I have a fair bit of gripes with them, but they stay out of the way instead of embedding yourself into the system. Buy game, download it, we're both done. You know, like an actual store, and not a parasite? Plus they're not US-based and giving the Epstein class less tax dollars is always good.
I'm worried about its new ownership but apart from some LLM shenanigans which they quietly backtracked on they're still way better than the rest.
And private companies still exist in and play by the rules of a capitalist system, yes. A system that encourages being unethical and chasing profits. So you bet worker-owned is the best bet. That or a lot of regulation, which the US is deliberately lacking.
So yeah as a Linux user I'm not putting 1% of my faith in a US corporation.
Jokes on them, I only have a PS3 and Vita as the only consoles that have PSN. And I only have like five PSN games on the latter to worry about. The rest are, well, discs or PKGs.
I used to use Edge at home, then ditched it. I used it recently at work and it is getting really enshittified. Now I'm between Cromite which works until suddenly the interface freezes, or Ungoogled Chromium which I haven't got to work on the work laptop (it works now on my home Linux so whatever).
Come back when games become 1) strictly drm-free no launchers no nothing 2) more affordable worldwide 3) not subject to artificial obsolescence, then we can talk.
Yeah I specifically picked a phone with a jack and SD card slot (iPods never supported these afaik). Do Not Disturb is also an Android feature, or airplane mode like the other reply said.
Why would I need another iPod? My phone does everything the iPod did but better, and more. I've loaded it up with all my DRM-free MP3s from Google Play Music before that shut down, and I can watch whatever I want on it offline. Why buy what would certainly be an even more enshittifird iPhone with less features at Apple's totally sensible prices?
It uninstalled AnkiConnect for me. No warning first to tell me the app was malicious (it isn't), no prompt of whether or not it's OK to remove it. Just yeeted.
I had to disable Play Protect from Google Play's settings, and that wasn't enough as notifications would now pop up saying the app is malicious after I brought it back, so then I shut off those notifications.
When the warranty on my phone runs out or it's under threat of not being able to unlock the bootloader, I'll unlock the bootloader and put on a custom ROM without Gapps. Fuck this bullshit. And Google wants to make installing apps harder to feed its ego. Fuck billionaires.
A change I still wholly reject. Everyone should reject this change. No compromises.