FuzzyRedPanda

Yep, this handheld will be all about subscriptions, ads, and data harvesting.

The hardware will be good and the software will still be buggy like the xboxes because it’s windows and microsoft doesn’t care about making windows a good experience for users. I hope I’m wrong.

Some consoles like to be swaddled every now and then.

Hugely Shitty Banking Corporation

I really like my Playdate, and I say this as someone who was very critical of it before it came out ("No color or backlight? Only A and B buttons? Why would anyone pay $200 for that?) and received it as a gift from my very intuitive husband. I am still very critical of the fact that there is no backlight, but the damn thing is so cute and charming. I like playing games on it.

I’m very disappointed that the dock just got shelved and won’t be released. Now I have to make my own or buy an Etsy one. :(

I really hope they actually fixed the dock display issues and blank screen problems when waking from sleep or switching displays.

I’ll dig my dock out of the closet, update it, and see what happens. Fingers crossed.

Upvoted for the adorable photo of a red panda :)

This reminds me of a Youtube series a guy did called When Phones Were Fun.

I had the Touch Pro 2 and loved it! Windows Mobile was a complete mess in the best possible way.

Nonono. To hell with that phone and that company. i bought one and it just now got delivered, three years later.

It’s underpowered and a broken mess. And the keyboard isn’t the best, which is insane for a phone whose whole selling point is the keyboard. I was expecting it to be on par with my old Sidekick phones. Nope. So disappointing.

Yeah this is my solution. I run Bluebubbles on my Android phone and have the bluebubbles server running on an old mac mini.

This was a huge part of me being able to switch back to Android after being on iPhones for 6 years.

As someone who currently uses searxng and kagi, I can say that kagi gives the best results of any general internet search engine. Do I like paying money for it? Of course not. But it will keep getting mentioned as long as it keeps providing the best results.

Customer word of mouth ≠ shills.

We often have prices changed when a customer reaches checkout.

I know this isn’t your fault or anything but damn, that seems lightly customer hostile at best, and deeply unethical at worst. It sounds like it should be illegal.

I wish people would stop making this stuff. Yeah it’s cute but no one plays games on these for longer than a minute. It’s ewaste being churned out while our planet is burning. We have to be more responsible than this.

I use a Sony NW-A55 walkman. It is one of the latest models of digital audio players that doesn’t use Android. It has a microsd slot, supports flac, bluetooth, and no internet connectivity. The japanese models are still available new on ebay, you just have to change the language on the player to english.

I love it.

“The file you are trying to download is no longer available.” 🙁

There are dozens of us!

When the tape drive fails and eats your tape in the process, you better hope you have a second backup or you’ll be crying salty salty tears.

I worked in the service center for a tape-drive manufacturer and I would routinely see the drives we got back for repair. They were often taken apart by the customer in a frantic and desperate attempt to get their cassette out. The cassette was almost always still in there though, with multiple feet of tape snagged and wound around everything.

Sorry you have to deal with this. I know it wasn’t in your list of options, but you could attend HOA meetings, bring up the internet issue and see if they’ll change the current setup, or you could get elected to an HOA board and start pulling the strings of change. That’s more of a long-term goal though.