I didn’t realize Memories had a mobile app, and it has literally both of the features xD Looks near identical to Google photos, and has map pins in the app. Sweet, ty!

The amount of times I heard "le dollar bean, “sewer slidal,” or “unalived” was part of what made me uninstall the app back in 2020. Got a little tired of willingly participating in the plot of 1984.

My own personal experience over the past year with it has… Largely not lined up with that? The install process was easy, I do have gplay enabled but rarely use it, favoring fdroid, and it’s… Been fine? It’s felt mostly like stock android tbh

I’d say that it’s a bigger red flag when they start introducing cash shop fashion items that aren’t thematically appropriate, really. It happened with TERA shortly before it closed down.

Reason I say that is because I started playing FFXIV about a month ago, and it’s a fashion show early game xD They have released thematically inappropriate apparel, but they’re like… T-shirts that cost in-game money, I’m pretty sure TERA had a goddam little tikes car to drive around in.

Oh! And if it gets sold to Gamigo. That’s another massive red flag. Happens so gods damned much.

It’s about the same is what I was saying, yeah

I mean… American minimum wage comes out to $1256 monthly (assuming full-time, and that’s pre-tax). Community college comes in pretty cheap at $450 a month on average, but four year universities come up to $4,800 on average (assuming full-time enrollment for both). The cheapest MD programs I can find are still close to twice the minimum wage, and that’s assuming you get in-state tuition, since out of state is usually 2-3x more.

Ahh, fair. I generally see that as a justification for recommending it to the general public, sorry xD

Fair point. I’ll need to figure out which stick it is, and if it’s the old one hope they’re still in business

By RPGMO, do you mean MMORPG?

No, RPG MO (forgot there was a space there) is an MMORPG. It’s also on Steam if you want to see videos/screenshots

Well, no, they’re not actually.That’d be basically AAA live service games.

I more meant as a genre. Everything gets more expensive when you get into the AAA world, but that’s more a matter of scale than genre. There are probably some single player games that have cost more than some MMOs have cost the devs over the life of the game :P

And also… I remember the early 00s. We had a bunch of fairly big, and also actually fairly novel and distinct kinds of MMOs coming out, fairly regularly.

Same! I kinda miss those days for MMOs. Some of those are still hanging around, but a lot of the ones I used to play are just shells of what they used to be. Perfect World, Conquer Online, FlyFF… Well, FlyFF was never that good. Damn lootboxes.

they’re allergic to MMOs, unless they make them insanely pay to win or gacha or something like that…

Yeah, it’s partly because most MMOs aren’t that profitable, at least without p2w/gacha mechanics. It’s due, at least in part, to the nature of MMOs.

Generally with theme park MMOs (Final Fantasy, Runescape, GW2, etc) there comes a point where the player runs out of content, or burns out. At that point they switch to doing something else, and stop paying you money, even if just for a while. Some will stick around, but most will move to another game, usually one with more money, and a larger dev team, that can release content faster. Through a few cycles of this, smaller studios are often choked out of resources, because while server costs go down during slow times, it’s not proportional to the amount of money lost. Each additional player is cheap, but the base dev+server costs aren’t, at least for a game that’s trying to compete with the big ones.

Wasn’t there one that was basically giving away cubes of tungsten for free?

Remember: Companies don’t learn lessons, they react to profits. They’re 100% gonna boil the frog here.

Yeah, the fact that so many things just automatically require 16gb of RAM is wild to me. Why does a web browser need 16gb of RAM??? Why did a calculator leak 32gb of RAM???

Yeah, at least one of my RAM sticks seems to be going out… Very not happy about it, but not much I can do about it rn

I mean, Mozilla themselves are calling it that, or at least were

Waterfox if you want something that still feels like a modern browser, LibreWolf if you don’t mind having stricter defaults. If you want the nuclear option, Mullvad browser is good, it is very inconvenient thoygh. At least for desktop. On mobile I use Vivaldi/Fennec/Vanadium depending on need

That’s the kinda mentality that lead to the fall of Yugoslavia

This post, to my reading, is about how desktop PCs are disposable, and my comment is providing evidence to the contrary

I wasn’t talking about a new build at any point in my comment.

These are faults for most people. They’re benefits to some! Myself included! I use an even more strict browser for most websites. I am not most people, neither are you. Most of the people I know, and most of the people I interact with, would uninstall that within 5 days because it’s missing features that have been standard in web browsers for at least a decade.

Most people will see that as an extreme annoyance the first time it happens, close the browser, uninstall it, and never try another Firefox fork again.

I need FOSS people to understand that most people will not do that.

All of these are disableable, very few people will even bother looking into how to disable them. They will stop using the browser.

Also I did say that