Germany too
Germany too
Hey man thats just rude :(
Kagi is very very nice but at $10 a month it is too expensive for my uses. DuckDuckGo is my alternative when my Kagi subscription of one month runs out.
Elden Ring with the seamless COOP mod has been very fun for my two friends and me. The experience isn’t 100% perfect (some bugs) but exploring the Lands Between with buddies and fighting the bosses together has easily been in my top 3 COOP experiences up until now.
I have a Keychron K2 with some retro looking keycaps and blue switches. I don’t know for sure how it compares to the K7 though.
It’s a really great keyboard, solidly built, not too heavy, nice sounding and even nicer to type on. The battery holds up pretty well, I rarely have to charge it.
I don’t carry it around but it is pretty portable.
The only thing I‘m missing from my original MacBooks keyboard is the little globe button on the bottom left for emojis, special characters and such. But this is mapped to another key combination so all is well. And it is pretty high, you might need a wrist rest for very long typing sessions. In my usecase (gaming and a few hours of uni a day) I don’t struggle with this.
It is connected via bluetooth with up to three devices at a time and you can swap between them via a keyboard shortcut. It has a switch for MacOS/iOS and Windows/Android so swapping between devices is almost seamless.
There is no software for it afaik. For me thats a plus (less bloatware on my devices), but if you want highly customized lighting or super elaborate custom behavior, it might be a minus.
Overall this is a great little keyboard, especially considering that I got mine on sale for 50 or 60€.
If you have problems starting the EA laucher (a blank EA launcher colored screen and crashing back to the desktop / your library) this is your fix:
https://steamdeckhq.com/tips-and-guides/fixing-ea-play-blank-screen-for-ea-games-on-steam/
If the game itself doesn’t start, I don’t know how to help, sorry.
Edit: Let the program do its thing before you do anything else. Some steps require some time to be finished.
Thanks for the summary and the link
Good for her! Hopefully she comes back quickly as a host, I miss those videos
I am very out of the loop here, what is this Anthony / Emily situation? I‘ve been wondering that he (she?) hasn’t been on screen for a while afaik
May I ask why? I would be scared 24/7 to break my phone with my fingernails or something because the screens are so fragile.
I bought AirPods Max from Amazon used and they were still tied to the previous owner.
Even though I send receipts and everything to Apple, they said they cannot remove the connection to the previous owner’s account.
Just to keep this in mind, what you said might not work every time.
It should be really telling that you can’t find anything positive about cigarettes online, even when you specifically search for positive aspects.
They cause cancer and you smell disgusting after smoking them. Just listen to your girlfriend on this.
Thanks for the reply.
Yeah, for landscapes the large aperture won‘t be too useful, but it would be great for wildlife in the late or early hours with little light.
I feel like the f4.0 version ist way too expensive for what it does and compared to the f2.8 version it seems to be lacking in sharpness, which is quite important on the A7RIV’s high megapixel sensor.
I have to look into the Tamron though, thanks for the suggestion!
Also I‘m planning to go to a store and ask if I can put on the lens to my camera for a few minutes
Yeah but it usually was a „support the dev“ thing.
For example, Apollo (RIP) had an okay icon to begin with, you could choose from a few free ones and if you really liked the app or a specific icon, you could buy it.
They didn’t intentionally make their standard icon shitty to bully you into paying for a decent one
I’d love to get away from Chromium based browsers. At the moment I am using Brave.
Is there any other browser that works on and syncs between: MacOS, iPhone / iPad AND Windows? It also has to have adblock capabilities on all of the devices. FireFox with uBlock Origin would be my first choice but afaik you can’t block ads on iPad / iPhone on it.
Any recommendations?
This is kinda true. In my opinion there is no point in locking the fps to 60 when you could also be getting 90 fps on a 120hz screen. Might as well use those frames as long as they come in regular intervals.
The lower the fps / hz the bigger the intervals between frames and refreshes and the more noticeable the stuttering and lag. If you exceed consistent 60 fps it should all feel roughly the same. There is no need to get an expensive 240hz screen to game at 100 - 120fps. 120hz or 144hz is enough for that. (As always depending on what you do with it, a professional CS player might need the higher Hertz)
The refresh rate is the amount of frames your display can show per second. The unit for this is Hertz (hz). This is 60hz on the Steam Deck. This is an engineering thing and there isn’t too much you can do to change this.
The framerate is the amount of frames your graphics card produces per second. The „unit“ her is often fps (frames per second).
You cannot exceed the 60hz limit of the Steam Deck‘s screen since it is a hard limit, you would need to build a new screen into the Deck. So optimally you want your GPU to produce 60 fps or more to use the display to its full extend.
Smoothness is a little harder. You can have a game with 60fps on a 60hz screen that still feels choppy because the timings are misaligned. Imagine your GPU produces 59 frames in half a second and then only 1 in the other half. Your screen would freeze for almost half a second because there is no new frame arriving at the display for half a second. Here you have to look at your frame times. They should be as consistent as possible.
So to sum up: refresh rate = times your monitor can show something new (hard limit)
fps = frames your GPU can produce per second (you can change that via the settings of a game)
frame times = the time a frame „waits“ on your screen. (The shorter and the more consistent, the better)
Sometimes lower fps seem more fluid than higher fps because the fewer frames are arriving more „punctual“.
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I guess I have to try the lens out myself first to make a decision. If it wasn’t so damn expensive, getting it would be a no brainer
I can vouch for the iPad + Apple Pencil + GoodNotes combo. I‘m using this multiple hours a day for university. The iPad also would be the most versatile device for watching a movie, playing a game etc.
You can also get other tablets but in my experience the writing experience isn’t as good as the iPad.
If you want to do mostly reading, an e-ink display will be nicer on the eyes, but you loose general functionality.
I‘ve been playing Ghost of Tsushima lately and I‘m eagerly waiting for the Seamless COOP mod for the Elden Ring DLC to get ready so I can play it with some friends.
I‘d love to get into Disco Elysium
Thanks to you for doing this great giveaway!