But hey, at least we also get connection issues when compared to cable.

Yeah, Swift backup is the go to now

I’m about 40 and have used them as demos for some time. There are a ton of games I’ve ended up buying that I never would’ve due to piracy. Maybe I’m all alone, but when finances are tight, I QUIT pirating games so I won’t find another I love.

Also I’m firmly in the “I bought it, so I should own it camp.” I have quite a few games that I’ll buy, but still use the pirated version because it doesn’t need the internet, or need to spend an hour updating every time I want to play.

For what it’s worth, fixing safetynet is like a module or two and a couple reboots.

What does it break? I’ve always had a rooted phone and outside of Google pay, have never had anything not work.

Fixing safetynet is just another magisk module (or two, it’s been so long I don’t remember anymore).

I’ve never had a phone that hasn’t been rooted and also have always been able to use every app. Google pay might get pissy occasionally, but every banking app has always worked.

Ruin your life and possibly lots of others if any country goes to war against those specific machines.

Spying is one crime that absolutely deserves the death penalty.

Everything makes sense of you follow the money.

Apparently nearly everything I look for in a phone. Others have said IR blaster, side squeeze, notification light, and pop-up front camera, all of which were amazing.

I’d add an unlocked bootloader (I bought it, it’s my phone to do what I want with), removable battery (hello instant charging), and a small form factor (so sick of needing two hands to do anything).

While I can’t directly help you, I do know that unless you have some insane rig, you’ll never be able to transcode 4k. Which means, the player is by far the most important.

I haven’t messed with it in some time, but for awhile everyone basically only recommended an Nvidia shield because it seemed to direct stream nearly everything.

Apparently most of my requirements/desires fit this. I require an unlocked bootloader, because I need root to not throw my phone through a window. An amazing camera would be needed as well.

I REALLY, REALLY would like a removable battery, IR blaster, small form function, a headphone jack, and a rear fingerprint reader.

Probably bots. Reddit has been using them for some time, but recently got caught using chat gpt or something similar to argue against the blackouts.

I’m in the same boat, which is why I both got aggregated and why I’m still here.

Touche. I explained elsewhere, but I was frustrated after hearing that everyone in Reddit had turned against the blackouts. There were a few other reasons, but none worth getting into.

For what it’s worth, while I haven’t deleted my main Reddit account, I currently have no plans to go back. I’ve always been a proponent of having multiple options, so everything being at Reddit alone never sat well with me. I had tried lemmy and a few other things some time ago - usually when everyone protested Reddit - hoping something caught on. It usually ended up the same way - influx of people, fighting due to old vs new members, fracturing, quick abandonment, and everyone leaving.

I’m really hoping that doesn’t happen in this case, even if Reddit goes back to normal.

But for the average person, would new mods opening everything up be worse than staying shut down? The average person doesn’t inherently care about mods.

And from comments here, people have either turned against the blackouts, Reddit brass has fixed commenting to seem that way, and/or bots have made it seem that way.

Admittedly, it was a knee jerk reaction. I was annoyed since I had just read a bunch of comments/articles that basically said Reddit had completely reverted to normal. Once I really read what they said and poked around, yeah, no big loss there.

I like how lemmy wanted to replace Reddit, but within days it’s starting to completely crumble.

Exactly. What’s going to happen? 30 yr dev cycles?

I mean I’m a fan of elder scrolls. What’s going to happen it its development cycle?

So growing up my uncle taught me all about computers. We built them together (early 90s, so DOS days - not even MS-DOS), built the drivers together, etc. Ended up being a pretty significant hobby for me even now.

Going to college, I thought that since tons of my generation were going into computers, we’d flood the market, pay would crash, and every subsequent generation would have tons of people too, so companies would hire the young college kids.

Now, I realize I screwed up. People older than me have no idea about computers. People younger than me have no idea about computers. They use them all the time, but almost have even less understanding of how they actually function than older people. My guess is that older generations had to make everything work, so they have a bit of knowledge to use to figure out new things. Younger generations have had everything catered to them, so they haven’t ever had to figure a single thing out. If it doesn’t make perfect sense to them immediately, they leave.

Just yesterday I couldn’t figure out how to find a profile I followed on Instagram. There was a fresh out of college kid I work with that kind of chuckled and made a (good natured, but naively insulting) remark that basically insinuated I was too old to get tech. I couldn’t take it, so I told her that I was actually using the first phone I hadn’t put a custom OS on and how a couple Xmas’ ago, I had built an unRAID server because I was sick of my computer bogging down with all the extra stuff I had it do. They hadn’t even heard of a command line before.

So long winded rambling aside, it makes me sad that no one knows, or even wants to know, how things work anymore. They seem to want it served to them and the slightest amount of work will make them move on. Every generation says the kids are horrible, etc, so I’m hoping it’s just that and we’ll still have a generation of scientists and engineers.