I’ll have to try that vsync thing when I get a new PC (laptop). I’m playing stuff on my phone or Android tablet lately

Super Hexagon

It’s about as simple as a ‘modern’ game can be (I read there was even a port of it to Commodore 64.) but it’s a finely tuned machine. When you lose - and you will, a lot - it feels like mostly your own fault and not the game’s.

The difficulty levels very accurately start at Hard for the easiest one. There are 6 total levels, the next 5 difficulties are Harder, Hardest, Hardester, Hardestest, and Hardestestest.

With much time and luck I can beat the first level (unlocking the 4th). On a lost save I had unlocked the 5th level by completing the 2nd, and have only ever seen the 6th in videos from other people. I would have to beat the 3rd to see it myself, and that’s not happening.

The criteria to beat a level is “last for 60 seconds”.

Boring answer, but I assume it’s some or all of the androidpolice.com staff.

And they aren’t (for now) changing the license of future work either - just not releasing source until the same time they release binaries, which is totally allowed in the open source licenses.

For some reason they don’t mention in the description that most or all of these games are not videogames, they are tabletop role playing game manuals. (The digital downloads are .pdf files)

Nothing wrong with that of course, but it certainly seems like an important detail.

Just One can also do a lot more than 4 players. If you add additional writing surfaces and erasable markers (or pencils or whatever) it’s pretty much unlimited.

Edit: It has enough for 7 players in the box (at least my copy does)

And even in those regions, at least some of the devices let you install the play store from the OEM’s store, so I’m sure most users do that if they can.

Genshin Impact just released a new version that for most of the world became playable on Jan 1, but where I live it started several hours before the end of Dec 31.

So that.

It’s simply a ‘known issue’ which OP unfortunately discovered first-hand, that Verizon specific models have a modified OS that cannot ever be bootloader unlocked (without exploits) - regardless of SIM lock. It really is their corporate policy. And why I buy my devices directly from the OEM even though I could in theory get a discount from Verizon (happens to be my carrier… For now.)

Some apps show as incompatible with my tablet (Lenovo Y700 Gen 2) even though they work fine. I can often share those from my phone directly in the Play Store.

The article says I could use Files going forward, but it doesn’t work - Quick Share is missing entirely on the tablet and I haven’t found a way to enable/install it

Naturally it’s a feature I actually use.

From what I read, the policy of removing domains when the county stops existing was directly based on what happened with .su so that never happens again.

Yeah, I didn’t get a good wording there. I just mean is it still up in the air?

That reminds me… Is the entire .io domain still planning to end or did that get resolved?

Oh! Good find. Looks like the way to do this is by implementing ACTION_GET_CONTENT. I can’t help you beyond that (I don’t have a dev environment set up and am a novice anyway)

I actually took a quick look at the Android API to see if there was an obvious way to make an app to do this, and as far as I could find, there is not. It might be impossible.

Perhaps you can paste it into an image editor app and then save it as a file?

Pretty sure the media picker can only pick files on Android.

Also if the image was on screen at some point before it was on the clipboard​, you could take a screenshot as a rough workaround. Those are also saved as files.

My immediate reaction before opening the link: “No.”

Yet I somehow got 96.6% twice.

Visually, I certainly wouldn’t call them 3.4% away from perfect. I’m guessing there’s some allowance for imperfection even at 100%.

I think that would only be likely to work on the original image with full metadata. Once imgur or whatever has processed it that would be gone I assume.

I guess I’ll be the one to ask. Since we are on Lemmy…

Linux support?

If you don’t mind gacha games, I’ve been enjoying Honkai: Star Rail. The battles are turn based, some of the puzzles and events are a bit reaction time dependent, but not difficult generally.

Only if you don’t trust what’s using it, but both it and the app I linked are open source, so I personally consider the risk to be minimal.

It also has a permission system, you have to allow each app that uses it. (Just like root managers such as Magisk)

Better Internet Tiles
F-Droid
Play store

Requires either Shizuku or root, but works well enough that I forgot it wasn’t the default until you reminded me.

I have the Atari 2600 Halo cartridge, but I haven’t actually tried to play it yet.

I don’t know anything about it either, but somehow culturally osmosed that word.

Jumblie #253 🔶🟦💚🔴 4 guesses in 1m 30s

Firefox on Android

I didn’t beat your time, but how many guesses?

🔶💚🔴🟦 4 guesses in 1m 9s (So 0 incorrect)

I got ‘lucky’ and guessed the 4th word first (after misspelling it a bunch and looking up the correct way) which cleared letters to find word 2, then eventually 3, then 1 was easy. I can easily see it taking over an hour if I hadn’t guessed that longest one first.

This was my second time playing this.

Jumblie #247 🟦🔶💚🔴 33 guesses in 25m 51s

Those comments in the tracker section are good, just a one line summary kind of thing for all of them would be a nice improvement.
I’m not asking for full F-Droid information (but if you want to include it, maybe put it in a tap-to-show sliding thing (sorry, I don’t do web dev) )

Feature request: Describe each app. At least what it does (beyond just the category)

Nanotubes are still a thing, but most of the hype now seems to be around ‘buckysheets’ (graphene)

I think by standalone they mean ‘no PC’. Like the Quest ones that run the games on themselves.

So… Are any of them good? So far I haven’t even recognized any.

A lot of them are listed as TTRPGs (which I assume is a PDF of rules) and most of the rest look like game jam entries. (Something slapped together in a few days)

The deal itself is still valid (for two more days it seems), and I’m not mad that it was posted, just frustrated that I can’t claim it.

“Will NOT activate in United States”
Boooo!

And Yet It Moves

Steam
Wikipedia

I have no idea why it’s ‘censored’ like that in your image.

The package names would not be different if it’s installing a different (possibly malevolent) version of the same app.

Only the signature and other metadata would be different, but if the package name were different it would show as a different app entirely in places like f-droid, not as installed from elsewhere. It would show the intended app as not installed at all if the package name of the Xiaomi version wasn’t the same.

If it were the same APK, f-droid wouldn’t later see a signature mismatch.

Since I don’t see it yet…

Super Hexagon

It’s one of the simplest games possible, the controls are “clockwise” and “counterclockwise”, and there are no distracting characters, setting, or story.

And yet the easiest level is – quite accurately – labeled as difficulty “Hard”. The next 5 levels (6 total) go way up in difficulty (and labelling) from there.

Each level lasts 60 seconds. If you can survive that long. I’ve never unlocked the final level myself, so I don’t even know what it is like, but I can guess.

If they work with an unlocked bootloader then they would almost certainly also work fully rooted, with the advantages that brings (such as actual working app+data backups, limiting max battery charge, better automation possibilities with apps like Tasker, etc)

I’d much rather switch banks than give up rooting my phone.