Does palm rejection even matter here? I’ve used passive styluses with my phone to study for a few months now, and I never felt the absence of palm rejection. Even with how big modern phones are there still isn’t enough surface area to rest your palm on. It would a big problem with a tablet but I found it to be a non-factor on a phone.

Because unfortunately Whatsapp is everywhere. Someone might want a phone like this just because it’s cheap. Or maybe they want something small they can comfortably use with one hand. And if Whatsapp can be uninstalled digital minimalists can want it too.

Fifteen? Uh, yikes, that probably isn’t good. I do hate how long compaines take to make games today but still.

Is high refresh rate even desirable an a phone? On a gaming handheld it would be great, if it has the battery to drive it for a while, on a smartphone it just seems like a detriment.

My phone has 120hz but I never use it, because battery life is more important. And most mobile games don’t benefit from increased motion clarity anyway.

KDE is working on a mobile version of their DE.

Flashlight brightness sounds kinda neat.

With how much YouTube a lot of people watch the money they for is reasonable at the moment, but you give them an inch and they’ll take a mile. If subscribing to YouTube gets fully normalized than they’ll add even more expensive tiers, increase the prices in general, re-introduce ads into higher tiers and paywall the entire platform altogether. I wouldn’t go anywhere near that platform for this reason.

True, if multiplayer shooter developers want to be takes seriously they have to move away from the games as a service model. Quake III wasn’t some forever game, it was complete product. If the players wanted more they had to make mods, it wasn’t Id’s problem.

There will always be less demand for multiplayer games since they are supposed to be played indefinitely, but deliveservicification of multiplayer FPS will allow for niche games with small but dedicated playerbases and restore game ownership to the multiplayer community.

They would be, by the virtue of the fact no other modern multiplayer shooter works like that. Who cares if the stock heroes are lame and game modes are lacking? You can just mod in better ones! (It would be very nice if devs shipped the game with cool heroes and tons of modes in the first place, but, at least you have the option.)

Also nobody trusts them. Why spend money on Highguard when there is no guarantee the game will still exist next year? They already layed off some important people.

If Highguard targeted low end hardware, included mod support and bundled in the server so that players can host and moderate their matches themselves and had no monetization beyond the initial price tag people would be all over it. But for some reason nobody does that anymore.

You can still play Quake III today, if it was doable then it’s more than doable now. But multiplayer game devs seemingly left behind that player first approach for good.

TF2 was unplayable for many months because of a bot epidemic Valve didn’t feel like dealing with at the time. TF2 also introduced many monetization methods that made people hate this kind of game in the first place. It’s not exactly a role model for how a liveservice multiplayer FPS should be run.

I was planing to open a room an a public instance but discovered Matrix network had a big moderation problem in regards to illegal content, so I changed my mind. I don’t know if selfhosting is viable the us right now.

We are running a small comicbook server, so it’s primarily going to be a discussion platform. We don’t need federation, but it would be very nice. It came t’t my attention that matrix has an ongoing illegal content problem and we don’t have the means to host an island server. So for now something like xmpp will have to do.

I wanted to move a small Discord server, but I changed my mind. I’ll explore other platforms.

No it definitely wasn’t Motorola, I don’t even know that one came out in my place. It was most likely Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom. I don’t know if it was DSLR but it had a professional looking camera, looking back it was way ahead of it’s time.

Didn’t LG or Samsung make one way back in the day? It may have been someone else but I remember such a phone existing.

We already know it went to shit, I’m sure everyone here and on Reddit already moved over to another launcher or stuck to the last good release for the time being. I think that’s enough Nova Launcher news.

I don’t even see what it’s appeal is, it looks like any other launcher. Why do y’all care so much?

I don’t agree with that definition of “oversaturated”. Yes, hero shooters demand way too much time investment from the player but at the end of the day there are seven of them at most.

And that leads to a problem I forgot to mention in the main post: Even if a hero shooter starts out as a good game, it can still be ruined down the line. Combine that with a lack of alternatives and you are effectively stuck with the game you have picked years ago. You don’t like what Overwatch turned into? Too bad, take it or leave it.

Also the insane commitment demand isn’t fundemental to the genre, it’s a consequence of the blockbuster approach developers insist upon taking with this type of game.

Isn’t getapps depricated anyway? It’s one of the first things I’ve removed from my phone.

Does anyone want this?