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Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 07/08/2026

Try exporting all from "grids" page

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 05/08/2026

also - UI was remade from scratch - categories are now drag-and-droppable - sharing links are much better now - print mode, light/dark theme, shareable images and so much more you can use it here: tools.spectral.gg/hero-grid/

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Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 05/08/2026

Updated my Dota Hero Board to 3.0.0 after many years It has a SHITLOAD of new features, like - import/export in-game hero grids - automatic generation of stats-based tier lists - also automatic generation of personalized grids - items in hero grids - custom portraits styles...

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 17/07/2026

But he juicy stuff starts straight after: - Starbound - The Zachtronics Solitaire Collection - Sonic Frontiers - Persona 4 Golden - Muse Dash Honorable mention: Super Hexagon, which surely has about 200+ hours throughout different accounts and platforms, but only ~60 on main steam.

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Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 17/07/2026

How many Steam games over 100 hours do you have I'm at 12, but to be fair a lot of g ames have seemingly low playtimes, but were played offline (e.g. Sonig Generations, Portal 2, Deus Ex, Borderlands 2) Top-5 on the list: - Dota 2 💀 - Spiral Knights - Underlords - Deadlock - Artifact Classic ...

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Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 17/07/2026

apparently asahi is working on M3 now but yeah, I've got myself M2 specifically because it was linux friendly and I wanted a laptop with a very good battery life (and it just so happens that a good laptop with great battery life is an arm based macbook)

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 16/07/2026

Macbook M2 + Asahi Fedora, nothing too fancy

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 16/07/2026

The "can't allocate memory" error I assume comes from mesa and is graphics related, and the main reason behind the problem is likely to be muvm and how it manages memory for the virtualization. And probably if one would get rid of muvm things would work much better? Idk

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 16/07/2026

Magically Dota on Arm works like a charm now. Used Ayn Thor and gamepad controls to play bot matches, watch some games and play Nest of Thorns a bit. After the most recent Steam update it got much better. Still no luck with Steam on Macbook+Linux though. Can't allocate memory.

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anyway, worked as a panelist for a couple of days for the russian EWC broadcast, it was pretty exciting! happy to do more of that in the future

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Why would anyone run Dota on Ayn Thor, a portable clamshell android handheld device, you might ask? The answer is simple: why not?

And of course, natively on macos everything runs smoothly, same can be said to some degree about Ayn Thor + Android + GameNative. So the devices are capable, at least there's that. I'm very curious to see a more advanced version of Steam for Arm and FEX with better performance. Sounds promising.

- On Ayn Thor it's fun to have a proper distro onboard (Armada, which is Fedora, repackaged to be like SteamOS), but at the same time it lacks a proper support for the second screen. Even using it as a touchpad/trackpad would be enough, or detecting it as a second screen.

Apart from that - the biggest downside on macbook: asahi doesn't support deep sleep/suspend just yet, so battery life is naturally much worse. But it's weird, as it sometimes might stay in sleep mode for 8 hours and use just 1% of battery, then use 20% in the next 4 hours.

At the same time, Artifact running via Proton seemed to have more stability and no graphical glitches, so here's that I guess?

For macbook, part of the reason is different page size, which requires running steam through muvm. And I thought the issue was primarily with how VRAM is split when running this way. But the same was happening on Ayn Thor: very slow load times and eventual crashes.

Or to be more specific, Linux versions, running on Arm through FEX suck. I tested Artifact and Dota 2, in both cases the games seem to have issues with VRAM, crashing when there are multiple models on the screen. Artifact went a bit further, with horrible glitches during a match

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 22/06/2026

Got myself a macbook for the 2nd time in my life and installed Linux on it. Also installed Linux to my Ayn Thor. Thoughts: - Steam for Arm runs genuinely well in some cases, but in other cases it runs worse than GameNative on Android - Dota and other Source 2 games on Arm SUCK

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Every time I look at Artifact, I wish there was a Dota 2 Tarot Deck I need it so bad

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Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 20/06/2026

sorry valve we all are just too curious

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Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 29/04/2026

it's both funny, surprising and upsetting at the same time that I've only seen a single Doctor Who themed post card, but no other merch or anything. Almost like DW did not exist.

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 23/04/2026

Cherry picked stats regarding what topic?

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Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 21/04/2026

You actually can! I haven't played myself in a while though, and queue times were pretty long

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 21/04/2026

fully prepared for the upcoming honeymoon trip

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 20/04/2026

100 million rows in PHP challenge (and a bit of D language) That was a pretty fun challenge (thanks brendt), so I wanted to document the thought process behind the solution, along with what other did better. leamare.substack.com/p/100-millio...

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Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 07/04/2026

Honestly it's kind of wild that a device as capable as Ayn Thor, being on par with Switch 2 probably, is so small. Steam Deck helped me to start getting through my backlog, Thor took it to a whole another level.

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 07/04/2026

After I replace the second part of the shell, fix the hinge and replace the screen glass, I will be satisfied.

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Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 07/04/2026

...and accidentally bricked my n3ds while trying to repair the hinge 🥲 Well, not bricked, I think the ribbon cable on the opposite side got stuck somewhere and it can't load now. I think some additional repairs are in order, but I'm a bit too tired from messing with it.

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 02/04/2026

I am not sure I want to do every color as well 😭 But in fairness, getting colors is somewhat easier, I've got a lot of them pretty much by accident while grinding the rare breeds

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 02/04/2026

Finally got all 80 flowers in StreetPass Flower Town

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Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 31/03/2026

Introducing Demonic Stats Hub: Now Fully in Demon Language! www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comm... Reconstructed language structure, fully translated over 1600 strings, including hero and item names.

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 26/03/2026

and they used gifts system to bypass Trade Protection.

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 26/03/2026

TL;DR: a person at our community LAN event compromised multiple accounts by spoofing session files. One account is lost completely. From mine they just stole some rare/expensive items, collected over the years.

Leamare @lea.spectral.gg · 26/03/2026

Wrote a big post on reddit about the situation and the assumptions about how it happened. reddit.com/r/DotA2/comm... This stuff might also be interested to other community LAN event hosts like Crimson Witnesses community Reposts are greatly appreciated

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Now at our place there are 2DS, New 3DS XL, an original 3DS, a random chinese retro console, RG DS, Ayn Thor, Steam Deck, Switch OLED and Switch 2. How did that happen

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Actually that 2DS was my very first game console. Well, not counting a chinese NES knockoff we had at our house when I was like 2-3 years old. And since then I didn't exactly have any other game consoles or similar devices. I just didn't understand the point of having them.

There is so much cool stuff to do with it, the orignal 3DS design is awesome, and there were different limited editions 3DSes. Today I almost feel stupid for buying 2DS instead of Zelda 3DS XL. And for not using it as much all these years.

Eventually I've got myself a 2DS on a whim, played A Link Between Worlds and loved it. Then bought Pokemon Alpha Sapphire and never touched my 2DS for like 7 years and then a couple more years after that. I sort of regret it now, in a way.

Way back in the day a friend of mine introduced me to Nintendo stuff with Wii U and 3DS. And while I liked the concept of Zelda games, I didn't actually play any of them and didn't really understand the point of 3DS.

at least playing old DS stuff on it felt very nice so no regrets there

Is it cheap? Yes, and very underpowered. But it's also very clearly trying to be a "DS in 2026" and it works great for that. And there is also some nice tinkering potential too

>>> - Didn't test other systems much, but wanted to give a shot to 3DS. I was able to make Zelda ALBW working at a decent framerate and playable enough, same with New SMB 2. Something more lightweight will work fine.

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>>> - the sticks feel a bit awkward to use, but that's forgivable considering it's not a part of the intended usecase - and speaking of indended usecase -- it's definitely not a powerhouse, but it works great for DS games. Can't handle anything more than that, but can't be mad for this price >>>

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