omg, you use = for eyes, you sick fuck?

Never even heard of it until now. Did I accidentally steal a plot-point from it? lol

Imagine they take them out and dispose of them separately, and some dude finding out at the open casket that his wife was packing fakes for their entire marriage and being outraged.

It’s like a bad sitcom plot.

I liked it briefly, but it fell off for me. I feel like there needs to be an area to go to, or missions to pick up, or something that is a higher difficulty. I feel like a mid-range quality ship and weapon will do everything in the game without issue, and when you continue to get upgrades and suddenly everything the game has to throw at you poses so little of a challenge you could afk while being shot at with little issue… Well, it didn’t hold my attention anymore unfortunately. I really want to like it more than I do.

It’s not solely an affordability problem though. A big problem for me is being expected to toss out a piece of tech that still works perfectly fine because the manufacturer said so.

Also, who’s to say this thing even still exists in 3 years to just buy another one. Realistically, the hope is what? They just keep releasing a new version every year so you can always just buy the newest one? Sorry. I hate the mobile phone market so much. :( I should be able to get excited by a phone that looks like you could throw it down a mountain and then still use it without issue, but this industry has me so beat down I just can’t.

What are you, HR?

That’s new and exciting territory then, unless you play games in such an unhinged way that it seems normal to you now… lol

I’m curious how much better it really performs over using the windows version and proton. I feel like it might be worth a shot to see if the game just hates you specifically or if there is something wrong (and worth reporting if you have the time and energy) with the Linux native build.

That’s kinda my point. Android 18 is likely to come out in or around 2028. So you’ll get 4-ish years of updates. I know batteries got headlines a few years back, but the complete lack of software support is the real “planned obsolescence” pandemic.

Also, this is not an gripe specifically about this phone, but the phone markets in general. 4 versions of Android is on the high side for a lot of Android phones… I’ve seen several that only get 2 and its disgraceful.

Seems cool and all, but if it stops getting OS and security updates 2 years later, then I don’t really give a shit about the removable battery. My last 2 phones were replaced because the OS was SUPER old and no longer getting updates, and the batteries would still last long enough to get through the work day.

Really, the swappable battery is not the “headline” feature imo.

I’d be curious to know what happened before this screen shot was taken. The coords under the mini-map are nuts, and I’m curious if the character was 'flung" way out of bounds or if it teleported there. I know the windows version had some weird situations you could find yourself in (or force yourself into) that would “fling” the character a long way, but usually put you though a loading screen that would get rid of the “momentum” and drop you somewhere playable.

Guess what I’m getting at is it might not be specific to the linux build, and might have just been a 1 in a million situation you happened to find on the linux version. The game wasn’t perfect so either is possible really.

No it isn’t. At the right-most side of the graph “unknown” is higher than OSx, and “other” is above Linux and ChromeOS.

It is barely on the graph at all, and really only in 2012 - I’m assuming they released some product around then that is enough like a desktop computer that it made the list but ultimately fizzled out.

There are so many factors playing into this. Also, I don’t want you to think this post is suggesting we should give up on alternatives, because that is not my belief. We need to transition to something, and really we should have started this process much earlier. This is more to illustrate why it is a slow process.

1. Energy density is unbeatable. Around 100 pounds of gasoline (15-ish gallons) will push most small road cars 300-400 miles. To get close to that range from an electric car you are going to need 1500-2000 lbs of batteries.
2. Transportability. We have yet to really figure out how to get several thousand kilowatts of electricity from where it is easy to produce to where it is needed without losing a good percentage of it. You can fill a tank with Gasoline and haul it across the planet and lose basically none of it.
3. Safety. Batteries can be very nasty things if damaged, the fires they can cause are astronomically harder to put out compared to traditional gasoline fires after a nasty car accident. Hydrogen is so much more violent in a fire/explosion than gasoline as well.
4. Economics. Yes, Oil Companies have a huge grip on massive chunks of the world. MANY countries entire economies would collapse if fossil fuels were removed from the equation. And those countries are powerful, and scared, which is a dangerous combo. They are fighting tooth and nail to maintain their GDP as there is not a good replacement. It could be a civilization crumbling event if all money tied to fossil fuels just stopped in an instant.

Our habits need to drastically change as a society. Fossil Fuels are not the only problem we need to change, as an example, industrial farming is also pretty catastrophically bad for the environment (as we are currently doing it). We need to consume less (both power and stuff), we need to travel less, we need to eat less meat, and we need world governments on board for these changes in a meaningful and peaceful way. Or we need someone to invent a way for us all to survive the problem or reverse it without us changing a damn thing, but that sounds like magic.

Should have been a massive red flag when he found out she attends a catholic girls school… “Student at a catholic girls school” does not at all say “this is a fully grown adult woman” in any language. That didn’t give him any pause at all, so I’m not that surprised when a paragraph later he is explicitly told she is underage and his only real concern is getting caught by the chief of police father…

Someone warned him when he did it, that’s how he knows it is illegal now…

They try to do it all the time, but there is actually some push-back from the law - google recently lost an anti-trust case, the eu passed laws to protect “side-loading”, etc. This new legislation gives them a legal backing. “Oh no, I’m sorry you can’t get your app store working on Android. We aren’t stopping side-loading or other app markets, we are just complying with the legal age-verification requirements”.

They already know the age of their users… They bloody well know. They backed that bill because it gives them a legal leg to bully out smaller 3rd parties and solidify their respective monopolies.

The entirety of what little remains of independent media discovered the apparent undiscoverable over a month before our Tech-corp’s AI super-intelligence overlords. Amazing.

I do like the look of that form factor a lot… And I don’t see any major red flags in the specs that make me think it won’t work with Linux… Thanks!

It requires every Operating System and “App Store” to know the user’s age. It requires every piece of software installed to receive the age-range token. It could be catastrophically bad for the open source community - the bill does nothing to define how these tokens are communicated and received. The largest players in the industry can use their market share to exert control over how it happens and bully anyone that doesn’t get on board. For example, Google could tie it to the Play Integrity/Services and effectively kill 3rd party roms and possibly even open source app stores like fdroid, or all side-loading entirely if it was tied into the Play Store enough.

The bill isn’t specifically a privacy dystopian nightmare, but it is still a dystopian nightmare. We need the government and mega-corps to have less influence and control over our devices, this gives them more.