Nice. This is for me, if it runs on SteamDeck. I cannot be arsed to buy the latest great game system, but once a remake runs on the thing I already have, I’ll try it and enjoy it.

The first step towards being great at anything is being shitty at that thing.

I think we will see this continue, but with federated product search, soon.

Small business vendors cannot afford to continue to leave their search results to Google and Amazon to control.

instead of WhatsApp

Lol. Okay. Baby steps, I guess.

Now we can be sure the Swedish Army is fully pro-democracy (United States flavored, of course!)

I’m joking.

Because remember, just because the Signal company and servers are in the United States, and the app build isn’t reproducible to F-Droid standards - that doesn’t necessarily mean that the US government is listening in!

We actually might not be!

I know we all wish our pro-democracy pro-oligopolist-capitalist Swedish allies a happy privacy-filled military communication network!

Ooh. Interesting. Thanks. Might need to revisit. See if we can compete with office chairs, after all. Lol.

Do I detect a divide by zero joke? Nice!

This is hilarious, but I need facts.

All together, we (Lemmy) are hotter than oatmeal, but we’re less interesting than office chairs. (On Reddit).

The average phone is listening all the time. If someone is particularly careful what apps they install, and gets a bit lucky, then their phone isn’t listening. That person is only being listened to by the phones of everyone else around them.

So while the phone itself may not be listening, apps can, depending on permissions etc.

Yep. That’s the best of my knowledge, today.

I haven’t seen any evidence that the operating system, itself, is listening.

But we know that many free, and even some paid subscription apps (check out the permissions on Paramount Plus!) are watching the screen or listening to the microphone.

We know these apps sell the data they collect to absolutely everyone.

There’s every reason to believe that collected screen, microphone (and possibly camera?) data then gets correlated with location data collected directly by Google.

Source: I’m a Cybersecurity professional who knows waaay too much about the state of what is possible, and why.

The why is mainly just Google and Meta using their influence for evil.

Holy cow. They’ve done the impossible - they’ve found a way to make a Dodge into a shittier vehicle. I am awestruck.

Another bonus: Many very good open source games can be added to SteamDeck by:

1. Boot to desktop.
2. Search the software center.
3. Click install.
4. Right-click the new game icon, and click “add to Steam”
5. Reboot to Steam mode and enjoy.

Some suggestions: Luanti, Empty Epsilon, UnCiv, Tux Racer, most retro emulators.

2 of 2. That’s what the “Final” in the title means.

Edit: They wouldn’t have named it “Final” if they intended to make more games!

Edit 2: Final means “Last” in English. It’s a clue that this is the final chapter of the series!

Open the pod Bay doors, HAL…

HAL, open the pod bay doors!