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  • I really non ironically miss the friction of the old internet.

    I prefer how it took time to find some bare HTML university website, slowly browse through an index as if it was a book, and then find one non-SEO optimized page with all the information you needed on a topic for your research.

    The time to browse, being exposed to other terms, having to select the pages yourself, being skeptical by nature, and then having to copy it by hand… This is a much more positive scenario than having a gigantic company learn everything about you and everybody else and then make these decisions for you, using some hidden algorithm, and with the ultimate goal of pushing their newest process. And of course, the content has been rendered virtually useless to appeal to that algorithm.












  • This debate often arises in the Steam Deck communities because a huge proportion of Steam Deck users are PC users that now have a handheld, so this transition is jarring.

    For people that actually had handhelds before, that’s not only normal, but actually quite good.

    Go play Xenoblade Chronicles on a 3DS, at 240p with an unstable 30 FPS. I loved it anyway. How about Doom 2016 on the Nintendo Switch? Hope you enjoy settings lower than low on PC, lots of missing textures, and a stuttery 25 FPS - still one of the highest rated games on the Nintendo Switch subreddit.

    Handhelds make sacrifices for portability. 30 FPS is fine, it just won’t ever compete with your 1000w gigantic desktop PC.