The reason I was working in IT support for a couple years and why that is the biggest team in my company’s IT is because most people aren’t tech savvy. The rest of this comment is written looking at a regular user: My mom.

The section on accounts I mostly agree with except for one thing: Accounts are used to sync things across devices. Syncthing is great and I personally use it. Does my mom use it? Heck no, she wouldn’t even be able to set it up, let alone keep it working or repair it when it breaks. Google’s cloud doesn’t break, neither does Apple’s or Microsoft’s and all of those are already set up for her just by logging in once, when getting a new phone/PC.

Updates: Complete bullshit. The other comment already explains it well. Most updates contain security fixes, the smaller ones, made outside the regular update cycle, are usually to fix major security flaws and should be installed by everyone, not just my mom.

Notifications: Agree, even my mom complains about them and the only ones that are actually useful are the ones from communication apps.

Onboarding: I find it funny that the author writes that they don’t care about Copilot, Figma make and calendar functions and just assumes that everyone else feels the same way. Does my mom care about those things? I don’t know, I haven’t asked her. That’s what these onboardings are for. Telling the user that you have a certain feature after an update or on first start is needed, because most users will not search for it on their own. It’s marketing and it’s gone after you go through it once.

In conclusion: The author seems to not be aware that they are part of a very small group of people who don’t need these things.

The free review count is also IP based, so for most countries that makes it a daily limit and you can just use a VPN to get around it entirely.

On Android you can use Google Lens or, if you don’t want to use Google products, any random QR code scanner app.

No idea about iPhone as I’ve never owned one, but I’d assume most QR code scanners can do that there as well.

The former. You input a regular download link from a hoster supported by them and get a premium link back.

Or you use JDownloader 2 and have it do it automatically.

Oh, I played through Dawn as a kid multiple times. It’s great. It’s what made me play Aria in the first place.

I’ve tried Bloodstained, but another game release got in the way. Definitely need to give it another go.

Thanks for the recommendations, I’ll check them out.

I used RetroArch when I played Aria. Works, has support for Retroachievements built in, is cross platform, and I even got it to where I could save on mobile and have it sync to my PC and vice versa, but I don’t like the interface. I even got to the point where I could theoretically sync the saves to my modded 3DS, but only manually.

It’s a great website. I used it a couple years ago as an excuse to finally play the predecessor to the first castlevania game I played as a child.

They can, but just like real bees they lose their stinger when they do and die shortly thereafter.

Let’s put it this way: If in our lifetime we can simulate the intelligence of a vinegar fly as general intelligence, that would be a monumental landmark in AGI. And we’re far, far, far away from it.

I get what you mean here and I agree with it, if we’re talking about current “AI”, which isn’t anywhere close. I know, because I’ve programmed some simple “AIs” (Mainly ML models) myself.

But your comparison to ancient egypt is somewhat lacking, considering we had the aptly named dark ages between then and now.

Lot’s of knowledge got lost all the time during humanity’s history, but ever since the printing press, and more recently the internet, came into existence, this problem has all but disappeared. As long as humanity doesn’t nuke itself back to said dark ages, I recon we aren’t that far away from AGI, or at least something close to it. Maybe not in my lifetime, but another ~2000 years seems a little extreme.

Whenever I hear someone say that something is impossible with current technology, I think about my grandma. When she was a kid, only some important people had telephones. Doctors, police, etc.

In her lifetime we went from that to today, and, since she’s still alive, even further into the future.

Whenever someone calls something impossible, I think about how far technology will progress in my own lifetime and I know that they’ve got no idea what they’re talking about. (Unless, like you said, it’s against the laws of physics. But sometimes even then I’m not so sure, cause it’s not like we understand those entirely. )

It’s still possible and last time I used it, it was about as easy as can be.

When I last did it, you just downloaded the regular program, installed it, then you ran a patcher and that was it. This was a couple years ago now, but Adobe already had their current business model.

Previously, if you shared your library and someone else was playing any game, they would get ejected from said game and be unable to play any other game, as soon as you started to play any game whatsoever.

This made it more or less useless.

Now they changed it to where you can only play the same game as many times as your family collectively owns it. So, if your family member plays a game you only have a single copy of, they can keep doing so, until you start that exact game. You may still need to activate the client beta for this, but it’ll be active for everyone eventually. (Don’t know if it is yet, as I’m using the beta)

I know what you’re getting at, but generally homes are actually built that way.

Law enforcement can always go through any doors or windows if they have a warrant. You’d have to build a bunker to be save from them.

I had heard about the project but thought: What is my data gonna accomplish? I didn’t really play anything outside the Pokémon games, which they probably have thousands of duplicates of.

The very last section is what got me. Cause there were like 1-2 games I’ve never seen anyone else play that I did play and after reading that it only takes a couple minutes, if your system is modded, I took my two modded 3DS’ and send my data.

Even if there’s nothing new in there, this is a worthy cause.

and then they break it and decide the cost of a repair isn’t worth it

Yep, that was me with my previous phone, which I did indeed have for over 5 years.

But there’s another major factor to it.

I use Android phones, which get official software updates for only a couple years (3 years for the most part). This includes security updates.

So when I got my current one it was one of only two I even considered, because only those two manufacturers promised 5 years of (security) updates at the time.

It has gotten better though, but except for Fairphone they’re still all very hard or impossible to repair.

My Nexus account has a simplelogin email adress. Granted, it’s one of the premium domains so the free ones may fail, but you could try that.

For the future and anyone else who reads this:

https://rentry.co/128bb

It’s at the very bottom of the settings page inside the app itself.

Next time, try “what difference does it make?”

In case you and others want the answer to that: If it’s an allergy the restaurant will (or has to, depending on the jurisdiction) use separate pots, knives, pans, etc. for your meal to avoid cross contamination.

If it’s just a preference they don’t need to do that, because you won’t die if any small pieces of the things you don’t like end up in your food.

I remember trying to play those (and failing miserably because I of how young I was). Maybe I should give them another go.

You might want to give the “The Room” series a shot. It starts out as just a digital puzzle box, but gets more involved as the series goes on and explores lovecraftian themes. There are monsters, but they’re set pieces or serve to further the story and typically only show up for a couple seconds or so in cutscenes. I personally dislike horror games, mostly because of jumpscares, and I’m completely fine with these games.

There are versions for iOS, Android, Windows, Switch and even a VR one, that is really well made. I would personally recommend the Steam versions, because they are a lot more detailed.

I know that. And Indie Wiki Buddy redirects to the new wiki, while libredirect doesn’t.

I used ORS as an example. The same goes for most wikis I personally use. Path of exile, Terraria, etc. all have migrated to new wikis and Indie Wiki Buddy redirects all links from the old fandom pages to the new wikis.