@sodiboo @tauon @puppygirlhornypost2 @silly

Worse is even the #Tablet market: #Android #Tablets may be plentyful if you just go sheer listings, but in terms of #MarketShare they are negigible in "the global north" and thus not interesting for #developers to even bother adapting or testing for unless they themselves are #GAFAMs.

• It's really fucking sad when @thunderbird is one of the few #Apps that I know that properly use Android Tablets' screen estate at all. Allegedly #Microsoft's own Apps do so as well but I myself have no #AndroidTablet and can't bring myself over the gag reflex trying to sideload #OneNote or any other App and having to deal with yet another shitty account...

Whereas on #iPadOS you get AA+ and #IndieGames worth their money by a long shot.

• Don't even get #developers like @fuchsiii started on how piss-poor premium Apps on #Android sell and how that Tablet segment is essentially dead outside of markets where people can buy a house and a years' worth of necessities for the price of a single #iPad...

And that's why there are only #PayToLoose / #P2L aka. "#PayToWin" / #P2W games for #Android as #piracy is rampant and statistically noone is willing to pay for a #OneTimePurchase #Game on that platform.

@emilianosandri I think the "#DigitalDetox" #cult is a counter-reaction to #screentime being used as a #metric to do #Enshittification, worsen the experience and increasing amounts of shitty #shovelware and #PayToLoose (#P2L) aka. "#PayToWin" (#P2W) games!

What @tomscott parodized in one segment of a video is an actual business of avusing people with harmful patterns!

I think the #LightPhone3 is better than a shitty "#ProducedEwaste" #Android 8.1 brick from China but I don't consider it worth the premium asked [U$D 799 MSRP, U$D 599 preorder] for it.

• Plus their #Website being built to mandate #JavaScript isn't very "respecting" of me as a potential user.

I think people can get a better experience buying a #degoogled #Fairphone with #eOS and just put #RelaunchX as an #eInk-optimized #launcher on it and have a better option.

• But I guess given #ForProfitHealthcare in the #USA is expensive I can see why a lot of people would rather buy such a device and sell their old one than seek therapy if they are susceptible to shitty patterns that #developers harness to maximize #screentime and #revenue.

Can't have #doomscrolling or #microtransactions if it doesn't support #NSAbook's #apps or shitty #PayToLoose #games...

• I do however acknowledge that there is a #market for #smol & #sleek "#StupidPhones" or rather compact #Smartphones and I do want to see more competition for it.

What I do have to say is that #MKBHD acknowledges that he isn't the target audience and "that's fine"...

• I just think that requiring people to sign up to some account just to be able to add/remove #Apps is a major #nope in my book.

I stayed off #GooglePlay for longer than it's being called like that and their "#lightOS" is most likely some tightly locked-down Android...

• It's just an insultingly high pricetag for < $200 internals and the best feature they have isn't even the phone but offering a "no frills" plan which seems okay (by #USA standards!) but still...

I think people would be more accepting if it was a $299 or even $399 device, but at a price of a @monocles #phone whilst being way less versatile it's just not worth it.

• Cuz it's not even a super "secure" device or offers something like a "concierge service" where the device price is artifically high to filter out average #WageWorkers without much disposable income...

@hisold OFC #Cheats are a way to learn how to "#hack" as in "What if I change the value at this address?"

• #CheatEngine is like the old tool everyone who didn't have a cracked #IDE / #debugger at hand in the days before #Ghidra.

And I still do recommend anyone interested in #IT and espechally #ITsec to build themselves their own #airgapped #HomeLab to "#FuckAroundAndFindOut!" safely within.

• Kinda like a "Dojo" (something that costs $$ per hour in terms of a "remote lab" to even be given access in)...

And with #AntiP2W becoming mainstream as well as Players despising #P2W / #PayToWin / #Pay2Win (aka. #P2L / #PayToLoose / #Pay2Loose) as well as literal #gambling on some #Minecraft servers, I don't blame Kids that feel shafted (harder than #Millenials like myself back in the days of #HabboHotel) if they decide to fuck with servers rather than scamming other players…

#RainbowCapitalism and #Pinkwashing is bad.

• Espechally when it preys upon #marginalized folks and #minors!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7ZNEML6tXQ

#Minecraft #P2W #Pay2Win #PayToWin #P2L #Pay2Loose #PayToLoose

Jemensch halt wohl #Stalker auf #Wish bestellt...

• Dreist geklaute Assets inklusive!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rsg.di.cz

#CallOfTheZone #PayToLoose #PayToWin #F2P #P2W #P2L #MobileGaming #Android

@samhenrigold I think both are key:

• If #ConsumerProtection means certain kinds of #exploitative #Apps like #PayToLoose aka. "#NotLegallyGambling" games get yeeted out of the #EU, that's a necessary and vital step...

Just like a lot of #US Services have already been unavailable for refusing to comply with laws (i.e. #CashApp & #Venmo don't comply with #KYC & #AML) and a lot of things are banned in the #USA under the veil of "#ConsumerProtection (i.e. #KinderSurprise, unwashed eggs & non-chlorinated chicken despite being scientifically better) ...

• #TechLiteracy & #MediaLiteracy OFC need to be taught but that will require at least 25+ years until we even have capacities built to stop #Enshittification - not reverse the already #enshittified products and services back into an acceptable state!

https://youtu.be/wVYG1mu8Lg8

@s20 @anniethebruce But yeah, the only #mobile game that isn't #PayToLoose is #Minecraft #PocketEdition...

Also re the #Enshittification of #MobileGaming I did just post about that....
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/112820896311992523

If anyone wounders why #MobileGaming is fucked for over a decade now to the point that there seems to be only #PayToLoose #Shovelware getting pissed out and advertised, then I'd recommend you to watch this summary and realize that EVERY BIG GAMING COMPANY wants to "go whaling" and "#PayToWin" is just an easy way to maximize #profit, minimize #effort and have a big #cashout.

• The problem is that we as society allow these #antisocial #assholes to do that and not get #jailed for defrauding #consumers and running a not legally #gambling game without a license or proper #ConsumerProtection & #YouthProtection in place - if that's even possible by concept.

So that's why you find less and less #OneTimePurchase #MobileGames at all, because #capitalism and #greed lead to #Enshittification!

@saddestrobots Basically at this point we only got 3 tiers:

• "#PayToWin" or as I call it, #PayToLoose because it's basically "not legally #gambling" but without any chance of actual winnings that one could cashout.

• "#HonestMerchant" aka. #IndieTitles priced reasonable and offering way more fun.

• "#AAA" which ranges from "$60 for a 6hr interactive movie" to "#DLC Shitshow" like #TheSims...
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXtVXmQQAA4gohaAVrk6VckM1tjQXmNRj

@anniethebruce once #Plarium runs out of cash to pay them!

• Which is unlikely cuz #DisguisedGamblingGame aka. #PayToLoose is an even bigger #MoneyPrinter then real #Gambling since that is heavily taxed and has a non-zero chance of having to pay an actual winner!

Just like @tomscott parodized here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPDDVFCeKFk

@SirTapTap considering that #Microsoft is trying to make #CallOfDuty a #Xbox & #Windows-exclusive #IP I sincerely doubt that...

The only reason #HaloInifinite got a "#FreeToPlay" aka. #PayToLoose #Multiplayer on #PC is because #Microsoft wanted people to stop pirating and modding the originally #Russia & #China-exclusive #HaloOnline!

Which is still kicking ass btw...
https://www.eldewrito.org

#ElDewito #Halo #Gaming #Linux

"Don't to #PayToLoose #Gambling, kids!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfUTqU8Tvs

@vozercozer

After all, #PayToLoose #garbage that can't even be called #Shovelware is cheaper to make and more profitable than real games...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v78KN3wZmNo&t=72s

@thememesniper That #PayToLoose game still exists?

HOW??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

@gamingonlinux +9001%

Just like #AdblockerBlocker, #PayToLeave / #PayToPause and all the #PayToLoose games in general!

@GIbiz but Apparently #Google has no issues with #PayToLoose games that do #microtransaction like #RaidShadowLegends and the like...

@ravindra @SirTapTap ...as well tzey should be obligated if they use gambling-esque "Wilson Lootbox Mechanics" witch basically turns a game into #PayToLoose shit or whether there's like a cosmetics store and whether or not progression is slowed down artifically to dark-pattern players into paying.

Worst of all would be a #PayToPause / #PayToQuit that basically #paywalls saving a game.

This should literally be banned!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTLFNlu2N_M

@SirTapTap *nodds in agreement*

The #Enshittification of #MobileGaming is mostly in part of consumers unwilling to pay for good if not premium content.

That's why there are virtually only #PayToLoose-#Games on #Android and a lot of good games get only published to #iOS if not #AppleArcade exclusively because #Piracy on Android is so rampant, it doesn't make sense to make actual games for it for big players.