I just got my passport photo taken on Monday at Walgreen's and uploaded the emailed copy to the online renewal form. It was denied for being too zoomed in. Ugh! Why do they change the photo requirements for the online form?
No, that goes against the spirit of open source and will further hurt Linux gaming outside of the Deck. The Deck has been a huge boon to the Linux gaming community at large because it sticks to a basic Arch Linux core for the most part. Don't segregate the Linux gaming community, instead force the shitty spyware companies to not embed their shitware deep into the kernel.
It's not just 32 on 64 bit, new Macs use ARM64 processors so x86/x86_64 code is effectively obsolete on Mac. I would love to see Valve pour resources into a cross platform x86 on ARM64 emulation layer though, it would benefit Linux as well.
AOSP and even factory kernel source tends to be only mildly useful for proper Linux phone use. Android phones tend to ship with old kernel revisions that the chip maker forked a long time ago and developed their chip drovers on without following accepted kernel conventions or submitting any code to the actual kernel maintainers for proper review and integration into the most up to date "mainline" kernel. Due to this, and the fact that phone makers need to constantly ship new products out the door, the quality of this code added into the old kernel is often garbage, poorly commented and with no documentation. Usually no git history either.
There are other teams of people trying to clean up and/or rewrite these drivers from scratch in a way that is reviewable and acceptable in mainline. Only a small handful of the vast number of phone chips have such support, so proper Linux phone is limited to a small selection of hardware. The designed-for-Linux librem and PinePhone models intentionally chose old chipsets because these chipsets had good mainline support and thus could receive actual kernel updates rather than being stuck forever on an ancient kernel release from the manufacturer that has long since been abandoned.
Lately the Qualcomm Snapdragon SDM845 chip is seeing growing mainline Linux support and quickly becoming one of the most viable chips for mobile Linux that isn't a complete dinosaur in terms of performance and power draw. The OnePlus 6 and 6T, which both use the SDM845 chip, have become quite popular as Linux phones now despite not yet having VoLTE and thus being useless for calls. I carry a OnePlus 6T as a secondary non-phone pocket PC because the Linux experience is very good other than the lack of phone and camera functionality. It's fast and can do all my terminal and coding stuff as well as run full fledged web browsers well.
Lemmy is guilty of this too. I have a giant 4K monitor, why is all the content squashed into a teeny tiny sub-1000 pixel column in the middle of a sea of white? There is no reason I should ever have to scroll on a 4K screen to see a standard Lemmy homepage. Old Reddit got this right (same with mlmym) but default Lemmy UI needs the option to stretch. I have a userstyle installed that does this but it's not perfect.
More like Disney releasing Mickey Mouse fan art without crediting the artist.
The OnePlus 6T outperforms the PinePhone Pro by quite a bit. The OnePlus 6T is actually a pretty good Linux phone these days with postmarketOS. I picked one up to use as a Linux phone (as well as a OnePlus 6 now, but that one's running Android). I used the PinePhone for about a year, the PinePhone Pro for about a year, and now I've been using the OnePlus 6T as my daily driver for 6 months or so. I ended up getting the OnePlus 6 (non-T) and leaving it as an Android phone though, picking up a second SIM card because I had call audio issues on both Linux phones so I told people to just call me on my Android number. I still mainly use the Linux phone for everything else because the software ecosystem works so much better for me.
Pros of OnePlus 6T:
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Much better battery life (can last most of a day with screen off)
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Much better performance
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Much better GPU - Full OpenGL and Vulkan support on the OP6T
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Much lower power consumption (doesn't get anywhere near as hot)
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Louder speaker
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Better Bluetooth (my BT headphones lag to an unusable degree on the PinePhone and PinePhone Pro when there are other devices around, but are usable on the OnePlus 6T)
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Higher resolution, brighter, OLED screen
Cons of OnePlus 6T
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Bootloader is proprietary and cannot be replaced
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Android boot and partition scheme
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Call audio doesn't work reliably, sometimes calls will have no sound
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Modem doesn't receive calls unless it is forced to 2G mode, which limits Internet speed (texts seem fine though) likely due to missing VoLTE
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Sensors (rotation, ambient light, etc) require testing an open merge request at the moment, but it does work
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No USB host mode support (software/driver limitation)
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No external display support (apparently hardware limitation)
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No headphone jack (the OnePlus 6 does have it though)
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No SD card slot
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No removable battery
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Cameras don't work at all
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No keyboard case option
Pros of PinePhone Pro
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Better Linux support overall
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More OS choices
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More bootloader choices, which include completely open options
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SD card slot
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Headphone jack
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Removable battery
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Keyboard case option
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Cameras work to a degree
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Much more repairable
Cons of PinePhone Pro
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Eats battery like no other phone I've ever used, the keyboard case is almost a must-have just for usable battery life
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Gets quite hot while eating battery
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Lacks more modern OpenGL versions, Vulkan support
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Modem has a tendency to disconnect and reconnect occasionally, even with open source modem firmware
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Call audio can have some static or distortion, especially on your end (the microphone)
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Keyboard case makes using it as a phone cumbersome
It's a DRM-free game so I don't see why not. When the pirated copy is literally the same file as the Steam copy it makes sense that it would work.
Also their leader is a monkey who escaped from the moon.
Most webcams use USB UVC protocol which is supported on Linux. I have a Logitech Brio 4K webcam I use for doing YouTube videos (with OBS) and I have some cheaper Redragon webcam I use for video calls. Both work great. I also just picked up a 4K HDMI USB capture device that also uses UVC and it works just fine as well.
For graphics card, AMD is best. Intel is getting there as well. NVIDIA works but the drivers are proprietary, out of kernel, outside of Mesa, and painful to maintain. Do not recomment NVIDIA. I personally use an Intel Arc A770 in my main PC and it works fine for the games I play EXCEPT that Yuzu emulator runs like absolute crap with it, so this past week I swapped it out for my older AMD RX580 to play TOTK at 60fps.
Maybe for the people who just migrated after the API shutdown. We all already held our poop for 3 days a few weeks back.
Mozilla sold out a long time ago, they are nothing like they used to be. Everyone should be ditching Firefox for forks if possible. Yes, Firefox is still miles ahead of anything Chromium-based but we can't trust Mozilla to not screw over their users anymore (and it's been apparent for YEARS...Pocket, "Sponsored" shortcuts and links, Mozilla VPN popup ads, this behavior is hardly new). What can we trust? Firefox forks with the bullshit stripped out, mostly. I've been using LibreWolf for several years on my Linux, Windows, and MacOS systems now. I originally switched because of the Mozilla VPN popups but at the time, complaining about those popups was met with a bunch of Mozilla apologists going "it's not that bad" "they're a big company and they need their precious monies"...no. That was ADVERTISING front and center, and it was in Firefox years ago. So was Pocket. So was having Amazon links auto-filled on the new tab shortcuts. Go to something that isn't run by money. Go to a community-maintained and sanitized fork.