I like using e-reader because it’s cheap, better on the eyes, the battery lasts forever, and generally screens are bigger than the phone. Also not killing your phone battery showing text is a plus.

I’ve been kicking around a couple of nook simple touch for several years. it’s ancient, android 2.1! It was easy to jailbreak them and add a launcher, and a couple sane ebook readers (though you’ll have to find older versions of apps that will work with eclair). pop stuff on it over usb, and it’s on there. The ones with backlights are getting super rare, but if you don’t care about that you can probably snag one for round $20 places like ebay.

Really can’t beat that, costs more to get a power bank to keep from killing your phone reading things.

Did you perhaps watch thirteen ghosts at some point? Because your animation looks a lot like a part of the machine in that movie, the “Basileus Machine”. To be clear, it’s entirely fictious.

See link with interesting title.

Look at actual domain, if it’s *tube/invidious immediately skip over link.

Click, see it’s loading (any) video site.

Immediately close page.

Skipping some steps here, usually fast enough that you don’t even have to hear voice.

If you won’t write it out in text, it’s not worth receiving the information.

Internet-routed media transfers, bypassing some (very) shitty filtering done by carriers. Most will compress and downscale any media sent via MMS. A friend didn’t have RCS until recently, and I always had to remember to send links and not actual pictures because they would always recieve unreadable garbage if I let the carrier transfer it. But really, ANY other messaging app solves this… Signal, Telegram, Discord, even Steam Chat will blow the pants off MMS.

last played Jan 24

Hard no.

We loved the first, but the second adds the stupid infection thing, and was in the “ok, playable” pile at the start, but all the glitches and bugs made us stop. Between day/night not working for non-hosts, buildings with huge map holes in them, and very poorly scripted quests we dropped it. The final straw was when we were doing side stuff, ignoring the main mission, and passed over a building that was part of a later stage in the main mission, causing us to softlock, then on restart being at the later step in the main mission. Just trash programming.

If you really want to play it, pirate it. Don’t give money for it.

this is true, anything requiring constant updates and calling home will probably have an issue eventually

I got several “Nook Simple Touch” a few years ago and they’ve been able to read whatever I’ve thrown at them so far.

They’re running on android 2.1!

I had to do some digging to find older versions of book apps that’d run on them, but this is the internet, the apks are out there.

Sorry for the confusion, but STL files are usually manifold 3d renders, for printing. No subtitles here unfortunately. I’m not even aware of a paid service/site for subtitles, is that a thing?

Only one I know is materialize.is

I’m still trying to find a way to get an invite…

Reposting as top level comment also: these are PWDIS drives: if you’re not using them somewhere with sata 3.2/3.3, you need to use an adapter for the power plug, or some tape, to block pins 1-3 (3.3v) as supplying it to these causes them to reset. Might be worth doing the taping anyway, if you’re using an enclosure or cage (where you can’t use the adapters) Just be aware.

2nd catch, behind the power on time: PWDIS drives: if you’re not using them somewhere with sata 3.2/3.3, you need to use an adapter for the power plug, or some tape, to block pins 1-3 (3.3v) as supplying it to these causes them to reset. Might be worth doing the taping anyway, if you’re using an enclosure or cage (where you can’t use the adapters)

The kicker to this sort of thing, is the pirated versions usually have the checks removed… and don’t need internet.

Nintendo went after a emu dev team that was actively (and demonstratively) enabling piracy for something they are currently selling. On top of that, the dev team is making significant money off of that work, to the tune of 30k/mo. Every other dev is probably thinking “finally, the other shoe drops on this obvious outcome”, most avoid making money off it, and also avoid current systems, both for just this reason. The relieving part is Nintendo’s argument isn’t about the emulator specifically, there’s nothing in the injunction stopping yuzu from continuing, and a settlement means no legal precedent.

Edit: Read more, the settlement includes stopping development.

I mean, small developers who set up a money-making pateron based on an emulator for a currently sold system, without providing a way to pull your own system info or games from carts (and is therefore heavily reliant on piracy of things currently being sold by the parent company to run) is basically screwed, but this isn’t news, and pretty much every other emu dev would run away screaming from such a setup.

They really put themselves in this boat, but since that money-making pateron is a thing, they’re probably wiping those tears with dollar bills.

Nook Simple Touch. You can get one with backlight for less than $40 usually.

It takes microSD, android 2.1 (lol)

There’s an easy app to root it, then you install whatever (fbreader, moon, etc), or use it’s built-in reader. The ancient android version means you’ll have to dig for apks that work with it, but once it’s set up, it’s done.

The biggest draw vs newer stuff, is… it’s tiny and light. there’s almost nothing to it, it just works. No browser, no apps, just book.

Check around your local walmart/target/walgreens etc, that have those photo labs/booths. Some have proper bulk photo scanners publicly available, and will (or you can) pass your photos through one and spit out a CD for fairly cheap (sub-$10 last I checked, but years ago).

AFAIK materialize.is is still active, but you need an invite, and I am not “in”, as it were, though I would like to be.

If I’m reading this right, 80_PA is a keygen, and does not need to run on the target system. If it did, how would an android version be useful?

Install it elsewhere and follow its instructions.

Otherwise, if you’re stuck with this as your only system (do you even phone?), it’s VM time.