Wow that blog post is from 2013? I wouldn’t have guessed if not for the references to 3G.

It’s only stored with Google if cloud backup is enabled it says. Otherwise, the keys are transferred along with all the other data directly from device to device when switching.

So if there was no ability to stream Xbox games to your phone, Google would presumable be okay with allowing game purchases?

Wait, why am I able to buy Steam game in the Steam app that I installed from Google Play? How are they avoiding the same billing policy that the Xbox is falling victim to here?

I have a feeling their intention here is less about acquiring FromSoftware and more about getting those anime production houses so they can continue to monopolize the industry. FromSoftware would be a happy accident.

Are they doing this because they want FromSoftware or is it to continue their anime monopolization?

Very fun very cute game, I recently caught a Creature

Edit: NiceCatch!NiceCatch!NiceCatch!NiceCatch!NiceCatch!NiceCatch!

Project Borealis is a fan game based on Marc Laidlaw’s “Epistle 3,” his summary of what Half Life 3’s plot would have been if he was still writing it.

There’s no real VR version of Minecraft for them to leave be or for people to lose access to. VR is just a feature built into the Bedrock Edition that’s activated by launching the game through a headset.

Unless you count the Samsung Gear VR version. That one’s been left alone ever since the Gear VR fell into obsolescence and can still be played in its unsupported state on an unsupported headset.

Well that’s a shame

Finally getting back to work on Half Life 3

If you have any articles about custom ROMs, please post them. I’ve been using LineageOS for the past month!

Yeah this definitely isn’t about keeping your data private from Google, it’s for keeping data private from other people using your phone. You can use stock AOSP (which this feature will be part of) if you need to get away from Google completely, but I think Graphene OS seems like the way to go if you just want to quarantine Google services separately.

Since this is meant for hiding things, it’s a bit different from the work profile feature Shelter uses too. Apps will be completely hidden to the user unless the secure profile is unlocked, whereas work profile apps are sill visible. Using Shelter also uses up the one work profile you can have on a device, so you won’t be able to set up a real one if your job needs it. This new thing will be a whole new profile, so you can have both.

As in they should give us root access, or is there something wrong with this feature that’s compromising security?

Just curious, but what’s the actual issue they need to fix?

This is more for someone who’s trying to keep things private from anyone else who might use their phone

They can’t use this code at all, it would be a surefire way to get the project shut down. Reverse engineering is the only way to operate something like that legally.

It didn’t really specify that, so I read it as the author implying that Android users need to be careful now because even though other Android users can’t see your group names, iOS users now can.

They say

It’s worth noting that Apple has long allowed anyone to change the name of a group text in iMessage as long as everyone in the group was using an iOS device. So RCS in iOS 18 effectively extends this capability to Android device owners.

Which sounds like the author is thinking about this backwards. The iOS update didn’t extend the group renaming feature to Android users, iOS actually added Android’s group renaming feature. For a while now, as long as everyone in your group was using an Android device with RCS, they could all see and change the group name. I think the author must not have realized that this was a thing until now because it was less likely for every group member to be on Android than it was for them to all be on iOS.

Not in any texting app I’ve seen. My MMS groups in Google Messages don’t let me name the group for everyone.

Redditor Dane Gleessak noted that if someone with an Android phone changes the name of a group text, the name will be changed for iOS users in the group text as well. That’s a major change compared to Google Messages on Android, which allows you to rename group texts for your eyes only.

That last part isn’t true, you’ve been able to rename RCS group chats for everyone for a long time. If you try to change the name, it even warns you that everyone else will see it. My parents both have Android phones, so I have an RCS group chat with them, and any changes I make to our group name will appear for them too.

If you’ve never had an RCS group chat before, which would have previously required every member to be using Android, I can see why someone might think this is a new feature though. Prior to the new iOS update, if you had an iPhone in the chat, things would fall-back to using MMS, which doesn’t support group names, so only you would see it.

They haven’t actually said what the alleged infringement is yet, so we can’t know for sure what excuse they’re going to come up with. They haven’t even told Pocketpair!

Presumably, since Nintendo isn’t claiming copyright infringement, Palworld hasn’t crossed the line of plagiarism. They are all legally distinct designs.

B I G S C R E E N

Well, if Peter says it is, everyone should give up on it right now.

Yes it does. It won’t be the first time in the Animal Crossing series that items become unobtainable due to an online service shutdown unfortunately.

Palworld isn’t exactly an indie game, but the developer, Pocketpair, is an independent and privately owned company.

What’s good this time around? In my cart so far I have Until Then, Disco Elysium, and MS Flight Simulator.

Pacific Drive is in there now too.

Any chance they move to the fediverse?

Are there ways of doing that reliably?

I’m not sure I follow. The comment I was replying to said Valve’s 30% cut isn’t being put towards buying yachts, but it is. Apparently racing teams too. Whether they’re doing good things for linux gaming or not, Gabe is still a billionaire and he sure spends the money like one.

The cartoonish artstyle might hide it a bit, but Fortnite is basically Epic’s showcase of all the newest Unreal Engine tech. The move to UE5 a couple years ago brought with it all those new features and a huge leap in graphics. Fortnite has been around for a long time now, so the minimum performance targets are probably changing as tech and average system hardware improve. I don’t actually play it, but it’s pretty much a different game now compared to when BR mode was first released.

Uh, not to take away from your point about Steam making it possible to ditch Windows, but that money is absolutely being put towards buying yachts. Gabe Newel owns $1 billion worth of yachts, 6 of them in total. Like, good on Valve for making Linux accessible, but the money is still quite literally going towards Gabe’s yacht collection.

Did HL2 come with the account or did you just buy an empty pre-made Steam profile?

You bought someone else’s Steam account because you didn’t want to make your own? As a form of protest?

Yeah that’s quite the letdown. I’ve been hoping to upgrade my VR headset from a Quest 2 and I was looking forward to this so I could get away from Meta, but those features were a big part of the appeal of the PS VR2. I don’t own a PS5, so buying a headset that should be able to do all these things but can’t would kinda sting. It seems this was intended as more of a bonus for existing PS VR2 owners rather than an attempt to drive sales to PC-only players. I hope those features do make their way to PC eventually, because HDR on the OLED screen would make this an amazing PC VR headset and I really wanted that. I’m going to have to pass on this headset for now though.

The best monster collecting game continues!

They announced it but that was before the 900 layoffs. I’m concerned a project like this that probably doesn’t benefit them much wouldn’t have survived the cuts 😔

Might be worth giving them a call to check before making the drive. The one closest to me offers the demos so I assumed they all would, sorry!

Best Buy offers Quest 3 demos. I expect the experience would be pretty comparable to the PSVR2.

I hope PC VR support is still on the roadmap. They seem like excellent headsets, but I won’t be getting a PS5 for it.