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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It’s hard to find the right balance. I know I only want to pay once, or heck never, but I want these upgrades and updates too.

    I try to use as much FOSS as is reasonable for my daily usage. For things I use a lot I’ll donate to the developers if they allow it, with the exception of Mesa and Proton since Valve fund their development and I buy games on Steam a good portion of the time.

    In general I try to support projects that are made in that open and sharing spirit of the early internet rather than getting baited into more disingenuous traps like what happened with UltimateGuitar.



  • I don’t know how many people will agree with me, but I never liked the Chrono Trigger out-of-game art at all – the characters have a kind of Dragon Ball Z appearance to them that I never liked much (didn’t like the DBZ series, either), and the cutscenes appear to be done in that art style. The in-game Chrono Trigger graphics I’m fine with, though.

    Surely you’re aware they’re not merely in that style, but in fact the character designer was Akira Toriyama, the mangaka who wrote Dragon Ball, right?

    Like it’s not in the style of Akira Toriyama, it’s that the character designs are by Toriyama. Toriyama also did the character designs for the Dragon Quest games.









  • I see, it seems I misunderstood the nuance of your comment. You’re thinking ahead to 30-40 years from now.

    That was a general statement because I wasn’t totally sure where you stood, but I thought perhaps you were being misled by those types.

    OneUI is reasonably fast and the hardware is chunky enough that nothing feels slow to me, subjectively. I previously had a Fold 2 and the only downgrade from my perspective is the fingerprint reader, which has gotten smaller and has slightly more failures to read. Everything else is fantastic, IMO. The thing feels like a solid brick of a phone while folded and a sturdy tablet when open.

    If the narrow screen bugs you, it’s worth considering the Pixel Fold IMO (or perhaps next year’s Pixel Fold 2). I would have gone with it for the Graphene OS support if not for the fact that Samsung offered me $800 to trade in my fold 2, whereas Google offered me $160.

    Apple is a big ol’ monopoly with strong cult vibes. I think if we end up with an Apple-dominated culture with that degree of vendor lock-in, we will have collectively failed as a civilization anyhow, so I’m not going to worry about the scenario you’ve described outside of my existing anti-trust, anti-giant-corp politics.


  • Yeah, no. I’ll take my Galaxy Fold 5 over an iPhone any day of the week, thanks.

    Ignoramuses who believe Android is technologically falling behind the iPhone are flatly wrong on nearly every count. Android caught up to iOS in about 2008 and has been leading the way in features ever since. The more open app ecosystem has lead to a flourishing open source development community.

    Anything you can do on a computer, you can do on an Android. iPhones are fundamentally limited to what Apple gives permission to exist within their app store, by contrast. Android lets you install an alternative store and therefore anything you want.