I dig this one, it’s pretty cool.

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I have one and do so. It’s pretty great. I will admit I still have some google services on it, but I’m working on not needing those.

When you say “safer” can you elaborate on in what sense you mean?

Would you be more likely to use Signal if the username tests become mainstream? Then you wouldn’t need to share your phone # with everyone.

I always enjoyed these tiktoks, staged or not. But man this is a shitty attitude. Imagine taking it as an insult if someone identified you from your best known (and quite good) work.

Any particular reason to not use Firefox with addons like ublock? Just curious

Colossal Order is the dev, Paradox is just the publisher. Paradox deserves crap for their many mistakes, but this one isn’t theirs.

I just bought Fallout 4 GOTY for $5 the other day. Look forward to doing the same in a few years when Cyberpunk 2077 has a final release with everything fixed and polished. There’s so many good old games, why buy anything brand new.

And this doesn’t forgive devs for buggy initial releases either, because I’m not throwing money at something until it’s actually done.

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For CK and Vic they changed their design philosophy to be more “sandbox with realistic parameters” vs older games’ “sandbox with prescripted events” to make historical events happen. It’s an ambitious idea but so far the results have been pretty mixed. I’m hopefully they get it right eventually. Stellaris has really only gotten to be as polished as it very recently.

Paradox is just the publisher on this one, Colossal Order is the dev.

No experience with Magic Earth but I’ve used Organic Maps a lot when trying to use Google less. The offline maps are great, I can get a route quickly when I don’t have internet (like on a roadtrip), this has really helped in a few pinches. The navigation is usually fine, but it doesn’t know a lot of private addresses in my city. The dataset is always improving but clearly behind Google.

I have the same issue with light, had prescription glasses and prescription sunglasses, and had to switch between the two frequently. Finally got prescription transitions and they’re incredible, I no longer have to think about my glasses at all. Just put them on and go.

I think it’s fair to say that secure ways to communicate have largely scaled with our social circles. Without writing you can’t keep in touch at a distance anyway.