Not just that, but they get to charge $100 dollars more for the $5 of ROM while avoiding the support costs and reputation hit of idiots who force the SD card in the wrong way or blaming the device when the SD card is inevitably sheered in half after being forgotten about during a battery replacement.

Unfortunately every market incentive just aligns against expandable storage in phones.

Given that this is kingdom hearts and multiple worlds exist in that franchise and its possible to travel between them it’s possible to have 'travel the world without leaving your home" and still make it so that the full game is only playable with GPS location. All they’d have to do is tie physical locations to worlds in game but then make those worlds navigable without requiring the user to move.

It says in the article why

The new game is a GPS based Action RPG with a new story that builds on the Kingdom Hearts storyline… While the new game isn’t an AR title, it does use a player’s real-life location to figure out their location in the game’s map.

Ah yes lemme just shell out $50 dollars a month or more just so I can use my steam deck to play multiplayer games over the slow and spotty mobile network that exists where I live. That’s a totally reasonable thing to do.

Or I can just continue to pay 15 bucks a month and use my steam deck offline while still getting decent enough service and enough data to do everything I’d actually be able to reliably do on a mobile network outside of a large city.

Mobile networks ain’t reliable and not every plan permits the mobile hotspot feature to function. That was my entire point with that comment.

That when when your device is unlocked your carrier still gets to decide if that particular feature is even functional.

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That assumes hotspot is included in your wireless plan, and it isn’t included in a lot of the cheapest ones.

It’s probably a result of wireless interference somewhere between the deck and the desktop. I also had a really bad experience with remote play and sunlight/moonlight before I hardwired my desktop to the router via an Ethernet cable. Just making that one part of the chain wired completely solved my issues.

Those suck worse than the old school 3.5mm splitters we all used back in the discman, and later iPod days.

The removal of the headphone jack is one of the worst developments in personal electronics over the last 30 years. Personally I hope that the EU’s next port mandate forces its reintroduction as Bluetooth headphones are an environmental catastrophe.

It’s honestly kinda hilarious that the person defending the anti-consumer choice to remove features is accusing those upset about their removal of shilling.

A slower connection is better than ending up in prison, the re-education camps or worse, beheaded.

Without average Joe’s using it for nonsense Tor usage is basically a neon sign saying “I’m doing something worth hiding. Come and kill me.”

Smart home devices have been a godsend for accessibility though. My dad’s got Parkinson’s disease. He couldn’t adjust our lamps without knocking them over and he couldn’t use the pullcords on the ceiling fan lights without losing his balance. Smart bulbs + Google Assistant are the only reason why he doesn’t need someone to turn the lights on/off for him.

Not everyone has the same needs, and unfortunately if these things weren’t mass market products they probably wouldn’t exist, or only exist at a price point that nobody living on disability payments could afford.

I’m looking into moving him over to a locally hosted setup, but this tech is still critical for a subset of people and definitely needs to exist at an affordable price.

The thing about social media sites is that they never truly and permanently die, they just slowly languish into irrelevance.

MySpace still exists for example, as does AOL, Tumblr, and yes, DIGG… However to say they are shells of their former selves would be an understatement.

It took 5 years after Facebook opened up to the general punic for MySpace to fall to the point of having to sell out to another company. We are still in the early days when it comes to seeing if Musk will effectively kill Twitter.

If reddit starts to die we won’t notice for quite some time. We will at most see waves of people leaving months or years apart and then one day reddit will just find itself basically forgotten about.