I think it sucks when people who don't actually give a crap about a community invade it with nonsense posts that exist only to push an unrelated product or service.

I think it doesn't suck when someone spends time finding communities that are genuinely connected to the thing they've spent months or years making, and make one friendly, considered, and informative post about it in the right place.

If they never tell anyone, how am I going to find out about it? If they only post in one online group, what if I'm not subscribed to that specific group?

Welcome to the kids' table!

Regards, Australia & New Zealand.

Literally the only reason I keep a Windows machine around is to run proprietary software that I simply can't replace, like games and software suites for specific hardware.

Thanks to WINE/Proton, I can't even remember the last time I turned on that Windows machine. I think it might've been years. I should probably turn it on just to cycle the battery (notebook) a little and run updates.

English is not my native language

I'm sure their way makes sense to Chinese speakers.

It's been a while, but the last time I checked, the Australian censorship board primarily limits works which can be sold in Australia. I believe that it's explicitly legal for adults to own anything that doesn't break any other laws (including decency and pornography laws, but those are surprisingly not terrible IMO), provided that they don't buy it in Australia.

There are also some laws about using the postal service to transmit classified works, but I think they're less restrictive; for decades there was a thriving mail-order pornography trade based in the ACT (which had more relaxed censorship than the other states).

You're right, my apologies. When I saw that the SoC seemed to be similar to the MTK I had in my last phone, I thought it was less powerful, and my phone could just barely scrape through a handful of simpler GCN and PS2 games. But after reading your comment I looked more closely and the SoC in OP's phone is actually a fair bit more powerful. So yes, PS2 and GCN should be no problem.

The writer of the video is (presumably) a paid, working writer.

Why do you think that? To me, it just seems to be a guy with a YouTube account. He's got exactly three videos listed, all from the last few weeks, although the account was created 16 years ago.

Besides which, how is being a professional writer automatically connected with being a professional video editor?

I'm not sure that your analogy works, either. All he said was that it was difficult to replicate his existing workflow with free software in Ubuntu. He never claimed to be editing video to a professional level; that requirement seems to have come from you.

I use RetroArch for all the systems mentioned. It's not a simple, pick-up-and-play app, but I don't think it's too hard to get the basics working, and there's plenty of documentation and community support online.

RA maps physical controllers (configurably) to a logical internal "RetroArch controller", which is then mapped in turn to the specific emulated controller by each emulation core. So as long as the phone's mini controller pad connects to Android as a standard controller, there should be no problems, including remapping however you wish.

On the SoC in their phone, even N64 through Retroarch is a stretch for many games. PS1 will generally be OK, but I'd still recommend a stand-alone emulator for that, too. Everything earlier than that generation should be fine, though.

No "Run on startup" permission, no "Access local files" permission, no laundry list of other dubious permissions required, just the three you'd actually expect it to need. And it looks good, too.

The most insidious part of OneDrive and Google's equivalent (Photos, etc.) on Android is that they both treat the cloud copy as the "original" and the local copy as temporary. That is, in normal usage, if you delete the local copy it remains in the cloud, but if you delete the cloud copy it also deletes the local copy automatically. Under both systems, if you want to delete something from the cloud but keep the local copy, you have to go through a separate, clunky web interface.

I've heard this one before.

"This new technology has been great while the wealthy early adopters could use it to exploit the masses, but now that it's becoming more widespread and democratized, we must regulate it carefully, introducing rules with which only the wealthy and well-established can realistically comply, to protect society."