The postmarketOS wiki has info for specific devices, but also an article on installing the generic Snapdragon 865 845 build of the OS on any device with that chip, of which there are numerous, many without extensive support. That might be a starting point?

It uses JIT methods to swap dudes in as needed. Now we just have to find the mean jerk time

As another user said, typographers still exist. And, until now, computers weren’t really a threat to their job security. They were just a new set of tools they had to adapt to. But, if I was running a business and had little regard for ethics, why would I hire a typographer when I could just ask an AI to generate a new font for my billboard, and have it done in 30 seconds for free?

I get the argument that AI is a tool that lowers the barrier of entry to certain fields, which is absolutely true. If I wanted to be a graphic designer today, I could do it with AI. But, when I went to sell my logo to the small company down the street, I’d have to come to terms with the fact that the owner of that business also happened to become a graphic designer that very morning, and all of a sudden my career is over before it started.

This really depends on what you consider “progress”. Some forms of AI are neat pieces of tech, there’s no denying that. However, all I’ve really seen them do in an industrial sense is shrink workforces to save a buck via automation, and produce a noticably worse product.

That quality is sure to improve, but what won’t change is the fact that real humans with skill and talent are out of a job because of a fancy piece of software. I personally don’t think of that as progress, but that’s just me.

As someone in my 20s who grew up on Windows XP era games, then lots of PS3 games, I’m very attuned to latency. My computer was lower mid-teir at best, and the performance standards for console games were nowhere near what they are today, so the first time I played a game on a high performance machine at 100+FPS/Hz refresh rate, it was like seeing color for the first time.

Considering I payed to play those campaigns, not watch them on YouTube, I’ll just save my time. Warframe has scratched the Destiny itch for me in recent years while also respecting me as a customer

From what I remember, this started as a solo dev’s passion project, and he refused most help fearing it could compromise his vision. Unfortunately it got to the point where development slowed and I beleive even stopped completely for a time. I’m not sure if he ended up overwhelmed, or maybe just got bored or ran out of funds, or maybe a combo of those, but a couple years back he decided to bring in a few more people to share the burden and finally get the project finished.

Does this mean that sunsetted content can be played again (ie the original campaign)? If so I would mayhe consider getting back into it. Otherwise I still have no interest in returning

Can’t believe you didn’t mention AmogOS

In my experience of maintaining Arch, it’s as simple as:

-Keep your packages up to date -Keep your mirrorlist up to date -install a package called “pacdiff” and run it after every update (certain config files need to be manually replaced/updated after system updates, pacdiff handles this for you. This actually includes your mirrorlist).

Anything else really just boils down to individual issues with packages which could happen on any distro, or really and OS in general. As another user said, if you got Arch installed as a newer Linux user, you’re already doing well.

Been running the same Arch installation for a bit over a year. Minor issues here and there, but nothing out of the ordinary for general computer use.

Learning was hard. I’d say it took me a good year before I was really genuinely comfortable with Linux overall, and even then, it was quite a while longer before I felt I could call myself experienced or proficient.

I will say this, switching to AMD was a massive step up in terms of reliability. Also, and this is just my experience, but as someone who also started on Ubuntu, I’ve had far fewer weird obscure issues on Arch than on that, or any other distro I’ve tried. It’s daunting, but it’s so well documented that it’s almost impossible to have an issue with no known fix.

Seconding for SWAT4. It’s available on GOG and still has an active modding community. Imo the AI is better in this game than in Ready or Not, although RoN is certainly more visceral overall.

You can get the earlier Arma games up to A2 on disc which afaik don’t require steam, they run from their own launchers. Arma 3 has a physical edition as well, but during activation you have to link to Steam.

I’ve since sold my Quest 2, but when I had it I was able to play my entire SteamVR library via ALVR at *comparable performance to Windows. Elite Dangerous, modded Boneworks, the whole nine yards.

*Definitely not 1-1 with Windows, but easily at 85%+ of the performance. It does require some tweaking of your settings, and definitely benefits from a snappy network setup (wireless was basically not an option for me due to my housing/wifi situation, but the link cable worked great and was even easier to set up).

This. My main rig runs arch and I do my heavy gaming there, but for travel I have a laptop running Debian, it has no problem running Steam and games via Proton. I’ve also done some light coding, even a bit of 3D modeling. It’s not basic, it’s bulletproof.

I would love to see a Palworld update that changes the balls to cubes. Same animations and effects, same textures, just stretched over a cube.

There’s definitely something special about that era of games. The community would really shine and make creative stuff with relatively limited tech.

https://youtube.com/@excavation_goldsrc

This is the mod that’s blown me away the most. They somehow made the limitations of the Goldsource engine look stylish, all the while having some incredible animations and model design. Unfortunately development is temporarily paused but hopefully they pick it up again soon.

Whats funny is that most 20 year old multiplayer games today (at least on PC) are still perfectly playable because the server tech was given to the community, at launch. Battlefield 2 hasn’t been available for purchase anywhere officially in well over a decade, there’s still a dedicated, albiet small community.

I understand that with large, persistent worlds, it’s hard to release that server tech, but at least some form of it should be published. Ie, a smaller variant that maybe just lets a couple people join up as a co-op party, rather than dozens of people running around a large map at random, like in The Crew.

Ive seen some genuinely impressive GoldSource mods pop up in recent years.

I didn’t mean to imply it was a 1-1 comparison. I just used it as an example of a situation where a person or group of people were taking part in something really terrible, and were talked out of it by someone who was actually willing to take the time, and put in the effort. It can work. Not saying it always will in every situation, but it can.