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

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.

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.

• Android-free Linux distribution specializing in supporting older smartphones.

• Up-to-date software based on Alpine Linux and focused on privacy and security.

• Highly portable construction centered around a single software base regardless of what device it’s running on.

• Goal of keeping a given device running and updated until it physically falls apart.

PostmarketOS

• Rolling release that is remarkably stable. • Supports a wide variety of architectures. • XBPS package manage • Lightweight, systemd free.

• Supports a wide variety of hardware, including ARM devices such as the Pinebook Pro.

• Up-to-date rolling release.

• Multiple DE’s available with customized, clean interfaces.

Manjaro

Adding onto limecool’s response, both iOS and Android are able to use them. I’m using wefwef right now on my iPhone. It looks like any other app on my phone and acts a lot like it, too. (As a former Apollo user, I can only commend the wefwef team for a truly spectacular replication of Apollo’s sleek user interface. The similarities are truly striking.)

So they’re kind of like a glorified web bookmarks, but they have some capability for managing their own storage (note when you’re prompted to “update” wefwef) rather than being simple links. As an iPhone user, another notable difference comes when you’re getting a new phone. These days, all your apps redownload whenever you restore from a backup, which of course takes time. But your webapps? They’re ready to go right away.

We can’t hear you. Test louder.

Eighteen.

This is me, but I’ll do this even before it gets a like. Y’know, just to get ahead of the game.

Oh dear.

This is my story as well. I follow a few accounts on Mastadon, but I find it much easier to connect with Lemmy. I joined Maston during the height of the Twitter crisis, and Lemmy earlier this week during the Reddit crisis.

I struggle a little with Mastodon. The accounts I follow are all either people I follow on other social networks that just happen to mention that they have a mastodon account or accounts that are centered around a given topic that I searched for, such as AI art. Mastodon has a handy “verified” feature whereby you can prove that you are a representative of a website by adding a code snippet, but not everyone does. In short, it’s getting there but I can’t find people that I want to follow as easily as on old Twitter.

Lemmy is proving more intuitive to me so far, although part of that is because I’ve always been more of a Reddit person than a Twitter person. Once you get used to looking for communities, it’s easy to find any that may exist for a topic that you want. I’ve got multiple communities around the same topic from different instances, such as technology, but it’ll be easy to watch them over time and prune any that seem redundant or that may fall apart.

Mastodon thanks to the whole Twitter debacle, although I have a hard time knowing if people or entities I follow on twitter are on Mastodon unless I happen to see them mention it. Trying out Lemmy while Reddit is in turmoil, and I’m finding it a better fit to connect to communities. Beginning to get a better understanding of the ‘verse now as a result of knowing about more than one implementation.