It doesn’t help that Steam store is a nightmare to navigate.

Releasing demos is a great way to succeed. It doesn’t take me more than 5 minutes to decide if it’s something I want to continue playing.

Putting videos of nothing but cut-scenes is a great way to ensure I keep scrolling but every title seems to take this approach.

“we have reason to believe” is a lot longer headline than “could”.

Your AI acceleration makes the whole thing a lot less genuine.

Saved, thanks

At that point just get a Mac.

There are lots and lots of reasons not to do that that in sure you already know but are determined to be an asshole regardless.

Gnome has the same “we know better than you do

Never seen it.

That is the fun part about Linux is installing anything that’s not a Flatpak 😵‍💫

The process for installation is more or less the same for all of them.

Linux Mint and PopOS are the “go to” suggestions. I really don’t like the way either of them look. I’m partial to GNOME for aesthetics and ease of use.

Bazzite comes with most of the stuff you will want pre-loaded, and also the cool Steam Deck Gamescope interface. It’s the only one I’ve used with seamless background updates like you might be accustomed to on Android or iOS. That’s my recommendation.

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The best software doesn’t need to be trusted because it’s open source and self-hosted.

I haven’t looked into this in a while but I believe the current Beeper app only allows you to use Beeper servers, and is not open source, so for that reason, I say no.

The previous “Beeper Cloud” was open source and you could theoretically self host it and run it on your own server. Probably still can.

I stopped using it for a completely different reason:

Its intended to do something that the services it uses DO NOT want you doing. For that reason, they make it intentionally difficult to do. Apple demonstrated this really well when they predictably “patched” the iMessage loophole PyPush found. You’ll be logged out constantly, there are constant bugs caused by server-side changes, and your accounts will be flagged for “automated activity”.

Any convenience it’s supposed to give you is just negated by these complications.

Also it was acquired by Automattic a while back, which is, on it’s own, a great reason to avoid it.

1. Of course it does. Everything that’s not an iPhone does.

2. Doubt. Pixels have had the best photos for several years.

Tech Jesus made a tribute video.

I dunno, is it?

I literally never use that and don’t understand why anyone would want to. All of the filters I create are created manually (other than spam). When it comes to those, Proton is leaps and bounds better, mostly because Gmail filter creation is just shockingly awful.

It helps that I try to get away from email as much as is humanly possible, in general. Anything that would fall in a “social” category I would expect to get via browser or app notifications, if at all.

Anything “promotional” would never make it into my inbox in the first place. Blogs and similar publications are subscribed to and read via RSS.

If a person asks for my email address I ask them to text me.

I use Proton Mail purely as an act of malicious compliance.

Yeah this is everything the Steam Deck is not:

1. Crazy expensive
2. Disposable/unrepairable
3. Windows trash
4. Chinese gobbledygook company that will disappear from existence in 6 months

Pixels have reached price parity with iPhones, which is wild to me considering the insane amount of additional value Google is getting out of you over Apple. You could even form an argument that they’re far more expensive.

I mean they squeezed all the blood from that orange. Not that that ever stopped Ubisoft…

This isn’t the sea. There are no waves LOL

I see.

But you can do all of that with an app on your local device.

I can’t believe that a project hasn’t previously heavily focused on becoming a fully feature complete Self-hosted Podcast platform

…y tho? What’s the point?