teawrecks

This is like asking, "why do you need a touch screen or internet on a phone in the first place? Neither are needed to make phone calls. Isn't a phone just fine as a standalone thing?"

It's not 2005 anymore, a phone has all the computing power that most people need. In fact, most laptops are just phone boards these days. It's completely reasonable to ask that your hardware not be artificially limited by the software it's running so they can sell you a separate device that does the rest of what you need.

In a perfect world, my phone is a supercomputer capable of doing everything I'll ever want in a fraction of a second. And the thing standing between my current phone and a perfect phone shouldn't be my insistence on having a separate giant desktop taking up more space than is necessary.

Almost all the games I play are these random multiplayer games with friends. In my experience, proton is only a blocker around 5% of the time. I still have a windows partition for those times (and I always laugh when I boot it and am "welcomed" by their "Let's take a moment to configure windows" garbage).

Just saying, if you have the HDD space, I'd say give dual booting a shot. you'll probably be surprised how usable Linux is for gaming these days.

That was my position 5 years ago. For the last 3ish years I've been gaming on Linux with very few issues.

I'll be the first to say it's not perfect, but it's 100x better than it was 5 years ago. I'd say at least 70% of steam games just work when you hit play, 25% require a bit of configuring to get working, and only around 5% refuse to work at all.

Also, afaik, there's no reason for hobbyists to not always use lead-free solder. But of course that doesn't mean something you're taking apart used lead free.

I think when you say "why do you need to ____?" you think you're saying "what are you trying to do, and maybe there's another way to accomplish that", but what everyone hears is "you're right".

And for the record, "because it's their device, not Google's" should be as good a reason as any.

As someone who has been running de-googled android for years, I don't identify with any of your complaints.

Good luck leaving that walled garden by going to apple.

what I'm hearing is that if I already have 5μg/dL, then I might as well get all 20.

I'm curious if someone could build a discord replacement on top of matrix, most importantly with voice chat and video streaming functionality. Discord is clearly focused on monetization at this point, the only changes happening now are ones that make your experience objectively worse. I've also been on Linux for a few years now and discord still doesn't support streaming game audio.

And before someone suggests it, I tried Revolt, and it's not there yet. The latest client (as of a few months ago) couldn't find my audio devices at all, and came with a big warning about how their audio backend was being completely rewritten, and what I was using was now legacy.

Waiting for them to train an AI on Miyazaki's art/writing style and pump out a bunch of junk.

RIP Unity.

What activity are you referring to? Because this paper doesn't say that "cannabis use" is such an activity.

Not ever experiencing this stuff anymore on linux is the best feeling.

Interesting how your response makes it seem like the person you're responding to mentioned android at all.

The headline literally says the "spy clause" was dropped. It sounds like that's it true at all, nothing was dropped.

it's not clear to me whether you're saying Wayland devs are out of touch, or Wayland critics are out of touch.