I think it is normal since the software wasnt ready for production yet; at work we also have forks and forks of forks just to demo new features for people. At the end he did deliver a working product unlike many game devs these days.

Loaded and displayed again, yes. It is stored in the BGRT table.

I don’t want podcasts in my music player

It’s for SPARC and PA-RISC when the kernel dies

It’s possible if you use old version of SDL but you have to write almost everything by yourself.

Yeah, I also noticed this and it’s ridiculous. No junk food for me then :)

It runs Android so yes. Don’t use Google Services myself.

Personally I switched to a Qin F22 Pro to curb my smartphone addiction. Only have the essential apps installed on it. So far it has worked out well (I used to have a screen time of over 6 hours every day, now just minutes). Life feels so much more peaceful without all the notification spam I used to get, and my mind is definitely more clear now.

the balls are just boring gray ones since the same ones fit to multiple machines, sadly

go to your local pachinko parlor
buy a lot of pachinko balls
see birds flying according to the speed of the balls you input in the machine

I’ve never understood the appeal of Linus Tech Tips anyway. Anthony was great but Linus is just terrible as a host. “Oh no, Linux sucks because it is not Windows! Oh no I broke the system because I couldn’t read the text on the screen!”