The Great King Virtue Is Dead!

actually phenomenal sentence to read on my screen

extremely insightful. will share with everyone i can

ungoogled chromium obviously

tbh im in the same boat. i just keep on blockin them and make use of subscriptions

i literally only use my roku tv to open hdmi1 which has a fire stick on it (which i only use for jellyfin)

verifiable via personal experience

ngl i consistently have a better experience running games through wine than using their native versions. linux ports are often completely dysfunctional and it sucks ass

this is a phenomenal reason to disagree with me, i have no argument. if you use multiple vehicles on a regular basis through vehicle share or work, android auto sounds extremely useful. thanks for the reply

what baseless_discourse said. a windshield or dashboard mounted phone clamp. it is far cheaper, easier, and downright better, for myriad reasons. viewing angle is better, music playing is unspeakably easier, system resources are almost guaranteed to be better, software compatibility is better, etc.

I’m just fundamentally against those tablets in cars. I’ve never seen a single good implementation of it. This first question I always have is… what can this do that my phone cant do easier, faster, and better? And 100% of the time I’ve had to ask this it has been nothing. I just use a phone grip on either my dashboard or my windshield and that accomplishes the same thing without having to use the massive, clunky, and usually dysfunctional tablet stuck on my console. Another enormous complaint is that most cars that work like this also remove aux/tape/cd and then BURY the bluetooth audio option underneath a bunch of finnicky android auto shit that has so many different problems all of which wouldn’t exist in the first place if i could just set my phone in a clamp and plugged in the aux cable. The only benefit android consoles have i can tell it has is being big if you have bad eyesight.

im not going to lie this is one of the stupidest things ive ever seen a major tech company do

oh wow! i doubt im going to use that feature because android auto is insufferable but that’s still really neat!

GoG or itch only, launch with lutris. I just don’t want to risk putting up with this.

i was offered one but im not really interested in making an account unless i can do it on a different instance. i do not trust the official one a single bit, lol

its kind of crazy to me how many people are moving over to that place. on one hand i appreciate that it’s somewhat containing twitter culture protecting much better new socials like cohost but on the other, it is frustrating to have no access to so many people who switched to blue sky’s with its bizarre and abrubt popularity as an alternative platform despite being diet fediverse.

at least now we can just subscribe with RSS to get updates and actually have the links be usable

These general users are shifting to Discord. The people I actually WANT to interact with are moving to indie social platforms (i.e cohost, fediverse, spacehey) and revitalizing forums. I strongly recommend against seeing this as a systemic issue against social networks/media; it’s an issue with VC funded ones that prioritize growth above a better platform and community. For the health of the internet, please do not flee to walled garden discord servers. Use social media for what its for; make connections with random people. Using it just to follow famous people you’ll never directly interact with will isolate you.