Thanks, you typed more than I was going to :)

Only note is FEX and the Android compatibility layer were two separate goals Valve put a lot of work into, so I wouldn’t classify it as a side-effect.

One is to allow Windows games to work on the Frame, the other is to allow Android games to work on the Frame

FEX is to allow running x86 programs on ARM, but they’re only targeting the Steam Frame (SteamOS/Arch Linux) right now.

That VR headset uses a processor similar to phones, but they have not announced anything about moving to using these tools to allow you to play Windows games on Android

There are several moving pieces, so I understand the confusion

I would call it Android emulator for Linux.

The point is to be able to install and run an Android APK on SteamOS (which runs Arch Linux)

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No, other way around, Steam Frame runs Linux.

The Meta Quest VR headset runs Android, so Valve has worked on an emulation layer for Android games on Linux, ideally allowing developers to just release current Meta Quest games on their headset.

You see it all the time in Disney animations, Pixar animations, you see it with sprites being the same for clouds and bushes in Mario…

I don’t really see an issue with asset reuse, as long as the actions make sense in the new context

The 99 pricing messes with me the other way…

I see like 399, and think it’s 400. Then when I think about whether I want it later, I remember the 4 and the 99 and believe it costs 500

Osmand~ and CoMaps (fork of Organic Maps) use the same map data, but different rendering/routing engines.

Osmand~ is everything and the kitchen sink. Any feature you can think of, it probably has

CoMaps is just the basics for 85% of people. It’s much simpler, its map drawing is much faster (no lag while waiting for tiles/branches/labels like Osmand), and much faster on-device routing than Osmand.

Forgejo is a fork of gitea, because gitea was heading to the GitLab model

Google also didn’t release the source for the 10, so I’d expect the support to always be subpar compared to the previous models

$180 * 1.55 = $279

Is the way they’re calculating it

The (most expensive) Qualcomm part is 55% more expensive than the (cheapest) MediaTek part

343 needs to go back and rewatch the VODs Bungie put out explaining their weapons triangle, and the reason for shields and armor

Frets on Fire is the one I knew of back when Guitar hero was at its peak

That is part of the genre, yeah.

They’re procedurally generated within a range of possible effects and damage based off the “manufacturer” in-game

You’ll end up finding one you really like and using it for like 5 levels, while selling other loot, until you find one that jives more with your play style and is more powerful than your current loadout

Even with the PS4, the bluray couldn’t play the game.

It had to install to the internal drive and download updates

I switched to quad9 private DNS and turned private DNS off, both in a private tab of Fennec - same results

It sounds Fennec F-Droid specific, somehow.

Reports here are saying the official Firefox build works fine: https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/issues/134

It also seems to affect certain extensions

Looks like a reported issue

https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/issues/134

I’m seeing what sounds like the same issue.

Based off your comment on extensions, I just disabled all extensions, and the problem went away.

If I enable any extension, it breaks again…

So to me it seems like a bug with the extension system

Edit: tested with Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, and NoScript

Edit2: Fennec F-Droid build #1420020; Android 16 (GrapheneOS 2025081400)

Edit3: Found a bug report about it: https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/issues/134

That’s why all of the major players have been frothing at the mouth to get rid of discs

How many of the ~6,818 titles now disclosing generative AI use were already on Steam in 2024?

I.E. are a lot of these just games that had already been released, updating their disclosure statements based on Valve’s new rules?

The article says 1/5 games released this year use it. I’m not sure if ~34,000 games have released on Steam in the last year

For unplayable, Rocket League had very good Linux and macos native builds. Epic required them to delete support for those operating systems as part of the acquisition of Psyonix

When they buy publishers, they had them actively remove Linux support, such as Rocket League

Wow. This opengoal project is so cool!

You made me dig through old boxes to find my Jak games. I know what I’m doing this weekend :)

I see some apps there that are also in F-Droid

Is there a big benefit to Obtanium for apps that are also released there? My understanding is that Obtanium doesn’t do any key verification of APKs, so I’ve only used it as a last resort

I have fond memories of playing it as a comedy game back when the Radeon RX 480 came out

There was a bug with the shaders in this game, so all the walls and many floors were rainbows 😂

All of the security features mentioned in the article even started from work done by GrapheneOS - they’re simply upstreamed now

My assumption is baseball

AAA is the best you can get in minor leagues before you move to the major leagues

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-A_(baseball)

eSIM requires proprietary google services to activate, so if you’re planning on messing with ROMs I find physical to be easier

It doesn’t have to, but GrapheneOS is designed around security first, privacy second, and usability third

If you install Fennec browser on it and open, e.g., https://www.learningcontainer.com/download/sample-pdf-file-for-testing/?wpdmdl=1566&refresh=6697dcd62a0141721228502

The PDF will display inside Firefox

The default web browser on GrapheneOS, Vanadium, doesn’t parse PDF’s (they’re an incredibly insecure format) and passes them off to a sandboxed, hardened app specifically for that usecase

This allows rejecting more permissions than doing it in the same process

Apple’s using Qualcomm modems, and the complaint seems to be around the modem

If Wolfire kept up Humble Indie Bundle instead of it being sold to IGN and losing any semblance of “indie” I’d take the complaint more seriously

I do really like Lugaru, but still

Netflix is limited to 720p on Linux due to the DRM they use… maybe OP was confused because of that?

For real, if that game was Sundberg with his arms tied behind his back, I really want to see the original vision

Are the on-device pinyin keyboards unusably bad at typing?

I know it’s complex to get the right meaning with the English alphabet, but I’m surprised at cloud-based keyboards

“Generic system images”

Since device manufacturers don’t support their hardware, Google has tried adding another layer of abstraction between hardware and the Android UI

What? The kernel only implements HCI - a way to talk to hardware

The Bluetooth stack and its protocols are implemented in BlueZ or on Android in Gabeldorsche

Google blocking RCS after their complaints about Apple not supporting their standard is really funny, but why CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 in this case?

The Google Messages app is Google Proprietary as is their server implementation for RCS

SteamOS is already open source, and they’ve even offered to help other integrators put it on their handhelds

If this is what you’re talking about, it already has the APK built on GitHub:

https://github.com/cylonid/NativeAlphaForAndroid