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  • Mandatory disclaimer about Gamepass:

    Gamepass as a model is not sustainable. It is a loss leader, and there is no way it will go like this without enshittifying.

    Not only does it lock you into windows via proprietary APIs, making sure wine can never make it work, it also locks you into its subscription, by, well being a subscription.

    If you do not have the money to support the creators directly, just choose the lesser evil, pay less than a third (5$) for mullvad, support one of the best VPNs, and just pirate them.

    That way it works on Linux, dosent lock you into anything, and instead of supporting a Megacorp, you are supporting a good company. Still not better than supporting the devs, but better than Microsoft.

    For the other 12$ you are saving up, just buy the game you liked most every 3-6 months.

    That’s how I do it with RE, Rimworld, and everythibg else I play.

    But about your question: if you wanna suck Microsoft dick, you can’t just have the best of both worlds.

    Either you stream, or you install Win on your Steamdeck, which will tank the Performance and battery life.


  • Luffy@lemmy.mltoGames@lemmy.world(Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games.
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    19 days ago

    Just wait until that guy learns about Crypto

    I’m just imagining their pure rage when reaching out to a Bitcoin Dev/maintainer whatever with something like „I don’t know what my Wallets name was, idk my 10 phrase password, but give me back my 10$ in Btc right now”

    And then pasting this again with the Title DONT BUY BTC THEY SCAM YOU

    Dude, treat every service like your wallet.

    You have an Email, you have a password. If you forget these, consider everything the Support does as an extra service and not the bare minimum.







  • They are expensive as fuck (500€ for the 9a, 700 for the 9) but since my only other options are either

    • Phone with more Bloatware and no unlockable bootloader, so I have to hope to be able to install MicroG myself (smasnug) for 700€

    Or

    • Phone with Lineage ROM, but not even a third of the updates (3 years vs 8) and even worse repairability score than pixel (Nothing) for 700€

    I’ll happily buy a 12a when the extended support for my 7 ends.




  • Luffy@lemmy.mltoAndroid@lemmy.worldJust got a Fairphone 6, AMA
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    29 days ago

    If only your knew AOSP itself stands for Android open source Project. And since „Googles” Android is based on AOSP too, and dosent do much except adding modules to the root system, an Android system with Google Framework added is still just as much an android system as an AOSP system is if I added Seedvault to its root environment.

    In other words, Googles Android is still based on AOSP, so something based on AOSP is still as much Android as something based on googles fork of ANDROID.

    But let’s view it from a slang standpoint:

    Since, as far as I can tell, your view of what is AOSP and what is android is based on if its Root environment was modified.

    If we look at it that way, Samsung’s OneUI is not Android, too. Xiaomis whatever is not Android too. But still people are calling Samsung an android phone. Same as with everything else.

    Also, your use of Patent Laws to determine what is and isn’t called what is completely unsolicited, since it is completely unable to catch many cases such as AOSP, WHICH BTW HAS EXISTED BEFORE GOOGLE BOUGHT IT.

    So your „ummm, akschually” response doesn’t only make you a shill for the corrupt patent laws which are not only discouraging innovation, but oppressing indie teams making the said innovation, such as in the case Palworld, but your answer dosent even take the current social usage of what is and Isn’t android into consideration.