cybernihongo

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[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 23 points 6 hours ago

Literally as I was reading this, I thought the commentary was about ICE doing its evil.

~~Anne Frank was a time traveler, yo~~

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 1 points 9 hours ago

I think you might be underestimating how some people type really slowly when given a full sized QWERTY keyboard, numpad and all.

Then again the one limiting factor of phone keyboards (touch or physical) is that they're designed for two thumbs, instead of just whatever fingers happen to be closer to the button you want. Though I'll admit I do miss when Nokia, BlackBerry, etc, came up with unique solutions for how to get a small physical keyboard attached to a phone.

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 1 points 12 hours ago

This is real iffy. Do you know when that change was made?

Fortunately the thing about GOG is I can drop those launchers anytime I want, I'm not stuck with anything unlike some others. Since Heroic relies on another open source project (I believe) called Comet it's also not hard for an alternative to pop up.

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

All. The. Time.

I'm not a very good speaker despite how well I write English (I just sound stiff and sometimes I just freeze up when I forget a word), but I know it better than my native language. Once I wanted to describe deer in a phone call, but I forgot what the word was in the native language... Cue me being clueless for a good few minutes before I figured it out.

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 0 points 1 day ago

Reminds me when one of shitty company Rockstar's shitty games in a shitty imitation of New York had their imitation of the convicted felon be a literal cannibal, eating human served on a plate.

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

GOG's installers work great with Wine as do the games themselves. If you desperately need a launcher before you can even consider them, you can use Heroic Games Launcher - in fact I'd prefer if they throw their weight behind it than on Galaxy. A match made in heaven.

I guess the other good thing is GOG is not a US company, they're based in Poland. No tax money going to the American regime and their shenanigans I never asked for.

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago

An online friend of mine recommended it to me as the one distro I should be on. I agree. We're both under 30 and my friend is younger than I am.

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If it works, it works.

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Might be an unpopular opinion but

In the late 2010s or early 2020s, I wrote a short story in the Notes app on a Nokia C3-00. It was one of the budget offerings with a QWERTY keyboard and WiFi support, and it was pretty awesome for the time, and still is to an extent.

By that point I cycled through a few touchscreen phones beginning from tiny Samsung junkers to mid-range Chinese phones we would have called "phablets" a few years back and got used to touchscreens. I'm typing this right now on a touchscreen and it's pretty nice, yeah autocorrect is wrong some of the time but it is solid most of the time, and I can type really fast. Typing on a phone with a small physical keyboard was eye opening in a way. It felt slow, and I had to actually put some effort into pushing the buttons to make them register. In all fairness, it could be the age of the phone making the buttons stiff.

Something else is how the labels on the buttons eventually wear out. If this was a physical keyboard I could just replace it, but a small panel of keys built into a phone? Yeah not really replaceable.

I get that all those very tall, very flat slabs of plastic and metal can get boring very quickly, but I guess because there's not so much more left to perfect that form factor.

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 25 points 2 days ago (10 children)
[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 5 points 3 days ago

I'm almost 30 for fuck's sake, I know it's not rational

But I have this impulse go to a barber like that. It's just a kind of refreshingly different vibe I guess?

[–] cybernihongo@reddthat.com 2 points 3 days ago

As far as I know, yes. I don't know the exact political events that happened in Germany at the time, but it's not lost on me that the title Palpatine got out of the no confidence vote was Chancellor. It pretty much is WW2 in space except the only thing against the Space Axis are a bunch of rebels who have to keep relocating bases.

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