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First time I hear about the Boox Palma, a phone-sized E-reader with Android and the Play Store, does anyone have it?
  • I've got a Palma. Love it.

    Like others here, I keep wifi off while I'm reading and only turn it on to update my Omnivore articles or update my saved position in a book (using Kindle or Kobo apps).

    I have no idea how the battery holds up for the people who are trying to use it as a phone (ie using it a lot for browsing or chatting and other battery-heavy apps).

    I just wanted a phone sized eReader that could let me install apps other than just a bookstorr. The Palma fits that bill wonderfully.

  • anyone started late with gamepads?
  • I can't play anything that requires precision aiming with a controller.

    A Steam Controller though? I'm way better. Especially with the gyro aiming or micro adjustments on the touchpads.

    I know they are discontinued but as someone like you who had a rough time with those types of games without a mouse, I'd see if you can find a steam controller on ebay or something.

    But I don't play FPSes at all any more really. And with games like cyberpunk, I'm always more stealth than action oriented so it hasn't been a problem. And when I have to use a normal controller and am forced to aim, I heavily rely on aim assist settings. I don't care 😂

  • Buying a Pixel 7 Pro, install Custom ROM or stay on default?
  • Personally I stopped custom roms a while back. I'm not hardcore in the anti-google camp though.

    If you are, obviously custom roms will be all you should be looking at. Tons of good recommendations in this thread already.

    If you're not in this camp though, the default pixel experience has been great for me and might be for you. I find it the least annoying of the oem experiences (not cluttered in features I'll never use, simplified settings menu where I've never had to use the search on since it all made sense etc).

    I'd say use the stock rom for a few weeks. If you hate it, custom roms are always there for you.

  • Older patient gamers: what is your preferred gaming platform?
  • I'm the same way but I bought one of those mini pcs that has a laptop cpu/gpu in it, installed ChimeraOS on it which essentially turned it into a steamdeck.

    I have that hooked up to my living room tv and it's my main gaming device. It's essentially a console. I never upgrade anything. It runs what I play at 1080p with med or high settings.

    Suits me just fine. I mainly just want to sit on my couch and game on the TV instead of being at a desk like I did years ago.

  • Other Patient Gamers Communities
  • Ah OK. Every time someone asks how to find other communities, I see that Lemmy Explorer site linked, which is why I searched there and was confused why this community wasn't on there.

    Nice to know it's showing up in other indexers though.

  • Other Patient Gamers Communities

    I checked that Lemmy Explorer site and searched for "patientgamers" and this community don't show up.

    Just the ones on lemmy.world and sh.itjustworks

    I was just wondering how you all found this place. Are you all on lemmy.ml?

    Does this community show up on any lemmy indexer?

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    How to revitalize this sub?
  • Like others have mentioned, I am in the same boat of having multiple communities to follow with the same name but on different instances and I forget about others or (more likely) don't even know that others exist.

    It does bug me that I can't group communities that exist on different instances together. It would be nice to be able to subscribe to a collection of communities that I can give a label to.

    A way to group all patientgamers communities together would be a huge help.

    It's just the way the whole federation stuff works I guess. And I like it...Except for when I don't 😂

  • One Year Anniversary Giveaway! - WINNERS CHOSEN!
  • That would be really awesome of you!

    After I've picked two winners, we can have you pick two more and you can send them the codes directly as well.

    We can make it the giveaway part 2.

    When we get to announcing winners I'll message you!

  • One Year Anniversary Giveaway! - WINNERS CHOSEN!
  • Thanks!

    It's more like thanks to everyone who has been posting and commenting in the last year and keeping the tone/mood of this place chill, inviting and friendly, which is all I wanted.

  • One Year Anniversary Giveaway! - WINNERS CHOSEN!

    Hey everyone,

    We're coming up on a year anniversary (I think) of this community and I thought I'd do some giveaways to celebrate that.

    It's semi-annoying that not all game stores have digital gift cards you can purchase so there are a few options here.

    1. Amazon digital gift card: for those of you who buy physical games
    2. Physical Steam gift card: the slowest option, as it requires me to leave my house and buy a stamp and mail something (the horror).
    3. Gifted game directly in Steam / GOG.com

    For the gifted games / gift cards it'll be capped at $30 -- after all, we're talking about old games here right? If you want a few games that total up to $30, that's cool too.

    I'm going to pick two members at random from those who reply here as the winners.

    Just comment with what option you prefer, and ideally tell us about what game you'd like to get (I'd prefer to limit the low-effort comments if we can. I like the discussions people have here so please do try to comment more than just "#1" ).

    I'll sticky this post and will leave it open for 2 weeks (end of April is the deadline)

    Thanks for keeping this community a cool place with good discussions!

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    UPDATE 4/30/24:

    This contest is officially over!

    The 2 randomly chosen winnders are:

    @Klanky@sopuli.xyz

    @Dymonika@beehaw.org

    Congrats!

    I will be messaging you both individually to get your email addresses or steam/gog usernames so I can gift you your games!

    Thanks again to everyone again for keeping this place going!

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    Games with Stories
  • This has definitely been the case with me as well. Especially as I got older and had less time to play anything.

    I've always been partial to story over mechanics though. I just think the preference has tilted much further in favor of story games now.

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    Lemmy API - getComments -How do replies work?

    I can fetch the comments for a post using the API using:

    comment/list?post_id=

    and that works fine but I have a question about how to determine what comment is a reply to another/ determining the comment nesting/threading.

    From what I can tell the only thing tying any two comments together is the comment.path prop.

    Is that correct?

    That prop seems to be in a format where each nested comment has the root parent path number followed by . then their unique number. And each subsequent comment is another number sequence after that and so on.

    Example:

    root comment:

    json { "comment": { "path": 12345 } }

    child comment 1:

    json { "comment": { "path": 12345.327928 } }

    Is this correct?

    Can someone who has used this API explain how this works? There are no doc comments in the docs for the http client so I'm just winging it here.

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    Thanks everyone! (appreciation post)

    It's only been 2 weeks since starting this community up but I do love how active it has been.

    Lemmy was very much a ghost town for me when I first signed up and couldn't find any communities to match the ones that filled my feed on reddit.

    Now I see a healthy amount of activity in this and other communities that have sprung up recently.

    Really cool to see people starting threads and offering the nuanced discussions on games here--which is really the stuff I was hoping would happen.

    Anyway, just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has posted and commented and contributed to making this community alive.

    Keep it up!

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    What are you playing this week?

    Anything good?

    I'm hoping to get some time to play Return of the Obra Dinn if I could get any significant amount of time blocked off to game.

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    Hello Ex-Reddit people!

    I saw the recent API charge news with Reddit and saw that people were discussing alternatives to Reddit in the event we all have to abandon it.

    Joined Lemmy here and noticed one of my favorite subreddits had no Lemmy equivalent — so I created it.

    I have no desire to be a mod, so if anyone wants to take on that role just let me know.

    I’m just hoping people do post here if they’re checking Lemmy out and seeing what’s available community-wise.

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