Mustn’t forget the limited edition pre-order special shelf wallpaper.

They really want to force gamers to buy the old games, just as they were, because those are next to free to adapt to a different platform and people will pay for them.

Nah, if they had wanted that, they would continue to release them in that format. As it stands, they don’t, so you can’t buy those old games from the publisher either.

You can’t have criticisms about the game if you put it on a shelf instead of playing it.

Libraries facilitate widespread piracy of books, by allowing people to read them without a distribution licence, or even take them home!

This is a clear violation of the DMCA, and thus must be stopped immediately!

And that the requirements for those minimal improvements are vast. If you need to pull down 200GB for a minor graphical upgrade, that’s just not really worth it compared to an older game that is a bit graphically worse, but is both smaller, and runs better on newer hardware.

Particularly with the modding scene. You can’t exactly do a randomiser with the cartridge.

Just make the screen one gargantuan pixel, and infer the other 2-million.

Basically. DEI (Diversity, Ethics Equity, and Inclusion, IIRC?) is the new “woke”/SJW bogey.

Having an woman (with exposed skin, no less!) is causing all entertainment to be ruined forever, etc etc, that kind of thing.

EDIT: Equity, not ethics, whoops! Thanks for the correction.

Highly unlikely. Minecraft has a lot of quirky code, and the mods would have been built around that code.

For all intents and purposes, the clones are a different game entirely, and unless the mod author specifically goes out of their way to make their mod compatible with the clones, or a different version for it, they won’t work.

Even before that, considering the music division put copy-protection rootkits on CDs that often broke computers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

It’s out for a while, but people find it to be not as good as the first game.

i’m pretty sure the subtext of “woke” is “there are women and non-white people here”

Or that the women in it aren’t explicitly tailored to their tastes. There’s a post going around some places about someone trying to “correct” the image of one of the characters to make them less “woke” (they were wearing a baggy jumpsuit). The resulting character’s back-end looks like it’s been plastiform sealed.

Would that work in OP’s case, where the spammers just spoof a local number? You’d think that it would get around that, just by virtue of being an “unrated” number.

It’s probably a coincidence. Systems like that would mark your number as active as soon as you called back, and therefore either valid for spam calls directly, or ready to resell to other spammers, so they get their money in either case.

Even the old ones aren’t particularly immune. A pokemon gold cartridge sells for only $10 less than a brand new Pokemon game at a fair few of the games stores I’ve been to.

How long before it’s less n(A) games, and more screaming?

Or the phone’s been infected with adware.

Unfortunately, there isn’t one, since it’s working as intended, short of pointing the phone DNS and Pihole to the same servers.

You’re overriding the DNS of the phone to point to the new server, and it will prioritise that over asking the router for one, like it might otherwise do if there wasn’t one configured.

Minecraft. It’s fun to just take some time off from all the survival aspects of things, and enjoy a bit of creative mode building.

Been getting back into RimWorld. Started a new save with new mods, since the old one was from the 1.3 update, and everything was all kinds of broken.

So far, rather enjoying it. It’s not quite as efficient or smooth as my old save, but it has its own charms.

Does a new widget have the same issue?

Maybe it’s a maladvertising popup?

It might just be that the ad is bogging down the device, rather than a change to the scrolling behaviour. I’ve definitely had my phone heat up noticeably when it’s trying to load an ad.

I’ve had a little noticeable burn-in on my 5 year old OLED phone, but you usually don’t pick it up, unless you’re looking closely, or have a video that highlights the relevant parts of the screen.

Wired also doesn’t drop out if there are too many people in an area. Like if you’re listening to music whilst waiting for the train.

And they’re cheaper, since you don’t need batteries, radio, and audio processing hardware on top of that.

Could it not just be defeated by using a stock photo, or one of the myriad filters that “age-up” a person? It seems like a lot of trouble to go to, for measure that can be easily circumvented.

Doesn’t Apple already allow side loading to some degree?

You can just put an app onto a iDevice through iTunes, without having to run it through the App Store. Apple even puts out a specifically outdated version of iTunes that still retains much of the App functionality.

It’s not as though they’re trying to build the feature in from scratch.

One of Mastodon’s upsides, the lack of an algorithm also hurts it, I find.

It’s surprisingly difficult to find new and interesting users to follow, since they don’t suggest anything, but at the same time, the only way to find users is seemingly to browse your local instance’s users, which won’t cover interesting things from other instances (unless they’re specifically boosted).

Personally, I use Jerboa on mobile. It’s got its own problems and compatibility issues, but they’re also not so significant that it makes me want to go use another app, and with lemmy.world still being on an older version that probably isn’t compatible with most apps that work for 0.18 and above, the risk of breaking everything makes it not that worthwhile.

They’re clearly just from the future.

I’m personally not that fond of it, and kind of want it to blow over in favour of a new trend.

It lacks the charm, and neat little 3D effects that skeumorphism had, but that’s also not helped by it being implemented poorly.

IR blasters. They were nice as a little pocket universal remote.

The air gestures that Samsung put in the S5. It was a gimmick, but a useful one, since you could use it to control things without having to fiddle with the screen.

Also the screen-off gestures on the Oneplus 5. It was great for turning the torch on or opening apps without having to faff about as much with the screen.

The least controversial opinion here is big companies need to stop with acquisitions.

It does feel a little like there will be only three mega corporations left that develop games, at this rate. A monopoly is never good.

There seems to be a few spread out across a handful of instances, but the biggest seems to be [email protected], followed by [email protected]. There might be a bit of a desync going on, though, since the subscriber numbers seem a bit wonky.

E-Ink would be nice, whether integrated as part of an OLED/LCD screen, or a separate module that goes over the top.

Most of the things that I use my phone for don’t generally need the full colour display (text isn’t that expensive to display), and I wouldn’t mind trading that for vastly better battery life that you can get from e-ink, but having the option to use both is probably the best way to go.

An IR transceiver wouldn’t go poorly either. It’s not something I use much, but it was handy to have when I did, whether to send things around, or to just use my phone as a remote for televisions and things.

But there were smartphones with removable covers. The Samsung Galaxy S5, for example, had both an IP67 rating, and a similarly thin profile to modern smartphones. (It also managed to fit wireless charging in if you had a special back).

It is just Jerboa/Mlem for the time being.

Although it might be nice if Lemmy whips up a lightweight mobile site, like Reddit’s compact. The current one barely runs on my phone.