I bought a WASDkeyboard, 10 keyless, cherry brown, imported from the States back in 2020, so I'm not a great example of "what to do when you want to avoid proprietary bullshit". Sorry.

I notice that wasdkeyboards.com has recently gone out of business [External Link] too, which is a real shame. They weren't cheap, but they're brilliantly made. I recently removed every key for a big clean. Absolutely solid construction. I loved that you choose the colour layout when purchasing, and the cherry on the cake was being able to choose an alternative logo for your "windows" key.

I went very understated:
https://i.imgur.com/pB8z7jE.jpeg [External Link]

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This looks both awful, and also weirdly compelling!

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Bill's mom was in the board of directors at IBM

Same old story - whenever you consider that a prominent (but usually ethically bereft) entrepreneur is successful because of their skill and commitment, you later discover it's largely just simple nepotism, privilege or luck. Gates, Jobs, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, it's just endless.

Often it's a combination of all three.

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The Destiny 2 bundle is 60% off in Steam, at £60. I'd pay that INSTANTLY, if I could actually play the game on my Linux PC. I'd love to hear a coherent reason from Bungie management on why I can't. Absolutely baffling.

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It's tagged with online co-op, so I'd have been interested in this. But nope, pass. Plenty more where that came from.

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I love the look of this, will be picking it up for sure!

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For the folk saying put multiple games on one card - I think that largely defeats the point of this. They're trying to recreate that one-game-one-cartridge experience. You can get a pack of five 8Gb cards for £25, and I think that's the idea here.

But I get it. £25 for 5x8Gb, or £23 for one 512Gb card... you'd have to be pretty committed to the idea to go all in on this!

I get the impression the dev doesn't care. They note:

Kazeta is definitely not for everyone. It requires a bit of work to get started, but I have been using it quite a bit the last few months and it has brought me a lot of joy. I hope it can bring joy to others as well.

And the comments here seem to agree with that!

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Yep, agree with other comments. Kazeta would need something like Heroic Game Launcher that shows, perhaps when you boot it without an SD Card in it - something that logs into GOG for you, presenting a list of games, then when you click on one, you get the option to "burn" the game to an SD Card.

They already do a bit of this:

If you boot a Kazeta system with no cartridge inserted, it will boot into a retro-style bios menu where you can manage your game saves, just like the gaming consoles from the latter half of the ‘90s.

I love the idea of this. The execution needs a bit... more. Would love to see it develop, even into hardware, or at least "recommended" hardware. It's just a very cool idea!

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Inscryption meets match three, huh? Sign me up!

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Anyone complaining about how HellDivers 2 looks, maybe just hasn't played it. The graphics are genuinely stunning. Perhaps it's how seamlessly the physics and ragdolling works along with the environments, to pull the curtain over the simpler elements, but there's something about wading through fire on a distant planet, smoke floating through the distant mountains, as the sun goes down and you toggle on the gun's flashlight... you won't get this atmosphere in any other game. The sound design too is incredible.

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