CharlestonChewbacca

Yeah, it’s painfully obvious that’s the case.

You can use Ubuntu and Zorin just fine without the terminal.

They do

Have you played BG1 or 2?

BG3 is great. So far I’m thinking it’s the best CRPG of all time. I’d recommend it over DoS 1&2, which is saying a LOT because DoS2 is amazing.

Thronefall is a great, cozy game that still scratches my RTS itch.

I think New Star is probably only going to work for specific people. It has the look of Virtua Racer, with old school arcadey car feel, in Formula One style races with a career mode based on managing your sponsorships, pit crew, and engineers, while upgrading your car. It’s absolutely nothing like NFS.

I’d recommend it if you liked games like Rush and Cruis’n USA, and Formula One.

If you’re looking for something like NFS, NFS Heat was pretty solid. Forza Horizon 5 would be another game you might enjoy. Project Cars 3 is another solid Arcadey racer. I mostly play Sim and Simcade racers, so I don’t have a lot of recommendations for arcadey racers.

This will be my first clear weekend for a while.

I’ve been playing a BG3 campaign with my buddy when I got a few spare hours, so we’ll probably play that some this weekend.

I’ve also been playing Thronefall. Great, simple tower defense RTS kinda game.

Also been playing New Star GP. A retro style, arcadey Formula One game in a retro style similar to Virtua Racer from the devs that made Retro Bowl. It’s got a fun little career mode.

Yep!

Yeah, since May 2018

I’m not a fan of backup cams. But judging by how many people are, they should absolutely be included in every vehicle.

Look, I’m not the target market for this anyway, and I know that. But I won’t ever buy another car that doesn’t have both Android Auto and Apple CarPlay. Especially now that head units aren’t so simple to replace.

Like, no matter how good your software is when you release it, you’re not going to have the same level of support, frequency of updates, timelines of new feature releases, and actual hardware upgrades (via my phone) I’d get from you having AA or CarPlay.

Both AA and CarPlay have gotten pretty damn good in the last few years too.

I drive a 2008 Mustang and I finally replaced my head unit a couple years ago with the Sony XAV-AX5000 and it was the best upgrade I could’ve possibly made to my car. I was really feeling like getting something new because I wanted modern convenience and this $350 upgrade gave me the luxury of perpetually being up to date. The only downside is that it doesn’t have wireless AA, but hardly anything does.

And no, I’m not good with having just one. My last several phones have been Pixels, but my GF and my Best Friend have iPhones. I need to be able to do both seamlessly. Plus, I don’t want my car locking me in to a phone OS. If apple releases an iPhone with USB-C, AoD, side loading (all of which should be in the next phone), add better UI scaling options, and they fix the back gesture, I’ll want to switch and I don’t want my car to keep me from doing that.

No. I used to use Sync for reddit back in the day when there weren’t better options. I’ve just moved to apps that have more functionality and more convenient gestures/UI like Boost.

As for Lemmy, I tried Sync because I assumed it would be better than the initial lemmy offerings, and found it wasn’t much improved from the early days of reddit sync and was lacking options and polish compared to apps like Thunder.

Not sure why you need to be condescending, trying to defend some app just because I said it was clunky.

I never said it was bad.

I just don’t get why people would use it over alternatives that have more features, are more stable, are free, and don’t include ads…

I just don’t get the love for Sync. It was the best reddit app on Android like 10 years ago, but so many other apps surpassed it a while ago. Boost was smoother and had more options. As for iOS, Alien Blue and then Apollo were much better.

With lemmy, you’ve got great apps like memmy and Thunder that are imo better than Sync.

So you’re dealing with ads (or paying for closed source software) just to use a worse product that kinda goes against the FOSS philosophy Lemmy is built on.

I haven’t had this issue on Thunder.

I’m just going to keep using Thunder until Boost comes out. Sync feels a little clunky.

No. Sandboxed apps only prevent some fingerprinting, but notably provides a ‘reasonable budget’ for data that can be gathered.

Sandboxes absolutely prevent all cross-app tracking. The app doesn’t have access to anything outside the sandbox.

What you said about the advertising ID is true and is basically what I said, but disabling the advertising ID does not stop profiling or fingerprinting, just limits the most obvious applications of it.

What useful tracking do you think is still happening when you take these precautions?

Using a VPN is a start, but we’re comparing the privacy of Android and iOS. You can use a VPN on both. iOS includes an opt-in pseudo-vpn baked into the OS with private relay, for $0.99 per month. And besides, using a VPN does nothing to block the the fingerprinting done by native apps.

So then what difference does it make? You can use whatever VPN you want.

Are you sure you work in security? Like, mall security?

Yes. Stick to the topic. The ad-hominem is just childish.

I like Thunder best

I’ve found Thunder to be the best so far. But I’m holding out for Boost.

No. What they’ve done is made a local Ad ID that can be used locally on your device without interacting with another app. But you can disable it.

Plus, on Android you can literally completely sandbox apps: https://www.gtricks.com/android/how-to-sandbox-android-apps-for-privacy/

Or use a VPN if you’re worried about IP/Device tracking.

Google restricts Cross app tracking and you can entirely disable the ad profile.

They will continue to make money off of the users who don’t care, while capturing more market from those who do.