yes, i think flappy bird had a really elegant onboarding/tutorial: 1. main menu screen, tap to start 2. the tap flaps the bird 3. you fall to the ground, learning that you need to repeatedly tap to fly 4. before any obstacles appear, you get some time to calibrate your rhythm 5. obstacles start appearing and the game starts

if it helps, iirc the image on the right was made in a circlejerk subreddit making fun of chuds, but then it got taken seriously by real chuds on twitter

each chat/social network represents a different tier of intimacy with a person. i am mutuals with a lot of people on IG who i’d never give my number to, and i chat with them occasionally.

silver got spayed :(

if my consumer products company, out of nowhere, made two series of top performing chips at different price points, i’d also want to put them everything

no depressed millennial has any self respect to begin with

i dont think any journalist, especially a technology journalist, should be using AI summaries in any capacity as part of their research. i’m glad he owned up to it but this should be a career damning event.

with the steam deck starting to age out of newer 3D indies and AA games, i was hoping these companies would continue to deliver. $1800 is steep though. this is a terrible time for consumer electronics.

if you can afford the hardware, getting something dedicated like a JetKVM is nice because you don’t have to wait for VNC software to boot. since it acts like a monitor and keyboard, you can even enter BIOS with it. JetKVM sells an extension board that you could hook up to your server motherboard’s power buttons to turn it on/off too.

for fully software solutions, i like using apollo on the server and moonlight on the clients. it’s built for game streaming, but it works for remote desktop too. i have apollo and moonlight installed on a bunch of my devices anyways so this saves me from installing an additional client most of the time.