Sean Hollister

I almost wish I’d waited before buying JSAUX’s excellent transparent heatsink backplate for my Steam Deck...because it now comes in better colors, too! Oh BTW: don’t do the RGB mod yet.

When I saw this headline, I figured it was some offhand remark — but no, this entire remarkable essay explores chatbots through the lens of lossy image compression algorithms, and it makes an awful lot of sense. (I’m worrying about bitrot already.)

10GB/s from PCIe 5.0... but also up to 21K rotations per minute from its tiny fan. I’ll pass! More context at HotHardware.

As Wario64 notes, the Nintendo Switch’s first $70 game is eligible for Nintendo’s “Switch Game Vouchers,” which give Nintendo Switch Online subscribers two full-priced Switch games for $100 flat.

You have until 12/31/23 to save your Stadia Controller by converting it to a Bluetooth gamepad — and devs can rescue its more exotic buttons, too. Today, Google’s showing even web games can listen for the Capture and Assistant buttons using WebHID.

Is it coincidence that the biggest champions of mobile VR both formed AI startups after their projects got squashed? Probably! But I’m connecting dots anyhow for fun.

When you join the new Microsoft Bing waitlist, it claims you can get the AI tool faster by installing a browser extension. I did — and now Google and Microsoft are fighting in my web browser.