Linux retro style handhelds? Could you tell me where to find them?

Sure!

• PowKiddy - probably the best value.
• Miyo Mini Sometimes goes on sale for less than PowKiddy.
• RetroFlag Pi 0 Case - Cool looking option for building from own Raspberry Pi.
• Abernic

Edit: Ooh, good recommendations by others. Abernic competes pretty well with PowKiddy in price for features, as well.

Why you do it?

The pay range in my country varies between comfortably above a living wage and holy cow, that’s quite nice.

This is cool but it tries to be two things and doesn’t look great at either.

There are Pi Laptop cases that are more practical and aren’t as risky as a Kickstarter.

And there’s plenty of (dramatically cheaper) Linux retro styled pocket games out there.

Be aware that there’s two huge “this isn’t Star Trek at all” plot points going on in Discovery. Both of change the vibe substantially from traditional Star Trek.

One causes an improbable Federation captain. One causes a lot of events to improbably revolve around a single character.

After experiencing both big reveals, I love everything about one of them and still dislike the other.

Sadly, the one I liked was wrapped up by the end of season 1, while the one I didn’t care for dragged on through season 3.

It’s okay to be wrong

Yeah. Not everyone loves the Mona Lisa, either.

Different people have different tastes, and not everyone can recognize a brand new masterpiece.

Yeah, that’s the one I meant.

I did assume it was Bible skinned shovelware.

But being made by classic era Konami and getting a Steam re-release had me confused.

That’s good to hear. I guess I’ll keep an eye out for it on my next retro game deep shopping trip.

I dunno, since if recently got a Steam re-release, it seems like someone must still be buying Noah’s Adventure, even today.

Yeah. I know in my heart that I will get off my ass and move some projects over to Codeberg after federation arrives.

That’s a good idea. I’ll keep it in mind. Thank you.

Could be, but my nephew played thousands of hours of CoD.

This is my admission that I don’t think I’m a good enough parent to counteract thousands of hours spent with a MIC funded game.

I actually trust my kids would probably do better anyway, but they know I would be disappointed if they bought their own copies of CoD, and they seem to respect that.

I don’t want my kids participating in the daily network effect of CoD, either. I don’t want them encouraging their friends to try CoD by having and regularly playing a copy.

That said, if I ever catch my kids playing CoD at a random LAN party - without me - they probably realize they’ll get a lecture - that they had better invite me next time. (I’m pretty sure I can out-parent the MIC for hour or two a month.)

So like what games do you ban?

My kids are only allowed to play the Steam re-release of Noah’s Ark for NES..

Nah. I’m just fucking with you.

My kids are specificially not allowed to play the Call of Duty series, and anything with game art that I could mistake for it. (Some modern warfare style games accept funding from the US military, and I can’t be arsed to keep track of which ones.)

For some idea where I draw the line, I do play Halo with my older kids.

Those look like military industrial complex budget numbers.

I try not to let my kids play games that normalize war, ever since my nephew enlisted out of a sense of duty - after playing a lot of CoD.

Enlisting basically ruined his life. His choice to enlist interrupted his successful small business venture and left him with PTSD.

That is very cool.

That is very cool.

Dang. Nice. Having a Palm PDA with Simon’s Puzzles in 2024 2025 is epic. I would take that thing to parties…and, at the kind of parties I attend, it would make me royalty.

Or am I reading this wrong and this is just because they have to send your data to the brokers to process deletions?

You are reading it correctly.

If they only used your data to process deletions, it would read along the lines of “data shared with partners as necessary to provide (data deletion, etc) services.”

It should also normally be followed by a sentence that links to each partners privacy policies, and says that each partner complies with similar restrictions on using your data only for the same purposes listed in the earlier sentence.

What I’m hearing is that Sonic and Mario are going to sometimes render with a full set of five fingers (since AI often randomly adds extra fingers)…

And it feels incredibly clunky to use with gdm when signing in, where no extension can help it…

That’s true. Windows also did this badly, on the same tablet, so I didn’t notice.

If KDE does better, I might switch. I think I would use my tablet un-docked more often if logging in wasn’t so clunky.

Thanks.

I was expecting gnuImp.