You're saying that because games couldn't be patched, they had better gameplay? That makes no sense at all.
Lots of games had crap gameplay. There are more junk vintage games than good ones. The gameplay was simple because it had to be. The consoles didn't have the power to do more. Chips were expensive. So they had to invent simple gameplay that could fit in 4k of ROM. If dirt simple gameplay is your thing, great. The Atari joystick had one stinking button for crying out loud.
You think Space Invaders has better gameplay than Sky Force Reloaded? Or Strider has better gameplay than Hollow Knight? You're insane.
E.T. for the 2600 had gameplay so bad it crashed the entire video game industry.
Double Dragon on NES had a jump that was impossible to make forcing the company to make a new cart and give refunds.
Yes, but I was talking about capturing the message contents before encrypting it on your phone. They control the software, so they can do whatever they want. You're still typing clear trext into an app, and they can send themselves a copy before encrypting it for the recipient.
Why would you be OK with that? You do know hashes can be brute forced to determine the original message, right? Truncating a hash doesn't really change anything. It just increased a chance of a hash collision.
In additon, they trivial to figure out very common messages. They can use that to figure out your relationship between people. If you, for instance, reply to a question with just "weed". Or if you asked "DTF?" Or any other short message. They know what you said. For somewhat longer messages, they could brute force the contents. Very few intelligible English sentences would hash to the same value, even when truncated.
A half decent up-scaler is so much simpler, energy efficient, and portable. Like a RetroTINK 2x Pro. Sure, it's $140, but it works great at upscaling 240p signals.
Edge collects your browsing data and sends it to Microsoft. Including spying on all of your internet searches, and which search results you click on, in order to train Bing. You can opt out of some of this, but then these options mysteriously and randomly get turned back on. It's invasive. Privacy should be the default.
Use Firefox or use de-Goggled Chromium. Both have every plugin to do everything you could ever want. Firefox has had a "reading view" button for years.
Get EasyTether for your phone ($10) and you can USB tether to any PC that has the companion app installed (free).
Even a Raspberry Pi works. I have a Pi configured to broadcast as a WiFi AP, so I just plug in my phone via USB and I have instant WiFi for all of my devices. Takes a fair amount of configuration to do that, but there are tutorials online. Much easier just plugging your phone into a laptop for internet on just that laptop.
Or maybe a laptop can act as a WiFi AP, too. I do know Windows can share internet out a free Ethernet port very easily.
I use a VPN so my wireless provider doesn't see Windows update or Stream downloads, etc.
The loudness wars were definitely a thing; you are correct. But that was a choice and not a limitation of the medium. Plenty of CDs were not produced that way. But that's not what the OC was talking about. They were talking about down sampling, not dynamic range compression.
-site:reddit.com is more explicit. Then you don't block pages that merely mention reddit.com.
Works on Google. Maybe others.