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Cake day: August 3rd, 2023

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  • Not the one you replied to, but I installed lineageos on a old Samsung tab I had laying around and there’s the android native option to ‘pin apps’ which puts the app before the lockscreen basically until you exit the mode manually, meaning you only need to turn on the screen and it’s still protected by password so can’t be used for anything else.

    For waking, it’s in the hallway where I have a hue motion sensor. Whenever the sensor notices movement, it’ll send a notification to the tablet with the command to wake the screen and the screen turns on. Pretty easy and straightforward


  • I’ve been doing mobile device management at my last company and we handed out whatever the latest a series was, to our coworkers, for especially the cost and security factor.

    And with the A52 I think, they have become really really decent phones in my opinion, I really don’t know what the hell the writer is fumbling about.

    I mean personally it’s not my favorite UI and I would take my pixel any day over it, but it worked so well and was so fluid, for a simple midrange phone. Again, not my cup of tea, but for someone like my mom or whoever just needs a phone for basic social media, calls, texts, decent camera and the web… This is perfectly fine. Now I’d still get her a pixel a series over it because the cam is just perfect imo, but if someone prefers Samsung UI, the a series is incredible.

    Plus idk what their current state is but Dex might already be there? Or is coming soon? Judging by the latest Xcover that got it, which also just sports a midrange processor.


  • I’ve got like 15 psvr2 games in about 150gb storage already. And well, chances are quite high, as I’m playing lots of different games usually.

    In total, I just checked, I have 44 games installed. Idk. Some games I just download as I might play them again with friends one day, like GTA online or rainbow 6. I play them like twice a year, but when I do want to play them, I have to download an update first, which is annoying af. Especially as I’m having my ps5 in rest mode anyways.


  • Question, how many games do you have? Because in the beginning, it was the same for me. But I’ve added an SSD and put an external for my PS4 games and as said, it’s only updating the last played what feels like 15 or so. Anything I have sitting downloaded, almost unused, is never getting updated.

    It works just fine if you use the console like ‘vanilla’. Install like 6-10 AAA games that fit in the internal storage and all will be updated, but especially with a psvr2 now that has 20 smaller titles installed for itself, I might not come back to those games for a while and play other games in the meantime, means they won’t get updated. Then I’m playing VR for a week, several different games, take a break for a month and my regular games haven’t been updated.

    The play and app store have figured this out by having a check for all updates and update all button, I really wish the ps5 could simply do the same. Or just actually keep all games updated in rest mode without doing anything, that would actually be the best. Because I’m also having my ps5 in rest mode 99% of the time I’m not using it





  • Funny thing is, if this would’ve been a follow up to the Vita, we would’ve seen the same statements. ‘My steamdeck is more powerful and can play more games lol why do I need this?’. On top it would’ve been more expensive.

    Plus the pricing would’ve been a tough pill. The cheap steam deck is 420€, the ‘good’ variant with 256gb is 550€ already. You can buy a ps5 disk version at this price already. Paying something around this for a super specced down ps5 with awful battery life? Who wants that.

    On top, people are forgetting Nintendo’s absolute dominance on the handheld market. Most people that are interested in handheld gaming, own a switch. Those who want more performance or emulation on top, got a steam deck already. This device would fill such a niche spot for, again, probably only a bit cheaper than a PS5.

    The remote player, for 200€? I can easily afford as addition to my switch for playing games at home, and wherever I want (because I only game in places I have WiFi anyways), with much better quality (1080p60!) while still having good battery life! They say they aim for Dualsense battery life, which people argue is bad, but it’s still like 2 times that of my switch… if they actually achieve that, that’d be insane.

    No Bluetooth? Only gives you awful delay tho, someone please try on their phone with remote play and then be quiet for heavens sake. Also never wanted to use headphones on my switch. And if, there’s even a headphone jack? Anyways, the launch date trailers got lots of likes with barely complaints. I think this is just a weird random outcry again