Finally a Deck rival I might actually be interested in.

Ah yes that sounds like an incredibly safe idea.

Privacy isn’t a binary choice. Obviously I would love for there to be an alternative to Google Pay but no such service exists.

The most private form of payment is to use cash but that’s just hugely inconvenient in 2024. Sometimes it would be nice to be able to pay from my phone when I don’t have my wallet on me but custom ROMs don’t allow it.

Can we just ban them entirely? Horrible cars.

I’d have rather seen Google Pay support than Android Auto though I imagine it’s a lot less feasible.

8 and 8.1 is a shame. Best versions if Windows we’ve ever had.

The thing with the PS3 though is most games don’t even get good performance on the original hardware. With the speed at which PS3 emulation is improving I’ve no doubt it will be THE way to play all PS3 games fairly soon.

I sold mine recently because of how good RPCS3 has gotten recently. My CPU isn’t good enough to run it but will be one day.

Out of curiosity, why not go for something that supports Linux out of the box? Why stock to mainstream?

The most popular musoc streaming service. Definitely not the best. They still don’t offer lossless musoc streaming and their lossy files use an outdated encoder.

Flatpaks are a lot easier than appimages though I still default to my distros native packages if available.

I usually go for incredibly inhumanly muscley male characters but occasionally play as a woman for variety.

PopOS and Manjaro are two I never liked.

For some reason I’m particularly keen on Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Murder on the Dancefloor at the moment. No idea why but it did just turn 20 years old.

A Hat In Time is great.

As much as you deny it, you are just experiencing Nostalgia. I was an N64 and GameCube kid and never really had much to do with PlayStation. I played Ratchet and Clank and Jak and Daxter well into the PS4 days and was underwhelmed with both.

By the looks of it you haven’t ever done any thinking for anyone.

Possibly the most clueless comment I’ve ever read.

The iPad’s popularity is the reason no one else is really in the tablet market anymore. Every OEM was pushing out a tablet in every size about a month ago but failed to make any decent amount of sales to stay relevant.

The Android space is getting more varied again in recent years but I really wouldn’t recommend one to an average user over an iPad.

The final straw was my banking app stopped working on Graphene and I was getting more and more curious about MicroG.

I find Calyx to be a more complete OS with apps generally being more modernised. The search bar in the app page of Graphene for example has always been a bit buggy and most the default apps look like they haven’t seen an update since KitKat.

I also found app compatibility seemed better with MicroG than sandboxed Google Play despite the claims that Graphene would always have better compatibility.

I switched from Graphene to Calyx. Regardless of your ROM of choice, the sheer volume of custom ROMs available on Pixels is the best feature of them.