Other commenter beat me to it, but I meant Google Play Services, sorry for the confusion

Most Graphene users are still using Google, but in sandboxed mode. Very few, myself among them, are willing to put up with the downsides of no GPS

I’m 1 in 166 million lol, I think I’m easy to track, however a lot of the data is wrong so not sure how to feel

Brother, my phone is almost never charged higher than 70%. I need the number to differentiate between 6% and 2%. I don’t even think about my battery until the battery saver mode prompt.

Museums have a ton of stolen artwork in them, that’s why I brought it up, but modern acquisitions are typically legitimate (in the sense that someone was paid for making art and the museums have the right to display it). Dead people can’t claim copyright, but their living family members can, at least for 70 years after their death. If a living artist sold a piece, and it gets put into a museum, they no longer have a say as to what is done with that art, since they typically sell the rights along with the painting. I know that most at purchases/donations to museums are corporate money laundering, but art really isn’t being stolen by museums at large anymore, and the general public has a problem with the artwork in museums that is stolen.

This is such a bad take. Museums pay for the art they show. If they don’t, it’s because it was donated or on loan. The living artists are compensated, or were happy to give/loan to a museum. The dead artist’s art was bought, donated by the artist’s family, or loaned. In the cases that the art was looted or stolen back during colonial times, most normal humans want those pieces returned to the rightful owners, because it’s theft.

Yeah, I always show up when the movie actually starts. I know that AMC lists the actual start time along with the showing time. This usually happens on accident anyway, my friends are always late to show up to carpool anyways

Now I’m sad

I need to be more careful, I didn’t even think of that as an option lol

If you’re in the US, I’ve used the YMCA for many years, it had a decent gym. When I had to move, I just had to talk to the receptionist on my way out of my last visit and they cancelled my subscription in a few minutes.

And I guess what I’m getting at is that, if trying to do gimmicky things that might not work out isn’t the definition of innovation, what is? And telescopic phone controllers are kind of in line with “controllers that can be used in handheld/docked mode,” so I could understand an argument that that aspect of the switch isn’t innovative

You’re right, they do go for an online subscription. I guess my distinction was that access to your games aren’t lost if you aren’t paying the subscription. However, I realize that they do that for access to the retro games, so I’ll retract the rent-seeking statement, they’ve definitely moved to having more rent-seeking behaviour. My use case of the Switch just doesn’t interact with it in any way. I play games in split screen or local wireless multiplayer, which doesn’t require a subscription.

I mean if you’re being that reductive, sure, a handheld gaming system wouldn’t be innovative. The innovation comes from a console that switches from handheld mode and a docked TV mode. The innovation is a pair of controllers that work both as the built-in handheld controllers, and controllers that can be used when the console is docked. The innovation is that the controllers can behave either as a pair of controllers or a single controller. Sure, they aren’t super significant innovations, but it’s more than you see from other consoles. I don’t see the similarity in your last statement, but I guess I could be missing something.

I’m so confused… There are so many valid reasons to hate on Nintendo, but you guys come up with two that aren’t valid? Nintendo is the only one of the big three that genuinely innovates when it comes to console design. Rent seeking? They’re the only one of the big three that doesn’t try to lock you into a subscription for your games. Every game that they make for their console is still sold as a physical cartridge with the full game on it. Even their online services are the cheapest of the three.

They don’t innovate when it comes to games, sure, but that’s not what you folks were saying. Their games never go on sale and are overpriced, sure, but that’s not rent seeking. Like I said, there’s so much to dislike about Nintendo and how they run things, but the two examples here that seem to clearly resonate with people are just wrong, and I’m not sure why people are upvoting them. Maybe I’m missing something

The Switch was innovative? So much so that, upon seeing it’s success, literally everyone copied them in one form or another?

Yeah, it’s really just a way to access streams. I think of it similar to torrents in that way. There are legitimate, legal streams, and there are piracy/illegal streams. I don’t actually use IPTV and have no idea if these guys have channels that people care about, but they provide IPTV streams and appear to have licenses from all content owners to do so: https://nomadiptv.com/

IPTV stations. There are basically URLs that host streams that are 24/7 content, like a normal TV channel. You need some interface to properly read the stream, hence the app. Most of the good stuff is behind pay walls, but there’s some decent free stuff out there as well. Here’s an example site that aggregates some providers: https://www.theiptvguide.com/

Mumble dialog is intentional, directors want movie and show dialog to sound natural, which often involves under-enunciation. I have a great home theater setup and while it fixes the vast majority of issues, I still don’t watch anything without subtitles

Debian is for my homelab, where things randomly breaking would ruin the day of multiple family members. Arch is for my personal machines, where things randomly breaking is an excuse to learn more about my hobby

Nothing the other guy said contradicts this? Nor shows a lack of understanding this?