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If you read the article, they usually just shut down and disappear.

If you’re lucky some dedicated archivist records the story sections before it goes down.

I don’t have to play any mobile F2P gacha games, in order to know that they’re trash.

This is confusing knowledge with bias.
It sounds more like you’re prejudiced against such games so you assume they’re all trash.

Printing like to dead trees?

You could just use the system print dialog instead of Firefox’s if that works better for you, I think it’s possible to set it as default.

They have sold two ‘tiers’ of kindles for awhile, the one with ads on the lock screen is discounted.

It’s not my favorite thing but iirc the lock screen is supposed to be the only place with ads.

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https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/

Generally people are worse with computers than you think.
A computer preinstalled with Linux is definitely more likely to confuse than you imagine

people still lose access to Minecraft for what they do in private worlds that are “friends only.”

The chat reporting help page also lays out that reports must be initiated by a player and will be reviewed by the moderation, which should hopefully limit the false-report problems sometimes associated with more automated moderation systems.

If that happens I guess your ‘friend’ reported you.

It’s in the system requirements but even games that list an SSD as required there still sometimes work fine on a hard disk.

It’s from the earlier days of computing/portable devices where almost nothing had the sort of inter-connectivity we take for granted.

You’d download apps or music onto your PC and then ‘sideload’ them onto your PDA or MP3 players.
Sometimes this required both proprietary cables and software. (This is why some of us still get excited by simple USB ports)

Steam controller support is so far ahead of everybody else I find myself launching other games/launchers through Steam just to get it.

Tried to get my controller to register in Jedi Fallen Order and the solution was not to add the game but the EA launcher itself as non-steam game.

non-Valve games were starting to depend on having Steam installed

The problem was/is their policy of allowing the non-Valve games to also require their own storefront launcher alongside Steam.

There was that one dark period of “Games For Windows Live” on Steam, but those issues are pretty rare nowadays.

a word for such things is ‘dark patterns’
it’s not designed to be liked but to keep the player returning habitually and upping so called “retention.”

Just cause you paid for something doesn’t mean it’ll be on their servers forever.

The concept of ‘buy’ is nebulous when it’s something you can’t hold in your hands.

I don’t want to use iMessage but I’m almost tired enough of 12 kb pictures and insanely poor quality videos from iPhones to try it.

A big part of the problem is that no other options for SMS/MMS even exist on iOS, so all those communications default to iMessage (and it’s fairly terrible at some of it.)

If they weren’t charging for it I might feel differently.

I don’t think they ever charged anybody, they suspended that idea after the first outage.

Also, they were using their own fleet of Macs, hence why Apple was able to isolate them easily if they’re all centrally located.

It’s mostly up to which manufacturers allow boot loader unlocking.

The pixels are somewhat a continuation of the nexus line which were more developer centric.

Next year: New Steam Deck rumored to have an essential oil compartment.

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