I've copied and pasted other people's Bookmarklets before. ;)
I've had a couple decades of eclectic, self-directed tech learning. There's no money for technology in education, so I'm always kludging things together, and there's nobody at any school I've ever worked at who can teach me much, so I need to figure shit out myself.
It'd have been nice to be a junior to a greybeard for a few years, but I've made it work.
Just FYI, ReviOS is a playbook (set of system changes) that strips all the crap out of Windows 11 while still being almost entirely functional (I believe it disables automatic driver downloads, but it still gets Windows security updates.) I use it in my VM.
It's super easy—install Windows 11, run the ReviOS playbook, then a Ninite to install all the essentials (including Classic Shell I think? Although I prefer one called something like Start Back.)
I know enough to parse the code, especially with the comments. It was a logical algorithm, it worked, and it was just for reformatting a page to print cleanly, so there was basically no risk if it didn't work. I code for work, I just don't know JavaScript syntax or functions.
Anyway, I was impressed it actually worked. I'm an AI skeptic, which is why I thought it was noteworthy to get well documented, clean, functional code from vibe coding—even in such a trivial context as swapping a head tag and removing script tags.
Maybe, sorta. But there are a zillion games it can't play, it's expensive AF ($42€/yr for premium), and it's not nearly as immersive since it's not actually a simulator.
It's a cool site if you just want to pop into a casual game, but not so great if I want to play something even medium heavy like Clank!
Edit: That looks aggressive... The game is called "Clank!"
I'm getting a 4-pack of Tabletop Simulator. Not sure if that counts, since I already did that once—I have new people to try to rope into playing boardgames digitally with me, lol.
I actually got really clean, well commented code from Copilot earlier this week.
I have no experience with JavaScript to speak of, but realized a Bookmarklet would be a perfect solution for reformatting a particular web app for printing. I already had a head replacement with CSS to do all the formatting, and I was using a RegEx to strip all script tags.
Anyway, I asked Copilot to write the Bookmarklet to replace the header, with full contents explaining the training behind the code, and an explanation of how the script functions below. When I got an error, I asked if to fix the error and or identified that Bookmarklets work better as single lines, so it fixed it. Then I added the requirement about replacing scripts, and it did that too, but for commented and a clean one-line version.
The one-live versions even up getting truncated, so I need to copy/paste from earlier (correct) endings, but otherwise it was an incredibly smooth experience.
I spent longer writing the guide for how to use it than the time it took to vibe code it and test it. I was super impressed.
(Granted, that's a pretty easy coding task...)
I'm liking Krita and Photopea (web app), but I'm not heavy into photography. I haven't looked for a Lightroom replacement.
It will also likely work really well, apparently. I think you just need to be careful to pick a distro that comes with NVidea drivers, like CachyOS, and it will likely just work. Test with a live USB boot.
Shitty timing for the Gabe Cube launch to have all these market forces fucking with hardware prices. There's going to be some massive sticker shock when the price is announced.
If you have an AMD GPU and don't care about playing games that require kernel-level access for anticheat (ew), then Linux might just work better for you than Windows, for most games.
Like, getting Minecraft installed and working with mods in CachyOS just required installing Prism Launcher from the CachyOS repos (1 easy step) then launching it. I didn't even need to open a web browser to download an installer.
Heroic Launcher is amaze balls, too. It pulls all the free games I get on GOG, Epic, and Amazon (iirc?) into one library that looks and works like Steam's (amazing) library. So slick. (I think it's preinstalled in CachyOS, too.)
Windows Search Service (or whatever it's called). Every time my VM completely locks up, it's that fucker.
Thankfully, I can then just switch back to butter-smooth Linux for a while to do another task while Windows un-fucks itself.
I tried it. Joining the group gave me the option of joining anonymously, so that was easy. Installing from the Play Store just worked once I was able to join.
My biggest issue was that the controls being in the corner as a historic didn't make any intuitive sense for me, so I kept going in directives I didn't anticipate. I have no idea what the "🎥+" button is for, but it gets in the way of having centre-of-screen controls, which would mean dragging to the left actually moves left instead of still being up/down because I didn't go left enough to get past the midline if the joystick.
Are you left handed, btw? Because it's weird to have the default control on the left side of the screen. I'd suggest the following UI changes:
My biggest challenge with the concept is that the 3D view + first red walls doesn't allow seeing enough of the maze to give a realistic chance at skill affecting some maze solutions—important parts of the maze are a blur of light/medium red, so it's impossible to quickly scan for blocking walls between the start and the exit, so it's impossible to use skill to win.
Instead, fast run times depend on luck—if you go in the wrong direction right at the start, you can be screwed, and because you can't even see the exit as you move towards the side corners, you have no way of using skill to resolve this until you've wasted as long as it takes to fully solve the needed the correct way (and then it feels extra shitty to need to backtrack, eating even more time).
So, when I have a great run, I'm not proud of the score because it was lucky. And when I have a really bad run, it's just frustrating.
The visuals need to be clear enough from the start that it's actually a skill game, for your conveyor to work. A higher camera angle? Or maybe start with a 1-second animation that drops the ball, with the camera angle pointing down, then increasingly flat as it falls, until it ends with something similar to what you have now. Then there's a quick chance to scan the maze before the run starts.
The red-on-red needs higher contrast, too. It's frustrating and inaccessible for gamers with visual challenges. I'm not a designer, so idk about colour theory too much, but the walls and top of the maze you need to run through a contrast checker, imho, and maybe use Canva's colour wheel complimentary colour picker or a palette from Lospec to get colors that gel.
It has potential, but it takes flat in its current iteration, imho.
I hope that feedback is helpful!