you can just add more DE’s after install

Isn’t this advised against? I was told it was simple to do, tried it, it didn’t work, then I found loads of people saying to never do it!

If you do want to use Spotify then find 5 friends who also want to and set up a family plan

Good luck with the game!

Why would you need a phone, for signing up to something like GitHub? Have you tried Codeberg?

There’s the pixel fold?

There must be a “the virgin Mr Robot hacker vs the chad Kung Fury hackerman” comparison out there somewhere

posted the announcement as a Google docs link in the app’s discord

Eew. And not even the usual “eew, proprietary”, just “eew, convoluted”!

Yeah this was the only option in around 2015

I’m being a little facetious to highlight that your “operating systems distributing Linux Kernel, therefore they are Linux distributions” comment is a bit silly.

Yes technically Android and ChromeOS are Linux, but that’s not really what people mean when they say Linux. It’s not the Linux kernel specifically that they want, it’s usually the freedom and openness.

Windows contains WSL. It’s distributing the Linux kernel which makes it a Linux distro, right?

Android 16 with 5 years of security updates

Makes a nice change for a niche device

Probably Street Complete, it activates the same dopamine receptors in the brain that Pokémon Go did, but it’s contributing to Open Street Map in the process.

Honourable mention to Ente Photos, recommended to me by some of you as a great Google Photos alternative.

While I think it is a recompile, you don’t need the original assets, it just works. I guess it’s abandonware and the original rights holders don’t care?

I know a lot of the people reading this are in the USA, but can we get into the habit of including context in the post title or description?

Eligibility requires having made digital Play Store purchases specifically between the dates of August 16, 2016, and September 30, 2023, and is open exclusively to US citizens

Ah but you see every youtube user granted full rights for google to do whatever they want with their videos by uploading them, it’s all totally legit of course!

There’s quite a good chess-themed roguelike available for free this week

Something I discovered recently is that you can connect an android phone to wifi, connect it to your computer, and enable “usb tethering” to pass the wifi connection to your computer as a wired connection. Maybe not practical for everyday use, but could still be useful!

Just tested this out, it’s ctrl+shift+r

You can do this on bash too if you add bind Space: magic-space to your bashrc/profile

You can install powershell on Linux if you’re feeling masochistic