Cralex

If you work hard, I’ll bet you could have the Pyra in Two Months™️

Zalgo being all informative lately.

Superb, even in slumber.

Take a mental note that I could review later without worry of forgetting it, for times when jotting something down normally isn’t practical such as while driving.

I joined lemmy.one because it presents itself as friendly to beginners/Reddit refugees. On the plus side, it’s worked very consistently and fast. They’re also federated with pretty much everything, so there’s plenty of content to choose from and narrow by subscribing and blocking.

On the minus side, you can’t create communities there and the only communities that exist are chat, meta, and some security and privacy focused communities. So you’ll have to get most of your content from across the ‘verce. (Which it part of the part of the point Lemmy anyway.) Also, as a beginner-friendly instance, there’s some tutorial-ish stickied messages depending on how I set my view settings.

The only significant disadvantage is if I ever want to create my own community, I need another account elsewhere. Otherwise, I’m pretty happy with my choice.

Qapla'!

There was an attempt at the Vulcan salute.

You might be able to make a [Meta] post in said community and ask for the sidebar to be expanded. Who knows, maybe it’ll work.

Sometimes, but mostly I use tap to type. Usually swipe is accurate, but I don’t always want the risk that it’ll get something wrong and it’ll take longer to fix it than if I’d just typed it straight away.

Either going to take a nap in daycare, or being told to wait until the digital clock said something (around a minute or two) and being capable of understanding that I’d get what I wanted at that time.

I used to keep an ear open for any apps with hidden emulators to sneak through the App Store, but it seems like that hasn’t happened in a long time and the ones that exist all seem to be incompatible with newer phones. (Plus, you need to jump through hoops these days to carry over delisted apps to a new phone.)

I also use Provenance sideloaded. Seems like one of the best options for supporting multiple systems and being easy to use/stable. I used to use Delta, but I felt that new systems were being added too slowly.

https://afterplay.io/ Seems like a decent option as it’s a web app, so it requires neither sideloading nor jailbreaking. But you need to get premium in order to access some systems.

I have iDOS 2 from the App Store on my phone. (It might be available still in some regions, or you can sideload it.) While I never had any DOS experience from back in the day, it’s nice to have a random collection of DOS games available everywhere I go. Launchbox made an easy-to use launcher for DOS, so I can use simulated mouse controls to launch games without having to switch to the keyboard. If you want to torture yourself, you could theoretically emulate retro games using emulators written for DOS in this way.

Not technically emulation, but there’s a copy of Mario 64 rebuilt as an iOS app floating around somewhere. I prefer the controls and screen to Mario 64 on Provenance.

Many thanks NoTime and jonah!