I wouldn’t know! I’m currently exploring the black, and that hasn’t changed much! I think it’s had some improvements, though, since Horizons. They maybe added a new ship…? Still one of the best space flight sims.

On the other side of the coin, No Man’s Sky added walkable ship interiors to their new Corvette class ships, so they’ve basically added everything Star Citizen promised, just with more cartoonish graphics. Either are still great choices for scratching that space exploration itch.

I have to wonder if they’d be more interested if you’d said you fly a space ship with a HOTAS (as in Elite Dangerous).

Eh, I think I’ll just rewatch episodes of Bluey instead.

I’ll add that if someone knowing your phone number is an actual threat to your safety, you should already know better about using something more anonymous.

Privacy ≠ anonymity

Still playing through The Messenger. Excellent game that everyone should play.

I don’t actually own Silksong just yet, so I just started a game called The Gunk. So far, kinda has that Savage Planet semi-realistic vibe to it, and the voice acting is really good. The beginning hooked me, so hopefully it has a satisfying ending when I get there.

Why pay your developers and ensure people have continued employment, when you could not.

/s

No idea, honestly. I’ve never had a device that was supported, so my knowledge of it is limited.

/e/OS has similar goals as Graphene (not exactly), but it supports many more models than Pixels. Check their list and see if it fits your needs.

If a database exists, it can be hacked and exfiltrated. With attacks ramping up on states and municipalities, which are often behind on security updates, they also don’t give their 70yo clerical staff proper infosec training to avoid social engineering techniques, nor do they pay them enough to care.

I would look to recent reports of attacks on local governments, rather than studies. Politicians aren’t exactly skilled at understanding studies, but exciting news headlines might be enough to grab their attention. [email protected] might be a good place to start!

Gee, if only there was an alternative to Meta’s stinky apps…some kind of decentralized, federated network of servers and users that’s funded by the community instead of ads and user data sales…

Ah, well. We can only dream. /s

This survey was conducted online by The Harris Poll on behalf of Google Cloud from June 20, 2025 - July 9, 2025 among 615 adults aged 18+ working in game development in the United States, South Korea, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.

So, it’s a voluntary poll. That’s a great way to get a biased sample.

Also, some of the responses sound like Google is playing fast and loose with the term “AI.” Is procedural world generation AI? Google seems to think so, despite it existing long before LLMs we’re a thing.

This whole thing reads like “research” designed to promote AI. I wonder why Google might want that? /s

In no particular order:

• PikaOS 5. I want to see this project flourish, and I think they bring some much-need UX innovations to certain GUI tools (their system update interface is the best I’ve seen so far). I also love that they’ve dumped Ubuntu in order to do the CachyOS optimization thing upon a Debian base while still keeping everything bleeding edge.

• Improved default keyring services in KDE. kwallet is kinda messy, and some people have pointed out that their use of blowfish is behind current best practices. On the flipside, using PGP means entering your password twice to unlock your keyring, so the experience is just not great out of the box.

  • I’m aware you can use third party tools like KeePass, but a user should not have to use something else to get a good experience.

• Total Linux desktop share at 3%.

• More/Frequent upstream gaming improvements from the Valve x Arch joint effort.

• Nvidia integration parity with AMD

• Open source Nvidia driver (as long as we’re wishing)

Deus Ex, here we come.

Hopefully there’s a JC Denton or Adam Jensen in the future, too.

And because of that lack of dev support, it can do less than a MacBook

Until Apple makes a device that’s as capable as the Vision but as unobtrusive as a pair of glasses, it’s going to remain a niche item. The Apple Watch, as you mentioned, has the benefit of being the same general form factor as a watch. iPads are just fancy notebooks.

As much as he wishes it was true, Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs or Jony Ive.

(For reference, both devices you mentioned, as well as all of Apple’s successful devices since the first iPod, were products of their marketing genius.)

I use Bazzite on a laptop, and it is permanently attached to a TV as its primary video output. You should not have to do anything with whitelisting; video out should just work as expected, besides maybe needing to manually select the audio output.

My suspicion is that there’s some kind of extra data being pushed over the HDMI, since the Smart Board is more than just a monitor (mouse data, smart pens, etc.). The video driver is probably shitting itself after the “monitor” detection. I don’t know for certain, but that’s my guess.

I would start by asking in the ublue Discord. There may be an easy fix, or they may direct you to the project where you should file a bug report.

It helps me play games that I would otherwise avoid on my desktop (usually low-requirement games like Vampire Survivor-likes or action platformers). If I gotta pick up a controller to play it, the Deck is probably better. I can also play in shorter bursts, so if I have ten minutes of nothing to do, that’s ten minutes I can make progress on a game.

And because of that I’ve finished a lot more games than I did with only my desktop.

They added extremely invasive kernel anti-mod, so players can’t make game characters nude. Purity culture bullshit being forced upon players. I’m sure people have found a workaround for it by now, but I still say fuck them, because they haven’t reversed course on that as far as I’m aware.

The last straw for them was when a regular player streamed a modded game with naked Chun Li during a public event (by accident). After that, they injected their hamfisted kernel hack into most of their games, going back to, like, the PS3 era.

Squenix just recently asked players not to mod their remaster of FFVII (read: please don’t mod Tifa), but afaik, they haven’t yet forced their beliefs upon players the way Capcom has.

Agreed. I feel like this is a prime case for the Fisherman’s Parable.

Awesome. Now to combine this with Tsugite for ultimate joinery.