwidth to install a Microsoft Edge update. (True story.) She doesn’t even want/use Edge. This machine is used 100% for media streaming and web apps, so Linux is a perfect fit.

I have a friend in a similar situation. Both my friend and my wife I’m thinking an immutable distro will likely work best for them.

The big thing that’s been holding me back for years is that my desktop rig is my work computer, and I need OneDrive and the latest desktop version of Excel, but I’m so sick of wasting time with Microsoft’s bullshit that I’m just going to install debloated Windows 11 in a VM. I just need those two apps, so that’ll be plenty.

Epic winning this case might just open that for them.

On the other hand, do they want to enter the mobile market? They’re a privately owned company, so they don’t have the same shirt sighted pressures to chase exponential growth endlessly, like cancer. They are already making money hand over fist.