I'm old enough to remember when dedicated servers were the norm.

Oh sweet times before the matchmaking

Great timing, I've just started Ship of Harkinian Ocarina Of Time port

This seems like an extremely bad deal. You can get faster chargers for far less

If you want to keep a device that long, that I would personally suggest going for one of the new Pixels, as you would get longest possible software/replacement parts support.

Sure it won't have a headphone jack, but you can use a dongle (with a DAC) that will allow you to just hook up wired headphones. The only downside is that you cannot charge and listen at the same time.

You won't get 2 physical SIMs, and probably size will also be an issue.

I don't trust Xiaomi phones, sure they look good on paper but after hearing horror stories about their software from friends I'm not convinced it's worth the hassle.

I loved the collectathon-like gameplay of the demo. Very cute and fun. I'll probably pick it up someday, as I already have a lot in my backlog.

What's the difference between retroDeck and EmuDeck?

You can use AirPods on Android, but you will lose certain basic features, like software updates, equalizer, changing controls, and more. Not to mention that for a long while you would also be stuck with one different cable to charge this one accessory. It all adds up

The difference is, if you have an iPhone and want to buy a smartwatch/earbuds you will likely pick Apple made ones, as they are artificially made better than the competition.

While on Android you can pick from a bunch of different companies without any real downsides, and when you want to switch to a different phone (e.g from a Samsung to a Pixel) you won't need to switch your smartwatch or earbuds.

What's the utility of the key case? I think that having keys just on a keyring allows them to more comfortably spread inside the pocket. Never had one, so I'm curious if that's an aesthetic/security or convenience tool

If you are running Android <11 then apps could see the list of apps installed on the device https://developer.android.com/training/package-visibility

Pure speculation (and how I would do it) is to have apps A, B, C check periodically the list of installed packages and if one of them disappeared from the list I would trigger this survey. Of course that requires that all apps are from the same developer, and it won't trigger this survey on the last app uninstall

Google is on its way to release its own Find my device network with "Airtag" like products https://9to5google.com/2023/05/10/android-find-my-device-trackers/

Sadly, it got postponed https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/27/23810052/google-find-my-device-delay-apple-unknown-tracker-alerts-stalking, and we don't know when it will be available. My guess (that's 100% based on nothing) is that we will get a date during Google Pixel event

Why?