I really hope this project succeeds. Having an upgradable, mostly opes source phone would be amazing.

In theory yes, in practice there is also the matter of your currency’s buying power and import taxes. I would know, when PinePhone was first coming out I looked into it to see if I could get one. And yes I could, except it would come at the price of an iPhone. The tax and IMEI unlocking fee quadrupled the price.

It would be less bad with laptop or desktop since there is no IMEI fee, and there are some workarounds you can employ but it’s still a pain.

I don’t believe those will be accessible for people outside of Western markets.

Yes there are, 90% can’t run Linux. And PCs built to specificly run Linux will only be available to Western markets, everyone else will be stuck with whatever corpos put out because they will be excluded by the weak currencies they use and in some cases also by prohibitive import taxes.

Once ARM on PC takes off it’s over.

Snow Crash’s world is here…

The fact of this gets posted and upvoted on [email protected] shows how much goodwill Google burned with the enthusiast community.

Do you mean postmarketOS compatible phones? Because I don’t see what else you could be talking about in regards to phone hardware with mainline Linux.

I’m sure hardware is fine, I had a budget phone from six years ago (Huawei Y7 2019) before I upgraded and while it wasn’t good, it wasn’t unusable either. And that phone was just a hair above an Android Go phone. At this point performance upgrades should slow down. I can’t speak for their software support though.

It’s only worth it if you can get a custom ROM friendly phone. Otherwise, no. Stock ROMs are approaching Apple’s levels of lockdown. With Apple you can at least get software updates for longer. And more games if you play on mobile.

Once my phone becomes that limited I may as well go back to a feature phone after mine stops being usable.

Javascript was a mistake.

Honestly at this rate my next phone will be a feature phone. There is a lot I love about my Poco X7 Pro, but also a lot that I do not. And a lot of things seem to be getting worse.

Doing that becomes harder and harder as time goes by. When I was shopping for a new Android phone I couldn’t find one that was recent enough and also had custom rom support of any kind. I know there are smartphones specifically built to be friendly towards custom roms and Linux but those are only available in Europe and North America.

Are they? It seems like peope enjoyed it a lot. Apparently music is a big downgrade, which sucks, but game still looks awesome overall.

I started an indie platformer called Archaeogem, early impressions are great. Apart from that today I played Post Void, Donkey Kong Country and Super Mario World.

Can we please just stop with the remakes, there are other games out there people.

It seems particularly bad in video games from my admittedly narrow perspective. Declining standards of many mainstream gamers for new releases doesn’t help.

There are no consequences for the leadership when they fuck up.

It looks amazing.

Those are very worrying statistics. I am planning to upgade to a discrete GPU from the 5600G’s iGPU, I hope this doesn’t become a problem in the future.

15 years? What about 80 years? There are movies from the 40s that are still under copyright.

“I can’t discern what’s important and not important among this tornado of fucking bullshit.”

- Civvie11

An anti-competative business move that’s forty years late.

It looks really cool.

I think it’s bad news, I just don’t see how it could be good.

Nah, that’s old news. They want an open world looter shooter.

I almost always hate these remake announcements but this one is fine to me, bringing original RE inline with the rest of the REmakes doesn’t seem like the worst idea.

I wouldn’t even bother torrenting that to be honest, I never understood why it got so much praise. It looks like just another mediocre open world action game.

It probably aged better than Goldeneye.

Honestly, when I first heard the term “boomer shooter” I thought the games were called that because of the amount of explosions they have. Ion Fury in particular is full of them. It a was a while after I realised that by “boomer” they basically mean “old”.

I think “retro shooter” is the much better term, though “classic” also works.

See, this is why the liveservice model is fundementally bad. Even if they don’t fuck it up on launch, they can always fuck it up later.

Stick to offline folks.

I think that stuff will come later, otherwise I don’t see why they’d have multiple tiers in the first place.

I doubt it, I think there are many great games out there that don’t get noticed because not enough people talk about them. We get a ton of games every year. You can’t rely on word of mouth for your game’s success.

He is one of my favorite YouTubers for sure.

This is awesome! Thanks.

I wish the community promoted these kinds of mobile games instead of bashing all of them collectively.

Not

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6HdBplLmuU

I can’t stop playing Dead Cells, somebody help 😭