Agreed

I think you are mostly right, but I have known a few people where it was more like them cosplaying as an asshole for the roleplay. Still, you’re right, if you legitimately see yourself as that, then wff

Now this one is interesting. What is your evidence?

Is this including Rise of Skywalker? I guess it’s been 7 years so I’m not sure.

Certainly controversial. On what grounds? Dystopian is just about the only box you can check here, and even that is pretty questionable. The Republic wasn’t great, but it worked mostly. The Empire did bad things, but was effective. in both cases they’re almost entirely avoidable if you want to fuck off to the Outer Rim or an abandoned planet.

There’s high tech, but I don’t see the “low life” part of it. Certainly not anything worse than any other genre. There is no focus on how the technology combined with authoritarianism or capitalism is making things worse for the average person. Not even the common trappings used in a different way, like Ai or body augmentation. Star Wars is ultimately hopeful and not cynical either. Destiny works out the way it always was going to.

In fact, Star Wars is much more of a fantasy in terms of genre, just set in space. The magic swordsmen, the unwavering devotion to the guidelines of the hero’s journey. “Why does it work that way/why does it look like that?” “Because it’s cool.” That’s how Star Wars works.

Cyberpunk is not “tech with some sort of rebellion in it”. The more I think about it the more I have no idea why you would say this.

I really liked Cuphead and beat it. But I just cannot do that again unless it is a bit easier. It took years off my life, harder than any Souls game and harder than most Nintendo hard 2D games from back in the day too.

Yeah this is my main thing. I miss it being an OPTION when I’m in that type of mood. I don’t need it to be industry standard. Could you imagine that for something like The Last of Us?

Is it bad if I say I don’t remember?

Good sign that it may be over soon.

PC with mods I’d say. i think they are doing a remake with both games but it’s been quiet on news for a while

The fun is the important part, so it is better. Not that you should play it without having played 1 though but that’s neither here nor there.

Git gud

Nah that’s a pretty common (and correct) take. Never email something you wouldn’t want to see come up in a court case. Secure email can limit exposure somewhat though. Unless it’s the government it may be impossible or at least harder to put things together about you from other email addresses. At the very least every email is not being scanned by Gemini and used to train it. And the more people that use privacy respecting email the more private it is.

You are correct, Obtanium has no automated signing process and App Verifier verified like one time for me.

Aurora Store used to not have it either but now it does so it’s a pretty easy recommend for me if you’re trying to ditch Play Store completely.

Graphene devs tend to recommend Play Store over F-Droid because Google does typically have A-1 security and that is their top priority. But not very good vetting apps as I mentioned, and tleven non malware has tons of trackers so I avoid Google’s repository if possible. Also many people on GrapheneOS obviously prefer to not have Play Services…

Nope

This is not correct, the only thing you can say against it is that the main repo builds from source & uses its own signing key instead of just hosting an apk and using the dev’s key. This means you have to trust F-Droid more than usual, but given their hard stance for all apps being FOSS and notating non free services, I trust them more than Google who has hosted straight up malware, or certainly more than downloading from a random Github with Obtanium with no automatic signing confirmation. It also gives somewhat of a guarantee that what is in the code is actually the only thing in the app. Also if the signing is an issue for you, there is always IzzyOnDroid or dev specific repositories that will still let you manage app updates through F-Droid or third party clients like Droid-ify.

Anything you can get through F-Droid is better. It’s more well put together, easier to set up than Obtanium, and auto updates work on GrapheneOS.

I personally find all the open source Open Street Maps based apps to be extremely lacking. 90% of the places I’d try to find aren’t there and for some. of them navigation was off too. I use Here We Go.

Good: No missing locations. Uses Trip Advisor for reviews. Database & navigation is good. Less features than Google but low bs. Privacy policy states that no personal user data is collected without consent, and is pretty short & sweet. Telemetry is opt in, though you can’t get traffic data without it. There is a toggle to run it entirely offline. There are buttons to delete history or delete all data collection taken. Based in the Netherlands. Owned mostly by German car manufacturers.

Bad: No search along route or Voice Assistant in Android Auto. Closed source. 2 trackers (Facebook login, Google Crashlytics, both optional though). Rarely any pictures. Requires you to download from the Play Store to use in Android Auto (no Aurora).

I use it for work stuff so I don’t have to cross contaminate devices or apps

I would say it gets more praise than hate. It is often recommended as a beginner friendly distro, which is why you get the backlash, because it hasn’t been in a rock solid position for a long time. It started off pretty promising, using a much more end user centric version of GNOME, which morphed into their own DE, Cosmic. But Cosmic took forever to come out, so GNOME nor the base version of Ubuntu Pop is based on were updated for multiple years. The Pop Shop was kind of garbage, though Cosmic shop is much better. Nowadays, Cosmic the DE is shipped by default but is barely out of alpha and thus has glitches. I do think Linus is a lying asshole who specifically planned to break the OS for more views, but it does have problems. Also it uses systemd-boot so you can’t dual boot from separate drives easily or have GRUB themes and stuff like that. They don’t have Secure Boot either. As much as that isn’t a HUGE issue, it seems like a significant oversight for such a popular distro.

Ultimately, Pop does a lot right by having a version bundled with Nvidia drivers, having macOS-like desktop that is intuitive by default, GUI focused with an app store, a good tiling manager, and possibility for customization. But it is a little bit frustrating to some people that it is so heavily recommended because it isn’t as stable as stable distros, and not as updated as rolling distros or just more modern distros like Fedora. A lot of distros do what Pop does but better, so why recommend it? Even with the extra features you get on a System76 machine and ease of use for non tech people having it preinstalled, Tuxedo does that better and cheaper even with import taxes being higher. Combined with the video glitching, selling this as one of the best new user friendly distro when it isn’t particularly true could cause people to bounce off Linux.

I don’t hate Pop or System76. I WANT to like and enjoy it because I respect their ethos behind the project and like the look and features. I just wish it was faster at fixing some of their issues. People have been saying “Pop is going to be the next big thing once they do xyz” for 5-6 years ATP. They really need to hire more devs or make the project more community ran.