I’ve reaching a tipping point with all this data collection BS. I’m about to setup an old android and tape over the cameras to just use these apps to keep up with stuff.

My sister puts her kids pics on there. I just downloaded the app so I can use the chat function to see the pics.

I denied the app access to my camera and it refuses to let me use it. I tried giving it permission and then taking it away, but it just gives a pop that won’t go away until you disable the camera.

Same, if my steamdeck can’t run it then I don’t play it. I love portable gaming so much because I can just be around the house or quickly suspend the game if something comes up.

Additionally it seems all the new games are pretty boring, maybe I’m just getting old, but I don’t care about graphics at all, just give me a fun game.

I’m actually playing the original oblivion right now and have no problems or complaints about the graphics, it’s just not important to me.

As far as I know, the new version didn’t change a single thing other than graphics and maybe some bugs. Right now, I am doing an oblivion gate and I am just running through without fighting anyone. I actually just turned my steamdeck on and was in the last room. It was too easy and much better that way.

I finally started playing the original release on Steam since I don’t have a powerful computer.

It is fun, but it’s much smaller than I imagined. People always complain about the drauger ruins in Skyrim as being repetitive, but damn those oblivion gates are just the same thing again and again. Hardly any variety between them.

I’m pretty close to just dropping this game and starting up Skyrim again.

If you wanna take photos off the iPhone, then you can plug that in select the photos in the photos app, and then use the option to export them to files, and then just select the flash drive as the destination.

The post is weird, I wonder if it’s AI spam.

Completely agree. Once they drop support remove always online requirements and provide what is necessary for people to run their own servers. That’s basically the way things used to work by default.

If there a good enough games out for it, then I might consider getting one when the budget version gets released.

But, we will see not if there is stick drift and stuff like that.

Thanks for posting the update. I had a bunch of trouble with that when using arch on my thinkpad.

I later switched to Fedora with plasma as I could not get video acceleration to work in Firefox.

Thanks! I wasn’t even aware of them. I’ll check them out. Too bad they are ending though.

I just try to actively contribute. Especially when I’m debating whether I want to or not.

I don’t really enjoy posting or taking pictures, but I’ve been to around 11 countries and have slowly been uploading to Pixelfed just to contribute to the community.

The day they ask me to scan my face is the day I stop logging in to discord.

That is interesting. I was not aware of that.

I agree with you.

For my personal stuff, I am on Linux 100%.

I tried for a long time to put privacy first and Linux first everywhere. At some point, I realized that I am making my work so much more difficult using all these work arounds.

I am still waiting on a few things to come to Linux, once they do, I can try again. But I will keep using what works best for my work as earning a living needs to come first.

Maybe they saw somewhere that people use it to format text and assumed that has something to do with programming.

So, I would need 3 different s3 buckets? One for each system?

If that’s the case, I might go the raspberry pi in a relatives house route.

Thanks! I guess what I read before was either old or just wrong.

The last I looked was that the Pixel was the only phone that allowed you to load a custom rom and relock the bootloader. Other phones kept the bootloader unlocked once it was modded.

So, graphene could be put on those phones if the devs wanted to do it, but it would be less secure since the bootloader would remain unlocked.

Also, supporting a small line a phones is probably infinitely easier than a range, of devices, but it would be nice to have another option. Especially now that the Fairphone pice is reasonable.

I think ip laws are important but need to be changed. One example are things that are funded by tax dollars. They can’t own the ip of something we funded even if partially funded. Maybe let them hold the ip until they recoup their cost.

I also think that it is OK for companies to have ip, but it needs to be shorter. Like, they get 10 years or they earn 10x their cost on developing it.

Im not saying my exact ideas are perfect, but just an example of how ip should not last for as long as it does.