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Stardate: 20230122.1436 | |
Location: Random SBUX | |
Input Device: Gemini PDA | |
Audio: SBUX Muzak (Classical version of "Take On Me" and other | |
modern favorites. | |
Visual: Random SBUX patrons, sunshine and mountains thru window. | |
Emotional: Hazy | |
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The sun is out and most of the daylight hours is going gone. It | |
makes me sad, but what can I do. I woke up at noon and did not make | |
it to church. Oh well, I guess I needed the rest more. I do feel | |
well rested but a little out of sorts since I am not used to getting | |
that much rest. | |
Last night I was sucked into a modern phone video game, which I am | |
not used to playing. I have either been playing older, offline, | |
single player, PC games or retro games, if I do even play at all. | |
And that is on dedicated hardware,not on a mobile phone. Since I | |
picked up a new phone with decent specs and a bigger screen, I | |
decided to see where it's at with mobile gaming. | |
The game I played was Dawn of Zombies: Survival. I loaded it up and | |
was surprised how much space it took. I think it took over a gig. | |
Eh, I don't really feel like writing about that anymore. | |
In summary, new games are very resource intensive, they farm your | |
data, are built to take all your times and monies and keep you | |
playing. Just don't do it! | |
If you do do it (I said do do), make sure you flex your tinfoil hat | |
and lock your sh!t down. | |
Some thoughts if I do do: | |
Play on a separate dedicated device that is not my personal device. | |
(burner gaming device, LOLZ) | |
Use burner gaming/Google account | |
Play behind a separate firewall and an ad blocker. | |
If that is not feasible, install firewall/ad block sofware. | |
- (RethinkDNS, AFWall+, NetGuard, TrackerControl, etc.) | |
If mobile, bring your own portable firewall and ad blocker. | |
- (i.e. Portable battery-powered Pi-Hole appliance} | |
- Gaming device needs to be behind appliance and the gateway, | |
hotspot, wifi, etc. | |
Play with game on its own parition (work profiles, shelter, island) | |
Play the game in a sandbox. | |
Play the game in an emulator. | |
Practice coming clean and resetting the factories. | |
These thoughts can also apply to apps as well. Now that I think | |
about it, I might have m0ar phun setting something up like this and | |
analyzing the data than actually playing the games themselves. Alas, | |
that is an exercise for people with m0ar disposible times and monies | |
(hint: not me at this time.) Time to reset the factories. | |
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