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OLED is pretty significant feeling because of the bigger screen.
Though now neither get used because I have a steam deck.
lol I think it's 30 on the switch, but it's reasonably stable and that hardware sucks.
OK, but it's also a pretend privacy browser that doesn't actually protect or respect your privacy.
There is exactly one valid reason for a subscription to an app (not content), and it's because your usage has to be reliant on a server with meaningful upkeep costs.
That does not include "your device could easily do this but we're forcing it to the cloud". Any other reason makes you a bad person.
Yeah. If it's actually playable, that's awesome. I'm preparing myself to have to deal with streaming or playing at my desktop, though.
If enough university hardware was compromised, it could be used combined with their massive bandwidth to springboard into all kinds of attacks.
This is a great sales pitch to hook me deeper into adding it to my wishlist lol.
Yeah, if you're one of the best 100 players on the planet, there's exactly one place you're going to play, and it's the NBA. Winning whatever international exhibition you want is fine, but it's not where the best basketball is.
lol my standards for fiction are basically "does it catch my eye?", "is it available on my library/scribd apps?", and usually "if it's a series, is it book one?". If I like it I go through the series. I like a broad variety (though a lot of mysteries).
Nonfiction I definitely have stronger standards. If it's not well sourced it's too much noise vs signal.
I'll second the interest in working well on a boox. Mostly that means the ability to do decent contrast, which a reader should definitely do anyways.
At the start of the week I listened to Beneath Dark Waters by Karen Rose. I intended to listen to it on release, but since I got it as an audiobook and I was on vacation, it didn't end up working out that way. Rose is my favorite author and this doesn't disappoint. As I just started watching 24 for the first time in a long time, it finally clicked with me that that's the itch Karen Rose scratches for me. The pacing of the story telling feels very comparable. There are less (but not none) outright traitors, the crimes are other types of sadistic monsters than terrorists (including sex crimes against kids in some), and the arc is built around a romance between two main characters, but just the way the story keeps moving forward and getting deeper (with characters that really flesh out over time) strikes a similar chord to me.
Still working on Stormlight Archive (on Words of Radiance) on ebook. It's still insanely long and I find the world and the characters fascinating. I'm almost to the point of pulling the trigger on them all on audiobook so I have time for them because it's so good, but I'm not sure it will feel right.
After finishing with Rose, I listened to several County Cork books by Sheila Connolly. It's a light little mystery series where the main character honors her grandmother's wish to visit where the grandmother grew up in Ireland, ends up finding her place there, decides to stay, and winds up on the periphery of a bunch of murders and solving them. As always with these small town mystery series, you have to suspend disbelief on the murder rate, but I like a blend of lighter world- and character- building to balance out the heavier stuff, and I like the flavor of this one well enough.