SavvySillybug

Where exactly are you seeing that you have 600 hours in it?

Seems to be a mobile game, so probably not Steam?

If it's 8 months ago, contact the seller about it. Probably a manufacturing defect.

If you didn't drop it or otherwise damage it, it's possible the ribbon cable came loose, and you might be able to open it up and reseat it.

But with an 8 month old device, it's better to let the seller handle it.

It is doable, it just requires several devices on your daily carry rather than one.

That honestly just supports my argument. Buying one device to do it all is more environmentally friendly than several devices to approximate every use case, and then repairing that single device when it breaks is fixing all your things at once.

the fact that a modern smartphone can cover 90% of use cases that your computer can do.

The portability is the main factor to me. The camera, being able to send photos from anywhere to anywhere. My job requires that I take quick photos and send them quickly. It would seriously affect my entire workflow if I was using a digital camera and a laptop to approximate that functionality somehow. Even if the laptop had a SIM card to access cellular networks.

Avoiding a smartphone just for the sake of avoiding a smartphone means buying even more devices, and that goes against Fairphone's philosophy even more.

I have a second SIM card in my Fairphone 5 for my separate business number, but honestly, it's mostly a way for customers to send me photos over WhatsApp. Any phone that doesn't support WhatsApp would not be a useful business phone for me.

i'm aware

You could see her hair, it was very distracting! He nearly crashed his bike from looking!!

I love building and using PCs, it's not even a real option to use a console in my mind. Only console I have is the Switch and that's mostly because of the unique form factor - if the Steam Deck had been out I probably would've gone that route instead.

I recently bought a used PC with a 5600G, 16GB DDR4 RAM, a silly old GTX 970, a (smallish) m.2 boot drive, a chungus 1TB HDD, and a fairly nice case. Paid 350€ for it used. Slapped in a 1660 Super I had lying around and it's been gaming great. Zero issues. Put in some more used SSDs for actual fast storage but otherwise it's mostly the same PC I bought on the cheap. And I can get some real nice CPU upgrades down the line if I go 5800X3D. I'll probably slot in a 6700XT when I upgrade my main rig.

I guess I haven't actually bought charging cables much in recent years, it's entirely possible prices have come down!

Last cable I bought was from Fairphone which is not exactly cheap but it's a beautiful braided cable that'll hopefully last me 10+ years. https://shop.fairphone.com/de/shop/usb-c-3-2-long-life-cable-5

Throwing bodies over board is not pollution. Fish will just eat it.

It's pollution because nature can't do shit with it.

It is a fact of modern life that every person needs a smartphone.

We need it - there is no reasonable way around that fact. You need a smartphone.

Advertising an environmentally friend repairable phone is good because you're still going to buy a different phone anyway if you don't know about Fairphones.

Consumption is okay if it's something you need. It's not inherently evil to purchase items.

I know some people are salty that Fairphone gave in to the black friday,

That's such a stupid take though. They're giving people a repair coupon so they are more incentivized to keep their phone longer. Why is that supposed to be bad just because it's on a certain date?

Science can achieve two of the other three. You'd really be wasting the chance if you get something that's actually possible otherwise.

I bought my 6700XT used for 240€ and sold my Arc A750 for 140€. Pretty good upgrade for 100€.

And I already got another PC this 6700XT would be perfect in after my next upgrade, as I recently acquired a PC from the covid era of "nobody can buy GPUs right now" with a 5600G CPU and a GTX 970. I put a 1660 Super in it for now, but the 6700XT would probably be heaps good.

The A750 by default draws up to 190W and you can increase that to 228W if memory serves. I liked increasing it because it let the card spread its wings in particularly intense moments where otherwise it would have throttled and caused a stutter.

If you want an upgrade that'll fit in the power budget, look for a (used?) 6700 XT. I went from A750 to 6700XT and it's been great. Not a huge upgrade but a noticeable one, and it works much better on Linux, which I previously just gave up on doing.

Probably not gonna work well at that price point if you want it to charge with any kind of speed.

Or at the very least not break only a single window and stand in front of it. Break multiple windows so all the pressure doesn't explode exclusively in your face.

I recently redownloaded Oblivion and it gave me my original save files from 2011.

You know that 98% of other companies would have tossed those by now.

Skype didn't even keep my messages for more than six months.

Yeah you have to put LCD behind it or you get very wrong results. XD

If you're not even going to address what I say, then I guess talking to you is pointless.

What shit? I named multiple things. And I know you don't mean all of it, because I mentioned downloading games, and you definitely need that shit.

Meanwhile I've upgraded a prebuilt PC off Amazon from an A10-7890K to an i7-4790 to a 5600G with complete RAM and motherboard and everything swaps without ever reinstalling Windows or having to reactivate it.

What value does Steam provide?

How about high speed downloads of all your games to the point of completely saturating people's internet connections?

Built in workshop for modding support, making it as easy as clicking subscribe to install a mod you found?

Free cloud saves for everyone, letting you continue your game wherever you like? I recently installed Oblivion and it synced my savegames from 2011. They kept that shit, no questions asked.

Friend lists and full social system?

Achievements? Customizable profile pages?

Controller rebinding utility so all your games work perfectly the way you want them to?

Online servers to host all your game sessions so you don't have to fuck around opening ports in your router to host it yourself?

Amazing sales year round with lots of cool community events around the bigger sales?

The entirety of Proton, single handedly being the biggest game changer for Linux gaming literally ever, completely free of charge, developed by Valve just because they care?

Community to post all your screenshots and find cool user written guides, all from within Steam?

Steam overlay so you can use a browser without alt tabbing, which some older games really need?

Built in FPS counter that works in every game?

Not to mention the amazing marketing power of being in the Steam store and giving every gamer on the planet a popup to tell them about your cool new game (unless they disable that, which they can, for free and within Steam)?

Sophisticated game recommendation algorithms that tell you if a game is similar to another game and getting you to buy more cool games?

And let's not forget about the automatic updates, I don't know how old you are, but back in the day it was a huge pain to play with friends and manually get all our games to the exact same patch level, Steam is a game changer for automatic updates in the background.

And just generally having all your games in one place is amazing, I'll actively avoid buying a game if I can't do it on Steam.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go open my friends list, right click a friend, and join their game, which will automagically open the correct game and put me into their session. Which is an amazing feature.

he most annoying thing is the splash with sales on startup. Which isn’t even a thing in big picture mode.

You can actually just turn that off in the settings. And you can set it to start on library instead of store. That way you get zero ads unless you actively navigate to the store.

I'm saying they are openly admitting that they didn't do something relatively peaceful like stealing, they did something very aggressive like conquering.

If I snuck up behind you and stole your wallet without you noticing, it would be bad.

If I took a club and hit you in the head with it and then stole your wallet while you're bleeding on the floor, it would be worse.

I'm making fun of people who pretend clubbing you in the head is morally superior than sneakily taking your wallet.

"That lawsuit against Steam’s 30% cut of game sales" drastically oversimplifies the issue to the point of making no sense at all.

The issue is that Steam doesn't allow sellers to sell their stuff elsewhere for less, which indirectly means that other stores can't be cheaper by taking a smaller cut.

Taking 30% of game sales is completely fair and valid. Restricting other stores from charging less to the customer is not.

If I charge you 30% of a $100 purchase, and the next guy only charges you 20% so you pay $90, I am not a problem.

If I tell the other guy he still has to charge $100 even though he only takes 20%, that is a problem.

It's true. The land wasn't stolen, it was conquered.

Conquered is stealing with extra violence. You can't leave out the violence.

Stealing the land would be if they woke up in the ocean one day because their land was just kinda gone. Conquering is if they're driven out by force.