On Android (and probably other systems), Death Road to Canada is fun, funny, challenging, and comes with no BS.

Wow. That’s cool.

Oh so it’s not a problem for anyone without an Internet Archive login?

TIL, that you can have an account for the Internet Archive. I guess I use it differently than most people, but it’s often a one-and-done use case when I visit.

“Prefer”… when you’re young, you’ve got time to burn online without distractions.

Then you get married, have kids, work a demanding job, and you don’t get time for uninterrupted online play.

Eventually, correspondence chess is the only gaming you have time for! /s

Having been through warranty hell with ASUS years ago, this doesn’t surprise me.

Such an unethical company that deserves nothing but hardship and bankruptcy.

Just make sure it’s not a “smart” projector! LOL

The one feature I like about the smart TV is support for DLNA

Yes, a nice feature that even early “smart” TVs had. It could have stopped at that and everyone would have been happy.

But today’s smart TV’s loaded with ads; unnecessary bloat; “shortcuts” to services you have no intention of ever using; massive user tracking; and complicated firmware/software that can render your TV useless, have become the real problems. It’s the enshittification of hardware that really was just fine being “dumb”.

I remember watching a recent program (one of those investigative consumer news shows), and I remember the LG problem you mentioned. A ton of people had an issue with that compressor, and LG just kept selling the damn things. Knock on wood, our LG washer and drier, and TV have been very reliable.

I’d get a much better experience with a small PC hooked up to it instead

That’s what I do these days. Combined with media I have on my NAS, I don’t need other “apps” or garbage nonsense on my TV. If only they made 60" computer monitors. LOL

I generally prefer simpler devices, and it was difficult buying a fridge with decent longevity (i.e. limited smart crap, ice maker in the freezer instead of fridge, etc). That’s becoming more and more difficult, and large appliances have shorter and shorter lifespans (I had my compressor die twice in <10 years in my LG fridge… fridges used to last 15+ years).

I should say that my current fridge is 27 years old and has NEVER had a problem (other than over-stuffed crisper drawers being broken).

I was reading that the average life for a fridge is 10-15 years, and I can’t honestly believe they are being made so poorly these days. They are such simple appliances, and I dread the day when I have to replace this one for a modern version.

But I’d love for my next TV to be a dumb TV. All the features my LG tv has just gets in the way of using it. LOL

Fair point re: software. Part of manufacturing products that don’t need to be thrown away would entail longer software support, naturally.

But realistically, software was never an issue 15+ years ago, when your toaster and microwave weren’t connected to the internet and your fridge didn’t have a large tablet interface.

I think we would all do better by having a few more “dumb, but immortal” products in our lives.

E-waste will continue to be a problem until companies are forced to make products that are designed to be repaired and upgraded without replacing them.

We have certification for safety and compliance, why not one that guarantees that an electronic product can be fully repaired by the end user using readily available (and affordable!) parts? It can be on a scale from 1 to 10, and the less repairable the item, the more restricted its distribution should be.

Every laptop should be made like a Framework laptop; every phone like a Fairphone. Every electronic product should certified to have long life.

For live traffic, try Magic Earth. I haven’t used it in a while, but it’s another alternative to consider. :)

OsmAnd+ the best

That’s what I use. Some may get too overwhelmed with the feature set it has, so Organic Maps would be a more basic nav app.

But… OsmAnd+ is far more advanced than Google Maps, and can be customized every which way.

Another bonus: You’ll never see ads masquerading as POIs on a map.😀

Man, Dayz.

I played it all the time for years after they made it available on standalone. Probably my most played game ever.

95% of the time, it’s a walking/running simulator. But the other 5% was so memorable. Granted, many of the bugs and issues it had in the beginning made it hard to forget, but I also experienced some wonderful, memorable gameplay!

Long live DayZ! 😄

Local-first all the way!

Cloud software is like being married, but your wife lives with another guy a few cities over. Someone else is benefitting at your expense.

So many great software products go downhill once the desktop versions are put on the back burner for cloud-based versions: , Evernote, Picasa (Google Photos), so many accounting/finance software, etc.

Come on you rich idiots, convert those offices into something useful and they’ll be valuable again.