I’ve been using two different (refurbished) Pixel phones with CalyxOS for over 3 years now. It is a really great experience :) And the photos the phones can take are great, too!

I get your point. But isn’t it in the interest of large tech companies that their users stay as unknowing and uninformed as possible? They don’t want you to know how to actually tinker with their systems, how to change stuff yourself or have any control over technology at all. The more docile people are, the better they can sell their products (both the actual product to the people and the people’s data to their consumers). And so there are those people who are not OK with being on a dumbed-down system because they want to know how it works and have control over it, so they go over to Linux.

This is not too different from modern cars that no one can really repair on their own. Consumers are totally dependent on the company producing the car. And planned obsolescence can be implemented even better in a system that is out of the control of the user.

Another point is that huge tech companies often have the most comfort and ease in their products. Yeah sure, they have the means to make it so. But this automatically makes leaving these platforms/products so much more uncomfortable. Consumers are already so uninformed but dependent on tech that they would obviously stir towards the more comfortable situation.

Using tools (be it digital or manual) you can actually control sure is more work and has a certain learning curve. No one denies this. But from a political standpoint I think it is important for people to have control over the tools they use, over their own life. Let’s not allow capitalism to take away even more freedom and control from us as it already took.

All I found about that gitlab incidence sounded like it was one single event and more importantly that they’ve learned from it. So I don’t get the critique there. But yeah, apparently they’ve had a security hole a few days ago.

Wow, thanks! What an interesting read :O (But also really sad to watch the video on the templeos site)

So glad you all agreed that you should use Linux instead :)

Yes, but e.g. I played Song of Farca (playable) and there the SD info was all green except for “this game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Steam Deck controller icons”. In some games, this just means that the menu is somewhat clunky etc. But in this specific game you have to use the mouse (right track pad) the whole time and the UI is incredibly clunky. This was just very frustrating.

Oxygen not included is another example where you need to use the track pad like a mouse the whole time although in this case the game is even verified. Same goes for Stasis: Bone Totem and Mini Motorways, both very hard (for me at least) to play on SD although they are in fact officially verified.

Observation is a game that runs much better than the other examples although it is officially unsupported. (Stories Untold by the same studio doesn’t work at all because of the weird UI.)

You see my frustration? Often you have to deduce from some gameplay footage or by how the game is presented, how well it will work on the SD.

I wish there would be a distinction in games running smoothly on SD in general and games that work great with the default screen/controller setup. There are many games that are designed for a desktop PC with mouse and keyboard that are just painful to play on the default SD setup. But as it is now, it is hard to distinguish between this and games not running because of performance limitations etc.

Isn’t this comparable to utilities you buy for smoking weed (talking about countries where it is still illegal) like a bong or a special grinder? They are only really used for doing something illegal but it is still legal to buy them.

If you’re searching for a cyberpunk game with good story, I can highly recommend Cloudpunk!

Second that. It is a bit of a hassle to get all the games and to access them on the deck, but once you set that up, it runs great and you also are much less limited :)

Just FYI, yt-dlp does work with other sites, too. So you can get some pretty decent quality by downloading from bandcamp for example. But not all that what your asking for unfortunately…

More gaming on linux, yayyy!

Interesting video. Although I strongly disagree with him on why “mastodon diehards” don’t want to federate with meta “because they just don’t like the company”. He mentioned it himself in the video that big companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, etc actually adopt a certain protocol just to make it obsolete and destroy the competition. This is a real threat with many previous examples to draw from. Why would he frame it as if only some mastodon nerds want to block meta because of some silly reason? This is misleading at best.

He also fails to make the connection that the example of the 90ies would just repeat if big companies adopt the new protocol. Someone develops a new protocol to escape the walled garden(s), big companies come in and erect a new walled garden. What about this is any good if we cannot keep it open for everyone and away from corporal greed leading to enshittification?

Statements like these make me be very wary with this channel. He is pretty oblivious and naive of capitalism.

(And also interesting to see that Abigail Thorn doesn’t want tumblr to join the fediverse)

https://lemmy.ca/post/12726124

Just look at their previous post…

OK, but how are personality disorders any different? And why would you think they aren’t real mental illnesses??

I’m not in the US, so no problem! But thanks for letting me know what else to look out for :)

Haven’t watched on fmovies before, thanks for the suggestion I guess :)

Thanks! Ever tried it out yourself?

I guess because the author is actually mostly playing small games on android: “Admittedly, I am not much of a gamer, and never have been.”