Weird, I have it so email is req (to cut down on spam and duplicates, we have zero plan to use them) but you shouldn’t be forced to sign in to Google…

I moved my email to Hey and ProtonMail so am using their apps. Doing that allowed me to push reset on what goes to each address and how I sort/filter/etc. Gmail is now my junkbox like Yahoo was forever ago.

PWA with wefwef. But also checking out the new apps here and there.

I was paying for it at a legacy price still but that gets wiped out with this I guess. Canceled.

They did such a bad job in court… focused entirely on CoD which they already had offers for everyone to get for 10yr minimum. How you gonna win that case?

Came here to say this 👆 It’s really not hard to get started or use, folks just drag their feet on it for some reason.

I just got a BOOX Tab Mini C this week and love it so far. Color is 150dpi vs B/W being 300dpi, but its not super noticeable. It’s using the newest eink color system, Kaleido 3, and it’s so much better than previous versions. Maybe not ready for every casual reader/consumer expecting OLED quality color, but as an eink / ereader nerd its wonderful.

It’s mostly a problem with SMS. But yeah it would be awesome if they’d meet Android halfway and adopt some of the RCS stuff

Images get compressed and sent super tiny. Replies to specific texts start entirely new message threads. If someone leaves the group the whole convo stops and your in an empty new message history. Reactions come through as text replies and don’t specify which message it was in reference to. Etc…

Images get compressed and sent super tiny. Replies to specific texts start entirely new message threads. If someone leaves the group the whole convo stops and your in an empty new message history. Reactions come through as text replies and don’t specify which message it was in reference to. Etc…

If you are in a friend group that does group messages then maybe. It can get pretty annoying

It really depends on how much of the side-story stuff you do. For me, that was the much more enjoyable aspect of the game so I only progressed the main story as it blocked missions for side-characters I was invested in.

That is one of my favs! Seeing all your bad runs at the end of a level makes the frustration kinda fun, and having zero time between death and restarting rules. Glad you’re enjoying it this time around!

That’s partly because of actions taken by various governments. Who knows what tech would look like today if Microsoft from the 90s forced us all into Internet Explorer.

Also, more successful examples would be Google. They have done this very thing several times but then keep messing it up lol

I love their Ultimate controller with the hall-effect sensors. But all their stuff is great tbh.

I’d love to use all those but I’m the admin of our family accounts and there’s only so far I can make relatives go in terms of these platforms. It’s been a lot of compromise to get here without complaints lol

I think of “retro” as pixel-based and early 3D games that were sorta killed during the PS1/Saturn/N64 era.

Once we get into more advanced 3D / Polygonal games (PS2/GameCube/Xbox), it’s a different era; but it’s not due to the visual shift alone, but the design philosophy and craft/code itself. I would consider them “modern” and point to series like Zelda as an example.

Games like WindWaker feel more connected to Breath of the Wild than it does to Link to the Past or even Ocarina of Time. And I think the same goes for series like Mario, Metal Gear, and so on.

Came here to say this.

Without the restrictions of being on App Stores and going through reviews, devs can move so much faster. I feel like two or three times a day it tells me a new version can be grabbed, and it’s caught up to and bypassed the alpha/beta apps from Testflight which get updated once a week (if lucky).

It’s not perfect, but it’s way better for privacy than Google and looks a million times better than Bing. Sometimes the middle path is the best you can hope for / ask of others.

I was initially shocked but that’s like 4 months away from the initial launch. I’m fine with that.