Man, this looks ridiculously fun. My jaw kept hitting the floor when every vehicle was revealed to be "real". Love it.

Minecraft, in space, with vehicles... and a story-mode? Count me in. Yeah, I guess it's a voxel NMS, but the story in that left me pretty cold, and the "collect all the words" got old quick too. I wonder how engaging this feels to play.

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And the execution of that "absurdist web comic" (not sure what else to call it) is at the very least decent.

You could call it "Placeholder graphics" though. Sure it's consistent, and it's good to hear it's the style that the dev was aiming for. But personally I can't get invested in a game with that style, because it DOES remind me of a half-finished game, awaiting actual, finished art.

Still better than I can draw, of course. You know what they say - those who can, do. Those who can't, critique.

But I'd personally have to be extremely invested in the game's story, logic and gameplay to look past the graphics.

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I'm with Tevur, sadly. Love the style - it's got a real Bard's Tale 1 feel about it... but those graphics. I just can't.

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The primary problem with kernel involvement remains: crashes.

I mean, sure... but when was the last time you had a game crash? I play a LOT of games, and an actual game crash, or worse, freeze? It's like once a year if that.

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I was just walking around the house with the electrician to every room with my heavy ass laptop with a usbc->eth adapter dangling off of it

You and me both, that was exactly my painful experience too. However, I do think the eth, while awesome, is overkill here. A little usb->eth dongle would suit me.

Edit to add, I went back to look at the Pilet again and while both are appealing (particularly the larger Pilet model), I have to say this Mecha is waaaay more stylish. And I love the modular keyboard and gamepad options. Just a shame these are Kickstarter projects. Got a wait on hands, I guess.

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I can't believe a reasonably respected brand like Lenovo is using marketing BS like "AI-powered software" in their literature. Pure cringe.

Interested in these though, shipping with SteamOS as they do. I'm not sure about those touchpads though. The one on the Killswitch is so small it looks like a goddam fingerprint sensor! Decent sized touchpad on the "Go 2" model though. I was torn on the lack of a left-touchpad until I realised that the only time I ever used the left-touchpad was for the keyboard.

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I haven't paid the "Microsoft Tax" in well over a decade, so if any of these devices are sporting Windows as the base O/S, they're dead to me. Doesn't matter if their underlying compatibility makes them interesting Linux devices... MS ain't getting a penny off me if I can help it.

And yeah, those style-lines are pretty childish too.

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Anyone else getting a virus warning from google drive when trying to download this?

Just tried it based on your comment, and yep, Google throws up a virus warning. The link is useless as a result, sadly.

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Looks like you need Windows to run their firmware updater

Huh. I'm out then.

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That's about 8 articles every day, assuming you took the weekends off (which you didn't always) and didn't take any holidays (which you barely did!). Amazing work ethic. Thanks so much for all your contributions, Liam. Here's to a more relaxed 2025. Let's say... 7 articles a day, eh? :grin:

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