If that’s the case then I bet this would work with older phones using microusb

https://www.amazon.com/MakerSpot-Accessories-Charging-Extension-Raspberry/dp/B01JL837X8

Since it claims to be built for a Raspberry Pi. All my older devices are still microusb.

Right, their DRM is minimally invasive, which is right in line with their argument that piracy is a service problem. If they offer a service where you can pay for games, have them licensed to a user account, and make the experience flow without interruption, people will accept it.

I was really mostly joking and what you’re saying is accurate.

This just in: Steam is actually a form of DRM.

Well, yeah, it’s not our security they’re worried about.

They’re worried about their security. The security of their big mansions, millions or billions of dollars in the bank, the security of being able to be a horrible fucking weasel whose decisions end people’s lives but sleep like a baby at night knowing no one can touch you.

But they’re also small-minded enough to not realize how this compromises everyone’s security, because they were busy only worrying about securing themselves.

Like look at the UHC CEO who just got shot in broad daylight. The company wasn’t even willing to spring for good security for a guy who metaphorically put a noose around countless people’s necks.

They only care about their own security but they’re too myopic to see past themselves enough to understand the cascading consequences of not caring about anyone else’s security, and how that might, in the end, undermine their own security.

We’re not dealing with the cleverest people, here.

fuckin lmao

We told ya you stupid fucks!

For sure, this isn’t against PostmarketOS. PMOS is fine. It’s rather if I’m trying to set up Docker on a phone, I’d rather find a way that’s… less limiting on what hardware can be used.

The main suggestion I would have in regards to using the battery as a UPS:

If you want the battery to last a long time, you need to figure out how long it takes for it to charge and discharge, and set up an outlet timer (either a manual one or a zigbee operated one) so that the outlet the phone is plugged into turns on just long enough for the battery to charge, and then turns off just long enough for it to discharge, with the aim to keep it in the 30% to 80% charged range.

Otherwise you’re just always charging the battery and significantly reducing it’s life and ability to be a UPS.

https://www.amazon.com/Century-Indoor-24-Hour-Mechanical-Outlet/dp/B01LPSGBZS

I just use these, I have a few old phones set up as a surveillance system. I’ve never tried an external ethernet dongle because unless you search for a special connector cable, you can’t charge the phone and have it plugged into ethernet at the same time.

Requires PostmarketOS which only has less than 30 phones it’s available for, many of which are very old (Samsung Galaxy S III??? Where would you even find one of these anymore?) and out of the list of less-than-thirty at least five of them don’t offer full support, only partial.

The newest Pixel phone you can use is a Pixel 3a.

Yeah I think I’ll pass on something that requires PostmarketOS.

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Nintendo is a proper shout out.

A Breath of the Wild / Tears of the Kingdom aren’t the prettiest games but they have two very big deals about them.

1. Stylization. Games with a specific art style tend to age better than ones with ultra realistic art styles. Team Fortress 2 aged better than a lot of things because it leaned into the Pixar-cartoony style. ABotW and TotK both have their own unique style that will age incredibly well.

2. Instead of the focus being graphics, the gameplay is the core loop. Tears of the Kingdom especially deserves accolades for how well the entire system of combining weapons and items just works. Who cares about the graphics, the crazy shit you do in the game isn’t causing the game to crash or fall to pieces. The game expected this, it was built to handle this, and this is proof that it was way more important to the developers than the graphics.

To be faaaaaaaaaaaiiiiir, a lot of that was tied up in the switch from overhead isometric view to first-person view.

Fallout 1/2 didn’t focus on graphics, they were in many ways point-and-click adventures. A lot of things you had to hover over for “flavor text” and every once in a while something only four pixels wide exists that you need to notice.

So the gameplay actually actively eschewed graphics in favor of things like flavor text and reading.

Further, the switch to first person broke the SPECIAL system, because how to you even manage a gun skill in a first person shooter without it feeling absurd? It made sense in isometric, even if it was often frustrating to miss an enemy when you had a 79% chance to shoot them in the balls. Putting that in a first person when you mag dump into someone standing right in front of you and half your shots feels a lot less realistic, and can quickly become frustrating in a more fast-paced first-person-shooter environment. The SPECIAL system feels absolutely slapped on as an afterthought in Fallout 3.

Also, the writing in Fallout 3 was that shitty Bethesda writing. The writing was just subpar compared to the prior two installments. Especially the fucking stupid ass end of the game.

I’d say a lot of those complaints were driven more by the perspective switch than anything else.

Today I learned there are exhibitionist office workers as well as exhibitionist sex workers.

I don’t know what you’re talking about, old games were just as fucking janky on release, and most of them took years of modders fixing all those issues for them to get better.

Fallout 1 & 2 - janky on release

Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 - janky on release

Morrowind - janky on release

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Chernobyl - janky on release

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 - janky on release

All of these were capable of being installed and “just playing” them on release. There were countless bugs and janky behavior and that’s normal and we’re now spoiled by day 1 patches. STALKER 2 has been out a month and has had three major patches for bug fixes. STALKER Call of Chernobyl probably could have used the same but in 2007 the infrastructure to push quick updates just wasn’t there yet. Steam had only released by Valve in late 2003, roughly three and a half years earlier.

I’ve never had Balatro crash or do anything weird on me, either.

Don’t you miss the days when you just installed the game and just played it?

I don’t miss them because they’re still here!

During the roughly 3.5 hours that these services were impacted, about 55% of the logs we normally send to customers were not sent and were lost.

Bullshit ass headline. They only lost 55% of logs generated during a three and a half hour stretch. The headline makes it read like they lost 55% of all their logs ever.

Still a big deal, a lot can happen in 3.5 hours, but not as big as a deal as the headline makes out.

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The pirate’s code Prime Directive is more what you’d call guidelines, than actual rules.

Hahaha! Finally! I’ve been trying to catch you boys all day!

I want to buy all your Star Trek movies.

I know what you are but what am I?