Uh, I assumed that was a minimum viable product requirement.

Thank you! I’ll give this another try this weekend!

What lists do you have? They pretty much all came up for me. I tried it again with ublock origin to compare, but none showed up with ublock origin.

This is one of the ones I used

I set up pihole a few months ago. I added a few dozen of the highest recommended block lists, but I wasn’t impressed at all. It didn’t seem very effective at blocking ads in both real world tests and tests that I found online specifically for testing your adblocker.

I never played Ages. I borrowed Seasons from a friend, and I don’t think I knew it was part of a set until years later.

I keep holding out hope that they’ll remake Seasons and Ages using the Link’s Awakening remake engine. That’s what is preventing me from playing it now on an emulator.

Oracle of Seasons was my first Zelda game ever! I think I actually liked it more than Links Awakening, but I might be biased because it was my first one. Both are excellent games, though.

I’m finally getting around to playing Hollow Knight. I’m decently far into the game now, and I’m having fun. It reminds me of the original Metroid where there are very few limits to where you can go early on, and you can just sort of get lost exploring and discovering really meaningful upgrades seemingly by accident. As opposed to the Ori games, which remind me of newer Metroid games where there is clearly a path that you are supposed to be on and very set order for you to get meaningful upgrades with a little bit of variance to reward extra exploration.

It really depends. For example, the app might not be sending data on what is happening. It might just say “event 1 happened” which triggers it to flash blue or “event 2 happened” which triggers it to flash rainbow. If there are no additional information, then the only way it could be done is by modifying the app.

And that’s not even getting into creating custom firmware for the device. You would either need to get your hands on their source code for that or reverse engineer it.

I’m a firm believer that nothing is impossible, but one this is for sure, it would likely be a ton of work.

Not sure what leverage Nintendo would have. Nintendo doesn’t own Pokemon. The Pokemon Company does.

Typically quality goes down as more third party studios get involved. If they can keep their quality up somehow, this will be a good thing. But I don’t want annual shovelware Zelda games like COD or how Assassin’s Creed was in the 2010s.

As long as it’s possible to turn off the shake and do it with a button. Motion controls are not accessibility friendly.

And that’s fine, because no one uses it here. So they wouldn’t be messaging anyone.

It does suck that Google gave themselves a monopoly on it on Android. But I personally find it much better than Signal as far as features go. I think Signal tries too hard to be secure at the expense of features. My old phone broke and I lost all my messages. Nothing I can do to get them back. Luckily I only used it when my parents were out of the country, but if I had old messages and photos from a friend that passed, I would have been heartbroken. Signal was basically dead to me after I realized that sometimes I can lose messages.

I still have my texts from when my wife and I started dating almost 15 years ago.

I guess it depends on how you define “worse”. With RCS, you have SMS fallback, so anyone with a phone number can get your message when you send it. There’s a lot of value in that. Even with dedicated IM services having more features, if everyone I know can’t agree on one of those, I dont want to have 5 messaging apps on my phone and have to check them all every day. Very few people that I know even use one of those, and those people are all using different ones.

It’s great for Europeans where WhatsApp is ubiquitous, but here in the US, I don’t know a single person who uses WhatsApp. I’d someone asked me to use it, I would just tell them to text me because I don’t want to use a product owned by Facebook.

The closest thing we have here that most people use is Discord, but the older people I know can’t figure it out.

What do you not like about it? It seems like a huge improvement over SMS/MMS to me.

It’s the ears.

I just tried it. I don’t hate it. It will obviously take some getting used to. But every server or conversation I clicked always led me back to the same one. I guess they still have some bugs to work out.

I honestly don’t think my cat thinks at all. If she does, she’s not very good at it.

Bro, I know. Google came out with their system API like 3 years ago, but has been completely silent about their user API. Until they make a user API, only manufacturers can make an app that uses it.