I agree, but it sounds like this tech requires actual special hardware to pull off, rather than just a chip to say “you’ve got the right brand of video card,” which is always what G-Sync felt like (and is.)

Extremely measured response. This also highlights the importance of having backups of not just data, but important physical utilities as well. If being without a mouse for a month is a big problem (it would be for me, for sure) then having a backup (or multiple backups) on hand will almost inevitably prove invaluable someday. It has for me…

Done. Life is better now.

sobs uncontrollably

I REALLY loved Returnal. Such a cool, beautiful game. One of the few games in the last decade that I fully completed everything of!

The controller does need to be plugged in for triggers and haptics, but I just got a super long USB extension. The triggers are way cooler than I expected. Driving in Pacific Drive feels so crazy cuz the brake feels like a real car brake, and accelerating is rumbly and neat.

Surprisingly, that’s fairly normal!

I also have a Dualsense controller (among like five others) and have found it works great with Steam on Linux, Mac, and Windows. I realllly love when games actually utilize the haptics and adaptive triggers. It adds a whole new dimension to games like Pacific Drive and Returnal, I wouldn’t play them without it.

Do ThinkPads ever come with decent video cards for playing games? Cuz if not, that’s not gonna do it for OP.

It has ONE downvote.

I saw him play in a forest over a decade ago, he was amazing!

What, you don’t think “Most book are terrible” is a good take?!

I go to a phone store every time I get a new phone!

checks when my last phone was bought… 2018

I go to a phone store every six or seven years!

Oh my gawd it’s best thing. Hospital was insane but very interesting and by the time I got home I was feeling pretty awesome… my boss told me to not think about work and that he set me up for a leave of absence I still get paid for with HR. I’m treasuring every day.

Oh dear… I was in hospital a few weeks ago and I’ve been recovering at home. In the last two weeks I’ve manly played three games: 64 hours in the first, 50 hours in the second, and 10 hours in the third (that one was all in one day)

I’d never use a thing like GeForce Now either way, but I’d be boned hahaha

Supporting giant evil DOES sometimes get you free stuff… I know folks who have accidentally been shipped multiple of what they’re ordering (in two cases, the items were quite expensive) and when they’ve brought it up, they were told to keep the extras.

Maybe not worth the evil, but hey, free stuff is cool.

Good on you for starting that up! I wish you much success in your mixing and/or producing journey!

I love my iPhone, I’ve been using them for like 12 years (I loved Android but switched when physical keyboards stopped exiting cuz I liked iOS’s keyboard a lot, then fell in love with most of the rest of the OS and how long I could keep my phone for before replacing.)

The one thing I absolute hate is the App Store. It’s insane. It’s so counter to the rest of Apple’s “simple stuff that works” … “ethos”. I use VERY few apps, I only have a couple installed on my phone. Say I want one, though. I open the App Store right now. Main page it dumps me on: 75% of the screen is a Tinder ad (I’ve never used a dating app and I’ve been with my partner for 15 years.) The rest of the screen space below that is a Google Gemini ad (I don’t use any Google products or services anymore, wtf Apple?)

I click on the “Games” tab below and it’s an EXTREMELY busy, loud, colorful assault on my senses. Absolutely not! The “Apps” tab isn’t any better, huge ads take up 50% of the screen and below that, GET TIKTOK AND TINDER. Uhhhh no, never.

Okay, let’s go to search. Click, and it gives me a search box at the bottom with some suggested apps and games I might like. I can appreciate that Apple’s data collection is allegedly a lot lighter than other companies, because none of the suggested shit is anything I would ever touch in my life. Let’s download one of the very few games I have on my phone: Ascension, a deck building game. I type “ascension game” and the first result is an AD FOR A WEIRD MEDICAL APP THAT DOESN’T SAY ASCENSION ANYWHERE AND HAS 70 REVIEWS WHYYYYY?!

An absolute mess compared to the mostly great layouts of their other programs on the iPhone. I do not love the latest iPhoto UI change but I can deal with that. The App Store is fucked.

At first I read “Wired West” and got hopeful for a new person experiencing Dust for the first time.

glances over to drawer with over 2kUSD of bad dragon alone, among many other things

Uh … yeah, it’s his livelihood. He writes books on programming with Apple machines. Of course he’s still going to do the things he’s been doing his whole life.

I’m four friends (three best friends at various points in life) and five or six acquaintances down, and I’m not 40 yet. I’ll have to agree with you.