I remember when I used to write ridiculously long and detailed guides on Steam Deck things, so many people asked me to do the same for installing and tweaking Windows for the Deck! I don’t begrudge anyone who wants to install and use it, but it sure isn’t my scene. Or recommendation.

Or if you do, plz look into O&O ShutUp 10+11

Thank you!

Video is not for me. I’ve got a soft spot for writing content, since so few spaces even bother these days. And those that do are generally ad-filled, or just re-posting media releases from companies. I think what we’re doing is more unique, with longer-form articles on topics we love.

Gardiner did however record one of my articles as a podcast two days back, which is (as far as I can tell) the exact article but just in audio form. So that’s something new for us!

My focus is more developer interviews, as well as (recently) retro handheld reviews. I both know and am known by most of the developers in the Linux, gaming and emulation space. So being able to leverage my friendships into doing interviews with them and sharing the articles gives me joy!

Not so sure if this is public knowledge or not, but they’ve been selling around 1,000 of these per day just one one platform where they’re available to buy on.

The Thor is one of the few handhelds to have appealed to people outside of then retro handheld scene!

Check mate!

Thats AYN’s Thor! And it is amazing. Perfect as a modern-day 3DS replacement, with some slight caveats

https://www.ayntec.com/products/ayn-thor

If you’d like to read my review on them, I was sent one last year to review :)

https://gardinerbryant.com/ayn-thor-the-modern-dual-screen-revival/

Thank you so much for saying so! That’s very kind of you!

It really is.

And the irony of someone saying this from their couch about a CEO who deals with running a game company each day is…strong.

Its such a weird thing for people to focus on.

This is pretty interesting to me. I know I’ll get downvoted for this, because the Epic hate is just so strong everywhere. But honestly, I think they need to improve the launcher, not sunset it.

I get it, that sounds obvious. But for 99% of their PC users who aren’t us: people who care about Linux, care about open-source, care about digital ownership and platform freedom, they’re just using the Epic Launcher to play the free games each week. Epic’s reasons are pretty obvious: give away games to lock in users. But I’ve talked to so many users throughout my time covering Steam Deck news for whom PC gaming would just be too expensive without those weekly giveaways.

Anyway, my caffeine-fueled point is this: I just wish they’d put some of their incredible wealth into building a better launcher.

…and maybe into making some better decisions along the way.

That’s interesting, I know Mathieu a bit, I’ll check in with him. But from his Mastodon posts recently, this is just how things are with Lutris now.

I appreciate the tag!

I’m on mastodon.social and I have a solid amount of followers, I’m active on there every single day, not once has it felt like I need to move from it. The content on my feed (the point of Mastodon is to curate your own) is lovely and needs no moderation I’ve ever seen?

https://mastodon.social/@flwwhtrbt

I tried really hard to read through whatever point this blog was trying to make but it really needed some editing

And how crazily good this is, even by today’s standards, compared to the others from that era!

They really did change everything…all without really meaning to :)

Not unbelievable at all!

The R36S achieved a strange sort of cult status a long time ago. They managed to break out of a very niche hobby and appeal to regular people. They’re sold in kiosks, on TikTok, in regular phone stores around Asia and are now easily the most bought retro handheld (in many variations)

That they bring gaming to so many is a great thing, and now thanks to bmdhacks you can add one more game to the list!

I think you’ve got it. No one’s bothering with that! ZOOM-platform (gaming) was about 2014. Zoom (video) released their first product in around 2013, so if anything was to happen it’d be long ago!

Thanks for following along with what I write, that means a lot to me!

Nice to see you dropped by!

…even nicer to see you’re on Lemmy, you kept this one quiet!

God. Damn. It.

Hahahahahah, its basically tradition that Gardiner finds a bunch, and then someone here on Lemmy points something out.

That one’s on me, I’ll fix it when I get back in from walking me cat (harness time!) around my yard. Thanks for pointing it out, and for all your kind words!!!

…for once my embarrassing unending typos save me -____-

Fucking what?

I have not written this with A.I.

This gets so exhausting.

• Check my post history, filter by my very first posts and go through each and every one of them. I’ve written (exclusively on and for Lemmy for a solid 6 months or so) for a very long time now. This might give you an indication I write myself.

• I have each bit of progress from writing this article myself. The framework we run for the site saves each increment, so we can revert if there is an issue down the track. Each. Step. Writing. This. Is. Saved.

• Its funny how this kind of bullshit claim gets thrown about, these LLMs are trained on writers. What I write might remind you of whatever A.I. you love to use, but the reason is that these take what we write and then replicate it. They are trained on us.

• I’ve got plenty of very close friends who I can get to chime in with how trustworthy I am, and how my writing is my own. I’m sure he’ll cringe at me saying it, but Jason Evangelho (former lead Linux tech writer for Forbes) is a close friend who will swear to me writing what I do. My good friend Rowan wrote for a big outlet before losing his place recently, he’ll do the same. Gardiner himself whose reputation I’d hope would speak for itself after a decade plus in this space will speak for me. The fact I have to defend myself before this one lazy line from you runs away and becomes a thing just makes me sick.

• I’ve been interviewing and working with a CEO of a beyond reputable PC gaming company for the last week or so. He and I have been going over the article line-by-line. Literally line-by-line, section-by-section in real time while he sees me write it up. For a feature article coming very soon. More than happy to show him this comment and get his idea on your views. Then edit this and show you what he thinks (after my article is done)

• In fact I have done like 35-40 (at a guess) interviews with developers in this scene. From Linux to Android to handhelds and everything in-between. Go and find an interview I’ve done, choose a dev at random and ask them about me. They’ll tell you I’m on the level.

• In fact want me to get bmdhacks to share hus thoughts on your idea of this being generated? I chatted to him for a long time about all of this. I wrote this while asking him about each part. Would that help your shitty claim?

I’m sorry my response is so strong, but it has to be

I hate this shit. Because one lazy claim by you forces me to respond or this ends up becoming the truth, if I ignored it. As a writer that kind of thing is damaging.

Its right here:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=F_B-bhayfZg

So you can save your excessively long ellipsis!

I’m one of them!

Well…kinda. I have zero interest in Resident Evil outside of Raccoon City, and I’m a very recent player.

RE4 onwards just took things to a location and direction I have no interest in, so seeing this one take me ‘back’…I’m in!