@james I need to be bullied into posting more here https://blog.lmorchard.com/

@cabel :ohno:​

I keep kind of wanting to get a Backbone One gamepad for my phone.

But, I can't quite get over how the price of the gamepad is as much or more than an entire #gamedad and not quite as convenient

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24175498/backbone-one-smartphone-iphone-android-game-controller-deal-sale

@jalefkowit Yeah, I guess that's the thing... I never quite got into any of those games because virtual controls on mobile glass suck. But if I had that controller, I might play them. Kind of a catch-22 but also meh

@vkc I've been an attempted Linux convert since probably 1997 or so when I first installed Slackware from a stack of floppies. But, I've always bounced back to Windows or macOS (nee Mac OS X).

Indeed, my first bounce to OS X was because it ran unix-y things while also painlessly supporting all my hardware at the same time. I've continued to be a Linux user all these years, but mainly at a remove in a VM or a headless machine without need for video or sound.

Over the past month or so, though, I swapped over to a few different linux distros on my gaming PC and landed on Bazzite. It supports all my hardware, it runs all my games. It runs Firefox, for just about everything else I care to run via web apps.

If it keeps up like this, I might just be a persistent convert this time around

@erg0 Yeah, I will say that so far my hope for Bazzite is that, being an immutable OS, it seems designed not to be futzed with too much. Hoping what that means is that what's working stays working and I can futz around in containers like I did under Windows & macOS. @vkc

@erg0 I would also say this is my 2nd try with bazzite, my first try was all errors everywhere. But I tried it again a week later, all smooth sailing. So, yeah, things aren't quite perfect 😅

But I guess if an update breaks things, I can roll back atomically in one step and ideally that does the needful.

@cwebber @alilly I still have an N900 in a drawer around here somewhere. Every now and then I dust it off and try to make it do things and I sigh at it.

@Rusty Also local models for web page translation between languages

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/local-translation-add-on-project-bergamot/

I would absolutely rather use a MouthPad than talk to computers

https://news.mit.edu/2024/mouth-based-touchpad-augmental-0605

(hell, I'd rather use a MouthPad than talk to people, most of the time)

A part of me is rather pleased that the URL to my local library system's portal for e-books has become accessible in my Firefox address bar with two keystrokes because I've used it so often

In a product ideation meeting, where part of the conversation sounds a bit like this:

A: Forget about your silly whim!
It doesn't fit the plan
No!

B: I can't believe you're saying
These things just can't be true
Our world could use this beauty
Just think what we might do!

Now that I have a #gamedad and a penchant for swapping OSes on a pile of microSD cards, I'm scratching my head at figuring out how to label these tiny things. Maybe some white-out and a really fine-tipped marker?

I’ve also got this microSD card organizer, so i guess i could label that? Hope i never mix them up