Fun thought exercise but functionally irrelevant. It still feels like I’m making decisions, so that’s close enough.

Bazzite only really does gaming mode on AMD GPUs (RX4xx+). As a general rule of thumb AMD cards are usually better supported under Linux. Bazzite’s desktop mode should work fine on a 1660 though.

DMCA in 5… 4…

This is covered in another thread on this post if you actually want to know. I suspect you don’t, and just want to post gotcha arguments in bad faith.

Just lurk there for a while. IMO, biggest misconception is that they’re omnicidal lunatics. They have a lot of in-jokes and bits that seem incomprehensible and border on unhinged to an outsider, and sometimes they kinda lean in to the perception. But if you spend enough time there you realise they’re very intelligent and deeply empathetic people. The “unlimited genocide on the first world” rhetoric is an expression of frustration rather than actual intent.

I like the idea of open world games. In practice it depends entirely on the execution, and amount of free time I have. I enjoyed the hell out of Cyberpunk 2077, but have zero desire to play GTA6 or the latest Ubisoft snoozefest.

Waydroid runs on some Ubuntu Touch devices. Probably elsewhere too. Can’t vouch for the performance though, never used it.

You might have been thinking of Mumble

AntennaPod. Can allegedly sync via gpodder.net or gpoddersync. Personally never got it to work quite right, but I didn’t try very hard either.

Same. But I have noticed lately in more recent Android versions it doesn’t always apply to everything. It’s also a waste of dev time that could be put into literally anything else.

Physics based animations? Fuck off. Waste of time, effort and CPU. I want my phone to last longer and work better, not look slicker.

I think this was also the plot of the first Elite Force game. Been a while tho and I’m not sure if it’s canon.

Well it was nice for a while there.

Yeah I believe you, the app wasn’t working for me, either. I was using my card all afternoon with no problems though. Not locked out of anything.

Typical 7 news sensationalism, it was a tech issue on the frontend affecting app and web services. Transactions worked fine, no one was ‘locked out’ of their account.

Last line of the article:

Other services including ATMs, online and in-person payments, including tap and pay, were unaffected…

Pain in the ass, sure. But not as bad as all that.

Be cool if they could integrate with gadgetbridge

You might have better luck searching on the mobileread forums. Plenty of kindle hacks there.

+1 for Auxio. Been using it nearly a year now, no issues.

Fortification can be used to manipulate some health rating systems. I don’t know what system Canada uses, but Health Star is particularly vulnerable to this. Basically you can make a product that’s high in fat / salt / sugar look better than it is by adding vitamins. So it makes some kind of sense to restrict fortification to certain classes of foods.

Total nothingburger. BioBank is a research dataset used for cohort studies. There’s about 500k volunteers who contributed some genetic material, demographic and lifestyle information, anthropometrics and physiological measurements. It’s mostly used to discern possible genetic and lifestyle factors for chronic disease. It’s not like they’re getting access to the whole NHS database and stealing DNA to build supersoldiers.