I mean yeah, but a native solution would be significantly more pleasant. I honestly don’t care for the Steam Frame’s standalone qualities at all, so taking those losses on the convenience of a traditional PCVR headset would be unpleasant.

I’m curious, can you access your PC via the Steam Frame, or just stream games specifically? Like, say I wanna mod a game, can I deal with the modding client and such on my PC via the in-VR menu like on my Index, or do I need to go to my PC for that and use the passthrough? Similarly, can you use it with your PC while in a voice call, or do you need to install the voice call application on the frame itself?

Or in other words, is it only possible to use as an entirely separate device that can exclusively stream games via Steam’s streaming feature, or can you couple it with your PC more directly, like a wired HMD?

Hardly the point though. For us this is a bother at most, but we can cope because we’re already doing our own thing and know what we want. Imagine trying to get your non tech-savvy friends to “sideload” (install) an app from outside the Play Store. Right now it’s not a big deal, so if they’re interested in the app, they’ll likely install it. But this amount of friction and scary warnings is way more likely to stop them.

It is shocking how well-designed the Affinity apps feel on the iPad. I’m not entirely fond of everything being stuffed away in menus, but I see why they did it, and overall I’ve rarely felt so positively surprised about pleasant UX.

Now if only they hadn’t been bought by Canva… well, at least I still have my old Affinity 2 Suite.

It’s only in the pan for a minute or two usually, near the end of the cooking process, so I don’t think that’s enough time for that

As long as they genuinely stick by what they write there, that doesn’t sound too unreasonable, does it?

Considering things that are, or could be considered as, porn are everywhere from Reddit to Wikipedia, that doesn’t fix the issue. But I agree, this is something for parents to deal with, not legislation.

I see, thanks for the response! The problems/consequences I was referring to were based on a post, I think even in this exact community, about someone who had bottom surgery and was having lots of trouble with it, from the hospital staff during the initial recovery being absolutely unfamiliar with it, to having to concoct their own cleaning solution to avoid infections and bad smells. It made me pretty concerned.

I hope you don’t mind me asking, but on the topic of MTF SRS, are the “consequences” as bad as they’re made out to be? I’ve heard stories about having to dilate daily for years, surgeons not being able to agree on how to take care of it in the long run, leading to infections, and so on. It made me pretty cautious of it, even though I think it sounds pretty cool in theory.

Is Garuda a serious distro? Last I heard it was basically a few people’s hobby project. Not to say one shouldn’t use it, but I don’t know if it’s on par with EOS and Cachy.

I’ll just assume you’re serious and not trying to be a troll. Those aren’t launchers or different clients for the same game, they are different games. It’s the same as how Tux Cart isn’t compatible with Mario Kart. It’s just not the same thing. You also wouldn’t assume a Teardown mod works in Minecraft, just because both are voxel-based, right?

There are open source Minecraft launchers like Prism, those are cool and useful, and frankly way better than the official one, but they use a Microsoft account too, as your ownership of the game has to be verified, and you can’t connect to servers without one.

Stripped down to the bare essentials, those are similar. But surely you realize, that the sheer amount of content that was added over the years, and the enormous amount of mods, and the entire community, aren’t remotely comparable, right?

This is less of a Photoshop for drawing vs Krita and more of a Photoshop for image editing vs GIMP situation, and even that comparison is kind of unfair to GIMP.

Reminds me of when I saw a thread along the lines of “Can we get an option for a male character? I don’t feel immersed with a female character”. I really couldn’t tell if he was a troll or not. The most charitable reading would be that he also wouldn’t mind more female options in other games, which is absolutely possible, but somehow I doubt it.

The problem is, even if I am willing to deal with some inconveniences, many others aren’t. How am I going to move a server with >100 active users and multiple thousand inactive ones? And what about the six others I have that fit that description? There’s quite a few servers I could go without, but around a dozen that I’d much prefer not to lose.

I’ve already been trying, but people don’t like Revolt, Nerimity, Matrix, hell I tried Mattermost. Some people are fine with some of these platforms, but there is never any remote consensus.

At least some have cancelled their nitro subscription, making them a net loss for Discord in the future.

Discord has, despite everything, been my primary chat/social app and to switch to something else one has to uproot absolutely everything. That’s sadly not feasible.

It isn’t even that. He is a horrible monster, but what makes him so appealing to me is that he is completely delusional about it. With his new men he genuinely sees himself as the saviour of humanity, despite the fact that his plan for his new men is to destroy and replace humanity. It’s almost like a tragedy, which I find very appealing.

That’s why heretic books like the Fabius Bile or Nightlords trilogy are great. Even authors who forget they should be writing villains on the loyalist side can remember that the traitors are evil. However, at least for those two trilogies, their authors also write them as likeable characters somehow. I would hardly call them anti-heroes, but they are understandable in their own messed up ways. It’s how I feel the loyalists should have been written.

Let’s try a metaphor. Say I have a bike. Someone’s trying to sell me another bike, based on it having two wheels, both compatible with standard tubes, and optionally having a luggage rack, if I bring my own and attach it. Then I would also be asking them what their bike actually does and why I should bother swapping mine out for theirs, because it just looks like an extremely standard bike. It doesn’t mean I do not know what a bike is.

The question about lawnchair specifically has mostly been answered by comments now, but the website still does a very poor job explaining what it does over any other launcher, especially compared to the stock one.

Sure, but what are those? Maybe I’m the issue, but the website seems to be made for people who are already intimately familiar with the possibilities of a custom launcher, because they’re hardly listed anywhere, there’s no list of features or anything.

Well, there is one list, but it’s

1. “Pixel design, but more customizable somehow” How? Dunno, isn’t explained
2. “The latest android features” which is cool but also something I have on my stock launcher
3. “QuickSwitch support” which is not explained (some research makes me believe it’s API access to the default launcher that’s needed to show recent applications, which is also a feature my native launcher has) and needs root according to the FAQ. So can I not access my recent applications if my phone isn’t rooted?

And the wiki is just from the dev side, which is interesting, but doesn’t provide the proper info. I’m sure it’s cool if so many people here like it, but the website’s doing a poor job at showing that off.

Edit: Basically it seems to me like the selling points of most Android forks, which are generally “We’re slightly worse in some areas, but generally have feature-parity, possibly slightly better customization/settings, and you’re free of Google spyware” which is admittedly a selling point, but here you don’t even get rid of spyware if you’re on regular Android, and if you are already on a fork, then why bother?

I just checked out the website and I’m having a hard time understanding what the point of it is. I’ve never installed any sort of custom launcher, so maybe I’m missing out, but the application advertises itself on being very similar to the regular pixel launcher, not needing root access, and nothing else. Even in the FAQ I only see that it supports some plugin that upgrades some widget, unless you have root where it supports whatever you can do with the “recents api”. Neither of those seem remotely worth it. So what does it actually do?

If you were already producing watering cans, yeah, kinda. They’re pivoting for pure profit right now, and when the bubble bursts, they’ll just go back to selling 2000€ “consumer” GPUs. Maybe they’ll sit on some inventory, but the sheer profits at the moment will cover for that.