Kyle Worthington

The Discourse™ is so very exhausting.

Ah yes, new terms of service. I’m going to… turn them on??

LinkedIn, I'm not sure what you're asking me here.

I like this new sense of humor that Game Freak appears to have picked up in Pokémon Legends Z-A. Also the game is really fun and refreshing, it's the most interesting Pokémon title in years.

Ba-ding!

And a multiplayer-only game to play with friends: Sunderfolk

Ori and the Blind Forest, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Goodbye Volcano High, Rain World, Animal Well, Tunic, and Shelter receive my strongest recommendations. Other great ones: Death's Door, Cobalt Core, Cult of the Lamb.

No other game with anticheat has this issue, just BF6. Makes me suspect that their secure boot checks are misconfigured.

Welp, one of my computers can't play Battlefield 6 for unclear reasons. Presumably the anticheat is blocking it from running, but I can't for the life of me figure out why. Secure boot is correctly configured. BF6 just silently closes during startup, no logs. Gotta use my alternate PC.

Any chance of a Kindle release? I love physical, but I have so little space for books that digital is preferred

Gotta hand it to them, Meta absolutely nailed it with the neural band. This is *the* correct way to interact with AR glasses, period.

I've used many AR glasses over the years and tried many different modalities. This solves about all the problems. Apple and Google and co need to take note.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

The robot vacuum has been broken for weeks and I decided to investigate how to fix it by just aggressively disassembling it. Found the LiDAR motor is burnt out. Put it back together and ordered a LiDAR replacement.

The vacuum suddenly came back to life and started cleaning.

I haven't fixed it yet…

The codes were all taken by a huge crowd of scalpers that had CAMPED OUT in front of my local GameStops and then posted them on eBay for $50-$100 a pop.

This hobby is absolutely fucking impossible and these scumbags have ruined this for all the fans. This is fucking INSANE.

To Google and OpenAI and everyone else with generative AIs: The AI is not my friend. It is not my secretary. It is not an employee or subordinate. It is a tool. Just PLEASE stop with the overly-familiar "humanizing" fluff and get to the point. I don't need affirmations, I need accurate information.

"Yes, you're absolutely right!" - every AI ever these days

Oh my god, *please* stop.

Yep. Video games are very expensive to produce; $100M for a title like this is pretty typical.

After a few more days, I actually generally like the Liquid Glass concept.

But macOS does need some tweaks. Finder’s sidebar is just ugly to me. And there are some bits of UI where the information density is too low, but overall I can dig it. Needs some debugging.

On iOS I think it’s about right.

I wish I could roll macOS 26 back to Sequoia. The UI refresh is... not great. Usually I'm very excited for UI refreshes! But this one needs to be put back in the oven and see more usability studies. And more debugging.

I've been seeing more and more websites just silently or explicitly breaking Safari and iCloud Private Relay as the year goes on. Even manages to trigger IP bans sometimes, which is extra wild! I wonder if this is part of the overzealous, ham-fisted responses to try to block web crawlers lately…

Basically as long as it’s fun and it’s not used *too* hard, it might be a great idea. It’s difficult to judge the whole idea right now since they didn’t show very much. But in principle I’m on board with it at the moment.

Also Samus Akira slide is canon!

At first it really came out of left field. But after thinking about it more and how it might be applied, it would make sense as a method for moving between different biomes (instead of cutscenes) without breaking up gameplay and mixing things up a bit. It presents some fun opportunities!

Man, the most shocking news is that Samus has a motorcycle now? Metroid Prime 4 certainly is going places.
They didn't show very much. Hard to say whether it'll be a good mechanic or not.

Looks like an hour long Nintendo Direct is coming this Friday! Hype~

Kinda wish I could try out the new AirPods Pro 3 before dropping $250 on them. It would be great if they do in fact fit better in my ears; I'm constantly trying to prevent the existing ones from falling out.

So the npm supply chain attack is going to be the long-overdue wake-up call for those with access to critical infrastructure to be mandated to upgrade their 2FA from TOTP/SMS to passkeys/FIDO2/WebAuthn only, thus greatly enhancing the safety of our collective technologies. Right? RIGHT?!

About the same here, also did Hutt Cartel and basically haven’t touched it since. I’ve also heard good things about the newer story, so it’s been very tempting. Probably going to start running it very soon! :3

Gotta get that muscle memory back for the rotations =P

Yep yep :3 Have been logging in recently trying to remember what’s going on in there haha
Feeling like I should finish more story content. You still playing it at all?

WoW also gives me the itch to return to SWtOR…