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There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.
  • You can probably encase a Raspberry PI with a battery and a touch screen, micro SD cards can go much higher than 16, and install Linux. Keep in mind that the Linux touch UIs aren't really great imo, the best experience I've had so far is the steam deck.

  • Simple and de-facto way to encrypt files and directories in Linux
  • I've been using gocryptfs now for a few years and it works fine as you describe.

    You initiate the encrypted folder, set up automatic backups for it. Then whenever you want to access it you mount it into another folder.

    There is a distinction here between the permanently encrypted folder that you can upload backup whatever, and your temporary mount, unencrypted folder.

    If you're alright with the rare conflicts to fix yourself something like syncthing works well for this setup even across computers.

  • Ferocious Pursuit
  • Is it possible to generate this kind of funny image with your own face already? I know that there's all the deepfake type stuff people do but I assume with an image generator you get better quality.

    This might be obvious but I'm very out of the loop on image generation

  • Discussion: Do you donate financially to any OSS projects?
  • Yes I have setup recurring donations for some projects that really do ease up and save me so much time, although I don't think that this should be the way to keep OSS projects alive at the end of day.

    If we let it companies will outsource this responsibility to us, even when often in the current economy they are the biggest profiteers from OSS and adjacent projects.

    I donate to neovim and endeavour os, I would also donate to awesome / whatever tiling manager I currently use as it just saves me so much time (and literal pain in my case by reducing the use of the mouse).

    These people are doing great job in maintaining systems that are easy to use, fast and very customizable, making actually using my computer enjoyable as opposed to the slow, non accessible, bloated UIs from other OSs

  • Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧📈
  • I play StarCraft II regularly, have played Diablo IV and just started WarCraft 3 recently, all without any issues. All you need is proton or install steam and add a non-steam game.

  • Rust from a Scala perspective
  • Iam curious what features do you find missing in rust that the scala ecosystem has? Is it FP specific systems like cats? I know I've already seen what seemed like a decent actor system

  • Linux holds a market share of approximately 14% in India.
  • Do you have any interest in relocating outside India? You seem to have a good domain of English and softskills on top of some Linux. I wouldn't mind taking a look at the personal projects you mention

  • Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly
  • Also adding to other people, they "poached" games from other platforms.

    eg they wanted Rocket League, which I have on Steam and am happy to continue using there, to be completely removed from my account and available through the epic launcher some 3(?) years after I first bought it. Eventually they backpedaled, only due to community backlash, people that owned it on steam can still play it there.

    If you're serious about not knowing about all this stuff take a look at https://steamcommunity.com/groups/EpicGamesSucks/discussions/0/1796278072844560561/ Obviously Steam biased, but a very good index

  • can we please keep this community about technology and not Twitter/X and elon news?
  • I think that this is doable for most of the normal population (and likely not novel (which does not diminish its value)) with public private crypto and some authority (eg government issued ids having keys like Portugal) and then using those to authenticate to a service that allows specifically what you want to share. So normally you'd only ever share say age or something

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