It’s all about friction. As long as the user has to pick an instance they will always hesitate to pick any federated service. The average user will always choose the path of least resistance.

Proprietary services spend a lot of time trying to reduce friction, and it works.

The only solution I can think of would be a three part one:

1. The main app of a federated service automatically rotates between a pool or reliable, reputable, non-extremist instances where the user can log in with an email and password.
2. The federated service makes it trivial to migrate accounts amongst instances.
3. the user can log into their instance threw any other instance perhaps threw oauth.

This would of course require some federated account login system. Hard but not impossible. It could be some sort of Casandra style ring based account service where nodes are part of the ring.

This eliminates the new user friction.

1. Download app
2. Sign up
3. Login

It works anywhere any time with corpo style low friction. You don’t need to think about instances at all till you are ready to.

That’s where choosing a community driven operating system comes in. If the provider of the security patches abuses their position the answer is not to drop security. Rather switching providers is the solution.

For anyone reading this, this is terrible advice. The most important that you can do to keep your windows (if you insist on windows) computer secure is to keep it up to date.

This applies for any operating system. Security flaws are constantly being discovered and the security updates are those flaws being fixed.

It’s an older study but the thing security experts said was most important was installing security updates in a prompt manner.

The thing non experts said was important was having an antivirus.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/security-experts-vs-non-experts,29665.html

Because the AI companies will just offer to buy at a higher price.

If you refuse to sell to AI companies you will make a small fortune yes. If you sell to the highest bidder you’ll make a larger fortune.

The bios flaw they were exploring was the bios having flawed anti DMA protections.

From the article

According to the company, the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU), which protects system RAM from Direct Memory Access (DMA) devices, is not fully initializing upon boot in some motherboard models. This means that even though the BIOS might indicate that Pre-Boot DMA Protection is active, it’s not actually protecting the entire system.

Bad news there. Both Nvidia and AMD focus first on ML now days. As a side effect GPUs continue to be able to do raster stuff.

AMDs upcoming UDNA is all about repurposing their better AI focused pipeline. Nvidia has been selling defective (binned) AI GPUs as gaming GPUs for years. They make the ML focused GPU, and if it has too many defects they turn it into a xx90/xx80/dx70 etc.

After you edited it, it is more clear now. You should have phrased it that way to begin with.

Because saving video games and stopping the killing of children are mutually exclusive???

If you are ok with a 4-5 hour battery life then this should work. They all have Linux clients. The problem is that there is no notification infrastructure. The phone just runs like a desktop the whole time. If you sleep the phone you don’t get alerts.

People do but it’s Android. They asked for a non iOS non Android system.

Good luck with finding an alternative. I tried running a Pinephone Pro with Linux and it was just too buggy to use.

If your current phone lasts 4 more years it might be ok software wise but good god is it bad now.

Civ 6 should perform quite well on your new CPU.

Also strong recommend for Satisfactory.

Fair, Satisfactory is a lot heavier on the hardware for sure. But it’s a first person 3D game with a much bigger emphasis on beauty.

I find top down to be less interesting. I like to build factories in 3D with many vertical manufacturing layers in addition to spreading out horizontally. I think 3D factories is a more fun challenge. To each their own though. They’re both interesting games.

Strong recommend for Satisfactory. It’s first person factorio but in a beautiful world that isn’t all brown.

Personally I think it’s better.

The leaks say it’s not even taped out. So minimum late 2025 or 2026 or never sadly.

As an A770 owner I wish I had better news.

Back in the days of windows xp and Alcohol 120% it didn’t. I remember having like 12 virtual disk drives each with an independent iso just to avoid swapping disks.

On Linux VA-API works really well for AMD video encoding. I have a small home server with an AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and my experience has been excellent.

The only downside is that some companies decided hardware decoding violated some patent and disabled hardware encoding in the default va-api package. You just need to switch to the freeworld version of va-api and everything works well.

Do you really want the standard of life to be a halo 2 lobby? Halo 2 lobbies were full of bigotry of all types. We can and do, do better.

Slightly off topic here, but the most “grown up” way to play “grown up” games is to just play what you want and not care about what people think.

If you like Minecraft stick with it. Or just play any other games you enjoy. Only kids care what their peers think of the games they play.

I would actually bet that emulating a PS4 would be easier compared to the PS3. You would be emulating x86_64 on top of x86_64 instead of PPC/Cell on top of x86_64.