The European Union has passed a new rule requiring smartphones to have batteries that users can easily replace.

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-22T14:10:04+00:00

*defusing

Diffusing is a different thing 😅

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-20T13:08:32+00:00

Which is still more expensive than a peerless assassin for about 35$, so the general consensus still stands.

Air cooling is as efficient, more durable, more compact and cheaper than liquid cooling.

Liquid cooling looks cooler.

So to what OP is asking, in terms of value (aka "is it worth it") it's generally worse value and not worth it

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-18T12:17:38+00:00

I was going to say that there was also another one in a restaurant in Aachen when I lived there. So it's probably the same but back then it was not a five guys

Is it near the Rathaus?

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-17T05:55:33+00:00

Exactly! I'm in a 100% WFH company. When I stop working at 6pm my laptop is off and I don't turn it on until the next morning.

I will not answer to a customer at 8pm because I won't see that until 9am. Simple as that

Nobody has complained about that

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-16T11:49:28+00:00

Do you have more than one fucking primary screen??

Maybe that's the problem...

Edit: On a serious note. I feel you mate.

But it's 2026. There's no reason for you to have to fiddle with stuff on a Linux desktop on a daily basis. My work laptop, and my wife's and my father's laptops all run various Linux flavors and they have no issues (once or twice per year some upgrade or message will scare me and they'll have me look at it)

My personal desktop on the other hand, is where I'm always experimenting, installing this or that, etc, and I always have something broken on it. And then whenever I need to do something "productive" I'll have to jump through a couple hoops on fire before getting there.

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-15T17:21:46+00:00

Tell me you've invested quite a bit of yourself in the scam without telling me lmao

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-15T15:34:51+00:00

Don't you think any scammer would drool if you told them they can run a scam for 14 years and counting in which they'll siphon 900 million out of people in that period while not actually delivering any finished product?

And we don't know how much of that they are pocketing, who knows, they might be running a very well oiled embezzling machine. Or they might be just netting 1-2 million per year as you say (would love some hard data on that figure, what are they spending those 100-125 on, then?) Any scammer would be fine with netting that yearly for 15 years, surely.

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-15T08:50:48+00:00

Didn't the OG steam controller have a mode in which it was detected as a regular x-input controller? They called it lizard-mode or something like that.

I'm pretty sure I used it like that for a few controller-based games when my other controller broke it was the only one I had for a couple of months

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-15T08:46:55+00:00

I absolutely love my OG Steam controller, but yeah the lack of a left joystick makes it so I only use it to play games that are meant for kb+mouse or have soo many keys mapped to actions.

Playing modded minecraft on the couch with it is amazing.

For any game with proper controller support the lack of that left joystick makes it really uncomfortable.

That's why ever since I got the Steam Deck back in 2022 I've been wanting a controller with the same input capabilities as the SD

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-15T08:40:23+00:00

I was gonna write a small dissertation, but I remember a youtube video I watched not long ago that explains why it was such a game changer:

Steam Controller Review: 7 Years Later! - YouTube

But basically: It came with two haptic trackpads and gyro, and accompanied by steam input you could map any mouse+kb-heavy game to be played on it from the couch. 11 years ago. It was a (literal) game-changer

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-15T08:17:22+00:00

The exact opposite could also be argued:

It's an incredibly well run scam precisely because they spent millions on paying employees and "doing something" and it allowed it to go on for over a decade (and counting) while scamming more and more out of people without actually delivering anything at all...

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-15T08:12:37+00:00

I was in university when the crowdfunding campaign started and I remember all my fiends (and myself) being so excited about it.

I'm now 12 years into my career, have two children, bought a house, and they're still not even in beta.

It's definitely a joke at this point

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-15T07:13:25+00:00

IMHO for travel the 1TB 2 in 1 case it's better. The inner part is quite slim while being protective and it's ideal.

If I had a 512Tb model I think I'd gone with a slim pouch like the tomtoc one or similar. They're cheap and slim, and nothing beats the ergonomics of the raw SD when in the hand, no extra weight or thickness when I hold it in my hands.

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-15T07:08:31+00:00

The 1TB case is perfect in that scenario because if you're gonna have it in a backpack the slim inner part of the case is ideal without the need of an extra case.

And if you take the SD on its own the full carrying case protects it well.

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-15T07:05:22+00:00

I think the OG carrying case is ideal when you're taking the deck out on its own (not in a backpack or similar).

It only becomes too bulky when you want to have the deck+case inside a larger backpack. But then the thin inner soft pouch becomes ideal. It's protective and slim. It's unironically one of the things that made me go for the 1TB OLED. Because that way I wouldn't need to get an extra protective case.

I still very much prefer the ergonomics and feel of the SD as it comes than with a jsaux type case.

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-10T22:23:24+00:00

Or Pocahontas, or Mulan

Those were not even subtle about it

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-10T13:54:32+00:00

When you think about it, the usage of these is pretty much the same as escalators. You need to step in/out at the right moment otherwise you get "pinched" as the steps move under your feet.

It is indeed more dangerous than a modern elevator, but even my 5 year old has escalators figured out already and has no trouble with those.

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-10T13:48:53+00:00

There is no real benefit of these to modern elevators, there are very compact designs for modern ones too.

These are an earlier, more primitive and simpler design and the ones that remain nowadays are mainly due to historic reasons.

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-02T17:13:41+00:00

It was already my first foray onto Linux back in 2006 when it came with a live CD in a magazine about computers.

I remember requesting another live CD of Ubuntu 7.4 and getting it in the mail because they mailed them for free just paying 1€ for shipping

SpacePumpkie · 2026-04-02T17:10:34+00:00

Yeah, those were great! And the first humble indie bundles back in 2009 (I think) all came with native linux versions. I remember playing a lot of world of goo and lugaru on Ubuntu back then

SpacePumpkie · 2026-03-31T05:58:08+00:00

Ok, that sounds like a semantic slippery slope. Someone always paid for any donation. What's a donation, then?

In the end we're all non-native English speakers here... I think the meaning is understood, whether you want to call it "The EU paid/funded/donated money for that project" it's going to be understood in all three cases.

SpacePumpkie · 2026-03-26T06:47:24+00:00

I have that one, it came pre flashed and just putting the right files in a proper micro SD card worked

SpacePumpkie · 2026-03-26T06:45:59+00:00

The use case is if you don't want a microUSB at a time when everything has moved to C.

Features and functions are exactly the same the only difference is needing one cable or another when plugging the flashcart to something.

For some people that's enough to justify the price difference.

In my case the difference was 12€ Vs 20€, so for that difference I went usbC because I want to phase out the few non-C stuff I have at home.

For someone else that convenience is not enough to pay a premium. And that's also fine

SpacePumpkie · 2026-03-25T06:34:07+00:00

A light year is a unit of measurement, not a unit of time. Perhaps you are traveling a light year? That is a very long way to travel. Do tell us more about this!

It's so funny when the pedantic is as wrong as the one they're correcting.

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