Almost all the games I play are these random multiplayer games with friends. In my experience, proton is only a blocker around 5% of the time. I still have a windows partition for those times (and I always laugh when I boot it and am "welcomed" by their "Let's take a moment to configure windows" garbage).

Just saying, if you have the HDD space, I'd say give dual booting a shot. you'll probably be surprised how usable Linux is for gaming these days.

That was my position 5 years ago. For the last 3ish years I've been gaming on Linux with very few issues.

I'll be the first to say it's not perfect, but it's 100x better than it was 5 years ago. I'd say at least 70% of steam games just work when you hit play, 25% require a bit of configuring to get working, and only around 5% refuse to work at all.

Also, afaik, there's no reason for hobbyists to not always use lead-free solder. But of course that doesn't mean something you're taking apart used lead free.

The leaded solder melts easier than non-leaded. This is good because you are way less likely to burn off traces or melt the board using a lower temperature iron. I only use leaded solder because I suck at soldering.

Repairing an old device that used leaded solder is a reason to use leaded solder (even new leaded solder during the repair). I don't even use the same tips across leaded and lead-free solder.

I think pretty much all consumer electronics uses lead free solder for the last 10+ years. The reason hobby users tend to use leaded is it's much easier to work with and they don't care about health or the environment that much.

I think when you say "why do you need to ____?" you think you're saying "what are you trying to do, and maybe there's another way to accomplish that", but what everyone hears is "you're right".

And for the record, "because it's their device, not Google's" should be as good a reason as any.

Actually I'm just wondering specifically why the need to do any of those things. Isn't the phone just fine as a standalone thing? I mean other than maybe exporting photos, videos, or sound to a more powerful and easier to use platform (such as a desktop)...

This is like asking, "why do you need a touch screen or internet on a phone in the first place? Neither are needed to make phone calls. Isn't a phone just fine as a standalone thing?"

It's not 2005 anymore, a phone has all the computing power that most people need. In fact, most laptops are just phone boards these days. It's completely reasonable to ask that your hardware not be artificially limited by the software it's running so they can sell you a separate device that does the rest of what you need.

In a perfect world, my phone is a supercomputer capable of doing everything I'll ever want in a fraction of a second. And the thing standing between my current phone and a perfect phone shouldn't be my insistence on having a separate giant desktop taking up more space than is necessary.

I do the NYT crossword on my iPhone. Not uncommonly, someone will start kibitzing over my shoulder. If there's a TV nearby, I throw the app up there, either with AirPlay or an HDMI cable. Because it's an iPhone, the app can detect that it's mirrored to a big screen and give an alternate layout for that screen; the NYT crossword app does an average job of this, giving a layout optimized for large 16:9 landscape displays. Makes two people (or ten) working on a crossword together much more pleasant.

I'm not sure if this is a weird use case or not, but given the number of iPhone apps that I have both used and written that have special handling for TV mirroring to improve user experience... it can't be /that/ rare.

Have you ever used miracast with iPhone?

I have not.

As someone who has been running de-googled android for years, I don't identify with any of your complaints.

Good luck leaving that walled garden by going to apple.

There is nothing better than degoogled Android, or at least limiting google to some extent.

Why choose one evil over another? Sure Apple device is more convenient but "Privacy", that's Joke.

I get that people want convenience and feature but I would choose Google over Apple anyday, why? because it's not trying to lock me in.

what I'm hearing is that if I already have 5μg/dL, then I might as well get all 20.

I'm curious if someone could build a discord replacement on top of matrix, most importantly with voice chat and video streaming functionality. Discord is clearly focused on monetization at this point, the only changes happening now are ones that make your experience objectively worse. I've also been on Linux for a few years now and discord still doesn't support streaming game audio.

And before someone suggests it, I tried Revolt, and it's not there yet. The latest client (as of a few months ago) couldn't find my audio devices at all, and came with a big warning about how their audio backend was being completely rewritten, and what I was using was now legacy.

Absolutely. Element is already quite close to that, and once Element Call and native Matrix group VoIP matures more, hopefully it'll be even easier to converge on Discord's featureset.

Waiting for them to train an AI on Miyazaki's art/writing style and pump out a bunch of junk.

RIP Unity.

What activity are you referring to? Because this paper doesn't say that "cannabis use" is such an activity.