Oh god yes please fuck all the way off.

– sincerely, a Pennsylvanian.

Yeah, this is an issue I’ve yet to encounter using Mint for 2+ years now. It could happen, I’ve heard horror stories, but I’ve yet to actually experience it. Things just update and work, more or less. As a Windows refugee that wants things to just work, I adore Mint for this reason.

SteamOS on the Frame may soon alleviate some of those woes, given it’s based on Arch and has an ARM processor iirc. Can’t hurt, anyhow.

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I try, thank you

The other problem with this is that this is all controlled through the Play store API, not your device, so they can yank your access to all of those unverified apps any time they want and say “actually, no verification = no run, fuck you, pay me”

If you don’t think they will, that they’re not just dying to do exactly that and squeeze people just that little extra bit more for YT Premium subscriptions or whathaveyou, ask the people who had their movies yoinked from their library with no warning by Sony (over fucking licensing costs, at that, not even hurting their profits directly) if they thought that would ever happen and how it worked out for them.

yeah and if they pirate it they’ll have even more money for gas and groceries or anything else (like games from better companies), several hours of entertainment for absolutely free, and they won’t be giving money to a shitty, greedy corporation that plays stupid games with copyright law.

I’m not really sure what you’re trying to drive at by breaking it down into an hourly cost. Free is still cheaper than 14 cents an hour, and giving money to Nintendo (a multi-billion dollar company that plays fuck fuck games with content creators and acts like a patent troll, among other things) is still bad no matter how insignificant you think $70-$80 is to pay – fun fact, for some of us, that is a significant chunk of our monthly disposable income, and we don’t all want to spend our only spare cash for an entire month on a single game. So there’s a very real possibility they don’t have money for both. Maybe their car grenaded itself this month. Maybe their AC died. Maybe they’ve got a funeral to pay for and they want a pleasant distraction. You don’t know what they can afford, you’re not looking at their checkbook.

Entertainment should not be gatekept by one’s economic prosperity or lack thereof; poor people do not deserve to be bored any more than they deserve to be hungry, or homeless, or sick. I’m a little more irritated when people pirate from small indie developers (but I still accept there is good that can come of this, i.e. try before you buy), but Nintendo on the other hand can eat my entire ass; they do not need anyone whiteknighting for them and their profits online, they pay plenty of lawyers for that so you ought not do it for them for free.

And apps that google simply won’t approve, like ReVanced.

I’m lucky I bought a Pixel some years ago, I have been using it stock but I’ve been backing up all my shit this last month in preparation to put graphene on it. It’ll be a cold day in hell before they force me to watch YouTube with ads and no sponsorblock, I’d sooner read a book.

well, I hope you’re doing well and have found the big tiddy moth gf you’ve always wanted

for any of you with a Cheddar’s in your area: the honey butter croissants. You know exactly what I mean.

I’ve had some really good bread in restaurants before, but those have gotta be crack infused or something. There’s simply no other explanation for how I can put away, like, six of them and still want more (and then, predictably, can not finish the meal proper).

meanwhile, what REISUB feels like:

Demented old man shouts at cloud; would be ignored by all were he not the POTUS; still ignored by most. Sunrise, sunset, and round and round we go.

I am simultaneously disheartened and reassured by the amount of people upvoting my comment, yeah – I may be alone and slowly going mad, but at least I’m not alone in being alone and slowly going mad.

personally I’ve been wondering where the OG mothfucker @SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com has been during this renaissance of moth memes, I’ve been expecting him to resurface with more and yet… no.