I love building a huge base, something I never get the chance to online.

I was playing this last night I just pressed download and I got my ass handed to me 4/5 times.

The use case for those is doing what we could do on the internet 15 years ago ourselves but it has been so bastardised that it is too inconvenient now.

Yes and no. I support foss and am trying slowly to move myself. I would love a linux phone but supports are not in place to have a similar experience. Banking apps and app availability and feature parity are barriers. Consumers would move to something new if it filled their needs, see blackberry to iphone.

I hate microsoft so I dont care that they lost but they didnt give it enough time to build for sure, but you had huge apps like snapchat saying they wouldn’t build for their phone. This is limiting exposure.

The fact is moving out of tbe established duopoly is more akin to choosing not to have a device then it is choosing a competitor, it may aswell be a palm pilot you move to in some instances.

There were some pieces mentioned on waveform about its set up being out of box ready to be turned on by tv remote and those few console like bits that people like me wouldnt know how to do if we built.

That isnt how it works. We may have preferred others if they had been better, we were not given that option. I would prefer if windows phones existed as an alternative but they had very limited third party support.

Consumers couldnt take a phone where all their apps would not work.

Sucks that they focus solely on google produced phones though.

Should I get a steam link? Not entirely sure of its purpose but those words look good

Obviously fuck this, but your arguments are the same for public transport. Government run, easily tracked and has paywalls.

It is an efficiency, decency, environmental and cost decision. Waymo loses all. Convenience currently is its seller.

Yes

I dont know, I have heard valid complaints but the western setting doesnt allow for much other than bandit themed random encounters and favours. There are other more out there ones that hint to larger things like time travel etc.

DDG was great, but it absolutely has gotten worse and now gives tailored results. If I search a random name I will get doctors and business people with that name in my area even with location turned off. I moved to qwant.

They always sucked, they used to have a list of some software that I used and downloading through them inevitably got you multiple.other prompts for third party shit and random download buttons.

Enshittify?

10% the size of google is decent. If I had ten percent of a tech giant’s reach in any particular sector I would consider myself significant but I get where you ae coming from

I went looking for a quick explainer on this and that side of youtube goes so indepth I am more confused.

Its funny people downvoted you for being the very thing they ae pointing out to you existing.

Its is just a comic that makes the point that not everyone knows what seems common to you and while there is significant overlap in most peoples knowledge people should take delight in being the ones to bring otherwise common knowledge to those who do not yet possess it.

The pixels are too expensive for me to do this 🤮

Its a feature, make the product unusable if its not used as they intend. Take the sim card out of your car and watch it go into limp mode.

Game - year - critic/user score

Deadly Alliance - 2002 - 79/73

Deception - 2004 - 81/80

Shaolin Monks - 2005 - 77/87

Armageddon - 2006 - 75/80

Mk9 - 2011 - 79/83

MKX - 2015 - 83/77

MK11 - 2019 - 82/43

MK1 - 2023 - 83/65

The user score has not cracked 80 in 14 years. My point with that game was people were excited for a new MK game after a largr gap. In a two year period they released their three highest rated games since they moved to consoles.