I would say I have more of a limited view rather than a twisted view. I have used friend’s decks (don’t own one) and haven’t run into issues like that. That boot issue is top-tier ridiculous… You need to be able to power off your devices

Debian does regular ARM builds and that would likely work

Edit: I run it with VMWare Fusion on a VM

Wow all those are features I want to work properly on a device.

Not to downplay Signal, their encryption is good and they added anti-quantum technology, but I miss what Wikr used to be. Friggin corporate takeovers.

Linux was never strong at graphical type things though. I think one of the reasons for a JRE for Android was a graphical setup. You take out the Java, get the bare OS. The Pi is pretty basic. SteamDeck works well because of the people working on Proton which also functions extremely well for Linux desktop Steam users. Hats off to them and I definitely appreciate all that work

The app compatibility is what I’d be most worried about. Not enough people want to buy them since there are bugs. But there aren’t enough people buying to justify devs fixings these bugs. It needs some momentum, it seems

Did you own one? I’ve yet to meet someone that has so any other insight would be appreciated.

High pain tolerance like using Linux as a daily back in ‘06?

The pine64 products all look quite nice. I was thinking of getting one of those phones (Linux based) next time mine dies. I can confirm the pinecil is the best soldering iron I’ve used and it’s only $26. The laptop they sell also has decent stats

In my town it is a city utility like electricity and water. Gigabit fiber up/down for $70 with net neutrality

The biggest thing is view distance vs size. Your eyes can only see up to a certain density.

https://www.rgb.com/display-size-resolution-and-ideal-viewing-distance

Nice yeah coffee isn’t always the play for me either for that reason. I like Yerba mate and white/green tea too

I like short coffee naps. It makes it really easy to get up afterwards. I’d only recommend it if you are able to fall asleep almost instantly though.

Basically you chug a cup of coffee and then nap, setting an alarm for 20-30m. Once you get woken up the coffee will be mostly in your system and you’ll feel really refreshed.

They wonder why piracy is on the rise. Have they tried no corporate greed yet?

Yeah the lived experience was what I was talking about with the shadiness of how it was done.

I hadn’t heard about games working when they require an external login. Could that be only relevant for certain features and not the main game though I wonder

Yeah stuff like that needs to be in the check box terms and conditions format and individually agreed to. Then you can’t purchase if you don’t check a ‘I understand I need a PSN account’ box. The format it’s in just feels like I’m agreeing only to the steam terms and the other ones are designed to be ‘snuck in’

That being said I guess everyone needs to read every detail before purchasing, which I and many others don’t do. I think even if they put a notice somewhere at first launch describing that their servers are overloaded and it will require PSN linkage eventually this wouldn’t have blown up at all. I’m way more salty at the shadiness of how it was handled over the fact that I missed the notice on purchase. That’s why they have the 2 hour return window. If I boot it and it says log into this site and I’m not ok with it, I can just give it back. Which is great that they are giving refunds regardless of hours played to remedy that.

And yes, I do take responsibility for not checking.

Yeah third party apps can do end to end encryption. It uses the data network and not the cellular network then though.

Google Fi on Android actually does run E2E on calls https://fi.google.com/about/end-to-end-encrypted-calls/

Actual X-ray of people who think brains show up in detail on X-rays

It’s the Plex life for me now

I canceled ✊

Yes

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/22/media/amazon-prime-video-ads/index.html

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