I did mostly liked playing the demo on the steam deck, but the forced co-op multiplayer part was off-putting.

I know you want to see this comic again:

https://xkcd.com/927/

I don’t have any anecdotes, really. On all my cheap devices, I never really had any issues with apps getting killed by battery management. I know that sometimes, you’ll have to specifically switch off battery management for these specific apps, which can usually be done with a single action that the app generally let’s you access directly on first setup.

But I’ve always used stock android or at least AOSP based Roms - I’ve never stuck with OEM Roms longer than the (usually) first 7 days they keep you from unlocking the bootloader. Once I can unlock the bootloader, the OEM Rom is gone.

I do know that some OEMs have their own battery management implemented on top of androids, which is often more aggressive, and a bit more convoluted to access.

just recently (2 months ago), I bought a Moto G84 5G, specifically because it had a snapdragon processor (and therefore good custom ROM support), is officially supported by LineageOS and it was cheap (160 EUR). I never needed a flagship phone, the cheap phones ~200 EUR always worked fine for me.

I was using Xiaomi/Redmi/Poco devices before that, but it seems that they have gone entirely Mediatek in that price segment, which is a shame.

“Yo, Dawg. I heard you like subsystems…”

As someone who uses nextcloud exclusively for calDAV and cardDAV, what replacements are recommended?

The YouTube microphone situation is crazy…

It shoots bone apple tea

That’s what someone in the pockets of big mouth wash would say.

Note that calyxOS is currently halted, and instructions and downloads on their website are currently inaccessible.

Back when Randall Munroe released his “What if” in eBook format, it essentially was only available with DRM.
When I emailed him about it, asking for a place to buy it without DRM, he responded with DRM unfortunately being mandated by his publisher, and finished his email with a link to this comic of his:
https://xkcd.com/488/

I bought a kindle when amazon sold them for a special price of 25 Euro. It’s a cool device for reading books, but I found their UI horrendously cluttered and filled with “suggestions” instead of focusing on the content I already have. I have since jailbroken the device and am using koreader on the device to read my ebooks transfered as epubs via calibre.

That has the advantage that when I buy DRM-free books in epub format, I am not relying on amazon to properly convert the file to a kindle proprietary format.

Borderlands 4 is better than Borderlands 4, but not even half as good as Borderlands 4.

Looking forward to the sequel, Borderlands 4.

My workflow is:
-Musicbrainz Picard to get all the information from an online database
-clean up the tags with kid3 (Linux), rename files and folders
-use mp3gain to “normalize” all songs to the same level, so I don’t have to constantly adjust the volume.

I can’t find any info about a blanket ban on idle/clicker games, and quite frankly, I don’t see why valve would ban them.

For them, it’s free money:

1. the developer has to pay a flat fee for the game to appear on the storefront
2. the developer has to pay an additional fee to enable community items
3. both the developer as well as valve receive a percentage cut of the sale price in the community marketplace

my guess is that a lot of people let the game idle in the background to farm items, that’s why it’s so “popular”. It’s not “active players”, it’s just a large number of people farming items in the hopes to get one they can sell for a larger sum.
Afaik it has been in the top charts for over a year.

Banana (which I’ve never even heard of and I have no clue why it’s that popular).

It’s an idle/clicker game that drops steam items that can, theoretically, be sold for money. I can’t recommend it.

school shootings are the price for being able to own guns

Not just the price, but a worthy price. I find it ironic that he himself has now been victim of a school shooting.

I am not surprised. I am thoroughly enjoying playing Silksong which I bought for less than 20 EUR, and I am looking forward to playing Borderlands for a few hours when it’ll be on sale for $5 in about a year.

The Bitrate part was a joke, yes. 96k is low, although I just remembered a special mp3 codec from NERO that allowed for such low bitrate, at the same perceived sound quality as 128kbps.

But obviously, all my CDs have been ripped as either V2, V0 or 320kbps - I personally have not noticed any difference to FLAC files with either of those qualities, I guess my ears are not sensitive enough.