I played early access for a while. There’s no controller support yet, but I’m hoping the August release has it enabled already. Supposedly it was implemented well in DoS2 so I’m hopeful it will be just as good in BG3. Currently though, I got a little exasperated with the UI in early access. There were some keyboard and mouse options that were super tedious to try to do with my steam deck (right click and select multiples was a pain, canceling battle actions…) Nevertheless, I found the gameplay to be sterling if I didn’t consider my limitations at the time of trying to use a controller and read the tiny print.

I wait for features to appear. I have an apple phone, but I loathe facial recognition. I have an iphone 13, so it’s new enough that I see no reason to upgrade until there’s a chance that fingerprint comes back. I can’t tell you how many photos I’ve missed waiting for facial recognition to time out so that I can type in a code. It’s ridiculously slow. (I kayak, my phone is in a safe spot, I need it to unlock as I move it into position for the photo…and in most cases, it doesn’t see my face properly during that motion) It’s been so long though that I’m losing hope that Apple will ever give us another option to unlock the phone.

Other features I’m waiting on are getting rid of the lightning port (yay! that’s happening) and getting a better camera that has more robust manual controls. I loathe the automatic options like it deciding that the lighting is too low, so it’ll use a wider angle/faster lens and crop the image. Talk about some nasty, pixelated, artifact fiddled, fuzzy shots! How about just say that the lighting is too low and I’ll move myself closer to the object so I can use the smaller lens? Or skip the picture entirely… Don’t even get me started on watching my phone shift which lens it’s using back and forth…perspective shifting the entire time and messing up cropping. Let me pick the damn lens to use!

Rant off…yes, if apple ever fixes the camera to work without so many automatic “features”, I will likely consider upgrading then.

@cloudless thank you again! So adding a post is more akin to adding a comment. And adding an article is like adding a post. Confusing verbiage indeed. Now I know though. :)

@cloudless Thank you! I clicked directly on the profile menu option, but the ability to set up an avatar isn’t in there. You’re right. You have to go through settings –> profile to get to it.

How do I search kbin to find communities on Lemmy instances? For the life of me, all I can find are the local kbin magazines. They’re great, but I’m newer here and already started participating in communities on beehaw and other instances. I’d like to be able to keep up with those communities too.

Honestly, the redundancy is looking like it’s going to be a problem. There’s a technology community of some sort on every instance for example. solarpunk, futurology etc.

Anyway, if someone knows the magic syntax where I can find and subscribe to these communities from kbin, I’d really appreciate it!

Edit: I’m an idiot. It looks like all you have to do is search for the right term. IOW, like Technology. So it’s not likely that you’ll find the exact same community if you don’t know the correct community name or a partial name. There’s no browsing of a Lemmy instance from what I can tell. Plus, I was using mobile until today. I think on my phone, the location of the community was truncated, so I had no idea that I’d already found the other communities I was already taking part in.