I could use power and data cables like that. I've seen it with phone cords and laptops where I use the same manner in picking up and putting down, yet still the cords rotate and twist for some reason after a while.

Well, I suspect it's cable gnomes. They must also be the reason why the cabling from my stereo ends up tangled even when untouched for years.

You are on a webpage full of little advertisements, all different.

Go (B)ack, (C)lick, (D)espair?

And best of all those games can be played without needing to phone home to some server which might not exist after a few years.
Or need a gaming rig with the latest CPU and bloated videocard and then still crawl at times because of the crappy lazy code of the game.

I wish I had the source code and/or map editor for some games so I could fix and change things. That's what I love about Neverwinter Nights for instance, it's actually a D&D framework to build your own adventures. As well as Doom and Quake where you can build whatever map you want. I can't think of any game in the last decade (or longer) that gives you the opportunity to create your own world with it, and I'm not talking about creating a limited size multiplayer-only map.

The way I see it games have only improved on graphics and became relatively worse on gameplay, plot, enemy AI.
What good are shiny visuals when the game is repetitive or the enemy is so predictable it's like shooting fish in a barrel?
For instance, I like the large space of Far Cry 5, but prefer Far Cry 2 where the opponents at least hide when they realise they're being sniped. And the graphics are just fine.
Or Borderlands 2 which I'm exploring now has good ideas, but suffers also from predictable AI and some annoying jumping puzzles, and I love the idea of weapon parts with different characteristics, but no way to assemble your own in-game. So I use the Gibbed save editor and actually end up with weapons comprised of one brand with one other component as being the best.
The couple of games I play nowadays are only interesting because of modding tools that expand game options and functionality and can run on a videocard with one whopping gigabyte of memory.
My Tseng Labs 1 megabyte videocard in my first 386 PC could do so much more relatively speaking.

And thank you for affirming my point. :-p

just become good at reading

Fixed that for your nephew.

If you really want to make sense of the world, read about human psychology.

Besides that, I ignore people like Gates.

I feel the same way about crapware, but the requirements I have for a phone (one of which is to easily replace the battery) left me with just the Xcover 7 as the viable choice.

Disabling stuff on the phone is no different from all the times I used nlite to strip Windows from unwanted bits. Disabling is still good, even if files occupy space on the large enough storage.

By the time LineageOS has an image for this phone, factory support has likely ended and I need to upgrade its OS to LineageOS anyway.

It's no wonder I don't understand thursdays.
No matter how many towels I have.

I dislike systemd as well and that was part of the reason to move to Devuan.
The other part was that Devuan follows the original Debian mindset that became lost in the whole debacle of introducing systemd as default and pretty much neglecting the other init systems.
Unfortunately for Debian it was at the time I looked into donating, so now Devuan receives my monthly appreciation.

It's fed data from humans.

It's a good thing my social contacts involve restaurants and pubs, no need for identification there, and good food has always been good for my mental health.
Kids should try engaging in ways that don't involve electronics, preferably by following good examples from adults.

From the announcement:

I prefer the old interface with seperate windows for images and what groups of tools I make. Could never stand the single window interface of Photoshop.

Not just that, but time and business change and what were good/lucky decisions during his time are not guaranteed to still work later on.

Trying to fix the symptoms and not the core of the issue.