Everett

• “excluding the Covid period”, this is purposeful sensationalism. Even the first paragraph of the article admits the title is misleading.

Although federated social media has the “chicken or egg” problem with content and attracting users, I’m content with places like Lemmy and Mastodon staying the small size they are right now for a little longer.

Sure, I definitely miss content from other platforms from time to time. But I think your comment about businesses and celebrities rings true. I’m happy to be clear of the grifters and influencers for as long as possible.

Stellaris isn’t awful on deck, but it would be nice to have the console controller layout that ships with the XBox edition.

Everyone knows you need to pay for YouTube Premium-Pro-Plus if you don’t want to see ads. Only 69.99 per month week.

Given the ridiculously low prices of all Steam Deck models, I imagine that the main revenue for Valve is mainly from increased game sales rather than profit from their hardware. If that’s the case, it makes sense to see Steam OS on as many devices as possible, even if they compete directly with the Steam Deck.

That being said, I’m just excited by any decision that puts Linux in front of more users.

The nice thing about limiting my social media presence to Lemmy and Mastodon is that I haven’t seen their marketing slop anywhere.

I’d recommend everyone to buy a Kobo over these, it’s much easier to read your own .pdf and .epub files than on a Kindle.