Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@qoto.org

@vitaminsludge@mastodon.ie I've been many times, I used to go every year before the pandemic. So so so glad to be visiting what's sort of become my second home again.

In two and a half days I'll be in the Philippines. I still need to decide if I will be gaming with a #SteamDeck or a #MiyooMini

Anyway, I'll be taking a couple of books too :D #gaming #travel

A big benefit of Mastodon is that it is less single-country-centric than most social media I've experienced.

Nothing against the United States in any way, but as someone who doesn't live there it's nice to be exposed to people and issues from all over the world in a more balanced way than what normally happens on sites like Twitter where it's mostly USA, USA, USA.

@nixCraft you don't have to be popular to be great :)

@stevoooo@emacs.ch It became real for me, when third party clients stopped working :(. It’s bizarre! Such a massive brand just “killed” like that - not even the American and British auto-industries destroyed their legacy with this much gusto.

I've swapped playing chess puzzles for doing code katas over the last few days. I've not coded for work for years, but I've been learning a bit of Python and I've just made it to 5 kyū yellow belt on Code Wars.

@stevoooo@emacs.ch agreed. Although it’s sort of fun to watch Twitter implode.

@AHg I like them a lot. But I use Crostini (the Linux container) most of the time and hence I prefer Intel based ones. Don’t go thinking they are just a browser, they are much more than that, specially if you use Android and Linux applications with them. I’d not go cheap, find something with a Core i5 CPU and at least 8GB of RAM.

If your brand is so so bad that this needs to be a feature you are in trouble https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/2/23816924/twitter-x-blue-subscribers-hide-blue-check-option

@ocrbot en

My first #SavageGaunlet result in #Exoprimal was merely a Survivor. At least I made it, it was a tough challenge.