This is so stupid. I love it!
This is so stupid. I love it!
You can try it out. But apart from that everything runs on Valve time.
I haven’t used the console yet. But at least cheats like IDDQD work without pulling up the console, using Steam’s OSK.
It makes Corona!!!111
I am very satisfied with my Fairphone 3. I still get monthly security updates. I can easily unlock the bootloader and install any alternative ROM I desire. I can repair any broken part without having to unglue something. But it also seems to be the most robust phone I have used in years. There’s a reason a used Fairphone is as expensive as a new one.
If you really want to go all-in on privacy a Pinephone or Librem 5 would be options but they have their own bag of problems. They are better suited for tinkering.
And regarding the comment on firmware updates of the parts themselves, that is a general computing problem that seems to be the worst with single board computers like smartphones. The solution would be parts with support for open firmware but they are almost impossible to find. I think Fairphone is going a good middle ground. I don’t expect there to be any phone where this is better.
Your choice of desktop environment is totally independent from your choice of distribution. You can always change it to what you prefer.
I bet you could even run KDE Neon (KDE’s own distribution) with Gnome if you wanted to.
I’m always astonished how little some other parents care about their children’s privacy. Schools as well.
It shows an on screen keyboard when you use the mouse to select stuff. That should at least be workaround.
There are already 5 or so Android apps for Lemmy, at least 2 iPhone apps and 2 Linux apps on Flathub. Go ahead.
If the available software doesn’t work as you want it to and you have the skill and time to make something you like go ahead. Often enough in the open source world devs of “competing” programs actually help each other.
So in the end you will just make the world a better place with your contribution.
I haven’t tried it, but it should be basically the same. You still can only get the Play Store version, so it should work most of the time, but it might still break then and again. But at least Chrome OS is now officially supported by Bedrock, so maybe they will watch out more for compatibility, I don’t know.
Controls shouldn’t be a problem. The Steam Deck is great in that regard. You can map everything however you want and somebody has also probably already done that for you.
And if push comes to shove you can always install Windows to play Bedrock.
Depends. Many games from Epic have that built in. For everything else I use Nextcloud. I think most people use Syncthing.
Reminds me of the time I went from being a PHP developer to being a PHP developer.
I am yet to discover a game that can’t be played on the Deck. Steam Input, the touchpads and the gyro are great at getting a good control scheme for everything. I even played StarCraft on that thing.
I bet some of the things in the Ally need new drivers that aren’t in the Kernel yet.
Just throwing out there that nowadays the only games that don’t work on Linux are multiplayer ones with intrusive unsupported anti-cheat (for support see areweanticheatyet.com) and Gamepass games (and others from the Microsoft store). And VR is finicky.
If you don’t play those you could also go Linux on your gaming PC. Or wait until Windows 10 support runs out and look at the situation then.
I would explain it in terms of Wifi and speed and reach. Wifi is faster than 4G but has shorter reach. 5G is in between. That’s why more antennas have to be built for 5G.
I had my own server and used it for a long time until Android decided that it knows better what background services I want to have running and thus killed the “instant” part of instant messaging.
Since then I’m on Signal and could at least convince most of my friends and family to move there.
Yes, I know. Stupid workaround to an artificial problem.
It was honestly a life saver for me. I got Long Covid and became increasingly bed bound. The Deck enabled me to somewhat keep me sanity by playing in bed.
And that way I don’t have to fight with my kids over the desktop PC. Although they sometimes want the Deck for those games that play better with a gamepad.
Simultaneous play also showed the dark side of Steam. Unless one of the devices is offline you cannot play two games from one Steam library at the same time. Luckily I also have many games on Battle.net, GOG and on my old discs, so I can easily move to another game in case of a clash.
I’m currently playing Spider-Man Miles Morales and having a blast.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I like it for being a rolling release with quality control. On the one hand I don’t like its restrictive defaults but on the other hand I know enough to work with them and that’s given me a leaner system.