If so I’m all in

Haha, so you move from one bad decision to another? Being stuck at a lousy cloud company? Oh my!

I explicitly bought an AMD CPU and GPU and did not have any trouble with both of them ever since

I like transparent terminals and vsync. That’s my only reason for picom

My setup is 4k on two displays. The Intel GPU can’t handle them on 60Hz I guess. There is a thinkpad dock involved as well, so I think I’m stuck with HDMI and the dedicated gpu. I tried a lot of things :/

I’d love to run hybrid graphics with free drivers, don’t get me wrong.

I also love running steam games and video acceleration and with my previous setup it was mostly unstable. My current setup just works, with minor effects like reduced battery times and picom bugs.

I use Google with modifiers like plus and minus, quotation marks and most importantly with uBlocklist. This way I can hide seo bullshit with a single click

I use i3 on a thinkpad p50 with hybrid graphics (Intel + nvidia). Works sort of stable if I force the use of the dedicated card, but I’m getting like 1,5h of battery.

Video acceleration seems to work most of the times, but for a few weeks I have problems with picom freezing my screen, capping fps in games and video. Any ideas? It took me hours to have it running sort of smooth, so I’m hesitant to try out sway and ruin my daily setup

Devices will be outdated anyways. But the steam deck you don’t have to hack. You just enable things with touch buttons.

Valve learned from other consoles they get hacked anyways, so they enabled you to do all the mods - while at the same time you won’t have to fiddle with pirated games for a fee. Personally I don’t think this strategy will change - and if they release a more closed steam decknin the future piracy is an option again. On another device then.

It is possible but for things like a steam deck you just move on to the next store or piracy. It’s so open you get trapped by convenience not by encryption or premium features.

My 2008 brother laser printer for ~80€ is still doing great. A replacement toner is like 17€ or so. It just works.

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You may have a look at places like xda-developers forum to find out about the support your phone has. Some devices are hard to run custom ROMs on. If the support is good there’s nothing in the way to use it reliably on a daily basis

If you’d install something like lineageOS you might be better off, because your phone doesn’t have to run all the bloatware Samsung ships with their devices. Some nice features of the device may not work then, though. I run custom roms on all my android devices.

Not the onion - but the tomato badumtiss

I don’t care about that, but its an image of a flipping person…

I like the fact a lot that the image is hosted at imgflip

Although this seems to be an excellent tip (thanks), this sounded very USA to me.

Same shit, different corporation. They established sort of a monopoly by lower prices and venture capital. Now they start to collect large amounts of money and go down.

Some of them are not underrated, but I’d just share my favorites…

• AntennaPod for podcasts.
• Aurora Store if you need some Google apps to be updated.
• Binary Eye is a nice and slim qr code scanner and generator.
• CriticalMaps is a good tool if you’re into critical mass events.
• GadgetBridge can be a companion app for your smartwatch (if you have the right one).
• GPS logger just logs your position in an interval you can set. I use it to track my movement in 30min bits.
• GymRoutines is a privacy friendly gym exercise app with a database of your progress.
• K9 mail (soon to be rebranded as Thunderbird mobile) is a powerful mail app.
• KeePassDX is an android password manager compatible with keepass files.
• LibreTorrent is a nice way to torrent your favorite linux distros while on the go.
• Location Map Viewer I use with the gpx files I get from GPS logger to visualize my movements.
• mpv just plays a lot of media without being a bloated thing like vlc. I use mpv for videos, vlc for music.
• NewPipeSponsorblock is available in a custom repo only.
• Ning is a nice way to get an overview over a local network.
• OpenTracks can be used in combination with GadgetBridge to record your sports with gps.
• OSMand gives you a frontend for using openstreetmap with offline maps, navigation and more.
• PDF Doc Scan is my way to digitalize important letters as a pdf on the go.
• StreetComplete is a gamificated way to fill in missing things in openstreetmap. it’s fun.
• Syncthing-Fork (important to use the fork) is a file sync tool I use to backup a lot of my phones folders to a pc.
• Tusky is my favorite way to browse mastodon.
• VLC is a powerful media player (I then use only to shuffle through my mp3s).