This article on how to buy a dirt cheap ‘junk’ Sony PSP from Japan, and how to bring it back to life!

https://gardinerbryant.com/buying-a-psp-from-japan/

I love the Sony PSP, and any excuse I can find to write about them is fine by me. But I’m proud of this one :)

You can check it from the source themselves

https://cs.rin.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=159989

For anyone who still wants to access Reddit just to browse favorite (niche) subs which won’t ever get traction here, some third-party apps still work.

My favorite is cygnusx’s Slide for Reddit fork (they picked it up after it was abandoned). You can use it logger in or anonymously - without an account logged in:

https://github.com/cygnusx-1-org/Slide

^ you can see my Slide app with the frontpage showing regular subs, and it doesn’t use the dumb new reddit algorithm which shows you posts from like a week ago.

The other option is Morphe who patch the official Reddit app. It will require an account but you can change a heap of things, block everything you dislike too. The patching app does YouTube and YouTube Music or whatever they call it, but it also patches Reddit:

https://morphe.software/

^ here’s an example of some of the things you can change in a Morphe patched Reddit’s settings

Also sorry for the pictures, I wrote and uploaded this while steaming milk for my coffee!

We do our best in the /c/games community! It isn’t niche by any means, but we have regular posters (including myself) and we have fair engagement on new posts and members also.

Unfortunately as is the nature of most social media, it can only be as active as the users. So for very niche subjects I can’t see Lemmy ever being super viable (sadly)

Whether I could create a new account on Reddit for the first time in years, in order to share articles I have written with more people

Within 24 hours I had one absolutely crazy person declaring that forever more whatever I posted they’d add a comment under it warning people that I’m on a posting crusade (I posted it to one sub: consolerepair)

Needless to say this experiment was flames

I’ve been using tmdb out of spite since they brought this shitty change in. Less reviews, but I can be the change I want to see, and submit reviews here myself

https://www.themoviedb.org/

Interesting.

Is this dragoonDorise’s work? I interviewed them a few years back, and chatted again a couple weeks ago, hoping to write a feature article on the hardware, but that was a no-go.

They were interested in having me write an article on the EmuDeck Android app, but then just kinda ghosted me

I’m glad you didn’t lie about thinking that was crazy!

Thank you! Its *ma’am!

But I think its sad too, that something has made us all doubt everything we read, and judge it all so harshly. What a strange world now :(

Oh that’s so kind of you to say!

One thing I had to change with my writing was dropping my en and em dash use. I loved them, but seeing how Chat has adopted them and throws them out like confetti has made me change my ways :(

I’m really glad you enjoyed the content, Kazeta feels so unique and fun to me, it really desveres some attention!

If you join his Discord, you’ll see he’s working out other physical ‘devices’ which will work on the same principle!

Early days so far, but its exciting to see all kinds of ideas being suggested in there :)

Thanks!

I’ve written…well a bunch of different ‘styles’ of things over the last two or so years. I’ve had plenty of rambling rants on general gaming news (which gets shared exclusively here on Lemmy), and I’ve done just straight interviews (Heroic, Lutris, RetroDECK and so on), I figured it was time to at least try something different. I like the idea of a kind of feature article, and Alkazar was so kind to chat to me for awhile on Kazeta. It felt right.

I’m glad you enjoyed it, even if it kinda took you aback to begin with :)
Thanks for the comment!

Oh yikes, well that’s a hard thing to read when I wrote it! I’ll try make sure in future to diversify what the heck I’m trying to get across. Thanks for letting me know, even if it is a tough thing to read!

A little edit:

Alkazar is very happy with the article, as is Gardiner (whose site this is posted on). I’ve been writing for a long time now, you can check my post history here if you’d like to check through those which I’ve written exclusively for Lemmy. Or you can filter my posts on Gardiner’s site to see the others I’ve written. I’ve had a couple things posted on Gaming on Linux, and also on SDHQ.

As much as I try to not let it get under my skin, the dismissive ‘it’s just A.I.’ comment does get under my skin. It’s awful to read when a ton of work goes into these, and when friendships are formed because of what I write. I get that its not for you, and maybe my pacing of the article wasn’t for you either. Can’t pretend that it doesn’t hurt to read that.

I’m not a professional, this isn’t my business or my life. Its a hobby.

It’s exhausting!!!

So you’d prefer no solution?

I get the hatred, no one loathes Discord more than me, but on their own time and dime they’re giving an option for those who avoid Discord. I can’t understand why your first, and only thought, is to shit on it.

Discord’s pervasive, and has become the default option for too many projects, but I can see why - it is free, and everyone uses it. Easy for us, who haven’t built a fucking giant program and community to sit back and sneer at how they offer support, but this is it. It’s all done now.

Just be glad they’re giving people an option. This isn’t even a ‘solution’ quote-unquote. It is a solution, that will take time and care and effort. Which they’re doing.

Jesus.