This seems pretty cool. I have an old Android tablet I’d love to try this on, but it’s got pretty weak stats compared to more contemporary devices; I wonder if this could work…?

For those of us with the knowledge, it’s our responsibility to both sell the idea of Mastodon and help onboard people. On top of that, there’s many guides, at this point, about how to get involved, choose an instance, set up your feeds, etc.

It’s true that Bluesky is a much more seamless experience, because many options are hardcoded or pre-chosen for people, but if we can get people over the hump of making those choices for themselves, they’ll find it a much better place long term. Also, it’s strongly resistant to the antics of bad actors, so it’s a much better choice for governments and other groups. Bluesky does not enjoy the same natural defenses.

I would be curious to find out why, honestly. Is there some economic factor? Has Adobe thoroughly captured the market? Is it cultural? I know the comment author speculates that it’s a cultural/political shift, but I’m curious what the data would show!

It’s been a hot minute since I installed Bazzite, but it might even come with Heroic preinstalled. I think it did come with Lutris by default, as you say.

I sincerely mean this: thank you for your sacrifice. I wish there were more people like you who were willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stick it to the big corpos.

I’ll be excited if Linux hits 20% total market share, which is about where Apple sits last time I checked. That would put Linux squarely as a contender for normies.

First tech device I’ve ever bought where I didn’t feel some amount of buyer’s remorse. There’s nothing I dislike about it, and I can even install my own distro on it, if I so desire. Because of the form factor, I’ve even been able to tackle my backlog!

Bad. It’s always bad for the user. It’s good for the people at the top, but the reason for going public is never ever for the benefit of the consumer.

The reason is that even if the initial buy-in helps fund innovation, that will inevitably be replaced by enshittification as the board of investors demand “line must go up.” You can’t be consumer focused and chase profits; they are mutually exclusive.

But with https://unbox.at/ to make it harder for companies (and maybe certain governments) to tie you to your inbox. Also, it’s just generally helpful for managing spam and promotional garbage.

CachyOS has a handheld option, too. You can slap that on there to get a more typical Arch experience, or install Bazzite to keep the benefit of an immutable system but without the A/B system partitioning.

You just described Bazzite. You can literally install the KDE version, same as you’d find on a Deck, and get right to gaming. No tinkering required. Steam is installed by default, Bluetooth works as expected, USB controllers work when plugged in.

The only time you might “tinker” with gaming is when you want to install, say, an emulator or Heroic from the Discovery store (flatpak) to play your non-Steam games, all of which is optional.

SteamOS isn’t going to offer significant benefit, except it might get Valve-specific fixes before they upstream the patches. If you’re waiting around, expecting SteamOS to be some shift in the distro landscape, I think you’re going to be disappointed.

According to the article, it might be a company in China, but that remains to be seen. They could just as easily pivot into AI bullshit to try to get a piece of that pie before the bubble pops.

It’s essentially a specialized gaming laptop without the screen. Of course it’s going cost as much as a laptop.

If people want a cheaper alternative, the 512GB Steam Deck—which is weaker than the Machine and also essentially a laptop—costs $550, and it can connect to people’s TV’s as well.

The ones I know aren’t at all, they’re just uninformed.

Depends on the project and the kind of utility I get from it. Up to $20 USD typically, but I’ve donated more for specific cases.

Nonsense. How can sound travel such a long wire? It needs the air gaps to produce sound!

(/j)

Yesterday, X admins locked my account and required me to delete certain posts in order to log back in.

This was their key mistake: thinking X is a platform where your First Amendment rights are protected. Fascists aren’t in the business of fairness.

It’s possible that the journalist would have been subpoenaed regardless, but had they published on the Fediverse, it’s more likely Luna would have succeeded in doing nothing to remove this content from the Internet.

Journalists need to get serious about leaving Xitter.

Exactly. They’re okay with the fascist Xitpool, but if any regular dev ever crossed those “guidelines,” they’d be banned in a heartbeat.

Yeah, if it has a .gov top-domain at this point, I just treat it like a conspiracy theory website on the dark corners of the Internet.

Also, has anyone gone to the website about the new guidelines? It’s a nightmare to try to navigate. It does that thing where it has flashy animated scrolling, so you can’t tell if there’s more, what’s coming next, where to find a specific piece of info…

It feels like it was made by somebody’s nephew who knows how to code fancy JavaScript stuff but doesn’t know shit about good UX design.

Probably true, but iirc, there are already people planning to keep X11 going, because change means fucking up their personal workflow.