CrayonRosary @ CrayonRosary @lemmy.world

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But they are talking about it because you don't have a link that explains it and avoids the conversation.

You know, someone's going to read this comment three months from now, and then the instructions to go back ten months from now aren't going to be appropriate anymore.

Just add a link for crying out loud!

Put a link in your license that goes to one of your comments that explains the whole license thing. Then you never have to have this conversation again.

Ain't no one going to trawl through 10 months of your comments to find it.

I remember playing one of the Zork games. It may even have been the first one. I felt like I knew what I had to do. There were a bunch of crows blocking my path. And there was a field with a scarecrow in it. And I could not figure out any command to take the scarecrow or take its clothes or do anything with it. And I was totally stuck and stopped playing the game. Not fun.

You were happily paying it before then? He's done this so many times. I gave up about a year ago when he made markdown work in titles, which no one asked for, and then disappeared again. Everyone who started a title with a hashtag had a giant freaking heading font for a title.

And spoiler markdown has never worked right. It always used the reddit style. It would even change proper Lemmy spoiler tags into reddit ones when you editted your comment, ruining the spoiler for tag for literally every non-Sync user. That made me so fucking mad!

I took the time to try out every other app at the time and settled on Thunder. It's just as good, it's in active development, and it's free and open source, so it can never be abandoned like Sync is. Anyone can fork it if they had to, and keep it going.

It pisses me off so much that Lawson had the audacity to charge $20 for a broken port of Sync for Reddit and then disappear with severe open bugs for months at a time. I wish I could get my money back. What's fucking scam. I can't believe anyone still uses that app.

I'm genuinely surprised it still exists! I remember when you were forced to use it to get the Amazon app, or the Kindle app, or whatever. I thought it was gone years ago.

Ha, nice! Sounds about right. Something that has "become fashionable again". Like 8-bit graphics in modern games. The prefix (hence the dash) meaning "backward" is more literal, like retrospect, which means to look back.

I think they meant to say they also play Steam games on it, which I will say is a really good benefit of the Steam Deck over any of the Android handheld retro systems.

If someone's trying to decide between a Steam Deck and a $300 Retro Handheld that can play through Game Cube, PS2, etc., I would try to convince them to buy the Steam Deck because it opens up a whole world of games.

To answer your question, yes, and I highly recommend it! The screen is huge and beautiful and it emulates games amazingly. In addition, it plays half? of the Steam library. There are so many awesome indie games and modern retro games like The Messenger that make the Steam Deck such a compelling handheld console.

My thoughts on Emudeck:

I tried Emudeck at first and ended up uninstalling it. It doesnt do anything you can't do manually, and it did things I didn't like.

Disclaimer, I am not a RetroArch "pro", but I've been using it for decades. I know a lot of its quirks, and how to do pretty much everything.

Emudeck has these global options to let you map hotkeys, aspect ratios, and choose whether or not you want shaders enabled for consoles (CRT shaders) or handhelds (LCD shaders). Plus other things. It's yes or no for each thing, mostly, and it will configure all emulators tonsuit your options. Not RetroArch and any standalones.

The way it configures these things in RetroArch is by saving override files. I will admit I don't fully understand override files, but I do use preset files a lot. In any case, I was unable to save any of my custom changes in RetroArch. I would find some setting I didn't like, or some hotkey I wanted to change because Emudeck's default didn't suit me, and I could change it while RA was running, but then if I tried to save my options, it wouldn't let me because "override file in use". That was very frustrating.

So I ended up uninstalling it and manually installing RetroArch from the app store ("Discover"). And if I needed DuckStation or some other standard-alone that worked better than RA (or a Switch emulator or something), I just installed the flatpack and confiured it myself.

You also don't need EmuDeck to install ROM Manager which let's you add specific ROMs to your Steam Library, although I have not done that myself yet. I don't think it's a killer feature, really. Not worth the effort. I just launch RetroArch where I have a Favorites menu and a History menu. I did have to manually add RetroArch to Steam which is trivially easy in desktop mode (right click the icon and click "Add to Steam"). Then I used a Decky plugin to configure art for it. Decky is awesome, BTW. It's a whole plugin system for the Steam Deck.

In the end, EmuDeck did nothing I couldn't do myself, and made it worse for a RetroArch power user like myself. Just my two cents.

Sweet, tender and so flavorful. It's great! I haven't had it in, man... years. I remember it having a somewhat stronger squashy flavor than butternut, which I also love.

I definitely need to make some roasted squash this year!

That's what I meant, my bad.

Galaxy is a Motorola Samsung brand. I have a Pixel 7 Pro. I don't know if it's limited to pixel phones. It might be.

I don't know what phone you have, but I have a Pixel 7 Pro, and I can simply long press the home key to invoke the "Circle to Search" command, and that will identify any QR code on the screen and overlay a link that I can tap.

Yeah, I think you're right. (No sarcasm.) I should keep such opinions to myself. I'm not at all against being a maker for the sake of making, actually. I guess I'm just a camera snob. Calling my criticism "pixel peeping" kinda set me off, and I lashed out, but that's on me. :(

You're absolutely right. I shouldn't have said anything. (No sarcasm.)

Haha! You don't need to peep any pixels to see how terrible that camera is.

I'm just not into Lomo crap. Spend time with a real camera and take good photos. Tinker with your skills as a photographer and not with making toy cameras that you're going to never use again after one roll of film.

My bad. I shouldn't have said that.

"Awesome"

I don't see the point when a used film camera would blow it away by a million miles.

The point is, in fact, to make something, and I shouldn't be a camera snob.

"megashat" is the word you're looking for.

How about you address my actual reply instead of changing the topic constantly?

The PGP public key still has to be shared plaintext... that makes it useless as anyone can sign it after that.

That sentence is incorrect. Just admit it.

an unsolicited message from someone you don't know, asking you to email them could be suspect.

How is that any different from a matrix chat or unsolicited signal chat or literally any other communications platform? You were saying that specifically PGP was somehow fundamentally bad when it's actually better than most other communication platforms, because the private key is private, and messages are signed with that private key, and cannot be spoofed by a third party. You can't know who you're actually talking to (just like every other chat platform!) but you at least know every future message is from that same person.