I got a Windows license key back when Windows 10 launched. It works even with a fresh Windows 11 installation. You can end your search now.

(Funny thing is a couple years later, I would main Debian for about two or three years and it is still installed on my laptop)

Sagume Kishin, stage 4 of Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom.

I bought mine used in 2021, had to get it repasted, delidded, and even install extra capacitors to support the original Tokins, and she's still kicking. We mostly play PS1 games on it these days. I will keep my console and my collection healthy, here's hoping for both of us!

I was seriously looking to see if any of those were a literal aquarium PC case, like the Metalfish Y2. Still, they're all delightful.

Oh, I also see PS3 games on the shelves, I know they're not the focus, but that's also delightful.

Dodging crap like this is why I buy games physical, or digitally but DRM-free. If you're gonna buy Skyrim again, get it from GOG, they just sell you the game and then don't do such crap like verify you own the license that you actually own...

Whenever I play Minecraft, I enable commands on for any of the worlds I play. If I want to do something with the world, I will, though typically it's just active for when I need it. The most prominent changes I did was to stop the flow of time at night, and continued playing the world until I came back from the End. It's now my forever world.

Oh brother. The 9060XT is the only part I'm missing in my build.

You can download both and see which one tickles your fancy more, but I prefer Mineclonia. There WILL be differences as Luanti is a fundamentally different engine from Minecraft, but generally you'll feel right at home.

Currently the biggest differences for me are that lapis lazuli is stupidly rare compared to Minecraft, and there are no unique stepping sounds for other mobs so it's like Alpha and Beta where a creeper's footsteps can blend in with chickens, cows, and pigs. Dual wielding is also currently primitive, and Nether portals tend to put you in the middle of lava seas. Caves are stupidly dark but that might get improved on.

But I did manage to build myself a nice big house with an inner courtyard, and get myself to the End and come back with an elytra and shulker boxes.

We don't want that. Fuck off Google.

Checks out.

You ask someone to see or find some cool alternative thing you've been using, they'll insist it's either one more app or come up with excuses to stay with the corporate thing. It's always the corporate thing.

Isn't it already restricted in those four countries? We need to pushback harder so the restrictions apply not to four countries, but rather to zero.

I mean, there are no ads, but I only made it deep into the first level. This can absolutely change with updates for the better or worse - whether Konami will do it or not is doubtful IMO. This seems to me like a quiet, lazy promotion.

The activities in case you use something like App Manager are few, and there are no trackers or permissions it requests or anything, fairly benign. The activity labeled Check Data is to reload a previous state if you previously quit the game prematurely? And the activities labeled Kiyaku are for the terms and conditions (that's the Japanese word for them). It doesn't have DRM or license verification.

The manual just explains the controls and is an overlay on top of the gameplay screen, it's not the original NES manual.

I couldn't figure out how to pull the NES ROM out, I think it's part of the .so library they're using.

I wouldn't play this with just touch controls, but you may try. It has a single save-state system so you can brute force actions even with touch controls if you want.

We don't hear this enough. Google doesn't hear this enough.

Phantasy Star detected

Cybernetic Carnival detected

If only I could upvote twice

Remember to https://keepandroidopen.org/!

Even this is LLM generated? It is not—it is!!!

It's Mimi. She'll keep the glasses if she had to compromise.

Doom clones

Almost everything would be a clone of Doom if it was first person and had you shooting things. I think it took a while before that term was dropped. Can we drop "metroidvania" too?

The winning move is not to play?

Google Maps is still more complete than Open Street Maps, although the temptation to just DISBALE Google Maps and worry about the fallout of that later is still there.

You might have then noticed that the biggest Google dependency I have is Android. Yeah, that will be a hard sell. I don't have easy access to any Linux phones either - although Linux now has a slop problem and it's as deep as the kernel. Ugh.