My problem is rarely how much effort it would take for me to adopt something. It’s the fact that the people I care about and the people around me don’t adopt something.

I have roughly two dozen people in my signal app, to communicate with. Out of the thousands of contacts I’ve managed in the past decades. And I’ve been using it exclusively to replace everything I did in WhatsApp, across this entire year, but the adoption just isn’t there because my cohorts are comfortable with the convenience that Meta affords them.

Everyone agrees that IG and Meta is bad for them, but they can’t be arsed to even move to Signal from Whatsapp.

That’s the thing. Steam didn’t do ANYTHING to traditional distribution channels. They all put themselves out of business, or out to pasture.

Aside, I just wanted to say that this was really pleasant. I’ve spent way too much time in the last week or so trying to share relatable and geeky experiences with these technologies, in various subreddits that really just feel like flame wars.

So this was a breath of fresh air

I use it almost daily, and it works great for anything but twitchy,online Bro Shooters. Apollo/Artemis over Tailscale runs better than Steam Remote Play // Steam Link, and they handle client resolution switching for you.

I literally just downloaded the oh Yakuza game last night to test this morning! Are you me?!? 👋🏻🤣

Seriously, I would much rather talk excitedly about all the crazy ways we get this s*** to work, and tear down people in our circles.

I’m realizing this cold November morning, that I need Lemmy to be what Reddit was 15 years ago and 10 years ago. Because I just spent the last hour responding to posts in /r/sbcgaming and /r/steam asking “why tf are we being so mean to each other?”

When we are essentially in the same teams.

Anyhow, slightly more on point, I was absolutely flabbergasted last week, to discover that I could run ‘Ghostwire: Tokyo’ on my PC at home --> ‘Moonlight’ stream it over ‘Tailscale’ --> play it on an ‘Ayn Thor’ Android handheld 450 Miles away --> ‘Chromecast’ it to the 8 years old ‘Nvidia Shield TV’ I set up in my folks living room, and play on their tv with low enough latency to actually progress my story, and the only configuration required was putting my device on the same network as the TV set top box.

This is the future I was always trying to cobble together, and honestly it feels like it would not have been possible without steam making so many of the underlying software services and links.

Necro-Bump, but Steam announced this last week, that they’ll unleash the Steam Frame in 2026, which will make use of the FEX efforts they have been working on. This thread is a great read in that context, since there is still shockingly little chatter in consumer corners of the internet about this exciting tech.

Thanks. I have the lite app and I’ve submitted a few compatibility reports of my own, along the way.

I really, REALLY want to get Ghostwire Tokyo working at a thing near 30fps so that I can ditch my Steam Deck and travel with just my Ayn Thor, and that’s why I’m watching the evolution of the Frame, and of this space, with baited breath.

It’s still worthwhile to stream from a more powerful computer over the Internet when service is available.

Edit: I’ll add that I have been shocked at how great a game can run on an Ayn Thor, like BioShock infinite and Batman Arkham City are both happy to hit 60fps at or above 720p. A year from now it’s plausible my 2019 games could play nice!

This gives me tremendous hope for more x86 game emulation on Android devices, because Valve have been throwing resources behind the development of FEX for emulation on ARM for the Frame.

I am absolutely convinced that my existing phone and retro gaming handheld have enough horsepower for 3D games from 6 years ago once this compatibility layers are built out a bit.

I’m really sad to hear that you had this experience. I started using Tuta back in April or May and it’s been full featured for me. I also use it for my BitWarden since both can host in EU, and Tuta has been rock solid for me across the last half year.

I hope that you get to resolution sooner than later, with their support.

I just need a search engine the will also give calculator and unit conversation results. Everything else sounds be search results.

At this point, it’s been too many years that I will just query “76 f in c” or “2500*12/3” from my url bar, so this I appreciate the most modest “intelligence” from my web browser.

Literally everything else makes my experience worse, though.

So I’m taking recommendations for more search engines to try out. I don’t know why I start page bothers me so much, but it feels like the results my ISP would give me through DNS capture a decade and two ago.

Things are getting Hua-wei out of hand!

It normalizes the anti-equity principles of the granting party, which now occupies the US govt.

The benefactor had already shown exactly how they treat people that aren’t white Christian men, and it’s up to schools, businesses and organizations like the Foundation to show resistance and inclusivity.

Where can I read about the requirements? Did whole, I’m prepared to pay dues to belong in a guild or union, depending on cost, and also I’m currently unemployed. Am I welcome, even? Lol.

Bruh. Read the room. You have been taking swings at everyone in these threads and basically telling anyone that can’t beg, borrow or steal a Pixel to fuck off.

Nobody should take you seriously when you talk about discouragement. I asked how you and I could encourage our community today and you told me not to worry about folks in the developing world that can’t “work a few extra hours” for a mythical premium handset.

“There are dozens of us! DOZENS!”

Thanks for spelling out all of this. I was you to know the I read every word of it.

The guy we both were responding to managed to waste an hour of my own day with back-and-forth so I figured it was worth seeing how others had torn apart the nonsense, and while I knew the issues in a theory level you explaining Brazil’s ecosystem was an excellent illustration I learn from.

Good luck out there. May we someday both learn to evade feeding the trolls.

Yeah, no, don’t take it personally. He’s just been attacking anyone in the threads that doesn’t buy into his prescribed “solution” while trying to also be some kind of victim-martyr.

Thanks for being here. Community needs vice and we will have to find a way, together, to back the creators that can actually code the paths forward.

Ironically, with an iPhone you could at least buy into Test Flight privately-signed-apps.

Anyhow, it took me a couple days to realize the guy that you and I have both been replying to is just a troll. Thanks for explaining your thoughts through this discussion, and try not to be too demoralized by the guy.

I’ve responded, repeatedly, and at length to you. I’ve treated you like you want to be a responsible member of community. I’ve tried to treat you with benefit of the doubt.

You have generally replied with other, two-liner insults and red herrings. I feel comfortable now just disregarding you.

I hope someday you find your way to kindness.

I live in a country where the government is now weaponizing the mobile data on our phones to track us, and assault us. They have begun kidnapping citizens without due process and incarcerating people with legal status, without even filling charges.

These state agencies are buying tech that let’s them follow people around by their phones, and the leading mobile platform companies are openly complicit with governments that assault their people.

When you ask if I’m living in the developing world, I travel international a lot but my home country is experiencing rapid decline, and they have banned several categories of phone manufacturers, most famously Huawei consumer products. Ironically, because that company is suspected of doing the same things that Google is doing (granting access to back-end services and data to government entities).

So it’s really not about any one device.

The people affected by this state violence (a ) deserve privacy just like anyone else, and (b ) depend on their mobile devices for every part of their daily life just like everybody else.

How are you going to help them, when you can’t even help yourself?

Nobody can “help themselves” with a technology platform. It taken cooperation with others, to make systemic changes.

Again, I personally will be fine. I can buy a Chinaphone. Or I can fund a Linux project phone for myself. Or, gods help me, I could buy an iPhone.

But what about the people on the other end of the line? What good is one secure walkie talkie?