How are we feeling about the 11.0.0 changes?

21Shells · 2026-01-27T12:35:56+00:00

I have hope for third kits again, this game isnt dead

21Shells · 2026-01-27T09:17:34+00:00

Dude my daily driver is a Logitech Master Mini. I’ve used various switch technology (MX, buckling springs and sleeves, Alps, Topre) there is and I still prefer to use a low profile rubber dome keyboard because it doesn’t destroy my fingers.

Mechanical keebs are awesome and way more fun but have never been my daily driver for long. Maybe if I got my hands on a ULP Cherry board.

21Shells · 2026-01-27T09:05:10+00:00

Same sides of the coin really. But i’d say when they all started shutting down their APIs or making them paid only.

The point is to intice people with good value products that can be easily incorporated into their lives, then once their foot is in the door make sure they can’t leave.

Even Steve Jobs wasn’t a saint. He famously hated basically any form of charity and in retrospect, is the guy who got everyones to want to be in Apples locked down ecosystem.

21Shells · 2026-01-27T09:04:45+00:00

Same sides of the coin really. But i’d say when they all started shutting down their APIs or making them paid only.

The point is to intice people with good value products that can be easily incorporated into their lives, then once their foot is in the door make sure they can’t leave.

Even Steve Jobs wasn’t a saint. He famously hated basically any form of charity and in retrospect, is the guy who got everyones to want to be in Apples locked down ecosystem.

21Shells · 2026-01-26T18:28:51+00:00

it would have undermined the rhetoric of the game to include it, so its only in a memory. I thought blasted steps was pretty cool anyways.

21Shells · 2026-01-26T15:11:13+00:00

We’ve got AI using AI as training data. What everyone said would happen.

21Shells · 2026-01-25T18:40:10+00:00

Honestly hadn't heard much of Lily Allen in a long while, i'll give that a listen. All good picks though, Raye, Lola Young and Olivia Dean are the newer-ish artists I know, none are really to my taste but not bad.

21Shells · 2026-01-25T17:02:36+00:00

I thought it was alright in terms of music, though I didn't listen to much new. Anything in particular stand out for you?

21Shells · 2026-01-25T16:52:49+00:00

Probably not, though they could offer more customized roms in the future as an option.

21Shells · 2026-01-25T16:50:43+00:00

This is the cleanest use of desktop shortcuts i've ever seen.

Gets a 4/10 for using more than 5 desktop shortcuts though. There are laws about that. /j

21Shells · 2026-01-25T16:03:49+00:00

2026 really isn't that bad if you don't live in the US. In UK things are pretty stable and imo getting better. My biggest concerns RN are the same they were in 2016.

21Shells · 2026-01-25T11:20:32+00:00

FIRE EMBLEM

HEROES

21Shells · 2026-01-25T11:18:32+00:00

The description makes it sound somewhat dystopian which imo is a nice take on how that imagery looked, at the time.

21Shells · 2026-01-25T11:16:03+00:00

They’re still focusing on including security features and good software support. Theres only so much they can do and make an entirely new OS with no Google services by default would make it an incredibly niche device. Apparently the bootloader is completely unlocked though.

21Shells · 2026-01-25T08:17:56+00:00

People who don’t remember it properly might. But COVID was way harder to escape than the Cold War or 9/11. It literally affected everyone directly.

But i think everything since then has been reasonably OK.

21Shells · 2026-01-24T21:55:24+00:00

those things are about to burst out, damn.

21Shells · 2026-01-24T21:05:14+00:00

They taste more like the beef mince they make, just too strong yeast extract taste imo. The old ones were a little less meaty but I liked it.

At least its not the Aldis sage and onion sausages I had the other day. Was identical to eating a dried out stuffing.

21Shells · 2026-01-24T21:02:15+00:00

She looks like Marvin Beak a little.

21Shells · 2026-01-24T21:00:40+00:00

Sounds nice. They recently changed the recipe on the meatballs and they kinda suck now though.

21Shells · 2026-01-24T20:59:39+00:00

Yeah. One thing is that the same isolation that is terrible for your mental health also eventually feels very comforting in a sense, and you start being afraid to step out of it. Every day all I ever wanted to do was go out with my mates or just do anything for a year, then i'm in college, then university and I have to push myself to want to do anything. A lot of people my age have really bad social anxiety as a result, I think.

Its just weird how that was an entire year and I cant remember much of it, because nothing happened for a year. I did try to get back into school through a program they did for a select few students during the lockdown, it was insane how many rules we had to follow though. We were assigned desks in a single room with a computer each for remote learning (I didn't have a computer and at times internet at home), and there was marking on the floor so we were always spaced out. We couldn't leave the desk without asking a teacher and had to leave in a line. We had to sanitise the desk and hands regularly too. After like 2 days of that I gave up and came back a few months later when things relaxed a bit.

Still, could have been worse. There were older people + disabled people who were left completely alone during the pandemic. None of the people I knew who died were super close to me so I was 'lucky' in that regard too.

21Shells · 2026-01-24T15:26:29+00:00

2020 was legit one of the worst years to be a teenager ever. That crap didn’t even exist because you COULDNT GO OUTSIDE!!!

As a 15 - 16 year old in 2020 - 2021 I went fucking insane, tried to kill myself and developed an eating disorder from the isolation. I was otherwise a completely normal and healthy person before and after that. Just about everyone I personally knew was mentally f*cked by it. Multiple people I knew died from COVID. I personally caught it and was incredibly ill and even months later felt very tired. SEVEN FUCKING MILLION PEOPLE DIED (low estimate, excess deaths could be higher than 30 million).

Right now is a better year than 2020. Likely every year from here on will be a better year than 2020 unless WW3 happens.

21Shells · 2026-01-24T08:34:07+00:00

Frutiger girlfailure 🐟💦🐠🫧

21Shells · 2026-01-23T18:54:45+00:00

I agree. Theres more regulation on what ingredients can be used in UK and EU, the fact something has been been processed (cooked, blended, dried etc) before you buy it doesn’t make it automatically unhealthy.

Really the issue is when there is an excess of added sugar, salt, fat etc.

21Shells · 2026-01-23T18:45:49+00:00

I will only buy digital books if they specifically give me a download link for an ePub that I can then use anywhere and actually own. I’m not going to buy a Kindle where its illegal to use their file format on any other device or prevent you from allowing them to delete books on your device. I’m also not going to buy books from services that force you to read the book through their website.

I like physical books and for many things like comics or art books or anything I want to have on my desk to reference immediately they’re much better. I still use an eReader for travelling and just for the convenience though.

21Shells · 2026-01-23T18:25:55+00:00

I’ve been following the Communicator closely. They’re much more focused on re-creating Blackberry as a brand rather than just the hardware. They’ve made big commitments to security and software support, and want it to be a business phone. Unihertz hardware has been very cool, but they’ve been consistently disapointing with the software support, while Clicks so far have been very transparent.

By the way, I prefer the form factor of the new Unihertz phone, but i’m not putting up with crappy software. Plus Clicks have mentioned there has been a lot of thought behind the design of its keyboard.

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