It took them years to finally add reminders for the birthdays (and similar special dates) in the contact app.

I’m in the same boat.

Elden Ring, Helldivers 2, many games I’d get on Sony PS Store that I just get on Steam because I want to “own” the full game not just the offline part of it.

They could stop charging gamers a subscription to play the paid games (they “own”) online.

This could attract some customers that don’t want to deal with PC or don’t want to add fixed costs to their monthly or yearly bill.

I must confess that sometimes fast travel removes a lot of value from a game. While it saves you a lot of time like a cheat. Cheats also save you time.

It was really straightforward to be honest. But I did it 2 weeks ago.

Maybe 6-12 months ago was more difficult.

I installed Lutris I opened it, then installed epic store Then I logged in and installed hitman.

To play I have to open lutris > epic store > hitman 3.

I recently played hitman 3 with Lutris on Kubuntu in Epicstore.

Sync was working well. Game was running well.

It is not Steam (which has a native Linux installation), but at least it works.

If the price is the same I go with steam, if epic is much cheaper I go with epic.

Aesthetically I prefer the old one.

But if you have to travel with the PS5 from time to time. (Example going to a second home for a week or more) I’d totally go with the new one as it fits a bit better on a backpack.

I recently got a PS5 and I only buy offline games because of this.

They should release maybe some 20€ annual plan just including online gaming and maybe 500MB of cloud storage for saves.

But having to pay for this is a disadvantage Vs PC games and having to pay like 74€ per year is even worse.

Yeah and on the living room with a big screen (I got a PS5 recently) I think the PS5 is doing lot of 1440p FSR upscaling.

And it still looks nice on a 4K TV.

I’m never ditching 27" 1440p for a bigger resolution like 4K or ultrawide.

I read this post (without knowing the game yet but having it on a wishlist to get in a few months) and can’t stop thinking how lucky we were with the quality of Dark Souls, Elden Ring, BB and Sekiro.

I’m glad I opened the video because this game I didn’t know looks like a dark souls and now I’m definitely adding it to my wishlist!

And also it is 4K60 FPS!

I play these games with DualSense even on PC.

Some prices are crazy in my opinion.

I generally buy 2 year old games except in some cases.

And in the consoles they are even more expensive. Game price could be higher than on PC and then you also need to pay an expensive subscription (because they charge you for a lot more things than just the multiplayer costs) to be allowed to play in multiplayer.

The player base is also bigger than before. While that needs more post sales support and more infrastructure it is nothing compared to the game.

I think in short the problem here is just the wrong forecasting when planning the game.

Also valid. Yeah

Actually…consumers end up paying for it. Companies will just increase prices as when the Government taxes them.

If you want to keep it installed but automatically “disabled” 10 seconds after the screen goes off. Try “Ice Box” app. It will remain disabled until the next app launch.

Android for kids

In my pixel 5 for the past 2.5 years I charged using the “adaptive battery” slow charging function. (Which charges the phone in like 6 hours).

And during the day I charged up to 80% or 90% when my battery was going low for the rest of the day.

Also I was charging the phone every 2 or 3 nights because in the pandemic I was not using it a lot.

I think now the battery life is about the same. Maybe 5% worse than new. But it is also hard to test this because the os and the apps and the usage changed between day 1 and today.

An app called “Batt” reports 564 charging cycles though.

And steam works like a charm in Linux with windows games.

Also works fine with joysticks like dualsense. (Although for some reason they started overriding the native driver with their own steam API after launching steam games even if the game is set to disable steam input).

Game is 45€ now. I’m going to pass for now. But tempting once the prices goes down again.

Yeah I agree with that.

But generally apps that do something more advanced get outdated every year with new android versions with different permissions and API. This is why I was asking.

But I guess this app has nothing that got impacted.

But isn’t Greenify outdated or they still update it?

Another thing I’m thinking: I’m interested in running some adb shell command every few minutes or hours to change the WhatsApp standby bucket from active to working_set that seems to reduce a lot of wakelocks.

Currently my standby (after tweaking for days) is not that bad. Like 0.4% per hour at night using wifi when I go to sleep.

WhatsApp despite of the restrictions I added is still the app with most partial wakelocks.

I haven’t rooted in a long time. But if you tell me there is an app out there that can restrict or deny apps background usage (to increase deep sleep state %) and that you can only do it with root.

Then I’d say root might be necessary in those situations.

For example WhatsApp is the number one standby battery drainer in my phone. If I check partial wakelocks like 70% of them have the WhatsApp logo. (In BBS app). If I had a way to reduce them by 90% just keeping new messages and call working and root is needed for that then I’d want to root my phone.

I tried “Apps Ops” and it let me deny some of the permission. But maybe there is something more restrictive out there that needs root.

I always liked the material design interface. How smooth are the corners etc.

And now with material UI the apps integrate better with the theme’s primary colours. So that it’s also cool.

As long as it is optional of course.

I like it.

I play warzone with my friends and they all own a Playstation 4 or 5.

So I ended up using the android playstation app in Windows 11 so we can all share VoIP all the time when playing.

First I tried the WSA. But it was impacting games performance. Stuttering every 30 seconds. Other thing I didn’t like from WSA is that it installs Hyper-V or something like that (that causes VMWare to not like AMD-V setting).

Then I tried bluestack limiting the app to just 1 core and this one doesn’t seem to impact game performance. So I’m staying with bluestack.

I have an 5800X3D CPU. And game is generally GPU bottlenecked for me.

Amazon warehouse deals if they have units in stock.

I don’t like them for me. I hate all the Samsung software injected into android.

But for regular people they are probably the most recommended ones in the android ecosystem. So I recommend them sometimes if the budget is good.

I might not like the software. But the hardware seems good quality. And software still has some cool functions.

Somebody told me it has a way to hibernate apps that are in the background. And I think that is amazing.

Lol. I’m pretty sure there must be something there draining the battery that can be disabled. (Maybe preference of LTE over 5G, stuff like that).

I have a Pixel 5 and I always had full day battery life (I’m not a heavy user). So good battery life.

But I used to charge it every 3 days and this year on the 2nd day I need to charge it.

And the battery menu can’t be trusted. It doesn’t even update quickly.

I really want this. But at the same time I’m really worried about how much battery life this is going to drain. If it’s less than 1% every 24 hours I’m ok with it. If it’s more, nope.

Google in the past years is focusing a lot in adding more and more services while forgetting that what the people just want is to have a phone that lasts the entire day and can fit in normal pockets.

Cyberpunk. And with sharpening (like RIS) at 80% even better!

I agree and actually if the commercial areas of the cities become more residencial. In my experience they become safer because some massive commercial areas when the sun goes down they are not nice to walk.