I love it, performance is good, battery is awesome, build quality is pretty good and I’m happy with the stock OS, back in the day I used to unlock the bootloader and root as soon as I get the phone, but with the software support this phone is going to have and the features it has, I hardly see any reason to root.

I bought a second hand pixel 6a a couple weeks ago, my previous phone was the OnePlus 3, lasted me 5 years and at the time of purchase it was already a two years old second hand, bought them for basically the same price, 200€.

Pixel 6a user here, the fingerprint reader works 9/10 for me, only rarely refuses to unlock because of a misalignment or something, wondering how people who complain about it actually use it.

My OP3 was dying and I needed a new poo phone, I can’t afford buying things whenever I want so that’s extra incentive to hold on to my devices, so after 5 years of use (the OP3 was second hand) I finally got the opportunity to switch phones and I got the pixel 6a (second hand as well)

Honestly I love it, it’s basically the same size and almost the same dimensions as my previous phone but with a bigger screen, the OS has some very cool and intuitive options here and there, the camera is better back and front, the battery is great for my use case, I appreciate having a new phone again that will still have decent software support.

And all of this for around 200€, the same price I got my OP3 5 years ago, I’m really glad I could find such a good phone for this price.

I used to mod a lot back in the day, installing custom roms, custom kernels, all kinds of apps, but that changed and I just use a DNS and ublock on Firefox, I’m not even planning to unlock the bootloader and root this one, I’m happy with stock, it has everything I need at this point in life.

Playing The Fractured But Whole for almost a month now, it’s a pretty enjoyable experience and it feels just like playing an episode of the show, liking it a lot so far.

The Exynos variants of Samsung devices can have their bootloader unlocked, it’s the snapdragon ones that can’t and even then there are some instances where it was possible to do it, but it’s still a hassle and the Exynos variants tend not to have good development support.

This is awful, to think that all this legacy would go to waste someday, I can’t fathom having all these unique experiences, all these stories and love letters to genres and cultures getting lost in the vortex of time.

I feel sad for the people that are just getting into gaming and them not experiencing games that made history, the good and the bad.

Something like this should be preserved even if just for study purposes, for those games before the digital era, the only options that are left for us are either piracy or emulation, and thankfully we do have these options but yeah we really should have future proofed this industry in some way.

What the hell ? Feels like it was sitting at 30k just a couple days ago, insane growth.

The audio mixing for that game is a bit off sometimes and they never fixed.

There’s also the camera problem where it always defaults to one side of the character even if you change it.

I love the game, but yeah it’s a shame they never fixed these problems.

Why wouldn’t they ?

This will outlive us, no matter the platform.

I’ve put around 240+ hours into TOTK but not because I am a completionist or anything, it’s mostly because I don’t like using fast travel and I enjoy traveling the world, finding secrets or hidden locations.

But I have to admit that I overdid it, towards the end I felt a little burned out due to this.

Not at all lol, I just love exploring and taking my time so it adds up, and just a few days ago I decided that I finally should finish the game, it was an awesome experience all the way through, my only complaint would be combat, I was hoping it had improved since botw but nope.

I think the South Park games should be given a chance even if you are not a fan of the show, they stand very well on their own as fun RPGs.

Glad to see the app being reincarnated for lemmy, I tweaked Boost to be exactly the way I like it, I was pretty disappointed knowing I would never have the same experience again.

I noticed I couldn’t see tweets my friend would send me without creating an account, guess I won’t be seeing any more tweets.

After 240+ hours on TOTK, I finally finished it, I didn’t know what to play for a few days, but then I started South Park The Fractured But Whole and I’m having a blast, I am a fan of the show and I love how the games feel just like an episode or a movie, I hope they make a third one down the line.