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Bangle‑butt lover, spider hater.
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kim · 4 days ago
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not to be a number nerd on main but 2025 (45^2) will be the only square year most of us ever experience. the last one was 1936 and the next one will be 2116
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kim · 4 days ago
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The other reviews I've seen so far about the MSI Claw 8 have largely been a repeat of what MSI chose to highlight at their preview. More like outside verification of MSI's claims, so to speak.
This, though, seems to be the first review that's actually useful. A range of games that aren't just the ones preferred by MSI, a reminder once again that game compatibility on Arc still shouldn't be taken for granted, Endurance Gaming in Intel's software, comparisons at different power levels with AMD's Z1 Extreme and — as a stand‑in for the upcoming Z2 — Strix Point. Useful things to keep in mind as we head towards CES.
(What would have been even more relevant personally: performance and settings in Halo Infintie and Forza Motorsport.)
Also: I completely forgot Xbox Game Bar can be extended by developers outside of Microsoft. This is the perfect place for quick system settings. (Ideally following the default Game Bar appearance to look more native and better integrated, rather than over‐the‐top “gamer” aesthetics.)
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kim · 12 days ago
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It's not that asking Siri to lock and unlock the car is a common use case for me — passive entry by proximity and ultra wideband works very reliably with both my iPhone and Apple Watch — so I was trying this more out of curiosity.
But seriously: what is this, Apple?
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kim · 17 days ago
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The power holders like to complain about cancel culture. But we know who's really affected by cancel culture. It's not them, it's us.
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kim · 23 days ago
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The Coalition finally showing their nuclear energy homework — poorly done — on a Friday (the 13th!), after parliament rose for summer break, two weeks before Christmas. Not taking out the trash at all.
(And I'm personally offended that it's on my birthday.)
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kim · 25 days ago
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There are much less cruel, much less insulting ways to throw a dead cat. Just saying.
From now on, any time Dutton is at a public event and stops for a press conference, someone should definitely run and jump around the background with the Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander flags.
Probably worth pointing out too: it was the previous Morrison government — the one in which Dutton was Home Affairs minister — that paid AU$20 million for the same flag that he now says he won't use. Maybe he's forgotten?
See also: National grid could be entirely powered by Peter Dutton's bullshit, CSIRO finds.
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kim · 1 month ago
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This would fit in with the Corpo world of Cyberpunk 2077.
Like everybody, I too was shocked when Jaguar first showed their new branding. Didn't really understand it, but also left benefit of the doubt, expecting that there should be more to it. And now, seeing the new elements in situ, applied to a (concept) product, it does make more sense. (The new wordmark still isn't convincing me though.)
As for the concept car itself, I think this Type 00 should have some longevity. We'll find out whether it'll be timeless like the C‑X16 (F‑Type) and C‑X75 (C‑X75), but I can see how this can still inspire in years to come. And I bet Elon Musk is jealous that Jaguar has this, while he's ended up with awkward, supposedly‐“futuristic‐like cyberpunk” objects like the Cybertruck and the Cybercab.
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kim · 1 month ago
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Alex: Polestar is showing the Concept BST at Bicester over Christmas. Me: Bees‐ter. Alex: Bye‐cess‐ter. Me: Less‐ter. Alex: Lie‐cess‐ter.
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kim · 1 month ago
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Woke up, had breakfast, caught up on Formula 1, showered, did the usual weekend chores, moved the server to a new case — unsuccessfully; more troubleshooting needed later — made dinner, and suddenly find/realise it's already dark outside.
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kim · 1 month ago
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Windows handheld, Designed for Xbox
Been thinking a lot about this recently, now that we know a handheld Xbox Xbox — as opposed to a handheld Asus/Ayaneo/Lenovo/MSI/OneXPlayer “Xbox” — is a while away. And to me, a 17‑year Xbox console user, even if you leave out hurdles in software, it doesn't seem possible to be fully satisfied with any of the hardware currently on sale.
Now, Microsoft has this programme called Designed for Xbox, right? Like Apple's MFi, but for Xbox‐compatible hardware?
So while we wait for the real thing, and with the expanding definition of what is “Xbox”, I do wish Microsoft will work with someone to put out a Designed for Xbox Windows handheld. One that should at least have the complete set of buttons of a standard Xbox controller, particularly the Share button for instant screenshot capture and Xbox Game DVR, and the Xbox “jewel” button to bring up Game Bar. (No doubt Microsoft will have their usage statistics across Windows and console, but I know I personally use Game DVR and its rolling‐30‐seconds‐in‐the‐background screen recording on the console a lot.) These functions can currently be mapped to a device's spare/extra buttons, such as rear buttons, but that's extra configuration required of the user rather than available out of the box. Plus it means those buttons are now unavailable for gameplay. (I use the back paddles of my Elite controller in Halo for jump, reload, and mark.)
In fact, while Microsoft is negotiating Designed for Xbox and the use of the Xbox logo/brand with a third‐party, I think it would be fantastic if they just straight up licenced the Xbox controller industrial design for producing a device that is said controller cut in half with a screen added in the middle, à la Sony's DualSense controller and the PlayStation Portal. Compared to the 22 years Microsoft has had since the original Xbox Controller S to the current Xbox Series controller, the current Windows handhelds definitely don't feel as developed ergonomically. There's the basic shape of these devices and therefore their comfort in the hands, obviously — Asus improved the lower corners from the first Ally to the Ally X, for example — but also the way they choose to lay out their controllers. While these devices aren't as extreme as Nintendo with the Switch's right Joy‑Con, the offset of their right analog sticks from their ABXY buttons are very different from an Xbox (and PlayStation) controller's. Some have their stick too low from where it should be, some have them too far to the right of where it should be. Moving your thumb between the right stick to the A button is probably one of the most familiar, most crucial muscle memories in gaming, and a lot of the handhelds have not yet got this right. (The Backbone One is awful in this aspect.) This is another change Asus made from the Ally to the Ally X, but it's still not the same as an actual Xbox controller.
And with a controller fully‐licenced from Microsoft, like Hyperkin has managed for their DuchesS and Xenon, I hope/expect that also means a Designed for Xbox Windows handheld can have the Impulse Triggers that's been in Xbox controllers since the Xbox One. (I find them very useful in Forza.) Even more awesome: fully replicate the four back paddles and hair triggers from the Elite controller.
(I haven't made my mind up about screen sizes yet. 7″ seems…okay, but could be bigger.)
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kim · 1 month ago
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Originally proposed on Kickstarter in 2019 and then 2022, but I was only just told about it today: Gay Sauna the Board Game.
Two to six players.
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kim · 2 months ago
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Variety:
The terms of theOnion's winning bid have not been disclosed. The trustee who oversaw the auction, Christopher Murray, told the court that theOniondid not have a higher cash bid than First United (which bid $3.5 million). But, according to Murray, theOnion's deal was picked as the superior offer because the Connecticut families agreed to forgo much of money Jones' owes them in order to pay other creditors. With the bid from theOnionand Connecticut families, “the creditors ended up significantly better off, and that's why I chose to do, select that as a winning bidder,” Murray said. He called the families' agreement to waive their monetary claims as a “gift” to the otherInfoWarscreditors: “I've never seen this before in any other case.” [Judge Christopher Lopez of the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas] said he was not aware of the sealed‐bid format the trustee implemented nor did he know specifically what assets in the case were being sold. He expressed concern about the way bids were submitted and reviewed by the trustee, and noted that [First United American Companies] (which the trustee designated as the “backup bidder”) didn't know what theOnionand the Connecticut families had bid.
Please…! It's not going to fix this world or me, but please don't take this from us.
I need this.
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kim · 2 months ago
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kim · 2 months ago
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Karen Middleton, Guardian Australia:
… [Nationals Senator for Queensland Matt Canavan] took to social media site [Twitter] early on Thursday to condemn the net zero goal. “The re‐election of Trump means that we can all say what we think again,” he wrote. In a subsequent post he said Australians should “stop whining” about possible tariffs like “some kind of hopeless basket case” and “take charge of our own destiny for a change”. “We should get out of the Paris climate agreement, dump net zero (which is dead anyway because of Trump) and unleash a New Age of Australian Energy Abundance,” he posted.
Fuck off.
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kim · 2 months ago
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Bravo to fair journalists anywhere who can still think, publish, go on air today. I'm not processing. I'm numb.
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kim · 2 months ago
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What the fuck have you guys done.
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kim · 2 months ago
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2016. 2020. And now 2024.
I hate America.
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