They have sold two ‘tiers’ of kindles for awhile, the one with ads on the lock screen is discounted.
It’s not my favorite thing but iirc the lock screen is supposed to be the only place with ads.
a word for such things is ‘dark patterns’
it’s not designed to be liked but to keep the player returning habitually and upping so called “retention.”
I don’t want to use iMessage but I’m almost tired enough of 12 kb pictures and insanely poor quality videos from iPhones to try it.
A big part of the problem is that no other options for SMS/MMS even exist on iOS, so all those communications default to iMessage (and it’s fairly terrible at some of it.)
If they weren’t charging for it I might feel differently.
I don’t think they ever charged anybody, they suspended that idea after the first outage.
Also, they were using their own fleet of Macs, hence why Apple was able to isolate them easily if they’re all centrally located.
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I used Signal since it was called TextSecure and I don’t think I ever successfully got another person using it.
Eventually uninstalled it because it was just largely useless, anytime I messaged a friend who seemed to be using it they were more confused than anything.
If you want to be mad about Apple not opening iMessage up, be mad that they don’t have an SDK, API, etc for non-Apple developers.
There might have been anger in the beginning but after 10+ years it’s just kinda disappointment.
The only reason anybody is trying to make it a product is because there is demand and they think people will pay if they can deliver.
Having the right cartridge available without trying to find a shop selling them is.
One of the obstacles in this is if your printer only takes a single brand of ink.
I usually just order ink, but it’s not too hard to find ones compatible with my brother in a store if I need one immediately.
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For a long while mobile games were either beyond simple (like snake on the old indesctructible Nokia) or we’re pay to win money extractor gachas.
There was a period before the latter really came around that things were pretty interesting.
Then in-app purchases, subscriptions and micro transactions basically dialed up to 11 on mobile platforms.
The fast start up option actually should still be under power options, though not really intuitive or easy to find.
Look for the part that says “Choose what the power buttons do” and it should be there.
I tend to just turn hibernation all off because I don’t really use it, and I’d typically rather have the space hiberfil.sys takes up.
If you want to turn off hibernation for good you can do so with an elevated prompt.
powercfg.exe /hibernate off
Otherwise you want to turn off fast start up, which should avoid the hibernation/shutdown you’re talking about.
That’s a better way to frame it.
The patch is ‘about as open source as you can get’ but the actual application is far from it.
My understanding is that it literally can’t be used in an open fashion since it critically requires a proprietary closed base.
Some source code is available but the entire thing is not open source.
Hamas announced the start of the operation, stating that it had fired over 5,000 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel within a span of 20 minutes. Israeli sources reported that at least 3,000 projectiles had been launched from Gaza. At least five people were killed by the rocket attacks.
They overwhelmed the air defense systems through sheer numbers. Proving a bit of theoretical weakness
The push to live services, online DRM, microtransactions, DLC and other such things is because they have identified that there is more money to be made as a ‘server operator’ than a ‘game developer.’
They don’t really care about getting paid for the game, they’d rather give it away for free if they can make more money off controlling the servers.