My biggest problem with it is that it seems to say “Outdated core” every time I launch it and it’s really annoying to be updating an emulator that works perfectly just because they said so.

Synchrony handles the “Google Credit” and the other options are Klarna (which is four payments of just over $100 even for a 128GB Pixel 10a) and PayPal, so no, I can not get a Pixel on credit from Google.

If I could get it on payments like they do Googlified ones I would, can’t afford to drop the cash for a Pixel to flash, or to order one with Graphene on it already.

Already on Lineage for the old tablet, and it mostly works, though they don’t sandbox Play Services like Graphene does so I just don’t have them on there.

Being sick of the expanding surveillence and censorship network that saw dystopian fiction as an instruction manual rather than a warning seems to reach across party lines.

I’m not switching, I’m cutting the phone entierly, no point in spending $100 a month to pay for spyware in my pocket as they keep taking features I want out and shoving more AI I don’t into them all while destroyihng encryption and extending the data collection and sales.

Yeah, it is rare, but it’s something to keep an eye out for. And not exclusive to renting rooms, apartments and even houses are just as likely to have insane landlords.

I like the travel, but then I’m old and used to use a typewriter, the little “chicklet” keyboard built into the cover of my tablet drive me absolutely nuts.

I take the Red Dragon with me because it doesn’t have a number pad, easier to stuff a tenkeyless in a bag and drag it around, though I actually use the number pad so I prefer to have the full version at home connected to the dock.

I would prefer to find one that sues blue switches instead of red, I love the klicky-klacky, but they’re well built devices that are more than worth the cost.

Now they need to start making their own X-Box controller since Microslop hasn’t made a good one since the 360.

To be fair, even when I still used Steam I cracked Denuvo, the “First Run, please connect to verify license” that poped up again and again no matter how many times I verified the game finally put anything with third party DRM not in a “Crack it” box but in a “Put on your eyepatch” one.

Steamstub is at least functional, I’d not mind it if they didn’t force you to run the full Steam clinet rather than a low resource daemon like they could do. I mean there’s a project to do Galaxy (which is already optional) with Comet, works cross platform and doesn’t need a giant spammy client giving me horrible “For you!” recommendations when I want to play a game.

That varies wildly, from absolute living hell to wonderful, I think the biggest issue I have with the spot I am in now is that it does not have a kitchen and to move to a spot that does would cost more than just eating prepared food from the deli or cafes daily.

As far as places I’ve lived in the past there have been issues from thieves sharing the home where you needed to lock down everything to a landlord who was absolutely insane and broke down a neighbor’s door with a hatchet…

But then crazy landlords show up anywhere, and are honestly easier to deal with than a property management group that automates everything.

They also don’t need an “app” installed, you can adjust settings in memory and they save it, I originally got them when I returned the Razer one becauyse their software was so terrible. The only reason I have an ASUS as well is the computer is from them and the “Armoury Crate” was already there for basic stuff like fan control and integrated RGB on the motherboard.

I have “disappeared” myself, and I did it by keeping anything that has my address at an outdaed one, and handling all payments online with prepaid cards or stored value accounts.

When I run my name it comes up with an address from 25 years ago, which the data brokers still think I live at.

I don’t have home Internet, I use a repeater to aim at the store down the street and use their wifi, so no need to put my name ona bill. This is also helped with renting a room instead of an apartment as you pay a portion of the bill which is held in someone else’s name, not in your own.

That’s a major issue, as even when they say they don’t sell your data all of the utility and service companies have “Partners” who do sell it, and while there are supposed to be ways to avoid this they are often things you have to file for after you have an acount and the data has already been sold so preventing it from being handed off again si pointless since it is already in the pacakge their “partner” sells to brokers.

They’ll just give him a job at ICE.

There’s a company called “Red Dragon” that has a very solid build generic mechanical keyboard.

I paid $50 for one, and it’s the same quality as my $150 ASUS, the only reason it’s not my daily driver is that it’s a tenkeyless while the ASUS has a number pad.

My entirte 1300 title Steam library is cracked and backed up to local media, not a single game isn’t able to be played if Valve decides to cut me off, though I have to crack and run an emulator instead of just saving a local installer like I do with my equally large GOG games library. Added bonus, once cracked they don’t need the Steam client running, so it shaves a bit off the resources demanded of your system to run the game you gut when cracking it.

Which is why the GOG one is growing, and all I buy on Steam anymore is the occasional DLC for a game I already own.

They didn’t cave until they lost noticable market share to Sony from people switching over the plan.

It’s sad we have come to the point that doiong the bare minimum is considered consumer friendly…

Even in the “best” case this is a speculative market that has nowhere near the value they are placing on it.

Most of the projects will fail, and someone will be left holding the bag, but thanks to how corporations take all the profit but bear none of the responsibility it won’t be them.

I mean, cybercrime is often just throwing the dumbest thing possible at the wall and waiting for someone to prove they are even dumber, no?

Good fit for the current LLM industry.

Quiter possibly, it’s the same phone app on the tablet, so it does kinda push you toward that.

Never really saw the point of bothering, though, since Session worked perfectly on all devices without trying to figure out how to set the app as a secondary device since it uses the same key per account and putting in the recovery code adds a new device no matter which app or OS you’re on.