CDDA is great for when you’re trying to game without heavy battery drain.

https://cataclysmdda.org/ it’s a procedurally generated survival adventure game.

Does chess count?

Probably Sims and SimCity, I go back to them fairly often.

I struggled to find decent documentation on this feature.

But I suspect your carrier’s settings override it, I’m not sure if a custom rom would help.

You should be able to use a ps5 controller with it.

I’m wondering if you could do this with squid proxy. It’s been ages since I used it but I recall the ability to write PHP apps for it that “mangle” connections.

Yeah I gave it a shot. I couldn’t either, I’m not a big fan of escape room mechanics so I was really hoping I could. Thanks for trying

Is it possible to “win” without leaving the table?

I’m wondering if this is a bit of a xy problem.

Because there’s tools like Fiddler and Hoppscotch that come to mind but it’s a bit outside your scope.

I fell down in the shop yesterday and landed on top of some large tools. There was a bunch of blood and I’m all bruised up.

I’ll be fine but sleeping last night felt like torture I couldn’t get comfortable at all and ended up sleeping against the wall.

So I can really relate to this haha

(I literally tried to remove all the quick settings, but there’s a minimum!)

Oh yes, this bothered me deeply the first time I encountered it.

I’ve been doing tech support for a couple decades and I have had the pleasure of training many people from all walks of life on how to use these things. Some of them never used a smartphone or even wanted it.

In the early days blackberry had an edge with the keyboard and minimal apps. It was very corporate and standardized.

As we moved onto early android phones it did have very helpful features to make it more like a dumb feature phone. Using these was a huge boon with those that didn’t care to learn how to use them or really just didn’t get it.

As time went on, these features were dropped or made irrelevant by other invasive features (like the busier and busier notification drawer)

What I found curious was many of these helpful features didn’t go away entirely but were locked behind a secret corporate mode. This more extreme level of control is typically exposed through MDM software.

I’ve found over the years that apple devices (these also have a corpo mode) are easier for the elderly to use as the UI has largely stayed the same and the OS treats you like you’re dumb. It has better accessibility options and my elderly customers love talking to siri.

I feel like as the knobs and levers generations dies out; the attention manufacturers and designers put towards this demographic dwindle drastically.

I remember the old GameBoy with the contrast knob on the side was super useful, and something like that may be useful. But there is also the argument if you’ve reached this point in life today, you’re probably not going to use it unless forced to. And teaching people who feel forced into something is unproductive and often makes them more afraid of technology. Some would say leave them to the wolves by this point. (not how I feel)

Trade in offer poor value.

I can sell mine often for 3x what they offer.

I’m a big fan of init 0. My friends say I’m living on the edge but if an application can’t handle it, I don’t want it.

For web APIs you can play with the program postman to get a feel for them. It doesn’t do soap well though.

Oh I can relate to this.

I did a full factory wipe of my router and winsock reset when WinMX went down forever.

Good it was a dumb idea.

Oh that’s really cool. I didn’t know people were doing that for non-console games.

The reports suggest it’s working fine. Some slow spots but overall not bad

You can run x86 and x64 games on the pi using this project.

https://box86.org/

Looks doable. They have it working mostly here.

https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86-compatibility-list/issues/88

Yeah I’m hoping it’s just a runaway bug that gets fixed.