mvu

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[–] mvu 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Woops, missed that context! Assumed you meant 13 inch framework models in general!

[–] mvu 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've been daily driving a first gen 13"/i7 model for 2 years now. It's not the best laptop I've ever owned, but it's my favorite.

Battery dies in sleep, sometimes it won't wake up... honestly things I can live with. In exchange, I've been able to increase ram, replace the screen, and upgrade the back panel myself. I've also switched up my port configuration twice over the 2 years and that's been super convenient.

It's like running a less mainstream desktop environment: It's got rough edges, but I picked it for reasons besides stability and consistency.

I'm going to grab an AMD mainboard next year instead of buying a new laptop, and will turn the old mobo into a server for my website.

Idk, it's got issues, but no more than any other laptop I've run Linux on. It's good enough and I smile every time I pull it out of my bag and see the gear logo (even when it turns out it died in my bag lol)

[–] mvu 3 points 1 year ago

@OP The Motorola Atrix tried this a while ago, but it wasn't particularly popular with reviewers

[–] mvu 8 points 1 year ago

Ahh I was missing this kind of post from the Games subreddit. Had no idea opencritic had an MD export option

[–] mvu 2 points 2 years ago

Really excited for this one. It was one of those games I rented a lot as a kid but never beat or owned.

I got a physical copy of the PS1 version a couple months back, but I think I'll wait for the remaster to dig in.

[–] mvu 7 points 2 years ago

I'd forgotten how good the 3DS 2D Mario game was, this looks super fun.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy: The Sequel

[–] mvu 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looked a bit generic but may be fun w/ non-gamer partner

Little skeeved out by the free to play bit tho...

[–] mvu 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think that's the rub if you're coming from a centralized -thing- and move to federated: nobody's doing any work for you (except, you know, hosting and developing).

There's no real incentive to "capture your engagement" since nobody's making money off of you. This was something I've seen a lot of new people on Mastodon struggling with -- without "the algorithm" to do the legwork, users are left to do a little bit of heavy lifting and curate their own feed.

(To be fair, /r/all used to be a hot mess on reddit as well before it was as big as it got)

Right now your best bet is to hit the front page of your Lemmy instance, click "ALL" (instead of local / subscribed) and filter by New. This will give you a real messy look at what communities are active, and let you start subscribing to to the communities that appeal to you.

[–] mvu 1 points 2 years ago
[–] mvu 23 points 2 years ago

I got you

  • add ebook reader app to phone
  • download ebooks
  • pretend ebooks are long-form Reddit posts
  • become well-read while wasting time

If you can't read, download picture ebooks instead

[–] mvu 3 points 2 years ago

One of the devs is Grumpy Function!

His other games are good too.

If you're interested in other new games for the Gameboy check out that mastodon instance, the admin released a great game called "The Machine"

[–] mvu 14 points 2 years ago

I'm actually enjoying the lack of doomscroll.

Since Lemmy isn't built to trap you for hours on end to get that sweet ad revenue, you can just run out of new stuff to see and then stop lemmying. Bust open the eReader or get to that backlog of bookmarked articles.

 

Don't know if this fits since it's a new game for a retro console, but as a big collector of retro handheld stuff this has been a treat!

The Machne is a muti-ending RPG for the GBC where you play as GIRT, a denizen of The Machine.

It's seriously great, I've probably seen 10 endings so far and I've only just figured out how to ditch my factory job and live as an artist. I've killed people, moved drugs, sorted boxes, been rich, been homeless, rigged elections -- there's something for everyone.

They released both a physical cartridge and a ROM version that includes a .pocket file if you're rocking an analogue. Available here!

There's also a demo on itch.io

(Feel free to remove if this doesn't fit in retrogames!)

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