Squiddles

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[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never had any issues on Hyprland. The Steam Deck also uses Wayland (Gamescope). Not saying there can't be cases where unique bugs happen on Wayland, and maybe there's something else I don't know about, but Steam Wayland support seems to be fine as far as I can tell.

[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Definitely second Dyson Sphere Program! I'm not at all interested in the combat (it's optional), but now that they have that completed they'll be updating other features too. I'm hundreds of hours in and still come back to it.

[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My Steam Deck was on my chart at 2%. Pretty sure my VR time this year was higher than my Steam Deck time. Clearly there's some criteria it's using to decide what's shown since you see it and I don't, but I don't think it's percent playtime. Dunno--could also be that the VR games I was playing didn't trigger the VR category for whatever reason. It was mostly Beat Saber.

[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn't see that on mine. Mine just had Linux and Steam Deck, and I played a few VR-only games on the Index.

[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't even think you need one for eggs necessarily. I switched from PTFE nonstick to all metal (stainless/carbon steel and cast iron) a few years back. Eggs were no problem once I figured out heat control. I cook scrambled eggs and omelettes every week with no sticking.

I did eventually get a ceramic nonstick for making soft tofu in a sticky sauce. Definitely don't try that in a stainless steel pan. It worked okay in the carbon steel wok, but was obnoxious to clean.

[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Arch, because I can never be happy except when I'm bickering with a machine.

Seriously, though, I like the control and the learning factor. I enjoy knowing what my computer is doing and why, AUR is great, and the documentation is generally top-notch. Once you get past the point in the learning curve where everything is on fire and you don't know why (don't forget the 'linux' package when you pacstrap, kids!), it's a delight to use

[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Ooh, good one! I personally like the cover of Dear God by Lawless with Sydney Wayser. I agree that the idea of an atheist anthem is a little strange, though--like a song reveling in how many fairies there aren't.

[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

A couple days ago I tried Hyprland just to see what it was like. I've been on XFCE for over a decade and expected to play with Hyprland for a couple hours, go "Huh, that's cool", and uninstall it, but I think the switch may be permanent. It's fantastic

[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a reference to the way that a certain youtuber ends their videos. "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't". Highly recommend checking out that channel--dude just loves botany and running his mouth.

[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 23 points 2 years ago

Yes, NIST now recommends against requiring periodic password changes in their official guidance document.

[–] Squiddles@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Broadly, I agree with what you're saying. Totally just devil's advocate-ing and speculating to provoke thought, so feel free to ignore. I wonder if the enormous number of games available plays into this. I can almost always dig around and find at least one 10/10 game from the last couple of years that I haven't played which is already on sale for cheap. Comparing that to a 7/10 game that just came out at full price... I'd almost certainly enjoy the 7/10 game, but I'd spend less money and likely have more fun with the 10/10. The newness factor may not be enough to bump the 7/10 game to the top of the queue.

With so many great games available an 8/10 might actually feel like a logical minimum for a lot of people, which may influence the scale that reviewers use. If people tend to ignore games with 7- scores and a reviewer feels that a game is good enough that it deserves attention, they may be tempted to bump it up to 8/10 just to get it on radars.

Meanwhile, back in the day there wasn't such a glut of games to choose from. And with better QoL standards, common UX principles, code samples, and tools/engines, games may legitimately just be better on average than they used to be, making it fiddly to try to retrofit review scores onto the same bell curve as older games. To reverse it, I can see how an 8/10 game released in 1995 might be scored significantly worse by modern reviewers for lack of QoL/UX features, controls, presentation style, etc, or even just be scored lower because in modern times it would lack the novelty it had at the time it was released.

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