Paywall article :(

It’s a big problem from a money making perspective. We’re basically asking the game companies to compete with themselves.

The patient gamer in me sees a future where blue archive is completely free 2 play with no paywalls. :D

It’s cool for little things when working on an unfamiliar project or learning something new.

But don’t trust one example and read about the features you’re using.

Does chess count?

Probably Sims and SimCity, I go back to them fairly often.

A coin toss has two possible outcomes (possibilities). Head and tails.

There is also the extreme implausibility with a <1% probability that it will land on its edge but still more possible than 1000 heads in a row.

I struggled to find decent documentation on this feature.

But I suspect your carrier’s settings override it, I’m not sure if a custom rom would help.

Here are a couple of completely free tools to explore your goals.

Adobe’s suite isn’t the king it once was.

https://docs.krita.org/en/ (powerful image editing)

https://inkscape.org/learn/ (vector illustrations)

https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/ (animation tool)

https://cdn.openshot.org/static/files/user-guide/index.html (video Editor)

Most of these tools are more capable than I described and there are many more foss tools out there.

Edit: just saw the iPhone part of your message. (Sorry about that) Even an old computer is capable of using most of these. You could consider running Ubuntu on one.

who’s not angry

Rules out goblins, sadly.

But check out Hadozee; you could go for a Planet of the Apes vibe ultra-sophisticated but crazed monkey. That would also justify the invention of a poop cannon! :D

Do them now! Haha

It’s best to never use any apps or accounts for your business life on your personal device. I have two phones for this purpose.

How do you feel about isometric level designs with a z axis? (Think Zomboid, if you’re familiar)

There’s an old school program called spinrite that is designed to stress test them and gives you a little report at the end.

Those old school drives were built like tanks.

I still have a few ~100MB drives in my things and you can feel the difference in quality compared to today.

I always wondered what would happen if you shot them lol. Thanks for satisfying an age old curiosity.

(I literally tried to remove all the quick settings, but there’s a minimum!)

Oh yes, this bothered me deeply the first time I encountered it.

I’ve been doing tech support for a couple decades and I have had the pleasure of training many people from all walks of life on how to use these things. Some of them never used a smartphone or even wanted it.

In the early days blackberry had an edge with the keyboard and minimal apps. It was very corporate and standardized.

As we moved onto early android phones it did have very helpful features to make it more like a dumb feature phone. Using these was a huge boon with those that didn’t care to learn how to use them or really just didn’t get it.

As time went on, these features were dropped or made irrelevant by other invasive features (like the busier and busier notification drawer)

What I found curious was many of these helpful features didn’t go away entirely but were locked behind a secret corporate mode. This more extreme level of control is typically exposed through MDM software.

I’ve found over the years that apple devices (these also have a corpo mode) are easier for the elderly to use as the UI has largely stayed the same and the OS treats you like you’re dumb. It has better accessibility options and my elderly customers love talking to siri.

I feel like as the knobs and levers generations dies out; the attention manufacturers and designers put towards this demographic dwindle drastically.

I remember the old GameBoy with the contrast knob on the side was super useful, and something like that may be useful. But there is also the argument if you’ve reached this point in life today, you’re probably not going to use it unless forced to. And teaching people who feel forced into something is unproductive and often makes them more afraid of technology. Some would say leave them to the wolves by this point. (not how I feel)

I told their grandmother how silly they are.

Straightened them right out. (Happened with my close friends family)

I’ve been using Firefox ESR. It’s stable, reliable and ublock origin works great on it.

My buddies are trying to get me to use brave but I’m hesitant. I’ve been using Firefox since it was Netscape.

The article is pretty junk. What’s the plan offer?

Each currency has foss software that pairs with it.

Some of them require serious hardware to run locally but they can generate a wallet for you.

It’s crucial you back that up.

I doubt it. I’ve seen people try to fix pressure damage with a flame with mixed results.

The frame is potentially warped if you’re able to adjust it, you could luck out. But understand it’s more likely to get worse.

Good it was a dumb idea.