Fair point. Interesting thing is that higher sole pricing might still be ok for op and the seller (publisher/distributor/whatever for the subscription). The seller gets to get the same profit from sole subscription (fewer people picking it, higher price) and bundles (more people picking it, lower price), while op can still support with his wallet.

No way. Does that mean there are multiple evil twins in the world I've never met?

On Android 5+, apps now have pops up (one time) for you to grant it permission to use those permissions.

If you have LineageOS, you can turn off everything including network for apps.

If I were you, I would have clean install a windows or whatever OS. Devices I personally maintain don't get vendor's crapware even from the start.

Unless they love to click on random stuff on the internet, then I would just give them a a bootable linux usb, because it will be the only thing they can use after their pc became slow as turtle.

In windows, it's called "Hibernate".

Go to where ever windows put the shutdown UI and click on it. There should be a few popup options, Switch user, Log off, Lock, Restart, Sleep and "Hibernate". If you don't see the option, go to power settings and advances power option. Turn off Allow hybrid sleep. In newer windows you might also need to turn on showing that option in the power options menu.

"Hibernate" hibernates your pc with everything you've opened. Upon booting up, it restore all the documents and applications you have up at the time. Unlike 'Sleep' once you've power down, you can disconnect your pc from power until you power it up again.

Hibernate is also the technology Windows 8+ uses to boot faster, since it never truly did real startup from fresh.

Back to topic, MS already have a solution to their problem, but I can guess that they are still planning to create something meaningless. Just like the Metro menu which if you look closer, is just the desktop with bigger icons. They could have just improved the desktop, but no they decided to create yet another desktop and called it the start menu. You can probably guess what they will do with the "single-window experience".

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fix it for accuracy.

Android-based devices often come with bloatware, even if you brought it directly from the manufacturer. Also, Built in apps you don't want could be system apps, which you cannot uninstall and can only be disabled (it is still questionable if disabled is truly disabled when you might still get it re-enabled on restart and services running in the background).

This actually puzzles me, are you using a google fully supported phone? Only the likes of Pixel and Nexus are well known for their clean android.

Rooting is still common for android, because android vendor unlike iPhone won't stop putting system bloatware. To completely remove them, you'll still need to root. One example, Galaxy Note 8 rooted on Oct 8. Another example, Galaxy S8 rooted on Aug 20.

They only major things are there are more custom roms than root thread on xda-developers, and xda devs have their life too where they can't provide that much support on an exponential phone market.

I didn't reply anymore because you seem to be repeating my conclusion (except by disagreeing my conclusion with a statement that agrees to my conclusion). If you re-read my "GetDropAfter99()" is your "account player expenditure" and " proving the fundamental of random()" is your "There may be random elements". Unless you are trying to prove there's no "math / statistics causing player interaction " which you used an example "how many times you roll a six sided die" to prove there is.

We don't have disagreement here. Our point is the same, so I'll call it good enough.

Depend on your definition. I posted my comment here before, stating that it is in fact just the code random().

Frankly, nearly every game since the first arcade game could have the game design consider as gambling. Here's part of my quote on gambling,

I even stated that doing anything to it will be a can of worms. Seriously, look at how many existing games it could affected and still not really fix it, because the potential loopholes are uncountable.

unlock bootloader? I think that's what you meant, since you said ROM.

rooting is getting the OS admin, which is not the dependent factor to install custom rom (or custom OS just to be in line with the previous term). On the other hand an unlocked bootloader lets you boot to a custom recovery which lets you install custom rom. So an unlocked bootloader will be the factor that lets you install ROM.

ftfy.