I’ve only ever associated their brand with the game A Little to the Left (very relaxing stress relief game, by the way) and never realized they were part of Tencent.

Good to see them split from the stifling megacorp, hope they have more success with future ventures.

Hmm, has me stumped, then. Could just be a poorly designed site and not necessarily a problem inherent with the browser.

Usually I only see that sort of thing when an ad that would have taken up that space gets blocked but the page doesn’t redraw to move the footer content.

Galaxy S25 brain

Well, yes and no. The main point of compatibility that games should be working towards if they want to run well on macOS is to have ARM versions that work better with Apple’s M-series chips. SteamOS/The Steam Deck are still built for x86 processors which Apple has since stopped supporting.

It’s not impossible to bundle the games in an emulation layer, but it is a bit more involved than something like Proton/WINE, which are just compatibility layers and not emulators, and it comes at the cost of performance.

You’re right, it looks like that was dropped along with AOSP. Corrected my post.

Had me curious so I looked it up, since I always thought Huawei phones ran Android.

These devices will run HarmonyOS Next, which is Huawei’s new OS. It’s not Android/does not incorporate AOSP but is based on the Linux kernel, and is proprietary/locked down and not FOSS.

Delete that, too. It was the last stranglehold Facebook had on me, but I decided to get rid of it, let friends/family know how they could contact me instead, and hell, most of them ended up following me to Signal (or just plain ol’ Discord) anyways.

I thought the same thing when I saw another article talking about the Pixel Watch 5.

Modern tech news is so boring we have to speculate about what will be coming in 2-3 years based on what chips are under development today.

A bit of a dumb title, Nintendo does develop their own emulators to help port content onto newer systems and that’s been known for some time.

Virtual Console is an emulator, or rather a series of self-contained emulators that individual games are packaged in. The NES and SNES Mini consoles use emulators to run their games. Hell, even the original Animal Crossing came with its own NES emulator to run playable versions of Nintendo titles you could get as furniture.

It’s not “emulators” they have a problem with, it’s third-party emulators that supposedly infringe on Nintendo code/IP and the distribution of ROMs, but whether those grievances are legitimate or not is a separate topic entirely.

Of course, but I think when people complain about the software, it’s that out-of-the-box experience they are describing. The vast majority of users are not savvy enough to flash custom ROMs, sideload, or even install a new launcher. And even for those with the expertise to do so, it’s extra work.

But then that also doesn’t quite address the app situation either. Android, for better or worse, is all about scalable interfaces to accommodate an infinitely wide array of devices, but most people with a tablet will tell you that they don’t like “tablet” apps that are just rescaled phone apps with way too much whitespace. So there may be something to be said about the way Apple maintains iPad OS separately from iOS, with more stringent design standards to adhere to for app developers to have their iPad apps listed in their app store.

It’s a valid concern, though. The tablet experience has always sucked on Android, so the foldable experience is trying to hybridize with something the OS has never been able to get right.

But the inverse is also true. There’s no telling if a future software update will take a good experience and make it terrible.

Only difference I can see is that it looks like they sharpened the edges and removed the screen bevel in the process.

But that could have already happened on prior devices without me noticing, since my current device is years old and I haven’t seen a need to upgrade yet.

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But is there real dragon science?

It looks a little thick but not insanely so, judging by the photo in the article.

For me it looks thin enough when unfolded that I’d be worried about breaking it if I hold it wrong.

Hey, it shows up in people’s “All” feeds as well. I’m not subscribed here and I saw this post (but I do also already use Firefox).

I’d rather the developers keep their jobs and the IP doesn’t go to waste but that’s just me.

I don’t know anything about this publisher, but Tango Gameworks was already being closed by Microsoft so they were effectively already dead until this deal was made.

Seems like it is missing a lot of the conveniences that I was once used to with Nova, though. No ability to reposition the search bar or keep it in place on other pages, no docked apps, no button to open the app drawer, the home screen grid has fixed padding and so on.

I’ve since switched to Niagara which has been okay, but I’ve never found anything else like Nova since.