in order (2000-present): red hat, slackware, debian, ubuntu, arch, manjaro, nix

i think that’s not a great way to think about it. when is the year of the linux desktop? its a slow build until its a viable ecosystem.

if companies just stopped making linux phones, the ecosystem would wither up and die (not counting postmarketos)

every new linux phone will inspire new people to try linux on a phone, and eventually we may have a viable alternative to ios and android.

this is exactly my opinion on it. one of my main gripes was the text rendering. if i needed to change some text i basically had to redo all of the work on any shadow or stroke as well, not just correct a spelling mistake or whatever. very excited to check out the new version.

ufo50, specifically grimstone. just restarted chrysalis harvest moon gba

should be fairly simple with any distro. personally, id recommend mint or something for ease of use. install steam, and you can use steam link for android (chromecast, roku, firestick, mobile), or steam link for linux (raspberry pi etc). steam has built in compatibility for windows games running on linux, and a built in streaming setup. a bit of an all-in-one solution.

you can try a steamdeck-like distro as others have suggested, but they may be less easy to learn on if youre not too familiar with linux already.

keep in mind nvidia drivers are a sore spot in linux, so if possible try to use an amd graphics card.

oh yeah, got zooted

i tried marjorana once.

yes, i agree. but look at the link i posted. they still show it as gulf of mexico if you’re in mexico accessing maps.

my point is more that the US has changed the name of the gulf in the US. it is very stupid and meaningless, but it is still officially renamed.

if i look at japan in google maps it says japan, not nipon. why? because that’s what we call it here. i personally think thats dumb too. we should call countries things by their real names. deutschland, bharat, suomi, etc

nevertheless the gulf is called the gulf of america here, no matter how dumb that is.

i seriously doubt google, who is under active investigation for monopoly and being threatened to be broken up, AND, recently lifted its ban on using its ai in weapons, is interested in keeping the old name of the gulf in protest against trump.

again, i think this entire situation is stupid, and would prefer everyone call it the gulf of mexico, but i also don’t think google specifically is doing anything wrong in this specific instance. google is doing plenty else wrong that matters much more.

found an article for whoever downvoted me lol.

Gulf of America name change in the U.S. — what you’ll see in Maps

if im not mistaken, i think i heard google pulls the data from some external database, which changed the name. google didnt change shit, rather the database they use did.

i could be wrong, but i could have sworn i read that somewhere.

also seems rather petty to me to sue an american company for following US policy changes.

to be clear, i think the gulf of america thing is stupid as hell, and petty on trump’s part.

So the difference here is you are manually doing a thing for your backups. Using a self hosted server and something like immich will seamlessly do it for you. If you drop your phone in the toilet and it breaks, the photos you took since your last manual backup would be saved.

Immich isnt meant to be a photo gallery viewer primarily, it is meant to be a self hosted photo backup service to replace stuff like icloud or google photos. So yeah, dont recommend it as a gallery viewer, recommend it as a selfhosted image backuo service.

I self host a jellyfin service on my nas, and keep all my movies and shows on that nas. I wouldnt be able to fit all that stuff on my phone.

I worked in an office that was paying out the ass for google drive. Setting up a self hosted nextcloud was a great solution and saved them a bunch of money, and still worked as a hands off “cloud solution”

If you dont want to run a separate machine to self host some services thats fine, you dont need to do it. its not for everyone. But plenty of people have reasonable motives for doing it.

Not sure what’s best, but Here’s the list of supported devices

Pretty sure there’s a pmos com they might have a more specific recommendation

Postmarketos on an old phone.

I agree that id like a nice handheld terminal, but dont a lot of people like handheld emulation consoles? Hell both of those sound great to me. I would totally get both the game pad and keyboard if i went for it.

My real concern is that it would be garbage and/or the company would fold and support would become non existent.

Maybe i just got burned by pocketchip

Ive been mostly on linux for like 25 years, but i was using a chromebook for a while bc it was cheap (had a linux desktop tho).

I miss easily running android apps on my laptop. I could install waydroid but its not that big of a deal to me. Just the only thing i could think of that i miss from another os…

Im not on mastodon too much but i think they call a tweet a toot and a retweet a retoot

I use ncdu. It shows what folders/files are actually eating up all your space.

Uh, youtube premium is ad free…

Im one of these legacy users from google music, and youtube hasnt shown me an ad in nearly a decade…

Obviously other than the baked in ad reads by the youtubers themselves

I just started using nix recently. I really like the concept, and how simple it is to “temporarily” install an app only needed briefly.

I was trying to install a python program i wrote, and packaged with poetry (on an arch system) to nix. Pip and pipx both threw errors, nothing seemed to work. Advice online seemed like i needed to basically create a nix flake for the app. I still havent gotten it installed because i have no idea what nix flakes are.

Its probably just a learning curve, and not using nix the “nix way” but im incredibly frustrated and it was a massive time sink for me. I figured pipx would basically work like flatpak does and just install the thing in my home, leaving the system immutable or whatever, and staying mostly in the spirit of nix.

So i’d say its weird enough of a distro to waste your time sometimes.

That said, it seems to have the cleanest updates ive ever seen on linux. So much so i could probably just run them via cron, and never think about it again.

So win some lose some…

I mean paid fediverse doesnt give you extra features. Unless you count a sense of satisfaction supporting open platforms