It’s worse than that.

Yes, you can pay for a streak freeze. If you don’t, you’ll probably find that you were given one for free anyhow. You’d have wasted your gems.

Yes, you can pay to undo a streak loss. It’s more than paying for a freeze.

It’ll give you multiple chances to pay for all that, too. If you’re out for days and then come back, you can pay to fix your streak.

What is the point of a streak if you can just buy your way back to it?

Also, I had paid for the last couple years, which (IIRC) includes free streak freezes. It still asked if I want to pay for them. I’d say no, and find I had one anyhow, or a friend had miraculously given me one.

But during the last year (365 days) my streak was actually only at 190 or so because I’d used so many streak freezes that I got for free. I wasn’t even trying to keep my streak.

When I finally let my streak die, the icon started trying to guilt trip me into coming back with horrible icons of Duo being sad, heartbroken, or even dead.

The constant mental manipulation that was well beyond what gamification should ever be was what finally drove me to just quit playing altogether. I had already canceled my sub long ago, but I’m not even going to use the remainder of this year I’ve already paid for.

This isn’t a screen aspect ratio. It’s a ratio of 1 portion of the screen to another portion of the screen.

It’s short for 90%:10%. 1 app uses 90% of the screen and another uses 10% of the screen.

It’s not comparing the length of 1 edge of the screen to a perpendicular edge of the screen.

I was going to say they should only be comparing them under the same driving areas, since I know they aren’t allowed in many areas.

But you’re right, it’s even tighter than that.

There are 2 types of “free”. Liberty, and price. “Free as in beer” means they mean the price version of the word. It’s a really old saying now.

I can’t say for sure I’d have bought it, but I’ve been wanting an nVidia Shield update or serious competitor for a couple years now.

I wasn’t even aware of this project, though, so either they weren’t trying to drum up interest, or I’ve had my head in the sand?

Small size means a smaller battery. If they make the phone’s processor too powerful, the battery will run out in less than a day, and then everyone will be mad about that. There’s also less surface to dissipate heat.

Making things smaller is harder and more expensive, but people who want small phones don’t want to pay more than large phones.

Ahh, financial blackmail. That makes a lot of sense for him.

There are even games that already do this. I still end up second-guessing, but at least “you last saved 8 seconds ago” makes me pretty sure I got it.

And you can even return it, if it’s released and you haven’t installed it… Or if it’s on Steam, and you played it less than 2 hours.

There really isn’t a lot of reason to strenuously avoid pre-ordering if you’re pretty sure you’ll buy it at release.

And even better, a lot of games have pre-installs that can save you time at release. You could be playing the game instead of being mad that it isn’t downloaded yet.

to break even with what Netflix would cost in that same time frame

Sure, if you only watch Netflix stuff, but not Disney, Hulu, Peacock, Max, etc etc etc.

But also, if you’re willing to give up a little content and a some quality, it’s cheaper than Netflix. A lot cheaper, if you insist on not having ads in Netflix.

Right, hence I said “greatly reduces the chances”. I know some people are still affected.

I think with careful, controlled exposure, they could greatly lessen this feeling (or maybe even eliminate it), but it’d be a long road and I question how important it actually would be to them, so I don’t actually suggest it.

Personally, I love VR. I’ve always been an avid fan of 3D TV/Games and VR, and I always will be. I long for the day that AR is properly implemented.

But I also understand that others don’t share that love, for personal or even physiological reasons.

No, because they weren’t for games and they pretty much had always-on video passthrough, which greatly reduces the chances of getting nausea.

I think this is a pretty typical scenario for advancements. The old way was simple and easy to understand, and the new way is better, cheaper, more “green”, etc. People around them will help them through the situation and it’ll be fine. If it had been this way from the start, it would all be fine already.

It’s one guy claiming people around him are happy about it. He doesn’t even say that he is personally excited about it.

It’s too bad Ente doesn’t have any browser extensions, because it sounds pretty awesome otherwise.

That’s awesome. I can’t wait now.

Oh, I’m not trying to make it happen. I just think it’s inevitable that someone will. And probably pretty soon.

That’s an interesting idea. I’ll have to see if I can do something of the sort and see if it matters. I have a feeling it’ll still pop the stupid messages about connecting to the internet, but maybe I’ll get lucky and it won’t.

Thanks!

To add to this, my LG C2 kept popping up a message that I could use Alexa with it if I connected it to Wifi.

To kill that message, I did. Now it pops up advertisements in that same way from time to time.

If I take it offline again, I get messages about connecting it again.

It’s effectively impossible to kill ads on it.

A couple years ago I signed up for an email provider so I could use my own domain and avoid Google being able to kill my email account. They’ve got a spam filter, but it’s ridiculously bad. I’ve been looking for better ways, but still haven’t found them.

Ironically, I’m hoping a free locally-run LLM will soon be able to filter emails appropriately. I haven’t seen anyone trying yet, but I’m sure they’re out there.