These people are missing out on arm gains.
I’ve got a phone holder that attaches to my Steam Deck so I can watch movies while gaming. So the combined contraption is the Deck+S23 Ultra+the holder mechanism. I’ll easily hold and play this for over an hour when I take my kids to an indoor play area.
You gotta work for the gains you sissies.
Strapping a card to the back of your phone is really the easiest alternative.
I would be surprised if this mattered, but I don’t know for sure. The more serious problem would be if your sent emails get caught in their spam filter.
Wife approval factor
My wife won’t use it if she can’t see an app for it to click on to start using immediately. Going through browsers is not an option. Not having a dedicated app on the LG TV is not an option. Not being able to find something instantly means instant rejection. She refused Plex, but now sometimes uses it and has learnt to find subtitles, etc by herself.
I don’t touch my self hosted apps. If something doesn’t behave properly on the first attempt then it gets rejected from our household. It’s only for us enthusiast nerds to put up with kanky UI and setup issues for the sake of superior functionality. Normie’s won’t tolerate it.
Thanks for the heads up. The next challenge is finding anything of value on the platform.
Research by Pringles? 🤨
Maybe then it will be the year of Linux.
Tumbleweed brotherhood ✊
It doesn’t get used or recommended enough.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/btw-i-use-arch
You may think you’re new…but clearly you have the spirit of a Linux veteran.
The Steam Deck was the reason I changed. Used the Deck as my only PC for a couple of months and liked the experience so I changed.
I’ve had OpenSUSE on my PC for over a year now and really like it… But I’ll be honest, the move and troubleshooting problems for setup was a pain in the ass. But it’s stable and steady since I’ve gotten over setup pains.
Didn’t the LTT YouTube channel do this and show the system still works?
Not to say that you should do this though.
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”
You could use terminal for everything, but first you must learn to use terminal.
Everything seems critical when you haven’t tried living without. Meat eaters can’t comprehend living without meat. Car drivers can’t imagine living without cars.
I wondered how people pass their time without phones. Then my autistic son started demanding holding onto my phone for every waking minute he is not at school. Now I spend my day without the phone.
Now that YouTube has stopped working on NewPipe, I’ve stopped watching it…and it felt a bit uncomfortable to miss my videos before bed, but now it’s not a big deal. None of these things are critical. There’s a near infinite world of choices available to us now. We just need to pick something else.
Good. This is how YouTube dies. This is how Google dies. This is how competitors/alternatives are born. Stop fighting to make Google services useable against every effort of theirs. Let them drive people away to make (or discover) alternatives.
All news sites should be consumed via RSS. Their front pages are the equivalent of social media algorithms and you only see what they want to show you. When you use RSS you get a list of news in time order and see news stories you would never see on their website because of how fast they drop it from their front page and bury it in menus.