It was probably defederated from every other instance

https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/syncthings-android-app-is-going-away-google-play-store-policies-is-one-of-the-reasons-to-blame/

I’ve played all the previous Bloons TD on Kongregate when that site was fire, however seeing it so promoted on Play Store makes me afraid of aggressive monetization, as everything on Play Store seems to be just an ad simulator.

Simon Tatham! I’ve been trying to remember that name for a long time, I remember his Minesweeper for having no 50/50

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-aosp-3538503/
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-developer-verification-rules-3602811/

ps: Have no doubt, every claim Google makes about restricting stuff for your own good is just them lying out of their asses.

So I guess more free open source projects won’t be able to be maintained by overworked volunteers, and they’ll get “rescued” by trillion-dollar corporations that will close-source everything, backdoor the shit out of it, and decide what you can and cannot have.

Another thing I noticed, several games that I’m sure I have played are not listed on the apps I had (bunch of idlers and TCG) so this makes me worry about software preservation, since stuff just vanishes… is there a way to backup those games? At least the ones I bought I’d like to backup myself - and no, I don’t care the least about the legality of it.

Google is trying to kill Android and take control of it, I wonder if such acts aren’t part of the same agenda.

I love the first person dungeon exploration, it’s sad they didn’t use it on the Genesis games.

My country has a huge piracy tradition, we have counterfeit of everything and no one gives a fuck. I have this satellite decoder that let me watch any satellite-broadcasted channel in the world, and the guys who made those are so awesome that they also offer a streaming service they upload everything from all major streaming services, and it’s completely free, no subscription, you just buy their device and you have access to their private streaming

Do they work offline or are they just small data broker agents?

Streaming services subscription.

“The Grand Theft Auto maker terminated between 30 and 40 staffers across multiple offices in the UK and Canada”

weather forecast

sloped lot. I put them there before the walls.

Here the sewer is 80% (so for every $10 you consume of water they charge another $8 for sewer). In those months I don’t use their water I still pay for the sewer minimal fee (up to 10m³ water consumption, my average in the months I use their water is 18m³)

There were a couple of years with extended drought season and the city’s water reserves got dangerously low and there was rationing. Since then, I got another five 260L barrels and tons of 5L bottles filled with rainwater under my stairs just for use on my lawn, garden, and houseplants. I don’t believe the climate is going to get any better in the future, nor that the population will get smaller or industry will use less water. Every year is hotter than the previous one. What I expect are longer and longer drought seasons, and I don’t think I’m prepared enough :P

I’m not a native speaker. I just mean I use the city water supply when it’s not raining season, and when it starts raining (about half of the year here) I stop using (and paying for) it and use only rainwater. As I wrote in another comment here, my city has a lot of natural springs and I get water for drinking there.

If your written language isn’t messy you actually read syllables.
There is this guy called Paulo Freire that developed a literacy method for adults that is really impressive and it was tested in several parts of the world. It has a whole part about making it relatable to the person learning and using its environment and social reality, but the reading/writing part is based on phonetics, so in two months his method can get adults from poor regions that have never went to school reading and writing - but as it’s based on phonetics, and language is messy, at start they mix syllables that have same sound, like stuff with c and k, or ch and sh, or ks and x, but if they know how it sounds they can read it, and regardless of grammatical mistakes when writing, what they write is understandable and “right” when it comes to phonetics, so even though it’s “wrong” you can still read and understand it, and that’s possible because the written language is based on syllables… now imagine having to teach 3000 to 4000 different symbols and if you make one stroke to the wrong side or miss one stroke it’s a completely different word?

The continued existence of written Chinese means as much as the continued existence of Christianity and how it spread through other continents, it has nothing to do with how good it is, but with historical power relations - and if Chinese becomes the next Lingua Franca, as it will probably be, it will because China won at capitalism and conquered the world’s markets, and not because its language is good - I actually can’t say if the language is good or not, but the writing system, it’s beyond bad.

ps: this has nothing to do with some Eurocentric view of language, because I actually find the Korean writing system pretty awesome.