Sounds like your flatmate should invest in a lawyer. That company probably owes them a ton of money.

Super Paper Mario for the Wii also has a mechanic like that. You’re in a 2D paper world (obviously) but you have the ability to temporarily turn 90°; walking through enemies and opening the possibility to i.e. pass some walls.

for a somewhat decent price.

Well, that’s the thing: With the additional cost of games, it’s not really more affordable. You cannot use the hardware for anything but expensive games.

With just 5 games, that’s already $100 more than the same games on PC would have cost.
Depending on how many games you’re going to buy, you could spend hundreds more on the PC’s hardware and it’d still be cheaper overall.

That’s the thing, you’re not getting it for free elsewhere. On YouTube/Google, you’re paying through different means. If you don’t think that price is justified, Nebula could be a much cheaper alternative.

I don’t think Nebula is meant for “Broadcast yourself” YT where everyone and their mom can create content and get found. I think it’s meant for creators with established audiences.

Given this is Nintendo, I highly doubt this code would be portable to the new console.

I don’t use it yet but the content from the creators who take part in Nebula that I see on YT would be reason enough to drop 15-20$/year on it.

What makes you say that’s not interesting content?

That’d still expose you to Google, just using a FOSS client rather than Google’s proprietary clients. It’s better but Google still has all the power here.

I was wondering what Twitter had to do with gaming…

That’s nice but this is about hand-written notes.

Back when I tried it, there was basically no ability to, like, copy paste, clone, move, delete or otherwise modify existing strokes. I believe it also had no infinite canvas?

Could also be that I was either too stupid for the UI, I didn’t take a look at it for very long.

Nope, I looked for one in 2020/2021, so that wasn’t a thing yet. Looks pretty mobile focused, no?

What’s its data format?

Obsidian is not a hand-written notes application to my knowledge.

StylusLabs Write. I’ve tried all the FOSS hand-written note taking apps and none of them is practical to use.

Write just works. Produces SVGs that you can view in any browser and efficiently sync via git. Amazing.

It looks like an android app from 2012 and could really use some updates in other areas too.
I also don’t get why it’s closed source. It’s free (as in beer) and there isn’t even a way to donate.

No.

vscode != Visual Studio.

Most of the time here it isn’t even that the base data is bad, it’s just that UIs behave horribly. Especially stuff like searching for things.

Then there’s also that real-time data is just… missing. No info on live traffic or even longer term stuff like construction.

Waze for maps and navigation. I like being able to report things on the road and update fuel prices etc

We really need something like that. We already have OSM which can do this for more static things but I’m not aware of anything which can do that for “live” data.

The same I thought of the last UFO sightings before those.

And how are you supposed to do that without an account on that other instance? Genuine question.

I don’t want to migrate accounts just to create a community; something that isn’t even properly possible yet.