Same, I feel ya, and like I said, can’t blame ya. It’s a real shitshow out there, hard to tell what is real anymore and what’s bots.

Jumping for sure. Sucks everyone is so paranoid these days, but it’s also easy to understand why. Rest assured, everything on the site is written and edited by humans, and I wrote this post on Lemmy.

From what I can tell some key giveaways are excessive use of emdashes and emoji in lists. LinkedIn is a perfect example of everyone using AI.

But yeah, I recently launched my site in retaliation to all the slop out there (more about that here), as I’m just as sick of it as everyone else, maybe moreso because it’s destroying the field I work in while decimating the careers of many friends and coworkers.

The only AI that touches the site is in place of stock photos and logos, and that’s simply because the site isn’t monetized and doesn’t make any money. Me and the crew would rather put our focus into creating high-quality content, which means recording our own videos and taking our own images of products (we only review products we’ve actually hand tested), as well as writing our own words.

We don’t want to regurgitate news in a rush like the slop shops; we have no interest in writing endless affiliated bullshit recommending products a writer has never used. We want to dig in and report the finer details, the stuff other sites won’t cover because they think their audience are idiots that need everything dumbed down. And that’s the point of opening an independent site, one owned by the writers; we are free to do the job as we see fit, and that means doing it with integrity.

Oh for sure. Heck, I have all 3 black Analogue Pockets, and a couple colors of the Chromatic too. I love me some dedicated hardware. But the modded Game Boys just aren’t cutting it with their buzzing sound, I want perfected dedicated hardware with backlit screens.

You just named a bunch of things that don’t actually exist in one package that fits in my hand, hardly identical whatsoever. Gimme a call when it is. Or don’t, I’m not here to argue semantics of nonexistent things.

The outcome isn’t the same; FPGA devices can read the physical carts. And if the core is made well, it can be indistinguishable from OG hardware, though it’s not like we don’t have some good emus out there as well. For me, it’s like asking why anyone buys imported beer when Coors exists. Sometimes I want something that’s made to be a higher grade, and FPGA devices tend to be on the higher end. I’m a collector of games and devices, and the last thing I’m looking for is yet another cheap emulation device. Those are a dime a dozen that market is served. Right now, what the market doesn’t offer is an FPGA handheld with a 3:2 screen that can read physical GBA carts, and I’d love to get one as soon as someone makes one.

It’s all about the screen ratio. The Pocket is 10:9, same as the original Game Boy. This way all Game Boy and Game Boy Color games perfectly fit the screen. The Pocket can play GBA, sure, but GBA was 3:2, so it’s heavily letterboxed on the Pocket. The Game Bub is a 3:2 screen, while using similar underlying tech of FPGA. Basically, the Game Bub is the right landscape layout and right screen ratio to best play GBA games.

Were it a shithead company like Ubisoft running a crowdfunding campaign, I would heartily agree. But using crowd sourcing for its intended purpose, I’d say it’s less so. Not everyone can just go out and get a loan for $100K to manufacture an open-source handheld. No bank is signing up for that. Really, I’d be a lot more skeptical if they didn’t already have a manu lined up. Sure, crowdsourcing can be risky to back, but I’ve also bought all kinds of stuff off the shelf that was absolute junk at the end of the day. Purchasing things comes with risks, some more than others. You just gotta weigh if the purchase is a risk you’re willing to take.

That logo on the bezzel, though

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Learn to respect yourself and stop caring what others think. You’re there to work. Get shit done, quit wasting time worrying about other people’s feelings that are out of your control.

Just converted their Chromebook over to an AMD system running Fedora. Battery life is what you make it. If you run the processor on performance with the screen brightness high, yeah, it can go quickly. But I can also get a full work day out of it no problem, you just have to keep things in perspective. Plus, you can literally swap to a bigger battery. What other laptop can do that?

Build quality is the same as any other Linux laptop; that is to say, it doesn’t use the fanciest metals; the aluminum is cheap, but so is System76’s metal, which is what it is when you’re keeping costs down for customized laptops. Don’t drop your laptop; you’ll be fine.

Ports are a little limited, but nothing out of the norm for smaller laptops either. You do have the option to swap ports at any time, so there is plenty of versatility you can literally carry with you. Hell, don’t MacBooks only have two ports? Things could be much worse.

The truth is, there is no perfect Linux laptop. Either the Framework appeals, or it doesn’t. Trust that the same way you’re nitpicking Framework could be done to any brand. Find the one you like, and go with it. For some of us, that’s Framework, as it gets closer to our ideal than any other, which is kinda what using Linux is all about: fulfilling our personal ideals.