Of note: Microsoft is offering an extended support program for Windows 10 consumers. It’s $30, or free if you opt in to Windows Backup, or you can buy it with Microsoft Rewards points. I would see if you have any of those points and go that route. It means you can delay 11 safely for another year.

One of my coworkers was just trying to get me to buy an IPTV service that’s charging $300 a year- lunacy. Your timing is impeccable and I’m going to jump down the rabbit hole, thanks.

Android development isn’t closed. The Pixels no longer have public device trees provided by Google, but no other device manufacturer did that either. It was a nice to have, but Graphene still got a fully functional Android 16 build out without them within a few weeks, and the device trees aren’t why they build for Pixels, it’s the security features.

You are arguing with Bazzite’s primary maintainer. “Immutable” is a bit of a misnomer, especially since multiple directories like /etc are read/write.

MicroG requires signature spoofing, which Graphene deliberately does not support. It is more secure to run the real Play services in a sandbox that forces it to be a userland app than to run MicroG as a privileged system app with spoofing.

Blu-rays are compressed. “Zipping a zip file” doesn’t apply here because zips are lossless. Video encoding is almost entirely lossy, and there’s a lot of tradeoffs to be made between file size and quality. The whole point of the more efficient codecs is to minimize the quality tradeoff. There’s also a bunch of parameters to tune the resulting bitrate which is the #1 factor in deciding the final filesize.

That being said, I’ll agree that the least quality loss will come from using a Blu-ray remux since those are very high quality.

Pebble…

(at least it’s coming back soon)

There’s also an indev branch of Lidarr with real plugin support. I’ve been using it and https://github.com/allquiet-hub/Lidarr.Plugin.Slskd and it’s working well, although it doesn’t automatically search so it still requires some intervention. Does Soularr?

No, just the FSR2 demo application, which suffered from poor performance regardless of whether or not FSR2 is on.

This is still fully possible on Immutable distros (which is why the name is misleading, but unfortunately is what stuck- “image-based” is a better description) and uBlue has a mechanism for it- since they’re delivered using OCI containers, it’s trivial to fork or derive from the project and add, remove or tweak whatever you need. There’s also BlueBuild which is YAML but that’s a third party project.

For what it’s worth, that bit about Patreon isn’t true. There were fixed builds before release, but they were third party ones unaffiliated with the Yuzu devs.

Can personally confirm that the OnePlus Watch 2 is fully vendor agnostic.

Many artists I like were signed with a now defunct record label called Tympanik Audio. Whoever got the rights to the name after the label went under stopped paying their Spotify license fees, and a large chunk of my Spotify library vanished overnight. While the albums still exist on Bandcamp, the money probably gets thrown into the void now.

Never again. The only way I can ensure my music is accessible tomorrow is to have my own copy. I buy on Bandcamp where I can, or will buy physical and rip it if I really like the album. Everything else gets ripped from Deezer automatically because there’s no guarantee anything on those platforms will always be there.

There’s already a similar project for Minecraft- https://mcpelauncher.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Just the kernel module, which still interacts with the proprietary driver.

That app just looks like reskinned KDE Connect.

I suspect it’s intended to be “ground-up rewrite in a better engine with more content” sort of like Isaac’s transition from Flash to its own bespoke C++ engine.

That’s a user from Mastodon. Lemmy is part of the fediverse so any ActivityPub capable server can see Lemmy posts (it just might be formatted a bit differently). From their end they’re replying to a toot.

Yuzu did no such thing. There were third party fixes but Yuzu didn’t implement anything until the game released.

A microscope is explicitly required IMO. I would definitely not attempt the mod without one.