Julian

Yeah that’s it, thanks

Where’s that iPhone comic about society

There’s also general gatekeeping of their developer tools which restricticts ports of software, and not following standards properly (USBc, sms).

You’re right - most media formats have support for metadata, which can include all sorts of things depending on how the image is created. For instance, most phones have an option to add location data to photos.

A lot of identifiable info like location data is usually an option you can turn off. And there are a lot of tools to remove metadata from files. A quick search brought up this, which seems fairly reputable (and open source, which is usually good for sensitive stuff like this).

Sounds like people with voting. They love to tell you how it doesn’t matter, and yet republicans put tons of effort into making it more difficult.

Ungoogled chromium with some privacy extensions would probably be a similar experience.

Any reason for picking it over all the other chromium browsers?

Tbf I think the way its federation works is inherently incompatible.

I could be entirely wrong though

I don’t think the propeties of semi conductors would be the biggest issue.

DS9 screenshots in isolation look a lot different from TOS. Things change.

Waydroid

I find personally it’s easier and more relaxed to hang out in person. But that’s with friends, so unless you’re on close terms with everyone that does seem like a big hassle.

I wonder though where you meet up, and what you do. I can totally see myself wanting to do a meetup like that if it’s somewhere fun, like a big city, and there’s some events planned out.

Keep hydrated. Eat food. Relax your eyebrows. If it’s bright out, wear sunglasses.

Yeah but it wasn’t AI (the buzzword)

Monitors at different refresh rates is a downside of x11, which Mint uses for all its desktop environments. Fortunately, they’re working on moving to Wayland for the Cinnamon edition, which has better support for that. There’s an experimental version you can use now, and they plan to be done in 2026.

I’d test things first ofc, maybe with your laptop plugged into one of the monitors.

I mean, for most distros you should be about to install and use the OS without touching the terminal. Yeah, you may want to use it for some things (idk what you were trying to do) but it’s kind of the same thing in Windows with registry edits and such. It’s a tool and if you don’t know how to use it, you’re probably gonna get lost.

Also how is it easier to go to a webpage to download an installer instead of using a store? Even microsoft is trying to move in that direction.

I don’t want to say your experience is invalid because I definitely think Linux can improve in terms of user experience. But it’s not very helpful to just complain about stuff vaguely.

At least you weren’t breaking records

I mean as long as it’s apple and not some small company or individual, they can extort away.

Plenty of the mods (portal stories Mel, portal reloaded) have plenty of playtesting. Valve already did most of the work with the base game, making sure the mechanics all function properly. But I think it’s just as feasible to design a good puzzle with 5 playtesters as it is with 100.

Why would they? What could they offer that the hundreds of community test chambers and mods don’t?