it’s not well equipped to handle user packages in the same way OSTree is

Can you elaborate?

Not really anything they can do.

Pretty much the same titles over and over again.

I’ll never not be shocked at BG3 because it runs potato quality but to each their own, I suppose.

How so?

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.

Yes I understand how the Steam Deck and verified ratings work, but thanks for the explanation.

Tech Jesus made a tribute video.

You can use it for absolutely anything. That’s the beauty of Linux. Will it be good for it, as is? No, not really.

A lot of streaming services will limit you to 720p unless you use their first-party apps, which they don’t make for Linux.

Also the interface is not ideal for that sort of thing.

Leaving it plugged in permanently is not really good for the battery, but not a huge deal either. There’s probably some way to enable a “kiosk mode” to keep the battery @ 50%, which would be ideal.

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

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

The verification system is not remotely accurate. It probably does more harm than good. Valve should have made it crowdsourced like protondb because they’re obviously unable to keep up, and I don’t know why they thought they would be.

Further, they failed to establish any concrete guidelines on frame rate for their ratings.

Shit, they could have crowdsourced the data from user devices.

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?

The problem is using Proxmox…

The Minisforum tablet seems to work well with Linux.

The installation is not the problem…

one drive kept trying to sync my files when the PC was idle. (One drive was disabled!!!)

Welcome to Windows. Basically the entire operating system is malware at this point.

Mine says 99% Steam Deck and 1% Linux, which is weird considering they’re the same thing.

But probably 50% was on my desktop, which also shows up as Steam Deck under Bazzite.