IMO the biggest downside is that you need to use a Pixel: a $500-$900 phone with the build quality of a $200 phone. You can get them cheaper used or refurbished, but it’s still not the best value proposition.

Battery life and camera quality (no manual focus, no focus locking, autofocus is slow and inaccurate) are pretty bad. It’s also missing the physical slider for silent mode that many phones have. Also some usb-c aux adapters do not work. These problems are exactly the same in vanilla android as they are in Graphene OS, so the hardware is the weak link.

If you are happy with Android on a Pixel, you will be happy with GrapheneOS

Point 1 is assumptive, but not necessarily wrong. Social media companies have deep pockets, and these laws help them deflect responsibility for child abuse that occurs on their platforms.

Point 2 is well argued, but i’m not convinced it applies here. California could have the least harmful version of such a law, but it does not follow that those laws would be adopted more generally over something more harmful. Texas, New York, Illinois, and Florida are also very influential in the US as far as lawmaking goes

Point 3 is kind of a red herring fallacy.

Point 4 isn’t really argued at all. I don’t see how this fights fascism or how California’s law is explicitly immune from fascist abuse.

Point 5 is one that i can’t argue with due to lack of information. I acknowledge that abuse is happening every day on platforms like Roblox and Discord, but i’m not convinced that those platforms will actually have less abuse as a result of this law

Point 6 is addressing a fallacy. baseline shifting is a contextual phenomenon, and whether it applies here has little to do with the subject being discussed

I have been a sponsor on Patreon almost since the account was opened (maybe 4 months in). It’s my longest-running Patreon sponsorship.

I’ve gone ahead and cancelled. Many thanks to the developers, sorry it had to end like this.

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“Something got wedged deeper in the kernel/usb stack”

AI one has an extra chain on the lady on the bottom right. I wouldn’t be interested in a game made with AI and that would be a dead giveaway

office works fine if you use a translation layer like proton. There are also free/open source office suites that are file compatible and way better.

specific versions of Adobe work with proton, but not all. There are better alternatives on Linux for the most part.

pirated or legit makes no difference

It can be both!

This is being pushed by social media companies that don’t want to be responsible for age verification

The Wii doesn’t do 240p? or just in RetroArch? I could swear there are quite a few Virtual Console games on Wii that do 240, as well as bespoke emulators for most other consoles that can do it.

Might not be the best option if you want RetroArch as your interface to everything though.

I think it became retro when the 9th gen consoles started coming out.

To me, current gen is current, previous 2 generations are not retro, and anything older is. Many 360 models still had analog video out (as did the PS3 and Wii), so arguably it’s the final generation built with CRTs in mind.

Stability in the sense of: my computer does the thing i expect with the hardware i happen to have, every time, over many years.

I agree Debian is up there. I only mentioned Arch because of the massive userbase. I think Debian is a little more technical (for a new user with limited time and attention) than Ubuntu or Fedora, but much less so than Arch

Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, and Arch are undoubtedly the big 4 Linux distros in terms of long term community, stability, and documentation

Fedora or Ubuntu. No need to overthink it. They are the two biggest distros in popularity by far (except Arch, which probably beats Fedora), so you have access to maximum mindshare and previous troubleshooting.

Including Arch, these three distros are among the most polished, stable, and well-documented. Arch takes quite a bit more effort, so a beginner without much time on their hands should start with Ubuntu or Fedora.

I think the problem is the insistence on using a gaming-focused OS. Boutique distros can make certain things easier, but they often make unwitting assumptions about hardware that dont actually work for everyone.

Fedora has probably 10x or more the user base of Bazzite, so there are effectively +/- 10x the variety of of tested builds. Ubuntu/Debian is probably 10x over Fedora, so probably +/- 100x over Bazzite.

If you want to use Linux with minimal headache, the best advice is to use a mainstream distro with well-tested hardware. If you are building a custom PC you will have the least hassle with 1-2 year old hardware (or older) on Mint or Ubuntu

RE: use case

It’s really nice to be able to see the whole titles. A vertical panel cuts off most text, so you just have a bunch of icons when you minimize. if multiple windows are from the same app it’s confusing.

If you use a horizontal panel you have a bit more room, but a significant amount of text is still cut off, and the panel fills up quickly.

Even with as few as 6 windows open (lets say two browser and three file manager, and a terminal) minimizing is a mess. I find it better to just leave the window bar somewhere visible and shade it, since i can read all the text on my window at a glance. Combined with “keep above others”, you can get a really nice way to quickly refrence something infrequently while you do most of your work in another window.

A more typical workflow for me is 1-4 windows of a pdf reader, 1-3 file manager windows, 1 browser window, and 1 terminal window. It’s just easier to keep it all organized with window shading.

I find it much faster than a bunch of alt-tabbing, or playing hide and seek with the panel just to get a specific two PDF windows up side by side for a second

Thanks for the link! Heartening to know there are others that love this feature like i do

Damn. I guess it’s finally goodbye window shade or goodbye Plasma. I really wish they’d figured out a solution.

I get it though. The edge cases will never be fixed until devs know what they are, and GNOME proved this is an effective way to find out.

Bing is a better search engine than Google, but both are pale imitations of their former selves. It’s amazing how bad search has gotten in the last ~5 years

I dont agree. Life is a balance. You use proprietary software every day, everybody does. It exists in nearly every aspect of day to day life. You can never truly be free of it, but advocating for and using FOSS where possible is worthwhile anyway. Going fully blob-free would mean significantly more effort for what to me is not that much of an improvement to my life.

It’s the same reason i garden on my apartment balcony, but dont grow all my own food. I could probably just about manage it, but i’d be spending every second of my available time to keep the thing going just to reduce my already infrequent grocery trips (but not to zero since i still need soap and toothpaste).

I’m happy with the additional features, security, and transparency provided by Fedora over the OS my laptop was designed to run. I go through some level of effort to use Linux, but nothing crazy. If there was some widely available hardware with decent performance, price, and comparable features, made with ethical labor and that worked with Debian with the deblobbed kernel, i’d definitely give it a shot. Currently it’s too much work for too little gain for me.

But if it works for you, that’s awesome. I respect the commitment to your ideals.

Very sweet to remember her this way.

My cat is also named after a flower: Thistle. I hope i get to enjoy 15 years with her too.

I empathize with your sorrow, and i’m happy you got to spend the time with her that you did