"I can use x, everyone should do that"

The entire world runs on smartphones these days, did you miss that memo? And yes, you're right! You can live without them. But that is like running hurdles and saying I won't jump because the track normally doesn't require it.

Was gonna say twinsies and still will

I have these quite often and have to pull them out. Feel like those are connecting straight to the nerve endings

Do you also use parentheses in sentences if you think something doesn't fit the sentence yet important enough to type out?

I like it! I rather not digest his stupidity at my full reading speed

Audio is one of the very short list of things windows actually handles better. I have a very nice DAC for my iems and on Linux it is stuck at sub cd quality. On windows I can go 32bit audio :/

Unihertz titan 2 elite has plenty of buttons

I'm fed up with this shit. My parents educated me on the internet and the potential of seeing things you don't want to see. They knew there was no change to 100% block or monitor what we did and instead made sure that they were always there if we did see something disturbing.

Now I'm at the frontier age of getting kids and I just know that my kids will be just as smart in circumventing this kind of bs as I was (school monitoring web traffic ain't working with a vpn) and I will gladly teach them about the internet. Hell, I'll even take them back to when the internet of old and show what kind of crap we had to deal with.

Solutions like these are like a bandaid. You're not solving the problems. And even that is a utopian thought, but they ought to focus on the people that make the web unsafe, not the kids

Ours only play with the litter that gets on them like it's one of those things with a ball stuck on it

I got a set of gullikits which I believe work both in the oled and lcd deck, you have a switch for which version you're using. They are great and have never let me down. My case was the same as yours, my left stick had a drift.

Some say the gullikits have a square box and that impacts how it responds, but I haven't noticed it. Then again, my deck is for couch gaming mostly

Edit: see comment below, the gullikits are not interchangeable

Don't play to win is the trick. Learn from your failures, because in chess they are your failures. 99/100 times you lose because you screwed up and that says something about you. That 1 out of 100 is when you have a very good game but the other party as well, those most likely end in a draw.

What helped me improve was doing a lot of puzzles, these help with pattern recognition. I don't necessarily know openings by heart, but I try (emphasis on try) to keep myself to the ccao (check, capture, attack or optimize) strategy for each move. This means looking at the board to see what changed with the move of the opponent. Maybe some square is now weak and you can exploit that if you cannot check, capture or attack.

In the end, chess is largely a game against yourself. Just play and learn.

Edit: I've played for a few years now and still am shit, it's a game you actually have to invest a lot of time in if you want to become "good" If you play for fun it doesn't matter :)

Sadly my gf plays online with friends, otherwise I'd take it of her hands when she inevitably gets a new console. She is thinking of going the steam route, as digital only is not why she plays console