voxel

sms is essentialy just a confirmation code delivery protocol tho? (like i have around 100 “chats” with just confirmation codes in them and ZERO conversations…) and i don’t see anyone using rcs mostly because of EXTREMELY poor reputation of sms messaging…

i think it’s used for the performance testing feature in google meet n stuff like that…

don’t think it’s possible to run photoshop on linux at all (except ancient versions)

I’d rather deal with scalpers than this monopolistic bullshit

(arch with gdm3 and gnome takes around 1:30-2 minutes to boot from an hdd on my old craptop)

yes, but most games aren’t.
there’s no reason to avoid good indie games just because they’re not foss, unless you’re a toxic fossbro or something

most games are not foss, and it makes sense.
(games are more like works of art ranter than software after all, so it just doesn’t matter)

i mean you can just buy a Dell laptop with a copy of Ubuntu preloaded instead, they sell those as an option with most models

i mean it’s annoying but how is it disgusting?
it just shows recently opened files/software mixed in with stuff you open frequently, it’s not an ad section or anything.
but yeah i have disabled it on all my machines, because I’m not using it + disabling it adds two extra rows of pinned apps…

idk my optical sensor works really well, it only fails if i place my finger at a weird angle, but ultrasonic’s not going to fix that either

i was asking about the passkeys specifically tho, not the biometric auth part of it
linux only supports hardware security keys like yubikey, not on-device passkeys atm

hdr support is coming tho

• steamos already has it iirc (well, specifically gamescope)

• kde 6 has experimental hdr support with wayland session

• cosmic de devs promised hdr support in the first public stable release

what i really miss is passkeys (specifically, using tpm2 to store them like windows hello does)

that’s why I’ve been doing most of my gamedev stuff on an old craptop from 2016.
performance issues become apparent immediately

if you’re an audiophile you can get flacs and stuff (but tbh I’d rather store my music in opus, flac just seems like a waste of space)

until it violently shits itself

or fiddle with the vm/swappiness value

it’s currently opt-in rather than opt-out, fully on-device and won’t work on devices with weak NPUs (or on any which completely lack it)
unless it changes in the future it’s not that bad at the moment tbh

or…

Upgrade to Enterprise (upgrading to enterprise will also remove ads in settings)

in gpo editor:

• Set updates to Manual
• set the telemetry level to “Security” in group policy (iirc can also be called “Compliance”). This only works on Enterprise.
• opt out of Microsoft accounts. This will force account creation to skip right to local accounts as if MS accounts were never a thing. This only works on Enterprise/Pro.
• disable copilot and integrated bing search

do a full reboot

try Poweramp, it’s paid but it costs like 10 cents and comes with a 3 day trial (no subscriptions or other bs)
definitely the most feature packed player with no competition

idk if it’s optional why bother typing it