I like Bluetooth quite a lot, but the default SBC codec that comes with A2DP isn’t all that great. Even FLAK gets recompressed in an obscure format at medium bitrate.

HD “standards” like… AptX(?) aren’t really a Bluetooth standard AFAIK but it runs over Bluetooth so if both devices support it, it works great.

Fun fact, them HD standards are so software based that I got support for three different HD standards when I changed OS.

All I know is that Stux’s instances was on the fence regarding Threads until a little meeting with Ruud somewhere in the Netherlands a few weeks ago. 😉

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gmsCore (microG) is an open source way of using Google Services.

You re-implemented Google Services (albeit open source instead of proprietary), from what I understand you’re exactly as vulnerable as everyone else - But you have a giant “I’m trying to hide!” sign painted on your account.

Somebody stop the bird on top, it’s about to take a drink of the birdmangojuice!

Mercy bo core.

It wouldn’t surprise me, the barbarians.

Then what is even Charactercountpad for?!

Wordpad is the step after Notepad, not Notepad again.

I hire some poor guy in India to create a fake sample digital identity which is sold to the ad companies. The Indian gets 3% of what I make.

That’s how one plays Capitalism.

That data is likely already being scraped for free unless you always pay cash and never use any sort of customer reward card.

Be careful, one day you’ll boot it up only to find some hacker have set new and impossible to beat highscores.

It’s a ships dog, can’t you see the red and green lanterns?

Sure. I hope I didn’t come across as claiming that I’ve lost any games I licensed through Steam. Just that it’s a possibility.

Getting some horror movie vibes here, that crane operator shouldn’t stand with his back towards the dark forest… “Mountain Recovery”? Guess it’s Bigfoot or a serial killer that escaped from prison then.

I buy this space shooter game called “Destiny 2”.

Here’s how they get you; did you buy “Destiny 2” or did you acquire a limited use license subject to change at the publishers discretion?

I haven’t bought a game since Cyberpunk 2077 on GOG. Sure I’ve “perpetually leased” some games on Steam since then, but I didn’t buy them. They can be taken away from me by the owner at any time and I’m very aware of this.

The only way to experience the original content is through YouTube videos.

Very sad, people should be able to buy games to own, keep and share those treasured memories throughout their lives. I can still whip out Final Fantasy 7 on original disks if the kids ever want to see how we did it in “ye olde days”. Destiny 2-players can never do such a thing.

Makes me question if it’s even the same type of products.

It’s “If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product” and we invented the term next week TYVM.