A hollow voice says, “fool”.

I had to give up using the lockers at the post office when they started requiring an app that my phone at the time was too old for. (I don’t really care about phones; I use other people’s hand-me-downs.) Too much of all this cleverness is just making the world more complicated, complex, and expensive. Meh. I can use my tablet now but still resent these swipey-wipey ad delivery devices.

That… and my insecurity as to what a sane-and-polite-but-not-overdone phrasing would be fades quicker than when that phrasing has been immortalised through writing. It’s just over sooner (provided you actually manage to get through to someone)

I dunno, man. As much as unusual form factors are tempting in a sea of same-same, you could also just take a random small laptop/ultrabook/netbook and flip the lid open 180 degrees.

Waah! It’s still almost two months away! (Just went back to 200% scaling because of some fuzz and weirdness here and there that most people probably wouldn’t bother noticing)

My website-making days also were my graphic-design-school days, so while they could be a little on the weird side I at least tried to make them clean, readable, and aesthetically non-hazardous. Well, apart from that one wonder that wouldn’t look right on Netscape.

It was great to be able to do this entirely by hand and still end up with something no worse than professional sites in appearance. (And there weren’t yet a bazillion laws and regulations in my country making it too complicated for an undermotivated single private individual to attempt to stay compliant)

I dunno. There’s no Proton on Mac, so lumping Mac and Linux together when they really just mean Proton wouldn’t make much sense. There are native Mac and Linux games on Steam, and the Steam store page has icons and system requirement tabs for all three OSes, neither of which happens with Windows-only games. “We’re also releasing Civilization VII for MacOS and Linux / SteamOS” also sounds like they’re talking about actual Linux and Mac builds. It could all be miscommunication, of course. That wouldn’t surprise me.

Seems pretty clear to me: “We’re also releasing Civilization VII for MacOS and Linux / SteamOS” doesn’t just not mention Proton, there also isn’t a Proton on MacOS Steam. And you don’t get Linux and Mac system sepcs and platform icons on Windows-only games whether or not you can run them with Proton; You get ”Steam Deck Verified”.

(I’m half expecting them to walk that back later but for now the message seems clear.)

proton

Is that even an option on the Mac?

And “Proton games” are just Windows games and wouldn’t show the SteamOS platform icon.

Now whether all this is just a mix-up in this age of “Linux ports aren’t worth it and they always suck anyway”… maybe.