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  • I mean yeah. Game consoles are DRM-riddled computers shackled into being toys. Being able to crack one open and turn it into something that can be used in non-manufacturer-approved ways is a cool scene in its own right.

  • This is "hacked" in the console modding parlance. It's not about gaining access to someone else's Xbox to do something nefarious, it's about running software that Microsoft doesn't want you to run on your xbox, including pirated games. "Jailbreak" is a synonym for "hack" or "softmod" in this scene.

  • it's Element/Matrix if we're lucky. Revolt is just another Discord - surely this single company will last! With Element/Matrix being an open protocol, it won't be a "platform" you have to leave when it goes corporate.

  • Ooh. I saw someone respond to you saying you liked Waterfox, with their comment being about disliking the sidebar.

  • You can completely disable the sidebar in Waterfox and it's not enabled by default.

  • Solder mod + native hardware = there will be input lag. If you're truly desperate to play Gamecube in HD 16:9 on a flat screen, emulation is the way.

  • man, of all the times to accidentally a word in a post, he threw an extra "to" into his post making fun of people's grammar. Unless he's trying to use "to English" as a verb, which seems unlikely.

  • On iOS your option is Safari and that's what you've been using, even if the icon says Firefox or Chrome or Brave. It's against Apple store TOS to have a web browser with an engine in it - they all have to be skins for Safari (Webkit). Different "iOS Browsers" will offer features on top of the Safari that actually does the browsing though, like account sync or built-in ad filtering.

    The only platforms out there that are more hostile to open source software than iOS are like, game consoles.

  • Any downstream fork of Firefox. All the good of Firefox and Gecko (including addons), none of the Mozilla corporation. The most popular ones seem to be Waterfox and Floorp (for "most users") and LibreWolf for privacy diehards.

    You can copy your Firefox profile folder directly into a fork's profile folder and have everything exactly as you left it (though doing this to Librewolf will likely overwrite some of Librewolf's privacy-first default settings like purging history every time the browser closes)

    On iOS you are already stuck with every browser being a Safari+Webkit skin. Even Chrome "Isn't chromium" on iphones. But mobile iOS "Firefox" can still use Mozilla (or self-hosted) sync to desktop Waterfox (etc).

  • Okay but nobody in this thread criticized Ladybird for being incomplete. It was only mentioned by someone who dropped Firefox for Librewolf as something on their radar to maybe switch to in the future when it's complete. If someone wants to swap browsers right now, Ladybird is not a reasonable consideration, but people are keeping it in the conversation as something to follow in the future.

  • The thing is, I don't want Mozilla to be "really this shouldn't be called selling" my info either. This was my call to jump ship to a fork that doesn't give any data to Mozilla in the first place by adopting a downstream fork.

    I probably already wasn't giving Mozilla any data to "not sell" in the first place, since I've got telemetry disabled and used about:config to strip out all of their non-browsing functions. But why trust a "probably" that also inevitably needs more attention when they roll in some AI assistant nonsense I don't want (or whatever) when I can just find a fork of their FOSS product that's run by people that don't want my data in the first place?

  • The frustration existed mostly as mockery from people that didn't play Pokémon anyway, and didn't suddenly start playing Pokémon when XY came out.

  • Nah, at the time I was also like "holy shit why do you want game freak to go 3D?". And I say that as an unrepentant Colosseum/XD stan. Black and White's unique animated sprite style was absolutely gorgeous on the DS and still is.

  • I wish they never had gone to 3D. Black and White still look gorgeous to this day. Leave 3D to Stadium/Revolution style battle arena games and keep letting your incredibly skilled traditional pixel artists doing what they do best.

  • Holy shit, that "monkey" screenshot isn't something being "faithfully represented from the original"? The original thing didn't have that, but the new 2023 reboot did?

  • All my video media that's easier to replace than preserve is on my NAS running openmediavault with mergerfs. If I lose a drive I can always just, you know, torrent the tv show again.

    My main PC (everything except the Steam game install directory) is backed up through KopiaUI to a folder on that mergerfs array that contains media that's difficult/impossible to replace. Daily incremental backups.

    That folder is mounted on my PC through DOKAN, which tells Windows OS that it's a local resource (it does this more thoroughly than just assigning a drive letter to a NAS folder through Windows' built-in system). The PC, including the "sensitive NAS media" folder, is then backed up to Backblaze's personal backup service ($99/yr, unlimited size with one-year versioning). The DOKAN step is required for this, since Backblaze doesn't support mounted NAS drives or non-Windows systems (presumably they don't want to use space on versioned encrypted backups of hundred-terabyte pirate movie collections).

    Oh, and my phone does one-way Syncthing to my PC, thus putting its files on the PC for Kopia and Backblaze to do their thing.

  • Definitely go RG35XX line then. In addition to retro games, a ton of freeware and indie PC releases are playable on those through Portmaster.

  • Have you tried any Portmaster games? Baba is You, Balatro, and especially UFO 50 have been occupying me more than actual retro games on my RG35XX+.

  • S22 Ultra here. Selecting text, taking cropped screenshots, placing the text writing cursor precisely where I want it, hovering over web elements to view tooltips or alt text, playing Slay the Spire and Balatro, emulating the Nintendo DS, using the button as a camera shutter, hovering over the bottom of a scrollable element to smooth-scroll without repeatedly finger-flicking, and doing anything that benefits from a touchpoint more fine than a big fat thumb. The S pen is the only reason I'm still on Samsung instead of the greener true FOSS pastures.