James R Kirk @ Kirk @startrek.website

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Did not realize swanstation was not the same as Duckstation! In my experience Beetle is good for accuracy but does not run well on lower end systems.

Surprised to hear that with the popularity of Retroarch on the Steam Deck

When over 100,000 people are doing it more than 24 times per day on average over a six month time scale.

It's pretty great lol

From someone waking up from a coma without experience with Windows or MacOS, Linux truly is the most user friendly. It may not have been true five years ago but in my mind it is without question true now.

I hate to admit sometimes that the Chrome experience (especially on mobile) can be a lot smoother and quicker to load, but Firefox wins every time on extensibility. But to your point yes the hate directed Firefox's way can be well, a bit much.

My latest "grinds my gears" is seeing people run their emails through GPT to make them sound "professional".

If they had gone with my plan of 24 seasons of 24 episodes each then there would have been plenty of room for both!

It's an objectively better plan I don't understand why they didn't listen to me

I believe Firefox is completely FOSS.

Looks like it is! I was under the apparently false impression that it was only partly.

Well, because FOSS apps are usually the best/most user friendly option even if they're not always the most popular. If you woke up after a 30 year coma and had no prior commitments to using any particular software, there would be absolutely zero question that Linux is the best OS today.

An OS is a complicated thing, yet the FOSS option is the safest, most user friendly, and most versatile. I'm just a little surprised there isn't a browser that checks those boxes too, since the browser is a widely used thing. But I'm guessing because Firefox exists the number of devs willing to give the time investment just isn't as many.

I'm not saying that nobody does this, but the idea that there is a widespread problem of people prioritizing GPT over their own cognition for a majority of their decision making has "trying to create a new moral panic" written all over it.

I'm not under the impression that a web browser is a simple thing to build but with Linux advancing the way it has in recent years it continues to surprise me that the "best" browser out there isn't FOSS.

Hopefully that is about to change!

A Raspberry Pi is pre built haha, there is nothing to build (unless I suppose you consider inserting an SD card to be "building"). Those cool mini SNES cases are really just enclosures.

For what it's worth, I saw the RetroFlag "SuperPI" SNES case in person once and was really impressed with the quality.

this is season three of an ongoing series

Fire stick works fine. Retropie is the simplest setup for a Raspberry Pi. You can also just buy one of those Anbernic handhelds with HDMI out. Most of them have bluetooth for additional controllers. I recommend replacing the OS with something like Knulli.

+1 for this recommendation. Gnome is going to feel more familiar to a MacOS user and Silverblue is very resilient.

That alt text is just TOO real

Ohhh I totally misread your comment. Whew!

It will be attacked

If it's not then it's not living up to the Star Trek name IMO!