See, I thought it might have been my tablets being cheap things.

But messing around with that borrowed iPad (possibly a Pro, the person who lent me it was filthy rich and likes premium stuff) made me go “… This is like, a high quality laptop but worse in every way?”

The screen was drop-dead gorgeous, and it was clearly a powerful (if locked down, cuz Apple) device – but it felt like everything I tried to do on the device was in some major way a compromise to accomodate for a less-than-ideal form factor.

In my case it’s more that I get car/airsick very easily – So when I’m out and about, I won’t be watching media on a portable screen. At most listening to music or an audio-book.

And if I’m in like. A hotel. Most of them (at least here in my country) have SmartTVs that will accept broadcasting from my phone. :P

As for note-taking, I can see the appeal but refer to my comment about typing in a Tablet being uniquely awful.

I’ve been playing Enderal (a Skyrim total conversion) with some added QoL mods on my Deck

Got MO2 working with Enderal on wine by using this. The script (and MO2 itself) is a bit janky but it does function. The only thing I couldn’t get working was the nexus mods URL integration thingie, had to download mod packages and add them manually.

The game itself runs like a charm on the Deck (after setting up a control profile anyway).

But there is the catch that being a Total Conversion mod that is available on Steam… Enderal itself points steam to SKSE on launch. Don’t know how it’d work if your starting point is Vanilla Skyrim.

Compussy

(I also have no love for .webm as a video format)

Same. Very useful.

Tablets. I’ve owned 2 so far, plus fucked around with a third, fancier one that was borrowed from someone else (in case you care: a very old Samsung one, a Xiaomi model from the late 2010s, and a new-ish Apple iPad for the borrowed one).

They suck as smartphone replacements because they are too big.

They lack button inputs, so they suck as gaming devices or as computer replacements.

You can browse the web… But if you decide to type anything, the large size plus the touchscreen keyboard make for an awkward experience (in ways that it’s not on a smaller phone)

They have lit screens, so they suck as eReaders.

They’re sorta okay as like, personal screens for watching movies or whatever, but like, at that point just use a television??

They can make sorta good drawing tablets, the ones that are pen-compatible I mean… Because I mean, yeah. But the lack of a keyboard is a bummer with how I learned to draw with my other hand on Ctrl+Z, though that’s more a muscle memory issue than anything.

In general, every tablet I used felt like a less-good verion of a dozen other devices, yanno?

The Internet Archive. Technically founded in '96, but didn’t come into its own until the mid aughts. It is an awe-inspiring thing that corporate greed has been trying to take from us.

John Cena school would be great.

Already did, unfortunately. There was a time when she was inescapable in fandom circles. Mlpol people are the most punchable persons to have ever existed.

The chick, in this context.

The Boto-cor-de-rosa, or river dolphin, is a real animal

But the cryptid of the same name is a river dolphin that is actually a shapeshifting trickster, who will turn himself into an attractive man (often depicted wearing a fancy hat to cover the blowhole atop his head) and seduce and bang women.

Brazilians with our cryptids:

Getting your masturbatory material from pornhub is for normies. Real degenerates are home free on account of the relative obscurity of our sources.

• If you try to remind GAYMURS of industry abuses after Hypernormalisation has kicked in for them, they’ll call you names.

That they’re a condescending and unpleasant person.

Thanks for that open letter. Very useful list of apps to never install :)

Winter but I live in Brazil, so winter just means it’s not a temperature that euros would call deadly like it normally is

Seems we had a similar idea –

Sega Genesis/Mega Drive (850 MiB):

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2dc7abc164fa953f4ebe5be196305ebeffea0b42&dn=%5BBitsearch.to%5D%20%5BSEGA%20MDG%5D%20-%20Sega%20Mega%20Drive%20Genesis%20GoodGen%20V3.22&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bitsearch.to%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.com%3A2920%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker2.dler.com%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.moeking.me%3A6969%2Fannounce

Super NES (2,03 GiB):

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:035bb648afa13f5624477fcf06ecc9d991375779&dn=%5BBitsearch.to%5D%20%5BSNES%5D%20-%20GoodSNES%20v3.27&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bitsearch.to%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fwww.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.moeking.me%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.dler.com%3A6969%2Fannounce

GameBoy+GBC (570 MiB):

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ff91115fb9c487121785af6b06dc5c7184ced0f1&dn=%5BBitsearch.to%5D%20%5BGB-GBC%5D%20GoodGBx%20v3.15b&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bitsearch.to%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fwww.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.breizh.pm%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2F9.rarbg.com%3A2920%2Fannounce

Sega Master System (91,7 MiB):

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:55cf2fe9d744e94f2adfc513d9c84e2ad8299557&dn=%5BBitsearch.to%5D%20%5BSMS%5D%20GoodSMS%20v3.24&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.bitsearch.to%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fwww.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.breizh.pm%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce

Currently seeding all these.

Why would I, a right wing libertarian, lend my time to developing a piece of software that I am unable to make a profit from? I have no motive.

Because you do stand to gain regardless. “I have my code on the source of <major FOSS project every tech guy has heard of>” is like. Amazing portfolio material for any job interview. I had a friend get a job in the games industry (though they regret it to this day because the game industry sucks–) with nothing on his resumé except for a smattering of mods for popular games.

Any pro-capitalist person with a functioning brain will acknowledge the role of non-monetary “Profits” in every human relationship, yanno?

As a left winger myself…

… I’m not sure Foss is inherently left wing. Inherently anti authoritarian for sure, but I can totally see a libertarian type making a pro-FOSS argument from a capitalistic-individualistic and it being rather sensible. (Aaaaas long as we ignore the ways it’d contradict other beliefs right wing liberals tend to hold, but yknow. Compartmentalisation is a human superpower)