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  1. Curious about Android forks (/e/ OS, LineageOS, etc) for old Samsung tablet

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    I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2022) which has reached end of life and no longer receives updates. I was wondering if it was possible to revive it using one of these alternate Android...

    I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2022) which has reached end of life and no longer receives updates. I was wondering if it was possible to revive it using one of these alternate Android versions, but I was very frustrated to see that LineageOS (the one I've seen mentioned the most besides Graphene) supports both the 2020 and the 2024 model of this tablet, but not mine.

    I wanted to hear from fellow Tildes users if installing one of these OSes would be worth it to get continued security updates for an old tablet like this, which OSes are out there (I've only heard the names of a few of them), which ones to avoid (maybe it's abandoned or there's some drama around a particular OS for whatever reason), and if anyone knows of one that specifically supports my model.

    I'm also curious if S-Pen stylus support would work on any of these other OSes.

    9 votes

  2. Comment on Avatar: Seven Havens | Official teaser in ~tv

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    I also was disappointed by them not continuing the tech level progression. That was one of the most interesting parts of LoK and they're just throwing it out. Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere series,...

    I also was disappointed by them not continuing the tech level progression. That was one of the most interesting parts of LoK and they're just throwing it out.

    Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere series, especially Mistborn, is focusing on this idea of medieval magic system worlds progressing into different tech levels in a very similar way that LoK did, but it's actually sticking with that progression. I found that Mistborn "era 2" did a bit more with the industrial revolution era than Korra did, and it made me think about what Korra could have been like if they weren't worried about cancellation every season and could tell more overarching stories. I recently read "Isles of the Emberdark" which is basically a flash forward to when the Cosmere/Mistborn series will progress all the way to space opera level, and it was awesome. It makes me really wish we got to see Avatar get to that point. Maybe we will some day... Between this show, the movie, and the live action, they're giving the Avatar series a lot more attention these days.

    Admittedly, this whole "the world from the previous series was destroyed and it's a post-apocalypse now" is such a fanfic-esque or "What If" spinoff kinda plot, that I wonder what an official sequel actually doing that will do with the premise.

    The other big thing I didn't like from the leak or this trailer was Korra getting disgraced in the official source material. First we had her story get messed with by production issues, then we had a lot of fans not like her, now the writers made her seen in-universe as this monster who destroyed civilization. Our girl really can't catch a break, can she... I've heard speculation that this is gonna be a situation where people think she's guilty and through flashbacks we find out she's innocent, and I really hope that's true.

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  3. Comment on Avatar: Seven Havens | Official teaser in ~tv

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    I remember that it was leaked about a year or two ago that there would be a new Avatar series that was post apocalyptic with twin main characters, Korra disgraced as the cause of the world's...

    I remember that it was leaked about a year or two ago that there would be a new Avatar series that was post apocalyptic with twin main characters, Korra disgraced as the cause of the world's problems, and only a few remaining cities in the world. I'm pretty sure we discussed it here on Tildes. Well, it looks like that leak was 100% correct.

    It seems these days that any big media announcement leaks well in advance. Basically all of Nintendo's big announcements lately such as the Star Fox and Ocarina of Time remakes were known about for a while beforehand. The Avatar series itself had an entire movie leak online a few months back, long before its release.

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  4. Comment on Behind the ‘Supergirl’ bomb: competing cuts, creative differences in ~movies

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    I gotta say, whatever DC's been doing in live action since the start of the MCU is way too confusing. For Marvel, the majority of stuff is in the same universe, or at least in an alternate...

    I gotta say, whatever DC's been doing in live action since the start of the MCU is way too confusing.

    For Marvel, the majority of stuff is in the same universe, or at least in an alternate timeline that's more explicitly stated to be an alternate timeline in the movie and which eventually connects to the main series (like Fantastic Four First Steps). Sure that means you gotta do homework or not know what's going on, but it's easier to understand.

    When I go to see a DC movie with people, nobody knows what's supposed to be connected to each other, and I frequently lose track of it myself. Are Joaquin Phoenix Joker, Robert Pattinson Batman, the new Superman from last year, the Snyder movies, the Arrow TV show, and the Doom Patrol TV series all in the same universe? Nah, those are 6 separate things! What's even crazier is that some things like Peacemaker are in both the Snyder and Gunn verses? People who don't read entertainment news articles or actor interviews and all this stuff have no way to keep up with all of that.

    9 votes

  5. Comment on The Amazing Digital Circus - Ep 9: Remember in ~tv

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    I hadn't heard about the fish telling people not to post spoilers, so thanks for sharing! Considering that the movie screening included both episode 8 and 9, it's pretty bad that the "no spoilers"...
    I hadn't heard about the fish telling people not to post spoilers, so thanks for sharing! Considering that the movie screening included both episode 8 and 9, it's pretty bad that the "no spoilers" fish spoils the ending of episode 8. I see a lot of people in the comments of that video talking about how they got spoiled because they waited to see episode 8 in theaters. It also sounds like from the comments that there may have been additional scenes with the other fish or they may have put this spoiler warning in between episode 8 and 9 instead of at the beginning depending on which screening you went to?
    3 votes

  6. Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 in ~games

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    The unofficial PC port Ship of Harkinian has freecam on the right stick built in, which is another option.

    The unofficial PC port Ship of Harkinian has freecam on the right stick built in, which is another option.

    2 votes

  7. Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 in ~games

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    Which is quite literally what the One Piece anime is doing for their remake, lol

    Which is quite literally what the One Piece anime is doing for their remake, lol

    2 votes

  8. Comment on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 in ~games

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    Thoughts about the game and trailer itself aside: I'm annoyed when remakes or reboots just have the title of the original game without a subtitle or something that clearly labels it's a new thing....

    Thoughts about the game and trailer itself aside: I'm annoyed when remakes or reboots just have the title of the original game without a subtitle or something that clearly labels it's a new thing. We'll forever have to use the year in parentheses to describe which game we're talking about. Nintendo did this for Link's Awakening's remake, and we see the same thing with the Resident Evil remakes.

    6 votes

  9. Comment on Persona 6 | Teaser trailer in ~games

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    This is what I've heard when I've brought this issue up with my friends, especially the points about how many changes they made. But, honestly... if they've been doing this type of thing for...

    This is what I've heard when I've brought this issue up with my friends, especially the points about how many changes they made. But, honestly... if they've been doing this type of thing for several previous games, they should go into new games like P6 expecting to make expansions, right? They can make games form day 1 knowing that an expansion is coming and plan ways to seamlessly work it into the base game based on how far into the story you were when you bought it. Maybe add hints to the story they planned for the DLC in the base game.

    For the changes to the base game content and mechanics, If they don't have these big overhaul ideas before releasing the games, maybe they need beta tests or early access releases or something? Some of those things sound like they would be free updates or balance patches for other games. Like, consider Hades II. They released it when it's not done and update and rework stuff while people play it. Eventually you get a polished and complete game that the late adopters can just buy. But the early adopters get the final release for no extra charge, because they already bought it.

    Buying a Persona game before the rerelease comes out feels like paying a full $60 (or even more these days) to participate in a beta test, then paying that price again for the final release. That's just not a reasonable thing to do and nobody besides Persona is doing that anymore. As you said, not even Pokemon, who's still doing the two different versions gimmick without hesitation, wants to do the definitive edition anymore.

    There is some truth to making things simpler for late adopters who don't wanna see a ton of DLC that they don't know is necessary to buy. But lots of games just have an edition with the DLC bundled on the disc that replaces the base game at retail, like "complete edition" or "goty edition" or whatever they call it. Just market the complete edition as the main one to buy at the price the rerelease would have been, and offer the DLC upgrade for existing users.

    I think the ideal model for Persona might be to sell a special edition as both a standalone for new players, and a cheaper add-on for people who already own the base game. Not sure how they could make the overhauled features and new characters/content work with existing saves, but people can at least start a New Game Plus file.

    I would be way more fine with all of this if the owners of the original got a discount on the new one. I think that's really the bare minimum of what they should do.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on Persona 6 | Teaser trailer in ~games

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    I sure hope Persona 6 doesn't opt to make another rerelease in the same style as 5 Royal, where you need to re-buy and make a new save file even if you already own the original game. I would...

    I sure hope Persona 6 doesn't opt to make another rerelease in the same style as 5 Royal, where you need to re-buy and make a new save file even if you already own the original game. I would prefer a DLC expansion you buy for the base game like other modern games do. I understand why games did that in the SNES through PS2 era, but making early adopters double dip in the PS5 era is really frustrating.

    I didn't know the Persona games did this kind of thing when I got P5, and I felt really cheated when I found out there was this whole new version with a third semester that my friends were playing but I'd have to re-buy from scratch and throw my save away to play it.

    5 votes

  11. Comment on Mighty Cuphead Adventure | Teaser trailer in ~games

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    Worth mentioning, since I've seen some confusion about this: the trailer announced two Cuphead games: a hand-drawn mainline title that for now we can call Cuphead 2, and a spinoff game with 8-bit...

    Worth mentioning, since I've seen some confusion about this: the trailer announced two Cuphead games: a hand-drawn mainline title that for now we can call Cuphead 2, and a spinoff game with 8-bit pixel graphics called Mighty Cuphead Adventure.

    Since the spinoff is paying tribute to an entirely new era of entertainment (the 80s instead of the 30s), it would be interesting to see if Cuphead 2 is based on cartoons from another era, like the 70s or 90s or 2000s.

    9 votes

  12. Comment on What are your predictions and wishes for the upcoming Nintendo Direct? in ~games

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    As far as the Switch 2 goes, I'm not particularly interested in getting it any time soon. It kinda reminds me of when the Wii U was out (to a lesser extent of course): there are games that I would...

    As far as the Switch 2 goes, I'm not particularly interested in getting it any time soon. It kinda reminds me of when the Wii U was out (to a lesser extent of course): there are games that I would get if I already owned it, but no games that make me specifically need to have it (like Breath of the Wild on Switch 1).

    There have been a few stand out games, but it's noticeable and very unfortunate how both Mario Kart World and Metroid Prime 4, games that were hotly anticipated for years, seem to be disappointments. The next big Star Fox being yet another remake is also a big shame.

    I also noticed that everyone I know who's bought one so far said they got it instead of waiting because they expected a price hike later on, which did happen to be fair. I just find getting any kind of product or service for a promised future update/addition is usually a bad idea so I'd still rather just wait. That's what I did for the Wii U, XB1, and XB series X, which was for the best, as they never ended up having anything that made them worth it to me.

    5 votes

  13. Comment on Updates to store tags: additions, removals, and edits in ~games

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    And I quite like it! It's almost like a decades-old prophecy was fulfilled. A "Hell" implies a "Heaven" to compliment it. The names fit the two genres pretty well: "there's lots of bullets, which...

    And I quite like it! It's almost like a decades-old prophecy was fulfilled. A "Hell" implies a "Heaven" to compliment it. The names fit the two genres pretty well: "there's lots of bullets, which generally makes the game difficult," vs "there's lots of bullets, which generally makes the game easy."

    It's also one of those genre names that make sense if you read the name and look at a few seconds of gameplay, as opposed to names like "soulslike," "metroidvania," or "roguelike." Those types of names require historical context that non-gamers or younger people wouldn't have without looking it up. I'm glad we went with "bullet heaven" over "survivorslike."

    8 votes

  14. Comment on Updates to store tags: additions, removals, and edits in ~games

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    Well, every video game is an "experience," isn't it? I get what the tag is trying to say, it's less about the gameplay and more about some kind of novelty or tech demo. It would be more...

    Experience

    Well, every video game is an "experience," isn't it? I get what the tag is trying to say, it's less about the gameplay and more about some kind of novelty or tech demo. It would be more descriptive to use tags like "walking simulator", "educational", or something that explains what the experience is like or supposed to accomplish.

    Mature/NSFW

    Valve addressed this in the post. Many NSFW games will be full of redundant tags, so it makes more sense to use "gore" or "sexual content", which are more concise and specific.

    Dungeons & Dragons

    Also addressed in the post. Many IPs will have franchise pages. When you go to, say, a Call of Duty game, there will be a button to "Check out the entire Call of Duty collection on Steam." If they don't have a collection, the IP should already be searchable since the IP would be mentioned in the title or description. For DnD style games, they should use a tag like "crpg."

    6 votes

  15. Comment on Minecraft: Java Edition finally adds free peer-to-peer multiplayer and friends list in ~games

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    Anyone who's played Minecraft: Java Edition knows that in order to play with your friends, you would either have to: meet up in-person and connect with LAN use some external service like Hamachi...

    Anyone who's played Minecraft: Java Edition knows that in order to play with your friends, you would either have to:

    • meet up in-person and connect with LAN
    • use some external service like Hamachi
    • set up port forwarding, run a server on your PC, and hand out your IP address (or a custom domain if you had one)
    • pay Mojang/Microsoft a subscription for a "Realms" server
    • pay some third party company a subscription for a server

    People who've played the mobile or console versions would know that there should be a better way. There was support for joining a friend's local world back on the Xbox 360 edition well over a decade ago. But for some reason, the original PC version of Minecraft never added this essential feature, nor did they add any kind of friends list to see who way playing and what server they were on! You'd need to rely on DMs or group chats instead.

    Well, better late than never!

    19 votes

  17. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I've been trying out Elden Ring: Nightreign with the same person who I played with for the original game and the DLC. We didn't get it at launch due to its focus on solo or three players with no...

    I've been trying out Elden Ring: Nightreign with the same person who I played with for the original game and the DLC. We didn't get it at launch due to its focus on solo or three players with no two player mode, but that was added later, so here we are. I'm still salty that they weren't clear what kind of game this was in the initial reveal trailer, but the game itself is pretty good so far.

    We haven't been able to beat an expedition yet, but we've gotten to the boss on day 3 who's some kind of Cerberus. Now that we've started to get the hang of what we're supposed to do, we're enjoying it. It's very different from a proper Souls game though. The only real similarity to the Souls games is a mostly similar moveset. It's nice that X/square is consistently used for your healing flask, but I keep expecting up on d-pad to toggle between my consumables like in Elden Ring, but instead it uses your consumable! Toggling is instead down on the d-pad.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Nintendo raises prices for Switch, Switch 2 and NSO in ~games

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    From what I heard around launch: in Japan, there's a model that only supports the Japanese language that is cheaper since they don't have to worry about issues like tarrifs, and there's an...

    From what I heard around launch: in Japan, there's a model that only supports the Japanese language that is cheaper since they don't have to worry about issues like tarrifs, and there's an "international" model that supports other languages which is more in line with the US price. I guess the point is to make the domestic model less appealing to international scalpers.

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  19. Comment on Star Fox Direct shadow dropped right before premiere in ~games

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    Announcements: New game, just called Star Fox Comes out June 25, 2026 Switch 2 exclusive Yet another remake of Star Fox 64 Has online multiplayer Has some prequel mission with Fox's dad in it...

    Announcements:

    • New game, just called Star Fox
    • Comes out June 25, 2026
    • Switch 2 exclusive
    • Yet another remake of Star Fox 64
    • Has online multiplayer
    • Has some prequel mission with Fox's dad in it
    • Cutscenes with voice acting
    • Includes an animoji style filter so you can look like Star Fox characters when using video chat on Switch 2
    12 votes

  20. Comment on Star Fox Direct shadow dropped right before premiere in ~games

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    Normally with Nintendo Directs, they like to give a little bit of a heads up, like a day or two. Today, though, they announced it mere minutes before going live.

    Normally with Nintendo Directs, they like to give a little bit of a heads up, like a day or two. Today, though, they announced it mere minutes before going live.

    3 votes