I’m the cash-shop-anocerous. All my microtransactions bleed your wallet like a phlebotomus.

can report UEFI installs of PopOS and Mint were recently borked by a Win11 update.

Yeah, this is incredibly fucked. I truly wonder if we could have taken control of our privacy and data collection at any point along the way and had a more informed consumer.

It still brings me back to the early days of the internet when you never told anyone your name and certainly didn’t give companies anything more than they needed to send you products.

Unfortunately, I think they have gotten addicted to the blood and we will never be able to stop it at this point.

It’s weird that you make that comparison. I have been an avid 2fort fan since og TF and feel like that map at least had some breathing room to get away from the constant grenades spam and chaos. It might not have been much but there was at least a chance to stop for a split second and figure out what the hell is going on.

I think being able to choose whether I wanted to jump into a 24/7 2fort server or not also helped with the feeling of “this map is trash why are we even here” less than it does in modern games where you only have skill-based matchmaking and voting based upon randos.

I love a good 2fort battle with people I know and have been playing with for years.

Yeah that might be the thing that isn’t jiving well with me. It just feels like chaos. There’s nothing tactical about mashing the fire button and spinning in a circle. Definitely a skill issue.

Gripping points. Thank you for your contribution.

Y2CS

I am so, so close to doing the same. Still have a small partition carved out for CoD and Windows. I just find myself booting in to it less and less.

Thank goodness MicroVision seems to be keen on continuing to flog that dead horse with a Warzone focus, means I can finally be free.

Thanks for the rec! Typing on it now. Pretty decent so far. I dig the hover on the word as i swipe

Also posting from a Pixel 7 running Graphene for abouta year. No issues, I use Fdroid for most apps and Aurora when I have too. Only bummer is I haven’t found a good FOSS keyboard with swipe. Really miss gboard for that and gif insertion.

No shame in that! We gotta have something to die for these days. Haha

I gave up on expandable storage and a headphone jack. Bought a nice portable player with a DAC, but I respect dying on the hill.

That’s not bad. I usually keep a Pixel around to AOSP Style ROMs just in case nothing compelling comes out between big vendor releases. I’m already dreading the day my Galaxy Flip4 goes OOS. Have a Pixel 7 running Graphene as a backup/ travel burner currently.

I’ve eyed some Xperias. How are the security updates?

Size is the main reason I moved to a foldable 2 years ago. I’d love something reasonably sized instead of everything being giant phablets.

Are we married to the same person?

There was a great response to this from Gabe several years ago (looks like 13 years ago, fuck, I’m old)…

https://www.totalgaming.co.uk/93-of-steam-users-born-on-january-1st/

There’s always one!

Must of been how they used the little red nub.

What?! 9000!?!