[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Like the sibling comment it feels the opposite way round to me. The Switch feels like a child's toy - light, small and not wildly comfortable to hold for a long period of time. The Deck feels much more ergonomic and solid to hold in my hands - I still enjoy the feeling of just picking it up (had it for 7 months) because it just feels like it fits.

Some of this is because I have big hands and the Switch obviously has to work for kids hands and the Switch being lighter is actually better for longer sessions but when I got back to the Switch now it feels cheap and flimsy.

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think we need to be realistic that we aren't going to do much better than this price point. Instead, I'm hoping that they can stay at this point and periodically improve the hardware.

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is the rare case where you do actually want the direct link. In general though the bot is very helpful.

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

This process works for any community whether it's on Kbin or Lemmy, and should work in any client including Voyager. It's the "correct" way that should work whether anyone from your instance is already subscribed:

  • Get the name of the community and the name of the instance. For example, let's say you want to subscribe to "NFL" on "kbin.social".
  • Put them together with a "!" and a @ to make an instance link like this: !NFL@kbin.social
  • Press search on your client and then search for that text.
  • One of the options will be a link to that community (but your instance's copy, so for me that will be https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/NFL@kbin.social). Click on it, and then click subscribe when it pops up.
[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

I'm just starting to use Alexandrite (https://alexandrite.app/) on desktop. Seems very well designed and complementary to Voyager. No light mode, but an excellent multi-panel design.

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Oculus Rift. Would love a VR headset and the Rift is at a great cost point for it's level of function. No way that I'm locking myself to Facebook with a piece of hardware though.

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Much prefer the Android look (I'm on Android). If you'd asked me before making the change I wouldn't have said I cared but I now realise that before it had a slight feeling of "clunkiness" because it didn't quite fit with the platform. It does now!

When it's out of beta are you going to select Android mode by default for Android clients?

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

What really helped me learning to cook was experimentation. I was always ok at following recipes but at some point I decided to cook Bolognese every week and every time I cooked it I had to use an ingredient I hadn't used before. Cooking the same thing with variation helped me learn the effect of adding different ingredients.

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Solid ranking, but on audio you're neglecting XLR. Quarter inch jacks are indeed very satisfying, but XLR is so reassuring.

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

How much of a redesign have you had to do for Lemmy? Have you been able to retain all the UI and presentation and mostly just rework the API and data handling code?

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

I don't know about Switch emulation, but the Steam Deck motion controls work well for other emulated games. I'm using it in Ultra Moon on Citra at the moment. You just need https://github.com/kmicki/SteamDeckGyroDSU (which emudeck can install for you). There is an odd bug where you need to turn on "Gyro Emulated Mouse" (or joystick) in the controls for the game and then turn it off again to make it work, but it's perfect after that.

[-] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

1 bit of information in flash memory is stored using one cell. Each cells is very similar to a transistor in a processor. We already know that through years of development we can fit 100s of millions of transistors in a very small space - these days they're only a few thousand atoms big. If you look at any chip on a circuit board mostly what you're seeing is the plastic packaging - the actual functional area of the chip (called a die) is much smaller. Even a massive processor like an i7 is only a few millimeters square.

Flash can actually pack in even smaller than a CPU. The structure of cells is much more regular, and they can be packed in 3 dimensions as well rather than just laid out on one flat surface. And that's how you can fit a trillion memory cells into a micro SD card.

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