Wired Internet would help to fix the Cloud issue. I can reliably play XCloud games on PC, Series X, and Mobile on my WiFi 6 connection, and even on 5G with my phone, but YMMV.
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The setting is actually really cool. New Atlantis is actually quite utopian looking. I haven't gotten too deep into the game yet, only about 3 hours so far.
Even with a forwarder???
I honestly do not know if he ships to Germany. At worst you can use a shipping forwarding service.
I wouldn't recommend Aliexpress TBH. I highly recommend Elite Obsolete, he sells iPod parts new and old stock (Cases, Motherboards, iFlash Kits, etc.) he even sells fully made pods.
You should be able to put a 3000mAh battery in a 5th/6th/7th Generation iPod as long as you get an iFlash board and a Thick Backplate.
Edit: If you want the best place to buy iPod parts, buy them from Elite Obsolete on his website.
It's usually Government websites, and some websites I buy things from.
Even with the protections completely off, it was still borked.
There's Moonlight for Xbox, which is basically Steam Link but better.
I've had a ton of websites break when using Firefox with uBlock Origin, I've never had a broken website with Brave.
Gold is going away and getting a value increase. It's becoming "Gamepass Core" it retains Online function, and gets 25 Gamepass Games.
Microsoft only increased the price by like, 2 dollars. Not this nonsense.
At that point I'd just chalk it up to Starfield being very hard to run so whatever server runs Starfield over XCloud is being heavily taxed.