Seems like most mods work fine on Linux, but I’m sure it depends on the game. For games with built-in mod managers like Baldur’s Gate 3, it all just works. For games with manual mods that involve replacing or editing game files, they should generally work since you’re running the same game files to begin with.

I haven’t had any big compatibility problems recently, though again, I’m sure it depends on that game. Proton (built into Steam) works very very well nowadays.

Just a few years ago I found the experience frustrating. It seemed like everything had something wrong with it, even if it wasn’t big. Lots of games had glitchy input, whether using a controller or keyboard/mouse. But somewhere down the line it totally flipped, and everything I play runs great now. I still have a bootable Windows 10 system, but I haven’t actually booted it in…two years, maybe?

At this point I might just wait for emulators.

I mean, my PC from 2017 (the same year the Switch came out) could play Switch games better than a Switch. Took a little while for the emulators to get up to snuff, but the turnaround was faster than I’ve ever seen.

I’ve never been so disappointed in a console’s long-term performance as I was with the Switch, with major games like TotK and Pokemon S/V just running like shit. If you can’t build a game within the limitations of the single platform you’re going to release it on, which you’ve had access to for 5+ years, wtf are you doing?!

The Switch 2 is similarly underpowered relative to the competition so I have high hopes for emulators, and low expectations for game performance.

This must depend on country and carrier. My carrier has never removed 4G or 5G bands. They’ve added new ones and they’ve phased out 2G and some 3G but that’s all. My phones from 10 years ago can still connect just fine, although obviously newer ones are faster.

Perhaps this goes without saying, but if you want to do that, be sure you are installing Firefox through similar means across distros. This will not work with the Flatpak, for example.

Manual installation of Firefox is quite simple, and it self-updates, so that’s always an option.

LOL, figures.

I assume GrapheneOS will nip that right in the bud, but I’m not totally sure what Google’s recent change to the AOSP reference device means for GrapheneOS. If they can’t make GrapheneOS for Pixel 10, I will most definitely not buy one. Without GrapheneOS, I don’t think a Pixel would even be in my top 3 phone choices.

Wasn’t 14 still in beta? Do they ever release final versions?

I don’t want to play a numbers game with factors I have no control over, nor visibility into.

I mean that an individual folder will always look the same (consistent), and also look distinctly different from any other folder (unique) if that’s how you arranged it. So you could identify a folder instantly.

Everything in list view looks the same at a glance, and most file managers don’t retain a folder window’s size and placement. Modern macOS kiiiind of does but you have to fight it if you don’t want a single-window browsing UI.

It’s been a while since I tried Samsung Browser, but I recall that it was very fast and also supported ad blocking.

I use Firefox on Android because I like syncing tabs to my desktop.

The last time I found icon view useful was in Mac OS 9. There were three main characteristics that made it useful that no current systems have AFAIK:

1. The icon grid was tight (32 pixels) and you could either snap items to that grid or place them freely.

2. Window sizes and places were directly associated with folders. (There was no “browser-style” single-window mode.)

3. File names used dynamic spacing. Longer names would occupy multiple grid spaces as needed.

These factors meant that every folder had a consistent and potentially unique size, placment, and layout.

OS X took the Finder and either ruined or neglected everything good about it. Windows explorer has always been garbage. Never found a Linux file manager with a compelling icon view either (though to be fair, I’ve never looked all that hard). The lack of system-level metadata for layout kind of mandates an abstraction between a directory and its display.

Saaaaame.

I’m hoping to upgrade to the 10 this year. Memory and storage are the biggest thorns in my side now. A bump to 12GB of RAM should bring me back into “good enough” territory for the next few years (I hope) but 128GB of storage is no good.

Can’t bring myself to switch brands at this point. GrapheneOS is just too good to give up.

Kind of funny how quickly we’ve flipped from “you should treat LLM output like advice from a random stranger” to “you should treat advice from a random stranger like LLM output”.

Either way, it’s the right idea. If you can’t understand what you’re doing but you do it anyway, you’re going to create all kinds of problems for yourself.

do they just want everything to be crawled

Yes. Web crawling has been a normal and vital part of the web from day 1. We’d have no search engines without crawlers.

The web is user-centric by design. I’m sick of tech companies trying to flip the script and hoard information, most of which is not theirs to begin with (e.g. Google, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc.).

Yes. Most original NES, SNES, and Gameboy cartridges have probably lost their saved data by now, but the batteries can be replaced relatively easily. If I remember right, they’re a standard type, like the ones used for watches or hearing aids.

I know that some my old NES games retained their data at least into the 2000s. Been a while since I pulled them out and checked.

Edit: I realize this article is talking about the game data, not save data. I don’t know what type of memory older games used for the ROM or if it needs periodic power. I think the batteries were only for the writeable save data.

This matches my experience and the general consensus I’ve seen online. The 6 series had major overheating problems. Later generations get noticeably warm but not so much that it causes serious problems.

They actually want to increase what can be done in user mode, to reduce reliance on kernel mode code.

That’s basically what Apple did with macOS 11. They deprecated kernel extensions and replaced them with “system extensions”, and created new APIs so security tools, VPNs and such could function without kernel-level privileges.

Yeah, I don’t need 1440p in handheld mode. It supports 4K in docked mode and that’s good enough for me.

I’m still skeptical of the overall performance but we’ll see. The Switch aged poorly and I’m afraid the Switch 2 will be similar. I don’t want to see first-party games throttling to 20fps in 5 years.

Absolutely wild that this is not included with the console. Especially after Sony included Astro’s Playroom on every PS5.

mpv still works.

Let me put it this way: I audit open source software more than I audit closed source software.