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This is excellent advice 🙂
The only part I might disagree with is this:
Get Switch Lites for anyone who REALLY needs to be playing something else independently when the TV/“main” Switch is in use
Obviously only if the budget allows, but if your kids are at the age where they’ll take their Switch when they visit friends or family, then the version with detachable controllers is probably better.
The Switch has a built in kick stand, and some games, like Mario Kart, let you disconnect the controllers and have one each for a two player game. It’s handy for keeping the kids quiet for a bit, and you don’t need to carry loads of stuff.
If the kids regularly go somewhere, like your parents perhaps, you can buy an extra dock to plug into the TV there, and the non lite Switch can use it in exactly the same way as the one at home. There’s nothing special about the dock, it essentially just connects the Switch to the TV.
It’s a great little console with some fun, if sometimes expensive games. I play mine probably as much as my kid plays theirs 🙂
Devices that you already own (PCs, smartphones, tablets, Fire TV devices, and smart TVs) can become your gaming devices, and Luna also supports peripherals that you already own, such as Xbox One and PlayStation 4 controllers, and mouse + keyboard.
This is the part that interests me the most. I’ve got a handful of controllers that I’ve tried using with my phone in the past with not much luck. If they work with Luna, I’ve instantly got a decent library of games to play anywhere :)
There are card providers like Curve who let you add multiple bank, credit, and store cards to one card, and select which one you want to use through an app. I don’t know whether you can use them through your phone separately though, as I only ever tried it through the Google Pay system.
Curve changed their terms a few years ago so that you can only have one payment card without paying a monthly fee though, so I haven’t used them for a while. On top of that, changing the selected card through the app was too slow for when I was in a queue and wanted to use a store card and then a payment card.
I didn’t say that it forced me to update. This set of replies is about apps that force close and don’t let you do anything.
My Firefox updated in the background, because that’s how I set my system up, but instead of letting me keep working and updating on the next app start, it forced me to stop what I was doing and update there and then, while telling me that it wouldn’t be restoring any private tabs that I had open.
As a contrast, I was also running Chrome. That also updated, but waited for an app close before completing the update. It didn’t interrupt me, and it didn’t lose any of my open tabs.
Firefox has it wrong in this case.
I had it this week on my Mint laptop, with the bundled Firefox. I hadn’t used the laptop for a few weeks, so I knew it needed updates, but I needed to get something done straight away.
I opened something in a new tab, and it opened as the restart to update tab. As well as breaking my train of thought, it restarted without opening the new link, but also warned me that it wouldn’t reopen any private browsing tabs and another type of tab that I can’t remember.
However they justify it, that’s bad design.
I had the same. I installed it and realised that it had imported my Chrome bookmarks. I didn’t purposely choose that, so was pretty annoyed, but thought that maybe I’d missed a check box. When I realised that it had made itself my default too, I uninstalled it.
I reinstalled it a while back to try again and to test a website I was making, and after one update I launched it and it played a really loud sound. It was late at night and my kid was in bed in the room above me. Because I wasn’t expecting any sound, never mind anything that loud, I panicked and didn’t turn the volume down in time.
After I got my kid back to sleep I uninstalled Opera permanently.
Link to the game without having to read the AI sounding article 👍
There’s an old post here that gives the specs that I remember. If I can find the box, I’ll compare them
I was able to remove some of the bloat using the Universal Android Debloater. If you do the same, remove a few things at a time and test in between. Removing the Xiaomi phone app stopped my dialler from putting the overlay on top of everything else.
The Mi 10t Lite camera looked great in reviews too. Like most reviews, the photos were taken under ideal conditions. It’s very rare to see real world photos, like trying to get a photo of a kid or a pet running around in poor lighting.
Take Xiaomi phones with a pinch of salt. I’ve got the Mi 10t Lite 5g, and while it’s fairly decent, it’s got its share of problems too.
Every time the Xiaomi browser updated, it asks if it can be the default viewer for pdfs, no matter how many times you set your default as something else. I’ve uninstalled it now, but I’m pretty sure that it was happening with the video player too. Both would open a ‘Open with’ dialogue with the software as the preselected option, and ‘other’ for the second option, but pressing other would just launch a random selection from the list.
The camera is awful too. Using it in bright sunlight is ok, as long as you don’t want to zoom in. If you do, everything is blotchy? It looks as if it’s been zoomed in by an algorithm that got it wrong, and guessed what the pixels should look like. If you try to use the zoom while taking the photo, you sometimes get random blurred spots in the image. I took what would have been a great photo of my kid with their grandfather, but parts of the photo were randomly blurred.
They might have improved with the newer models, but I would want to see one in the flesh before I spent any money on one.
I’m still on Windows for now, so I use a PortableApps installation to claim the games instead of a phone. I do the same for my wife and kid too. Neither of them has the Epic installer 🤷🏻♂️😁