Dunno, realisticly speaking it is a slightly cheaper 7600, hardly a market shake-up.

No, that divide isn’t political. Its about utilitarianism.

The side you are opposed to cares more about getting many people “good enough” privacy, than getting the best possible privacy for a few while alienating most other people.

This is a common setup for WiFi routers, where the idea is that most traffic will be on WiFi.

Apple also runs an ad business these days and their devices collect more types of data than stock Android does. And contrary to many Android phones there is very little you can do against that in Apple devices.

The default Android on them is pretty standard including Google Play services, so it is not great in regards to privacy (but could be worse, like a Apple or so).

But for most of their models you can find good alternative Android roms or even mobile Linux distributions like PostmarketOS.

Nuclear launch detected.

Should be no problem with Heroic Games Launcher then.

Signal as a centralized meta-data honeypot.

The people behind this are bitcoin shills.

CEO of Nvidia. FU Nvidia!

Movim actually predates the creation of ActivityPub (and its precursor protocols) and back then XMPP was the popular choice, even Twitter experimented with running their service on an XMPP backend. But despite its age, Movim has kept up with the times quite well (as did XMPP in general).

https://mov.im/ or another instance from https://join.movim.eu/

Runs the https://movim.eu/ open-source software.

Federates via XMPP.

https://write.as/

Which runs this open-source software: https://writefreely.org/

Federates via ActivityPub.

SimpleX is not suitable for larger group chats.

XMPP has a few quite popular privacy related public channels: https://search.jabber.network/search?q=privacy

(For those unaware: xmpp participant counts are actively connected users, not like Matrix or Discord that counts who ever joined the room years ago and never came back).

Hmm, that doesn’t sound like my issue. As soon as I turn on SteamVR the sound goes haywire. I can still use other headphones fine without any issue, but the built in ones have distorted sound with SteamVR running (but not when I turn that off).

No problems with the built in headphones? I can’t get them to sound right… there seems to be some sort of samplerate shift as soon as I start SteamVR with my HTC Vive Pro.

Ah, I was hoping to hear about experiences with the PSVR2 on Linux. Too bad it doesn’t fully work yet. But that it is only a problem with the app might mean Monado support is possible.

Yeah, Occulus and Linux are not the best friends. There are some work arounds to make it somewhat work with SteamVR, but don’t expect too much.

My recommendation would be to look for a second hand Valve Index or HTC Vive if using it on Linux is your priority.

Or wait for the rumored new standalone headset from Valve, but that will probably not happen before end of 2025 if at all.

I wonder if their recent bid to take over Intel, is related.

The irony would be very thik as Qualcomm played a big role in killing Intel’s 2010er efforts to enter the mobile sector.

It would be ok, but a bit lonely, no?

Better look into Snikket.