They also do this thing in the summers where they send folks out to the local beaches to educate people about all the stuff you can find there. It's really cool! Going on until the end of July!

Murderbot is not that. What you see of them is as genuine as their perspective can be. Murderbot may be snarky, but it doesn't have the same braggadocious air, and I do think that changes the character and story significantly. And if you're a similar kind of neuro-atypical then it can be a refreshing bit of heroic representation.

I will give Sixteen Ways some credit though - at least it ended. I don't particularly like the ending, but it is one. Murderbot falls off hard by the time the series gets to full length novels.

I've mostly been happy. There was a bug at one point where the iOS app couldn't delete more than 10 emails at a time, which may still be there. I haven't had to do a purge for a long time so I've not checked.

Otherwise, pretty great. I don't care about having a desktop client - never did with gmail and never have with proton. Aside from the aforementioned bug the iOS app has been good enough. The filtering features worked just like I hoped, and with catchall addressing I've been able to detect a few data breaches, on a few occasions before the company in question did.

VPN works well. I wish I could just pin my favorite connnection on the desktop app since I only ever use the one. I've got it set up on my router as a toggle, but I don't usually want my whole network switching.

I don't use the calendar, I've got a paper calendar instead because I like the art and having it in my face makes me actually look at it.

I also don't use drive. I really don't have much data honestly outside of my media collection which is too big for such storage services, and backed up with the physical media anyway. I pay for iCloud for easy backup and photo storage, and so I just put the handful of docs I need to sync there. And none of that is stuff I'd care much if it leaked. No nudes, no tax documents.

Pass is pretty great. I'd been using LastPass for ages and eventually migrated to BitWarden after being unhappy with the offering for a while. Then recently I switched to Pass since I was already paying for it essentially. I really like the email aliasing feature, since that's something I was already doing manually via catch-alls. My only complaint is that it's not obvious that I can just respond to emails sent to that alias without compromising my actual address. I'd really like for it to be part of the mail UI. With my hand-crafted aliases I always just created a new user whenever I needed to respond, and it'd be great if I didn't have to do that and could just use the same system as protonpass. Because it's so much nicer.

For reference, I'm on a (legacy) Visionary plan that gives me access to everything, which is very similar to the current family plan.

But hey, it's free. And it hits the most important consideration: it could not be easier to use. That's pretty critical since my club mates don't have much capacity for troubleshooting.

They made the game so much more playable it's hard to understate. We're not even talking mouse vs keyboard here. They made one of the core mechanics (labor assignment) go from something that essentially required a third party tool to manage to something that is trivial to manage in its vanilla state. Sure it took some adjustment for long-time players and some prefer the algorithms used by those custom tools, but those tools are being made available.

One hurdle I've stumbled over recently is the question "what is a type?", the answer can be surprising. Unions, for example, are types but not `Type`s. A function that takes an argument of type `Type` will not accept a Union. So if you want to write a function that effectively "casts" a parameter to a specified type, you can't. The best you can do is have an overload that accepts `Type` and does an actual cast, and then another that just turns it into `Any`. This is, in fact, how the standard library types its `cast` function [1]. The argument I've seen for the current behavior is that `Type` describes anything that can be passed to isinstance, but that's not a satisfying answer. Even then, `Union` can be passed to isinstance and still does not work with `Type`. Talk currently is to introduce a new kind of type called `TypeForm` or something to address this, which is certainly an improvement over nothing, but still feels like technical debt.

[1]: https://github.com/python/typeshed/blob/main/stdlib/typing.p...

- Has a nearly unusable store front where discovery is basically impossible

- Requires you to pay for online matchmaking, while having a worse online user experience than the Xbox360

- Has remarkably fragile joysticks prone to drifting after any decent amount of play

- Has no capability of streaming from my pc

- Doesn't support modding

I would love to live in a world where Nintendo had a modern digital presence, but we just aren't there.

That said, your points aren't wrong. The switch is definitely more ergonomic so if I know a game is on there and I don't care to mod it then that's where I go.

Another variant of this that's no less infuriating is the classic "corporations do most of the polluting, so I'm entirely absolved of responsibility".