I keep playing open source roguelikes and ignore the corpoids encroaching on my passtime

I will never own a game console again (excluding things like the steam deck which aren’t locked down), so red pill is an easy pick for me. Though if there’s any PSN garbage I’m not touching it, or obtaining it through other means. 🏴‍☠️

If you’ve ever watched Overlord you’d know the dead deserve to rule over the living

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Encrypted XMPP/IRC+ZNC/other plain text protocol is the best. Mobile data is everywhere and cheap, especially for text messages. Only one person has to do the heavy lifting setting up the server on a VPS with encryption; connecting the clients is easy. The hard part is getting people to use them when network providers and Android/iOS devs shoehorn SMS/MMS/RCS as the default and only option.

Seeing double is decent and easy enough to trigger if you’re playing pair, three of a kind, four of a kind, full house, etc (basically anything but high card and flush). Main downside is it’s only a 2x mult, but that’s often good enough to beat ante 8 if you have some other easy to obtain xMult.

I’ve only just unlocked Merry Andy so I can’t comment on it, other than that it must go hard with banner and delayed gratification. According to the wiki, even if you put Andy right of burglar, it still kills all your discards, which doesn’t make much sense to me; but it wouldn’t be a very good synergy anyways (maybe would be okay for a crappy straight flush deck, but even then you’re working with -1 hand size).

I’ve never gotten a good run with golden ticket, but I could see it generating crazy econ with gold seal + gold card and hanging chad/sock & buskin/hack/other retrigger jonklers. It’s a lot of prerequisites.

Unless you want to tell me that the Android kernel is the first OS kernel without bugs, it takes at the very least one bug to be left intentionally unfixed and shared with the feds to introduce a backdoor. I wouldn’t consider it infeasible with how large the android kernel is, and how high a barrier of entry kernel dev is. If the bug is found, just move to the next one. Normally I wouldn’t be so paranoid, but this is Google we’re dealing with, on one of, if not the most popular kernels on the planet.

Your ability to ride the fence is admirable OP, don’t let anyone take it from you 🙏

cum!!!

postmarketOS, native, on pinephone. There’s a few mobile devices these days that can run mobile Linux.

Make the chocolate white and then it will be based

Random hardware suggestions, using mobile Linux support as a litmus test

• Pinephone (Pro): Main downside is that OG Pinephone has extremely anemic hardware, and the charging circuit is not controlled through hardware for some insane reason; hope the kernel devs of whatever OS you put on it knows how to not turn your phone into a bomb. Also Pine64 as a company has gotten flak for their support of Manjaro. Can’t deny how good the price is though.
• Fairphone 4: Good hardware, but expensive. I don’t own it, but it works good on postmarketOS according to the wiki.
• Librem 5: Overpriced compared to the earlier members on this list, but you can guarantee the phosh interface will work well considering it was developed by Purism as well.
• OnePlus 6 and 6T: I don’t know much about these, but they’re very popular with the mobile Linux crowd.

As for the pixel, there’s work on it but it’s still broken at the moment. As for the hardware being too old, I haven’t used anything Android in a while, so I don’t know how much performance degrades each release, but a mobile Linux distribution should run just as good today as it will 20 years from now, assuming you use the same interface.

Nah I ain’t about that rust life

cgi on the other hand… 😍😍😍

I don’t trust the google kernel when it comes to privacy or security. You think with how many people use Android and with how bad actors Google are they wouldn’t put a backdoor somewhere?

It’s as easy as following any set of instructions. Whether or not you actually understand what the instructions are doing is an entirely different story. If you actually want to learn how to operate a posix system, doing a bunch of command line installs of Linux isn’t going to help you with that. What will help is living in something with excellent documentation like OpenBSD, with minimal reliance on external tooling. Once you have the skills, they’ll transfer anywhere.

I run a real linux on my phone, so I can use it for anything I can use my laptop/desktop/unix for. I think what people forget is that phones are ultimately just computers with a WWAN radio, and the restrictive nature of Android and especially iOS obfuscate that.

And “illegal” means “business expense” at this stage of dystopia

Or even better, write userscripts that can be used anywhere instead of inside some non portable extensions framework

I’d like to see this “CEO of AI” stand on the same ground as the CEO of Sex

If you’re going to give GNOME shit, at least let it before how much they destroy portability of GTK, enabling cancer like Client Side Decorations, and ignoring their community when it comes to things like desktop icons.