The product is Steam. They made a reference device but Valve would much rather provide a Steam-first software to third-party hardware vendors than be a serious hardware competitor. The important part for Valve is not allowing Microsoft to become the new go-to PC games storefront like they’re trying to do with Game Pass.

I believe that but I do have to wonder how much of that is due to no credible leads being offered on most cases vs them just cheating their own narcs. “Money paid” vs “Money offered” doesn’t give any clarity to that.

Why bother asking the bullshit machine

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AWS

save money

lmao

+1 for Immich - it’s actually great

And you fully control the service?

Which is exactly why I never installed Plex and went straight to Jellyfin

I feel like Arch can accompany you throughout the graph if you want.

I use Leap for my home server, mostly just running docker. Been eyeing jumping to nixOS but still not sure

I’m waiting to see exactly how the UK plans to compel me, someone who lives outside the UK with a Lemmy server hosted outside the UK, to follow their rules.

If they find me non-compliant, they can block my site.

from nokia candybars and palm pilots to having a an always on camera, microphone, location and wifi sensor controlled by foreign advertising companies

We could build things with all that tech outside of those group’s control. That’s what brought you here to the Fediverse isn’t it?

For example I like Smart Home stuff. I’ve got dozens of devices I can control through my phone or automations etc around my house. My lights even. But I only like it because I control it thanks to FOSS stuff like Home Assistant. It’s local. Not reliant on external servers and works exactly how I like. If you bought cheap-o wifi gadgets that all rely on 20 different apps you’d have a really shitty experience and all your data harvested and your lights not turning on because whatever company shut down.

We can take control of phone tech in a similar way. Unfortunately I doubt we will as a whole but I think it may be possible for the more technically minded to carve out a small niche in the hellscape.

Most Android apps can be run under a mini-VM in the Linux systems I’ve tried - but some apps won’t function well that way (banking, NFC tickets, etc)

(non-Android) Linux phones aren’t really ready for daily driving even for relatively advanced users - but it looks like we’re gonna have to deal with it anyhow

From the image banners the dev appears to be some kind of 4chan edgelord no I’m good I’ll stick to SearXNG

I got this:

Hell yeah

Harcoded block lists in your software? Gross.

Selfhosting and federated services cain be a pain sometimes but at least it doesn’t do this

It’s still lighyears ahead of hitting up forty times.