Once upon a time I wanted a strong PC so badly so I could play… Grand Theft Auto IV.
Now, I don’t want anything to do with that franchise. Granted I still do play some AAA stuff, more so PS3 games, and I now want a strong PC for Cyberpunk 2077 to explore its world and give myself extra background for the TTRPG Cyberpunk RED, but other than that I mostly just want indie and retro.
I have a GOG library specifically because it’s not tied to a stupid Valve Epic Games Uplay Launcher. This is their competitive edge. Plus, all of what you mentioned can be done with GOG through any semi-modern web browser.
I guess since GOG doesn’t have an official launcher, we will be like, very totally unable to create and use wine prefixes. No siree.
The strings mentioned are worrying. The developer verification requires an internet access - what if there’s no internet or the connection is spotty? Does that mean you can’t install the APK without Uncle Google having the internet first?
A modern Android device does not simply let you install an APK without going through a lotta mental gymnastics. On a Xiaomi device with HyperOS, you have to turn the permission on for it and sit there for ten seconds to read their warnings before you can manually proceed. Each time you install something, there’s a chance Google Play will pop up to tell you the app does not support a modern Android version, and it will require your unlock or fingerprint to even continue. Not to mention some apps literally tell you Google Play is unsure of their security and offers you to send it so what I assume is their automated systems could give the APK file a look.
If all these scare tactics didn’t stop you, there’s nothing more Google or the manufacturers could do without stripping even more of what made Android great in the first place.
That’s actually better. I assumed she was writing a prompt.
You don’t need Galaxy. Use Heroic or better yet, don’t use any launchers. GOG games are DRM-free.
No, what you mentioned is just one of the options. They literally go over “bare metal” installs even if it’s just a skim. I always find their article funny because of that.
…can I have the exact quote? Or a clip of it? This is the kind of thing that needs to be seen to truly sink in.
So by default she’s going to assume all Americans are… Not Americans? You guys need to keep hearing this: you really fucked up voting for a convicted felon.
I think you might be underestimating how some people type really slowly when given a full sized QWERTY keyboard, numpad and all.
Then again the one limiting factor of phone keyboards (touch or physical) is that they’re designed for two thumbs, instead of just whatever fingers happen to be closer to the button you want. Though I’ll admit I do miss when Nokia, BlackBerry, etc, came up with unique solutions for how to get a small physical keyboard attached to a phone.
All. The. Time.
I’m not a very good speaker despite how well I write English (I just sound stiff and sometimes I just freeze up when I forget a word), but I know it better than my native language. Once I wanted to describe deer in a phone call, but I forgot what the word was in the native language… Cue me being clueless for a good few minutes before I figured it out.
Reminds me when one of shitty company Rockstar’s shitty games in a shitty imitation of New York had their imitation of the convicted felon be a literal cannibal, eating human served on a plate.
An online friend of mine recommended it to me as the one distro I should be on. I agree. We’re both under 30 and my friend is younger than I am.
If it works, it works.
Might be an unpopular opinion but
In the late 2010s or early 2020s, I wrote a short story in the Notes app on a Nokia C3-00. It was one of the budget offerings with a QWERTY keyboard and WiFi support, and it was pretty awesome for the time, and still is to an extent.
By that point I cycled through a few touchscreen phones beginning from tiny Samsung junkers to mid-range Chinese phones we would have called “phablets” a few years back and got used to touchscreens. I’m typing this right now on a touchscreen and it’s pretty nice, yeah autocorrect is wrong some of the time but it is solid most of the time, and I can type really fast. Typing on a phone with a small physical keyboard was eye opening in a way. It felt slow, and I had to actually put some effort into pushing the buttons to make them register. In all fairness, it could be the age of the phone making the buttons stiff.
Something else is how the labels on the buttons eventually wear out. If this was a physical keyboard I could just replace it, but a small panel of keys built into a phone? Yeah not really replaceable.
I get that all those very tall, very flat slabs of plastic and metal can get boring very quickly, but I guess because there’s not so much more left to perfect that form factor.
I’m almost 30 for fuck’s sake, I know it’s not rational
But I have this impulse go to a barber like that. It’s just a kind of refreshingly different vibe I guess?
As far as I know, yes. I don’t know the exact political events that happened in Germany at the time, but it’s not lost on me that the title Palpatine got out of the no confidence vote was Chancellor. It pretty much is WW2 in space except the only thing against the Space Axis are a bunch of rebels who have to keep relocating bases.
Keep doing that and Anakin will feel like he’s already back on Tatootine.