There are so many things I would like them to fix before they add more half-baked stuff.

Once upon a time there was minimum/recommended specs. 😔

I never cease to be impressed by the continual enshittification of Microsoft products, and the bar was pretty low to begin with.

I’m more of a Fairphone guy myself.

What sorts of drugs do you and your gang sell?

Nah brah, knah waddahma? Running my own Nextcloud instance is basically what drove me to become a linux novice.

I used to be a windows gamer. Now I run my own home-LLM server for the self hosted cloud assistant.

People should try, it’s fun!

One runs a mailbox app on any old disused android phone, it temporary stores content and deliver it to the main unit once the connection is restored.

Bit simpler to install an app and scan a qr code for the average user compared to even configuring an XMPP client IMO.

NC have modules for both gPodder sync and RSS. The RSS reader has been refactoring for ages so I just run FreshRSS instead but the NC module should work just fine.

You’re quite right, I’ve forgotten how frustrating it was not knowing if I could get a hold of a replacement if my daily driver custom ROM Android gave up the ghost back when custom ROMs weren’t as widely supported as now.

I thought Ubuntu Touch was dang near useable years ago, what someone considers “daily drivable” is probably subjective. If dumb phones had a web browser I’d probably settle for that as I self host and every service has a WebUI.

I don’t need desktop linux to “take off”, I’ve happily used it for a decade. I don’t need mobile linux to become mainstream. I just need it to be a bit better than it currently is.

The digital Wilson.

Sounds like good news for mobile linux!

Vivaldi sends an unstoppable user counter signal to their main server, promised to change the system and now they’re ignoring any requests for updates on the issue.

That rustles my Jimmies, dings my bell and waves my red flags.

As someone who routinely used to sink thousands of hours into games, and by that I mean 3000 hrs. on R6-3, 2500 hrs. on Squad and so on, the predatory practices of Microsoft, Steam and game developers have just turned me off gaming completely.