I am aware. I haven’t noticed anything yet but I do plan on looking into an alternative next time I have to buy a new phone. My note 20 ultra is 5 years old at this point, but I don’t have a reason to upgrade yet. I like my pen and SD card.

I use nova launcher. My Samsung phone still pretty much looks like android from 10 years ago.

Oh, sweet! It’s about damned time.

That’s one of my go to’s when fixing phones. FYI, the plastic playing cards work great for that.

It doesn’t do that in sleep mode, though. Only while screen is on. In sleep mode it will cycle.

I thought it was 90%, but baybe it is 80. If you leave it plugged in while asleep all the time you may still be charge cycling to max capacity a lot, which is bad for the battery, though.

Regardless, having to replace the battery every few years isn’t terrible, except for the price of like $85 is damned expensive for it.

If he understood batteries he probably wouldn’t have left it plugged in all the time. That wouldn’t be an issue unless he always left it in sleep mode, so it would short charge cycle every other day.

Few drop of 91% isopropyl alcohol all around the edges of the battery and waiting a few minutes helps a lot if you’re afraid of too much heat.

Or a cup of water and a pellet gun. PLAY WITH IT!

Yeah, inflation is a thing. But so is increasing volumes in sales with low cost distribution of the product.

After a game is made now, the only cost is distribution now, and games sell in larger volumes than ever before, making more money than ever before. A game like BL4? Even if they spent $300,000,000 making the game they only need to sell 6,000,000 copies to recoup costs at $70. BL3 has sold 18,000,000 copies. A huge profit, even if most of those sales were on sale prices. BL3 was made and advertised with a 140 million dollar budget.

I didn’t realize how bad Samsung keyboard was until now. Id forgotten I never changed it on my phone (I’ve had my phone for like 5 years) , even though I swapped to Gboard on my Samsung watch ages ago.

It was put out that everyone should change their passwords. That kind of info for like 90 million steam accounts would fetch a much higher price or ransom than some personal info on a bunch of people like names, phone numbers and an address.

I had assumed it was BS as soon as I saw the price of just $5k.

You’re just speaking of dedicated emulator systems? I’d agree with those numbers of yours then. I was just speaking of what people use to emulate old games in general. Almost everyone just uses a pc, laptop, or cell phone. The numbers for dedicated systems that look like retro Gameboys and stuff like that are outnumbered by like 100 to 1.

You can say 9 out of 10 buying a raspberry pie are setring up retro pie for emulating, but 98 out of 100 people emulating aren’t using a raspberry pie to do it.

Absolutely. I’m just saying its not a novel idea.

Computer companies tried that for a while like 15 years ago, too.

Yes. I enjoyed the simpler “rock paper scissors” offense/defense of the older games. There is such a thing as too much and it would be nice if game developers didn’t always feel the need to add way more stuff to every sequel.

I enjoyed the fighting simplicity of the original pokemon games. I could recognize and know the names of 151 pokemon and their weakneses/strengths. Now there’s too many pokemon and too many counters and hybrids. Too much work to keep track of.

For sure, and my backlog is huge. I have tons to still play. I’m just now getting around to gta5 on my steam deck. I also just finished re-playing the original ff7 with some mods that made it look way nicer than back when I played it on my ps1 in the 90’s. I could go another 5 years without catching up to 2020 if I wanted to.