4 mm wider than the 10V. :(

This model series used to be the only decent option for a narrow mid-range phone. Not much separates it from the competition aside from the 3.5mm jack, now. What a shame.

I see FFT, I upvote. I love that game so much. I should play it again… It would be perfect for the Deck, too.

Please follow the instance rules if you’re posting here. Reported for breaking the only rule: Bee Kind.

Another consideration is whether you’re a “patient gamer”. If you want to play the latest and greatest, then I have no idea. But, if you’re like me, then there are literally thousands of slightly older games you’d be happy to play.

If that’s you, then you can’t beat the Steam Deck for value. With game bundles, I often get 8 games for $10 or less. Even if I only play one, that’s incredible value compared with $80 new titles.

With a tiny bit of work, you can get Epic and GOG working on the Deck, too. If you’re a Prime subscriber, you’ll get 1-4 GOG/Epic games/week for free in addition to Epic’s weekly giveaways and GOG’s occasional giveaways. Some of those are AA/AAA games from a few years ago, too.

If you’re tired of AAA games entirely (like me), then the Deck is also likely the best since there are so many incredible indie games. I’d much rather play 20 unique 1-10 hour games than a single 100-hour AAA repetitive slog. And most can be had for $10 or less if you wait for a sale or bundle.

It’s also a great emulation machine for everything Nintendo that came before the Switch and everything else up to the PS2 generation, I guess? (Switch emulation is a bit of a pain to get working well, and for anything 360/PS3 or newer, they mostly have PC versions anyway, I think? I’ve never had a reason to emulate any of 'em so idk.)

The OLED has a great screen and great battery life, so I have barely touched my smaller emulation devices since getting it. Why use a tiny device with cramped, limited controls when I can play on a great screen with Steam Input (so I can easily write my own game macros, or use the back buttons on twin stick games instead of the face buttons so I never need to take my thumbs off the joysticks, etc.)

I guess if you actually want a device on the go, then something smaller might be better, but for longer trips the Deck works great in my laptop bag, and for short, mobile gaming breaks, I’ll just play Minion Masters or Space Cadet Pinball on my phone.

Film 1 is the crew desperately trying to make it home in the prologue and dying, then the alien mind control worms slowly take over a NASA research facility until it’s finally eradicated in the closing scene, with Sigourney Weaver the lone human survivor. But if you wait until after the credits, you get a 5-second teaser of a single worm wriggling out through a crack in the side of the facility.

A similar strategy works great for me, but I frame it slightly differently based on my personal anxieties:

• I’m procrastinating this important task because it’s overwhelming
• But I can’t think about anything else because I’m worried I’m going to forget to do part of the task/some important detail
• To be able to relax about this, I’ll just write down a list of things I need to get done/don’t want to forget

Then, often, I’ll realize there’s a small part of the project that I am motivated to get done now so it’s not looming over my head anymore. Or, if not, I’ve given myself a Hemingway Bridge to starting the task whenever I do have motivation.

It works in Canada without a SIM. I know because my son did it on his “wifi-only” tablet.

Do you need a phone plan at all for emergency calling? It’s required for all carriers to take 911 calls in Canada.

One of my bigger concerns from all this is that reduced access to users to install apps might have chilling effects on app development. It’s great being able to get apps from Itch.io, GitHub, and FDroid, but will developers continue releasing there if the user base dries up? I guess apk-mirror will likely still continue, since they’re ripping from the Play store anyway.

You had me until multi-account Outlook access. Why not just use different browser profiles?

That said, the Outlook application is necessary for lots of things, like saving email files (record keeping) and mail merges, but the number of accounts has never been a problem for me. I have 9 active email accounts spread across three/five different platforms (depending if you separate corporate vs. free), and I use web apps (by choice) for all of them, aside from popping Outlook open for the aforementioned mail merges and digital record keeping for email files.

But absolutely true for Excel. It frustrates me so much when I’m stuck on a computer with even slightly outdated versions of the Excel application. SORT, FILTER, TEXTSPLIT, and so many other functions are so much simpler than the many workarounds I used to kludge together.

But fuck Teams. The application is just as garbage as the web app. Those two fail/crash ten times more than all the other apps on my computer *combined". I’ve crashed three times in a single meeting. It must be vibe coded, bolted together, janky, spaghetti code.

I loved this game back in the 90s…

… But I’m not sure if it aged well for anyone without nostalgia for it.

The combat has two options, but they aren’t balanced with each other: real time or automatic/calculated, but 8-directional movement with a tiny FOV with absurdly fast hero characters on massive maps don’t play well. Yet, depending on the matchup/combat system choice, you can have 1 hero defeat thousands of troops, or thousands of troops die to 20 archers in a tiny castle that was built between the end of your turn and the start of combat. It’s a bit silly, and very exploitable.

Also, it can drag on for a long time after it’s patently obvious who’s going to win.

The level up system is pretty cool, though, both in individual matches and with your commander. And the story/challenge missions can be proper hard, for those looking for a challenge.

I’m Canadian, but I was diagnosed with a 15 minute phone call with my GP. Granted, I have professional training in this area, and had examples prepared to match DSM criteria, but adult diagnosis can be very straightforward.

Yeah, idk what parent poster is talking about. I totally didn’t spend the bulk of yesterday afternoon redoing a small project from scratch because I couldn’t decipher what I did two months ago. Nope. That would be ridiculous! So glad my human-written code is so much better than AI code.

I was very supportive of Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world early. It’s lovely.

The Overton Window is shifting further and further Right by the day, and it makes me sad.

We have a (small “c”) conservative government in Canada, and I was celebrating his victory because it kept the (big “C”) Conservatives out of power… But our government’s policies are alarming, and are only good insofar as they aren’t as terrible as what we’d have with PP in charge.

Seems like the whole world is shifting Right.

The intro to the article pretty much sums it up:

If this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is now set to send troops to several rebel-held cities, claiming he is wanted there to restore order. The move follows raids on the homes of leading dissidents and comes as armed men seen as loyal to the president, many of them masked, continue to pluck people off the streets …

As a Canadian with young children, I worry for what their future will look like, with an American dictatorship to our south.

I mean using the Track Pads, often for things like radial menus. A lot of PC games need more inputs than exist on a controller.

Me too!

I hate working with other people’s spreadsheets.

Or my old spreadsheets.

The worst is “can you just add a small feature” to a huge, sprawling, mission-critical, often reused spreadsheet.

But I love how quick and powerful it is to spin up a new spreadsheet to analyze something or clean up messy data!

They’re also used as cleaning tips for small/targeted applications, especially when you don’t want lint from a Kleenex or paper towel lingering. Makeup application/removal and electronics cleaning, for example.

I think (not a doctor) the ear thing is because if you go too deep you can cause some serious damage, and they can make wax buildup worse by compacting it. If you stay close to the ear opening, and do circular motions to swipe wax away, and clean your ears often enough that you don’t get dense wax build up, and don’t “double dip” to introduce potential pathogens, then I think they’re pretty safe to use? But that’s too many caveats for lots of people, so I think ENTs often deal with people damaging themselves with them.

Hall effect joysticks would be great. The rest I don’t really count; obviously, better performance/bigger screen would be an incremental improvement, but I don’t need it. The OLED screen is plenty big enough.

I (personally) would never use detachable controllers and wouldn’t want more moving parts that could break. Haptics and adaptive triggers I don’t care about improving. For sound, I prefer headphones for when I want “good” sound, too, so that wouldn’t make a difference for me.

Even hall effect joysticks are only going to matter to me if my current joysticks break or develop play.

I really do think the current OLED is amazing.