Schwim Dandy

Sorry, I missed where I stated that it mattered.

I would bet my last donut that the screwup has something to do with AI generating at least part of their email content.

I do play with it every once in a while but if it’s not problematic setting up or there are some settings that don’t work correctly, invariably, there will eventually come a game update that breaks it on linux.

For all it’s flaws, the games I play have never needed more than an install in Windows. I know that may not be the case for all games, I can only speak to the games I enjoy playing.

I have used it since the 90s as my main machine and have nothing but love for it but Linux is not there yet for my gaming needs.

As long as it continues to play my games without issue, I couldn’t care less what they do with it. I use a second machine with a KVM switch; Windows runs games only and the second machine running linux does absolutely everything else. Installing fresh, blocking telemetry and blackholing windows update domains has worked fantastically for years.

That was literally my point. The reason there’s no linux phone is because everyone keeps trying to work within Google’s ever-shittier restrictions instead of having made real progress on a linux phone alternative. Now everyone is staring down the barrel of a scenario where they lose their non-Google android phone and still the entities that are supposedly working for our privacy are writing letters to Google asking them to please not be such a corporate giant intent on serving ads and knowing the location of 100% of their OS users.

The linux phone landscape is so terrible because developers keep wasting their time trying to work with Google instead of offering an alternative that works.

As developers keep trying harder to appeal to Google’s kindness and not kill off privacy-based usage of it’s OS, we just keep falling further behind in creating a real-world usable linux phone that can do everything a phone is supposed to do.

Instead of writing a strongly worded letter to Google, EFF should have used this chance to let the community know that the boat is sinking and it’s long past time to jump ship.