From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸
I can give Ali a pass for niche things, but Temu is straight up junk. The problem is when these cheaper products permeate everything while being pushed as high end. Etsy is basically useless now because of this. Almost everything on there is an overpriced knockoff.
None of this is necessarily AliExpress’ or Temu’s fault though. It’s just what happens in a capitalist system.
Products as a whole are going to shit in terms of quality. It’s part of the enshittification that late capitalism drives.
And automatic litter boxes have always been trash. I’ve had 2 in my lifetime and they were both bad. Just scoop that thing and call it a day!
Even Amazon has gotten super sketch as of late. It’s hard to determine which products are good or not when the site is flooded with 500 duplicates from 500 clearly fake companies.
My advice is to buy nothing from AliExpress or Temu.
I did a double take because your cat looks like one of my gingers.
I remember downloading BF4 from GamePass and not being able to play any of it. They’ve truly ruined that franchise.
The trackpad is amazing on the Deck.
I’ve used the ASUS ROG Ally and I do not recommend running Windows on anything, let alone a handheld. Don’t tarnish your Steam Deck with this!
It would make the Ally usable. Windows holds it back a ton because it’s a trash OS.
There’s still some hardware issues to contend with. Like the fact that it fries SD cards due to poor card slot placement… and the control stick bug…
Let’s just say my wife has one and we recently got her a Steam Deck instead. I had to replace one of the sticks on the Ally and still had problems. She also can’t use the SD card slot at all. It’s flawed hardware with potential (after a couple revisions).
You should still celebrate. It’s a win for the working class collective.
Oh wait, not top down. 🤔
I’ve been all over the place:
It introduced me to Sea of Stars and I could not stop playing that game until I completed the story. It made me envy every person that backed the Kickstarter and finally got to play it for the first time. I adore Gamepass for gems like that. You and I could probably exchange suggestions for those 4-5 hour, small indie team games. They’re passion projects for people. I find so much soul and love in those small games.
For example, I haven’t yet played Botany Manor, but still have it installed for when it comes to me. My wishlist on there is huge. I’ll spend 15 minutes sometimes going through every game to add things. My wife will play the same couple games for months and really delve into them. I have a constant rotation of 5-10.
Companies use pirated content: line go up! 📈
Everyday people use pirated content: STRAIGHT TO JAIL!
I have friends still dealing with all kinds of airline troubles (basically stuck in cities for a week past their return date) and I can’t believe anyone would have so many mission-critical systems using Windows. Their infrastructure must be a mess.
The real solution is to not make anything that’s mission-critical reliant on Windows.
A backup plan probably involves using some other company/service that can suffer the same fate 😭
It’s what happens when you put too many eggs in one basket. You see a similar house of cards when you look at package managers in the software dev space. Single point of failure.
The reality though is that Windows computers not running the CrowdStrike agent were not affected. This one falls on CS, but there is a much larger problem at play. Also, auto-updates are a plague, especially on a kernel level. That’s just insanity.
It’s fun and simple. I feel like it’s pretty in line with the vibe you’re looking for. Someone else suggested Dave the Diver and that one is a great recommendation.
Project Zomboid. That’s the most recent game I can think of where I reduced the difficulty (and that’s coming from someone that has nearly 400 hours into Elden Ring). It’s not that the game is tougher than ER or anything like that. It has a ton of cool mechanics and detail that are really enjoyable if you’re into zombie survival games, but the zombies can really swarm you in that game and you won’t live long.
It also has sandbox mode where there’s no zombies and you can focus on farming, building, etc.