I absolutely love the Steam Link. I don’t use it quite as much as I did before I picked up my Steam Deck, but it’s the perfect way to play games on the TV with my wife when we aren’t a console household. They also still ship updates for it despite not actually manufacturing it anymore. Really incredible little box.

This is an incredible article! I very much relate to the disillusionment of doing something for the sake of sales, and also find myself on a winding journey to do something that has meaning without really knowing what that is or should be. Best of luck to him!

For Wumbo?

Is HotS included?

Most of my friends jumped off Reddit and onto Kbin/Lemmy for the week of the blackout. I think most of them are using some hybrid of Lemmy/Reddit now. I’m the only person I know that moved exclusively to Kbin, but that’s okay. It fills the same hole that reddit did, I don’t much care if other people I know do or do not join tbh

I’ve been playing Endless Sky, which is a free space sim (lite). Been really enjoying it.

I got stuck overnight at the airport with my Deck and this game saved me from falling in to insanity. Hard recommend keeping it installed in case of emergency

I recently gave up my 6t for a Pixel7 and it was the worst decision I’d made in awhile. I miss it so much, but the newer OP phones just aren’t any good from what I’ve been reading.

Ah man that’s a huge bummer. Thanks for checking in on that. Hopefully it’ll get there!

I’ve done some other xemu emulation for Deck and over all it’s pretty solid. Minor stuttering in Ninja Gaiden Black, but it’s completely playable

It doesn’t work for everything though. Having a self hosted account that wasn’t tied to any specific platform or instance would ideally allow you to have access to PeerTube and BookWyrm as well as Mastodon and Kbin, without having to worry about your instance shuttering and all of your posts and comments disappearing. I’ve also been really stewing on this idea, I think it’s a probable future state of the Fediverse

This is my first time playing Freelancer, but I’ve dabbled heavily in Star Citizen over the last many years, and I love how you can see the roots of Star Citizen in Freelancer. It’s got that great atmosphere and aesthetic that you can see he’s trying to expand in his newer work. Too bad it’ll never release 😅

If a screen name is an identifier doesn’t that make literally every social website or forum a potential breach? That seems a bit harsh

Wow this is a great read! I definitely see promise for the described system in the direction we are heading

Well, you better go catch it

Does the fediverse need to consume all of the traffic that’s currently directed at other platforms? I think the best thing about the Fediverse is that it provides more options for online social spaces.

If I don’t like Twitter I can try something else. If I don’t like Reddit I can go elsewhere. It doesn’t have to be the exact same thing as those services, as long as it provides me an enjoyable way to consume information in my free time.

I don’t feel like the goal is to absorb all of the traffic from every other site though? Or if it is that seems misguided.

I’m very much enjoying my time on Kbin, even if it is janky and new and imperfect. All of that is actually kind of refreshing

Been going on rotation between Factorio, Path of Exile, and Need for Speed Underground 2 for a few months now. Hard recommend all 3

I was hoping that because Kbin does support mastodon posts it might work. I’d love to see that integration

Is there any federated interaction between BookWyrm and Kbin? Can I follow book or author updates or keep up with reviews or conversation?

I enjoyed pair programming a lot for the two years I was on a project that did that. We paired every day all day, and I felt that it really drove a team dynamic where people understood the code, and the problems we were solving, and were comfortable and knowledgeable enough to have deeper discussions about technical and architectural direction.

There are some things I really miss, too. We didn’t do code reviews, because two people always had eyes on the code. We rarely ever had bugs in the code that were due to programmer error. I liked that when we came up against a tough problem there was immediately someone to bounce ideas off of, or give input if we were heading in the wrong direction. It felt very much like a team versus what I’ve experienced in my last 8 years of solo programming.

On teams where we are working alone there’s usually a lot of individual ownership over certain parts of the code. The team never feels really in tune with what everyone else is working on and what direction we are moving in. Usually a minority of the team are the vocal decision makers, and everyone else is just pulling tickets and churning out code.

With paired programming it can feel like you’re learning something new every day. You’re either paired with someone more junior, more senior, or at around the same level, and each of those groupings provide for different learning experiences and growth opportunities.

I agree that paired programming is not a silver bullet, and I agree that sometimes I felt like having two people on a task was wasteful, but overall I think it brought our team closer and made us more effective in the grand scheme of things. I miss it quite a bit!

A lot of parking in big American cities is underground, and also too expensive to be worth it. Parking lots everywhere though, in my experience