I really am interested in a folding phone, but i’m not comfortable with paying apple any new money if i can avoid it. I’ve completed my data migration off of iCloud and into self-hosted solutions, but i’m continuing to pay for iCloud until i’m confident i won’t somehow have issues with nextcloud and immich.

When my iPhone 14 Pro eventually fails to meet my needs, I’m planning on getting a Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold, not because Google is any better, I don’t want to be giving them money either, but it is compatible with GrapheneOS.

The internet used to be a place

oh no. this is a problem for me. i really went hard on earning the gold trophies in the original game last year.

Unfortunately most standards bodies are pretty much this stupid though. Blu-ray, DVD, USB, hell even codecs like H265 and MP3 have governing bodies that are mostly enterprises enforcing their collective power on standards. That’s good in ways because it means they all have to decide on a standard that’ll work wihh to pretty much anything, but bad because they can also enforce bullying like HDCP onto consumers.

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I did this to myself and it put butt on our website and my boss noticed it while giving a presentation to a client… whoops

I worked at a knock-off Apple Store in the PNW from 2009 to 2013 and I told this same line to MANY people. The thing about being an “Apple Specialist” is that we sold more than Apple did, including “aftermarket” RAM modules to do that upgrade on-site for customers, saving those customer money AND netting us more profit than if we had sold them the Apple SKU with more RAM. When Apple closed this loophole it was not just at the expense of end-users, but their channel partners too.

I’ve been planning on buying a Pixl 10 Pro Fold and installing GrapheneOS on it when my iPhone 14 Pro kicks the bucket.

Pearson, HMH, and all the major for-profit educational resource providers (and much of the not-for-profits, too) are literally actually evil.

Oh shit, I’m on the wrong distro

despite your weirdly hard-line anti-bazzite stance elsewhere, this is an excellent expansion on some of the other comments in this thread.

lol, lots of folks responding to me doing the exact thing i was warning about. Honestly, just pick one that seems like it offers what you’re looking for.

If you want it to feel kind of familiar to windows, pick KDE as your desktop environment. you can have this in pretty much any distro, some make it easier to set as part of the install process.

If you want it to be harder to fuck up, but with less flexibility for customization or being on the bleeding edge of support, pick an immutable distro like bazzite

If you wan full flexibility and the added danger and complexity that brings, go for an arch-based distro. lot of great comments below too with actually good details and not just “people are dumb for using X, they should use Y because i’m smarter” - specifically dubyakay and Holytimes are offering some great details.

lol, i know you’re joking, but this is the kinda thing i think actually really confuses and scares people who are unfamiliar with linux. There absolutely are really great distros out there that aren’t the big players, but for a newcomer they can probably stick to a big distro that seems nice and if they start getting the bug they can come back for a deeper dive. deciding to just do it is way more important than getting it “right” imo.

Tbh it actually doesn’t matter that much. There’s like a million different distros, but really there’s like 3 base distros (yes Linux nuts, this is an oversimplification) of Debian, Fedora, and Arch. Ubuntu has gotten a lot of hate lately for their choice of forced package manager, but it’s probably fine. It’ll matter way more to you what desktop environment you select. I’d recommend looking into Bazzite for gaming. It’s based on fedora and it has a bunch of gaming stuff built in, but also does great for anything else. It’s made to be the steamOS for anything not a steam deck. Go with KDE for a windows-like desktop experience.

Luigi’s Mansion on original GameCube hardware. Well, it’s pretty modified - BT controller board, memcard pro, EON MKII for digital video output, picoboot to load from sd, but the game processing HW is original lol.

Also, Rise of the Tomb Raider was easily the best one of those. I loved that game.

Right, I forget that as a working truck it’s got different priorities than a sedan or something. And we actually use it as a working truck. My wife’s coffee cart gets towed by it with the bed filled with coffee gear and supporting tools and stuff constantly.

Drives me crazy to see these fuckin micropenis sunglasses dudes in monster trucks that have clearly never done a single instance of hauling anything. It’s just a status symbol that also excels at murdering children.

My 22 Tacoma has a proper hand brake

maybe we’'ll get lucky and they’ll burn out so hard they have to sell the titanfall, mass effect, and dragon age IPs to companies who won’t fuck them up.

iOS/iPad OS has had a file manager for years? It’s not great, and heavily restricted, but it for sure exists.

But what about the actual MGS 4 that came before Peace Walker?