I thought an APK file was basically a ZIP file with a standardized structure. You should just be able to rename the extension to ZIP to open it up and view the contents.

Not like that’s going to decompile the code and all, but that’s the first thing I’d start with.

They were all 3 given to me, one originally intact and 2 more as scrap parts. I would have never bought them myself. Hell, it’s so low on my priorities list, I haven’t even bothered trying to fix one in the past 6 months or more.

Also, I never said I flew in any area that would put anyone in any sort of danger, nor do I ever intend to. I study ergonomic controllers and might rearrange the controls to be more intuitive, in an open public park, so what?

I’d appreciate if you didn’t try to imply some nefarious activity without some sort of evidence. But fuck China, they don’t need my goddamn GPS coordinates!

Bleh, I’ve only ever flown a drone a few days at a time out at our city park. Then I criticize their controls and rewire the controller to be more intuitive, which lets me fly it fairly easily even in 30mph winds, but always seems to burn one of the motors up within 3 days.

I ain’t flying the things to spy on anyone, I’m just trying to improve their controls.

You missed my point. I have an older version that never required location services to begin with.

What they describe there is a new version that still requires location services, but has relaxed the rules to only give a passive warning in prohibited areas.

Fuckall with that, I keep the old version that doesn’t require location permissions at all.

That’s why I still keep an older version of the drone app that doesn’t need location privileges, on a phone that doesn’t have location services enabled, and doesn’t even have a SIM card.

Huh, even though the game sucks on touchscreen, I just tried it on my phone anyways.

Apparently the spacebar doesn’t work/glitches out when trying to play through animations and stuff.

Just use literally any other key for that and it works.

Edit: Due to phone’s autocorrect crap going on behind the scenes, you still might want to hit space every now and then, at whatever points you might want to ‘save’ your progress, otherwise backspace may happen to jump way back, potentially to the beginning of the game.

Bleh, I already beat the game. If you’re on a touchscreen, it’ll totally suck. But on a PC, just hold the spacebar through all the animations and stuff, until it prompts you to press A, B, C, or D.

And of course there’s always backspace to go back a move or 10 or whatever. Pretty nifty little game if you ask me.

Yeah yo, just load it up on a computer and hold space bar to get through the intro and through animated scenes. The game will prompt you to press A, B, C, or D for actions as necessary.

You won’t find this game very entertaining at all on a mobile touchscreen.

It actually is!

You gotta type a bunch of random stuff to get past the intro, but once the game starts, you get to choose your actions in battles based on the letter you type. And if you don’t like the outcome, just hit backspace and try something else.

That I do not know. Mine were advertised as being able to individually connect to two different devices, but I never tested that supposed feature.

Sigh, left one now dead, guess I’ll never get to test that ☹️

Unfortunately my left one won’t charge anymore, but when it did, half the time it wouldn’t sync up in time with my right one.

They’re not exactly name brand, so I can’t complain much, but yeah that can be an issue, and it’s really annoying to listen to when they don’t exactly sync up.

They’ll just end up charging extra for sharing your media with friends.

I got a feeling this is gonna be annoying as hell, given various timing delays from different devices.

Hell, my matching earbuds can’t even stay in phase half the time.

19, 65, 9, 17

4, 1, 2, 6

IYKYK

Edit: OG Sega version, dunno if those cheats apply on other platforms.

Not for me, but then again I have residual nerve damage in my pinky fingers from a case of meningitis back in 2004.

However, I do still use my left pinky for the left shift key, and my right pinky for the enter key. At least those keys are big enough that the mild numbness doesn’t cause me to miss those keys.

My method is a bit cumbersome, but basically you upload the file to one of the temporary file sharing sites, then get and copy the full download link, but don’t actually download it.

Take the copied full link, and use the archive’s snapshot feature. Your mileage may vary, not all temp sharing sites allow archiving.

I got a whole filesystem going on the archive, no account. Outlinks are almost easy peasy. Just archive a ZIP file that contains an HTML file with your own directory of links.

I never claimed to be a normal archivist, but as long as I can avoid it, I’m not gonna create an account.

I guess I get to have a little chuckle over this one. I have terabytes of stuff stored on the archive, but I have no account or password there haha! Pretty neat what one can do with the snapshot feature.

For real though, that sucks for everyone with an account.

It’s definitely not a top notch phone, so don’t expect it to be a powerhouse of a gaming phone or whatever, but it’s actually a pretty decent phone to be fair.

It doesn’t have many sensors, only the accelerometer, light, proximity, and significant motion sensors, so don’t expect it to work with RFID or NFC devices either. No compass sensor either ☹️

But where it lacks in power and features, it makes up for in an amazing battery life, plus even the stock Android ain’t too damn bad. 👍

I wasn’t suggesting that I’d expect newer DirectX to work on older versions of Windows. I was suggesting that I would have expected newer DirectX standards to still be backwards compatible with older DirectX standards.

Sigh, I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility. Oh well, I switched to Linux after Windows 8 came out anyways. 🤷‍♂️

Guess not, but as far as I ever knew, M$ has been known to try to maintain backwards compatibility for longer than most users would even consider necessary.

XP supported DirectX 7/8/9

I would have figured that would have continued on with future versions of Windows, but I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility.

Oh well, all the more reason I switched to Linux as my main daily runner after Windows 8 came out. 🤷‍♂️

Why would someone expect DirectX12 to not also support 11/10/9/8/7?

I have a Blu B131DL that allows the bootloader to be unlocked without being online. No WiFi, no SIM card, it just simply allows unlocking. No catches.

I haven’t actually done anything with it though, it’s still on its stock Android 11, but it’s nice to know I have that option.

Late? I was early in the PC game controller community, around 2003 or so. Not only did I master game controllers, I heavily modified them as well.

Edit: Try playing Descent, then you might see why I modded my game controllers.

Ouch. Good luck with that 🤞

Logitech RumblePad 2 for the PC.

Basically a knockoff clone of the PlayStation 2 controller for the PC, from around 2008 or so I think.

Still mostly works somehow, except the mode swap button. I don’t even need that button anyways.

So what does this mean for the future of Shotgun Mario 64?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q98D4bjhDy4

How about the flowing hair on Lara Croft in Tomb Raider 2 and later?

From my understanding, they wanted to have that working for TR1 but missed the deadline, so Lara got a static hair bun in TR1.

Reducing screen brightness helps quite a bit on pretty much every device. Automatic screen brightness is a thing on many phones, that helps too, but that can be hit or miss on different devices.

All they gotta do is change their company name to avoid lawsuits. Anyone got any ideas for a new name for them?.. 🤔

ClusterFuck comes to mind…

Playtime = 0?

Then player hasn’t played the game.

Duh.

Doesn’t Steam keep up with the amount of time people have played their games? Or is it up to the individual games to track that?

I have no idea to be honest, I don’t use Steam and haven’t purchased any games since the 90s…

That’s why I don’t buy shit I ain’t gonna use. Well, save for emergency supplies, I hope to never have to use those.

Too bad people will never be able to get a refund on them, that would be too much like right. ☹️

Are there any stats out there for in-game purchases that never get used? 🤔

If a 10 minute alarm time isn’t enough to wake you up, you might wanna either put down the drugs, turn up the volume, or go see a sleep doctor.

Hey, if it ain’t broke…

Meh, depends on which device I’m using. Not looking to use my devices in such a way, unless they break, but I have a phone and a tablet that meet all those qualifications.

Granted, not very common, but they do exist.

Then maybe you should check this…

The INSANE Evolution of Click Farms: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-CoEHDHb0lE

There are ways to bypass that though, especially on mildly older phones before battery management chips went all digital.

On slightly older phones (you know, ones that don’t have the battery glued in), you can usually power them up with like 4.2 volts, and use an appropriate jumper resistor to the thermal sensor battery pin.

Easy peasy, except for these newest anti-repair phones.