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9y ago
Pedant corner: The iPhone 6 has a physical home button, with Switch and all (I know this as I am writing this post on one). The haptic home "button" didn't appear until the 7.
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9y ago
Because the experience is subpar when that is done. It is impossible to create a vector image that will result in clean, unblurred strokes at arbitrary small pixel sizes. Don't even suggest using TrueType-style hinting, I don't th
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9y ago
No non-cellular Apple devices have GPS that I'm aware of. My wifi-only iPad Air certainly doesn't, but my mother's cellular iPad mini 4 does
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10y ago
Because of "doggy style"
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10y ago
This. I've gotten it when redownloading old PS2 homebrew stuff that I'd used in the past and knew was safe, and that's about it. They were mostly zip and exe files.
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10y ago
There exist cart copiers, and not just the old ones. It is legally possible to dump your own games.
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10y ago
The right to backup stems from copyright, and on theory cannot be denied by copyright holders. DMCA'S anti-circumvention unfortunately limits this - if circumventing "access controls" is part of the path to backing up media,
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10y ago
AmigaBASIC was horrible. It didn't really make use of the OS facilities that well, and it was slow and cumbersome. Almost identical to Microsoft's BASIC for the Mac from what I've seen, and that was universally hated compared
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10y ago
For the record, the official Netflix client for PS2 (only legitimately released in some South American countries) was discontinued and is unsupported. I'm guessing they moved exclusively to H.264 at some point (no idea what codec they
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10y ago
Actualy, generally in the US, bitmap fponts are not copyrightable, nor are any pure image representations of the glyphs in a font. Truetype fpnts generally are copyrightable because they are small programs that generate the desired glyphs,
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10y ago
Although to be fair, when referring solely to BASIC performance, MS's AmigaBasic was complete trash.
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10y ago
"Tapes are shit" is also a mythfrom a technical perspective. A good recording made onto a good metal tape on a high-end deck from a good source, will sound nearly as good as a CD or clean vinyl on a good turntable. Commercial prer
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10y ago
Super Mario Run is a much deeper game than Flappy Bird.