For some reason electronics in general got rid of them as time went on. Mac, Windows and Ubuntu used to have really cool startup sounds. Today I believe only Linux Mint has one by default.

It seems computers used to have so much cool stuff that is just gone…

Does palm rejection even matter here? I’ve used passive styluses with my phone to study for a few months now, and I never felt the absence of palm rejection. Even with how big modern phones are there still isn’t enough surface area to rest your palm on. It would a big problem with a tablet but I found it to be a non-factor on a phone.

Because unfortunately Whatsapp is everywhere. Someone might want a phone like this just because it’s cheap. Or maybe they want something small they can comfortably use with one hand. And if Whatsapp can be uninstalled digital minimalists can want it too.

Fifteen? Uh, yikes, that probably isn’t good. I do hate how long compaines take to make games today but still.

Is high refresh rate even desirable an a phone? On a gaming handheld it would be great, if it has the battery to drive it for a while, on a smartphone it just seems like a detriment.

My phone has 120hz but I never use it, because battery life is more important. And most mobile games don’t benefit from increased motion clarity anyway.

Capitalist scum.

Private property is theft.

Sonic Origins had Denuvo? Brother, they are fucking Genesis games. Anyone can play them on some Genesis emulator right now, or get the Christian Whitehead’s remasters in case of 1, 2 and CD. What the were they thinking?

The concept of intellectual property is inherently corrupt. It’s a law that seeks to supress the competetion it pretends advocate for.

Call me weird

Bro, at this point that is the majority’s opinion. Some of the biggest hits in recent memory are stuff like Silksong and Terminator 2D.

Indies still put out great games, even if most of the time they aren’t designed like retro games.

Seventh gen systems largely play like what we have today though, so in my opinion they don’t count. I can see it with a Wii since that was more like a GameCube Pro, but otherwise no. I don’t think PS3 is retro.

With RetroArch you can literally get them for nothing. It’s so cool.

I think it’s because cyberpunk was an emerging genre at that point. Neuromancer was only six years old in 1990. Snow Crash wouldn’t be out for another two years.

Cyberpunk also represents people’s worries and fears regarding capitalism and what society will look like if it continues in the current trejectory, those fears weren’t as pronounced in the 1990s.

KDE is working on a mobile version of their DE.

Are Egyptian authorities doing something about the poverty their people face as well?

How much more locked down will iOS even be in comparison at this rate though? iOS may not let you do whatever you want, but neither does modern Android. As time went on vendors restricted the system further and further.

Using a custom rom now is basically impossible, Google now releases AOSP source code only as snapshots and no longer accepts outside contribution, and now they almost fully killed sideloading and only made this concession after near universal backlash from online spaces. Do you really trust Google won’t try to pull this kind of move again?

Android only becomes more closed as time goes on, at this rate it’ll be little more than a budget iPhone anyway. At least with Apple you get longer software support and a fancy SoC. A community maintained Android hardfork or a Linux phone would be the ideal options here. But the former doesn’t exist, and no smartphone I can get my hands on runs the latter. So iOS it is, or a feature phone.

Pretty much, that’s just where we are at. What made Android preferable to me was the freedom it offered and Android vendors kept chipping away at that for years. With this change implemented Android will be nothing more than cheap iOS, by then you may as well raise money to get the real thing or cheap out harder by buying a feature phone if doing so is an option.

They were supposed to make all the money by any means necessary as dictated by the capital, and they are doing that.

I’m not giving them my face id or finger print, fuck them. If this change sticks my next device will be an iPhone.

None, I don’t have enough room for one and even if I did, I don’t know if I’d want one. CRT enthusiasts go on about how CRT is unmatched when it comes to motion clarity and I wouldn’t want to get used to that experience since we are higly unlikely to get any more of those displays and it could make everything else feel like a severe downgrade.