Hoping that it’s possible to get one at a good price maybe end of summer. By the time it’s possible to grab one, it’ll be hot and I don’t run AC. Once it’s fall, used market at least hopefully isn’t trash

Ultra wide is better. If enough space an ultra wide and another 16:9 monitor. Games look so nice 21:9 and wider without the bezels of the older solution for ultra wide with multi monitors

The rest of the year and next are going to be a ghost town or it’ll be the cheapest away game for people to fly to

Like 2 days ago I decided to try pop_os on my main again. Way better than September. Enough for me to be able to tolerate the quirks. But still bugs here and there to the point I wouldn’t recommend it to most users. Maybe by the end of the year

Hard part is software distribution. You can buy Chinese phones but what app store? Can focus on open source applications. Use F-Droid. I have an iPhone and an older Pixel 7. In the past I’ve had ZTE phones. I guess you can buy a Chinese phone with a Mediatek processor that has YMTC memory chips and … whatever else

Luckily my collection is practically all Blu-ray at this point. I’ll be sad if any of them decay in their case. Most of my movies I don’t believe have a UHD release and I doubt they will

Someday Qualcomm will stop being annoying and get AV1 decoders in all their chips and we can all move on from h.264

What VPN? Haven’t seen that yet with Proton

It’s appeasement but until projects complete it can end up being a political boondoggle that by the end of spending $100 billion (if even) just gets them the political sway they needed at the time while not compromising their domestic production advantage

I can see Bazzite keep growing from interest in streamlined console experience Linux gaming. Pop_OS probably won’t grow again until after Cosmic DE is better. It’s not so bad now but still a number of annoyances and bugs. Once it’s stable it can contend better again as a gaming and general consumer centric distro. Mint is solid so no surprises that it can quietly grow

Definitely going to buy one

Pricing. It’ll just be a beefier displayless. Same games, higher settings. Pricing and availability.

It’ll still be about whether Epic gets mobile ports or if Valve or another service streamlines and integrates a Proton/Winlator solution. Not the worst bloatware but I’m still holding out for something Steam based. It’s mid-December and still waiting for the games EGS they said would start dropping before the end of the year

It doesn’t have performance parity with Windows yet so for Linux a 7600/7600xt is better for gaming. Compute performance though is great in their other article so a matter of if you’re planning to write ROCm or OneAPI code or just downloading applications and hoping for ROCm or OneAPI support

I’d copy you and drop the hardware. Just: you deserve better

It’ll primarily be a gaming device but if they did ever push to be a HTPC type box, Roku is more vulnerable than Google and Apple I think. I’d love to see HTPCs get another shot at the living room and get app support from the popular streaming services

Really I don’t know but I remember dealing with a dual vpn years ago with Samsung phones

https://docs.samsungknox.com/dev/knox-sdk/features/mdm-providers/vpn/vpn-chaining/

The loophole in WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption is simple: The recipient of any WhatsApp message can flag it. Once flagged, the message is copied on the recipient’s device and sent as a separate message to Facebook for review.

That practically applies to every form of digital communication. Sender/recipient has it on their end unencrypted and passes/leaks it on elsewhere

I may buy one depending on how Winlator development goes. The recent hype has been people getting Steam installed and installing games directly from Steam. Worse performance than doing a per game container and customizing but that’s a hassle

Maybe by 2030 is when my 12 year old car will finally make me feel the hassle of buying a new car. Maybe it’ll be cheaper by then. Maybe Vinfast quality control will be better by then