Ah, Signal is the only one above that requires phone # verification.

Bitchat is BT only?

Define “account”? You’ll need some sort of identifier. How many people are in this chat?

SimpleX

Briar

Signal

Session

Mattermost

Quiet

Etc. etc.

removed

Pretty sure most all of them do that?

I think optical media is a dead platform

I disagree. You can still find almost every new movie with a disc release. If you actually want the highest quality home video, this is still it.

I had never heard of Pioneer before

How old are you? 😅 I think their name is bigger in the audio business, they made/make audio equipment, car stereos, CD Players, etc but you certainly don’t see their name as often as you used. But then, people aren’t really buying home/car audio equipment like they used to.

You can already run Steam games on Android, using the same protocol as Valve (FEx) with an app called GameNative.

China does not believe in intellectual property. If you manufacture your shit there (which everyone does) it’s guaranteed to be ripped off and sold, minus your R&D costs. Look on AliExpress and you can find counterfeit…everything. Literally the same item sold for 90% less.

But you’re also rolling the dice because honestly you never know what you’re getting when you order shit there. Listings are full of fraudulent or just ignorant specs. Or they may just take your money and never send you anything at all.

Fair

It’s a cool technical project funded by YT. Wouldn’t exist without it.

I’m assuming a Linux install requires a complete reformat of the drive, aka having to reinstall / redownload my games, right?

Not necessarily. You can back up the game files or transfer them from another PC over the local network. You can also install Windows and Linux in different partitions on the same drive but Windows will sometimes eat your Linux install.

Also the cloud saves that I have stored on Steam, would those be transferrable / usable if I install on Linux?

Completely, yes.

Cachy*

SteamOS Holo*

Every browser that I know of is open source. But I use Orion!

I tried iOS for about 5 months and the absolute worst part was the horrendous keyboard…

The first thing to do on a fresh install is to run a system update.

This. A lot of game devs see fit to make games work on Steam Deck but explicitly barr them from any other distro. This command just yes “hi, I’m a Steam Deck!”

I got a new job and they gave me an outlook account. I asked copilot to look at an email and add the event details to my calendar. It couldn’t do it. 5 or 6 times I asked and it was unable. It wanted to create an ICS for me to download and import. Fuckin useless. Turned it off.

It’s not negligible

I don’t like GitHub either but the large userbase ensures increased attention, which means more adoption, which means more contributors. That’s why devs are always begging for “stars”.