Jesse…what the fuck are you talking about?

There is nothing preventing you from running local apps on a phone, including local Ai or CAD, it’s just not necessarily practical or cost efficient to do so, nor is the software there the same way as say AutoCAD.

Nice try with the ad hominem attack, but I use my phone for a lot of different local apps, including gaming, photo editing, office suite, local music that I have purchased and collect instead of streaming primarily. Android even supports desktop mode so the workflow is very similar, and a phone is a good solution if you can afford but one device. I still have a desktop, but hating on phones for being cloud hosted makes no sense… because they’re not.

You may personally dislike app stores, and I don’t really disagree, but it is completely irrelevant to the discussion.

You ARE wrong, not because the population at large does or does not use a lot of web hosted apps. That’s irrelevant. Obviously, the internet is popular for a reason, and you are not inherently superior because you run more local apps then the ever-elusive “them”.

You are wrong because phones are fundamentally not cloud based. They are not thin clients, they do not remote in to a virtual desktop on someone else’s computer to do every task. Phone OSs run on bare metal. End of story.

You could say “electron/web apps sucks” or “we need to use more than 5 centralized websites that are all owned by billionaires and sell your data” and everyone here will agree with you. There is no need to make up problems that don’t exist just you you can say “you thought THAT was bad?”

And how is that any different than a desktop tower?

A phone is not “the cloud”

Oh well

I am a very prolific gamer, and this is tough to say because on the one hand, I do highly rank gameplay focused and short but sweet titles. But at the same time, it would feel very odd ranking something as top 5 that hasn’t personally moved me in some way, which is usually due to the plot and characters, or a game that’s like 2 hours long. Games are usually ranked by me on terms of what it is trying to do, and I value uniqueness, not homogeneity. That being said, just to answer the question, I’m thinking something like this:

Planescape - Torment

Metroid Prime

Persona 5 Royal

Sekiro -Shadows Die Twice

Super Smash Bros Ultimate

Bunified Ixtensible OEM-firmware interfaSe

it’s really quite simple. The B is silent because it is French.

Yup

Can’t say I’m particularly excited about Activision taking over, but this was a mercy killing.

Walking simulators aren’t even a bad genre if the story is good enough, but the story didn’t have much to say either.

I thought it was interesting enough of a premise that I played the first game. The audio design was top notch, especially the voices in her head of course. But the plot went absolutely nowhere, and it doesn’t have anything to say about psychosis or the causes and consequences of it. And the combat is bad. The game is mostly walking through linear levels with occasional graphical stuttering, occasional pressing of square to fight, and very basic puzzles. There was no world where I would have played the second game unless it reviewed differently.

One would think the market is more susceptible to strange games in 2026. Everyone loves their hyper niches with other forms of media.

How does LibreBoot work? Was it hard to set up?

To be clear, I’m fine with the wholesomeness, it was what I was in the mood for. I was more referring to the difficulty having crazy spikes, especially in the beginning. You’d expect a game like this to trend easy-ish. Never thought a cute catlike furball intro boss that is eating a farmer’s crops would be a near insurmountable wall.

I’m playing thr first one right now.

It does not fuck around. This really surprised me, given how cutesy/wholesome it is.

Buy something without an internet connection, and hope that data privacy laws catch up by the time you have to buy a new one.

Some manufacturers like Mazda allow you to remotely disable the telematic control unit (Sim card basically). But note that they can remotely enable it too. Some models you can take it out. The dealer will not usually agree to do this and it could void your warranty. It can also disable some features like front speakers or the stereo entirely, so do your research on the model you are interested in.

The government is really worrying about the big issues I see.

Receiving money from a celebrity won’t be much comfort when you are bombed to death at age 6. It is wild that people are trying to make this seem normal. Pushing back is the morally correct thing to do.

It can delete all Ai worldwide?