It all depends really, Steam Deck is the best all rounder but for specific niches (tiny and portable, retro form factor) there are better ones 😀

An insurance doctor would say that unironically

Being with people without an activity is weird for a long time, you need to REALLY know them to do that.

ITT: Downvoters don’t know that latest iPhones have a satellite messaging component: https://support.apple.com/en-us/101573

“This blogger” is Simon Willison, who has been doing LLM benchmarks and other LLM-related things since before it was cool

Not a random substack grifter

Is there a master list of ships that support genocide, so that I don’t end up on one?

It definitely has specific blocks on what it will output.

And more is better so people get used to using them and skip the telcos and other stuff that can be tracked

Meshtastic requires bespoke hardware, it’ll always stay a marginal tool

This requires: an iPhone.

And someone will make a bridge from this to Meshtastic in a while anyway

This is nothing like the ones you list, this is local only no internet

And LocalSend

Briar doesn’t have an iOS client an never will

This doesn’t have an android client 😀

LLMs are shit at current events

Perplexity is kinda ok, but it’s just a search engine with fancy AI speak on top

Wrong 70% doing what?

I’ve used LLMs as a Stack Overflow / MSDN replacement for over a year and if they fucked up 7/10 questions I’d stop.

Same with code, any free model can easily generate simple scripts and utilities with maybe 10% error rate, definitely not 70%

I want loitering munitions with face detection, all targeting Putin, his oligarchs and their families.

If your game is something that needs it, definitely go for it.

Something like Noita comes to mind

Very very few actual profitable companies roll their own engines.

Supercell has their own, but it’s because they started before there was anything available.

Indie games make their own engines but it’s more of a hobby or passion project, not something that can employ two dozen people to develop it.

Quick, say something bad about Russia! 😀

Or your engine can do something that’s hard to do with Godot, Unity or Unreal

If you have the talent and manpower to create your own engine, it’s better business to make that engine your product instead of whatever game you wanted to make.