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  • Mostly for finding information that for whatever reason can be difficult to find using search engines. For example, I’ve used ChatGPT to ask spoiler-free questions about plot points in books I’m reading, which has worked rather well. It hasn’t spoiled me yet, but rather tells me that giving more information would be a spoiler.

    Last time I tried to look something up on Google, carefully, I got a massive spoiler for the end of the entire book series.

    I also use it for code-related questions at times, but very rarely, and mostly when using a language I’m not used to. Such as when I wrote an expect script for the first (and perhaps only) time recently.



  • At the International Roguelike Development Conference 2008 held in Berlin, Germany, players and developers established a definition for roguelikes known as the “Berlin Interpretation”.

    These guys have extremely strict definitions, which mean that most “rougelike” games are in fact roguelites, if you care about what they think.

    There are nine “high value” factors that are more or less a requirement:

    Random Environment Generation
    Permadeath
    Turn-Based
    Grid-Based
    Non-Modal
    Complexity
    Resource Management
    ‘Hack-n-Slash’
    Exploration and Discovery

    Plus six “low value” factors that are less important:

    Single Player Character
    Monsters are Similar to Players
    Tactical Challenge
    ASCII Display
    Dungeons
    Numbers

    There is, as you might expect, a fair bit of controversy about that though.

















  • LCD for extra brightness? I don’t think you’ve been keeping up as mobile OLEDs are usually brighter than mobile LCDs. Not that there are many LCDs left.

    The Nokia XR21 is one LCD phone released in 2023:
    IPS LCD, 120Hz, 450 nits (typ), 550 nits (HBM)
    Another phone with brightness listen on gsmarena is the Oukitel WP30 Pro:
    IPS LCD, 120Hz, 430 nits

    Take a few popular OLED phones for comparison…
    Galaxy S24: Dynamic LTPO AMOLED 2X, 120Hz, HDR10+, 2600 nits (peak)
    iPhone 15: Super Retina XDR OLED, HDR10, Dolby Vision, 1000 nits (HBM), 2000 nits (peak)

    Or for consoles, Steam Deck LCD is about 400 nits, while the OLED is up to about 600, or 1000 in HDR.