Are there better alternatives? I was planning on using tailscale until now. :P

This is a 2024 moto g stylus 5G.

I’m on a Motorola, I don’t think it’s flashable…

Honestly, I kinda like it. I don’t think my phone will get 16, though. I’ll probably get android 18 or whatever is out then.

I had the Samsung version shit itself. 20 cent ribbon connector blew, Samsung refused to replace it, and instead wanted to replace BOTH screens and the hinge for $600. I threw it in the landfill and bought a $250 Motorola. Idiotic, anti-R2R companies.

I’m in a similar boat for my Corsair iron claw. Next mouse is definitely gonna be full plastic, this rubber compound wears out far too fast, and doesn’t have replaceable parts. Definitely my last Corsair mouse.

Honestly, not much of a difference. Default android is a bit more annoying, and the secure folder is inferior. The cameras are decent. It’s a solid phone, and the stylus is pretty decent for notetaking. I use my stylus for grocery lists. The headphone jack and SD card is awesome. The screen and processor are great, and the battery is way larger AND charges faster than my s9 or my z fold 4. The stylus is about the same as the z fold stylus.

The phone is pretty solid as an all-arounder. For $250-450, it’s hard to have any complaints.

Huh, mine have been totally fine, but I got a very late model, I believe around October or November. Perhaps they fixed it.

They might not be, but God they are cute. I know they are wild animals, but I wanna get in there and play with them. :)

Zoom in on the face of the one in the header pic. They look like wise, noble anthro librarians from a TTRPG.

The Stylus 2024 is an excellent phone, coming from Samsung. It was on sale for $250 last year, which was great. I doubt I’ll go back to flagships, tbh. This phone feels nearly as fast as flagships in everyday usage. The only slow part is editing screen recordings or videos, which I seldom do anyways. The headphone jack and microSD card is really nice and surprisingly useful.

All my joycons have drift, and I have several sets. I’m not touching a switch 2 because of that, and the insane cost of games. Nintendo needs to make better hardware.

Just get a Motorola phone, the stylus 5g has a micro SD and headphones jack for $250 on sale. I got one after I broke my last Samsung phone, and I was pleasantly surprised coming from S and Z series phones.

Okay, glad I’m not the only one who noticed strange omegaverse podcasts on Spotify.

They actually are really nice, but they still need some time in terms of reliability. They are awesome for reading books or the news on the go, though. Or if you need a maps application open while biking. I miss mine, but Samsung still has dogshit repairability, so when a 10¢ ribbon cable broke (understandable), their solution was to replace all three screens, or pull a repair shop’s license. A $600 replacement.

Oooh, that does look pretty!

For reference, this is what Maya reminds me of, Merle Dandridge, VA for Half Life 2’s Alyx Vance.

I’ve skipped to some slower commentary, just so that you can kinda see what a human and AI can sound like with similar pacing while reflecting on a question:

https://youtu.be/GCgkK-Y_uwg?t=8m

Wow, Jesus. Maya has the same conversational style that Merle Dandridge has in the Half Life 2 commentary tracks (in commentary mode).

That is, even for AI, eerily good. Honestly, I’m not sure if I could always tell them apart if I was fed a bunch of voice clips blind, and asked which ones were human, and which were AI.

I agree, the last genuinely pretty game was Emerald, imo. Diamond and beyond is where 3D assets started weakening the art direction, imo. Either keep the beautiful pixel art, or do proper cel shaded graphics, like windwaker. Personally, I’d stick with pixel art for the strongest possible art direction.

Black Mesa, if you are playing through the half life franchise. Also, probably one of the best remakes ever. I can’t think of a remake better than the original, and I played HL and Black Mesa back to back to be sure.