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I think that we don’t know the whole picture but if they’re canceling VPN, Relay and Monitor it’s because they’re not making enough money on those services. I also think the new CEO feels they’re spread too thin and need to focus resources on core products, which might be a good thing. They’ve gotten a lot of flak for trying different things.

Well, LLMs base their answers on content scraped from the web and those same online forums.

Interesting question. If a binary is available you can sideload already, you’d have to put the phone in Developer Mode and use either XCode or one of the 3rd party tools for macos or Windows to install it. Main question is how easy it’d be to find a trustable official Mozilla binary.

because it’s unsafe or something

It’s one of those bits that haven’t been done yet. The protocol extension is being discussed as there are a lot more different use-cases than one would think and a number of ways to do it. Wayland is great but nothing is perfect and this is one of its weaknesses: evolving it takes time as we’re afraid of getting it wrong.

With regards to Arch based distros: Do you still need to read Arch news to spot potentially breaking updates and know how to diff pacsave/pacnew, etc. or have Garuda found a way to manage these things?

I guess mileage might differ. I installed Tumbleweed and then the Nvidia drivers following the wiki instructions. Everything is going great. Running a 3060 with Wayland+Plasma on a 360Hz screen and gaming through Steam. I love Tumbleweed.

An alternative if just for benchmarking is EndeavourOS, you can choose proprietary Nvidia drivers as a boot option in the installer and then I believe it’ll be installed with them without further ado. Downside is if you use it long term you have to read Arch News before updates to spot breaking/incompatible changes and be knowledagable of things like pacnew/pacsave files, etc.

Even Nvidia have embraced RISC-V, the general purpose controller embedded on their GPU’s is RISC-V.

Yeah I’m a grey-beard, my first experience was Slackware in the nineties. I’ve been using Linux since but usually on servers and in VMs only. Recently I’ve been able to go 100% thanks to Proton. I really enjoy the progress made with tech such as systemd, wayland, btrfs, proton and flatpak. Though a lot of grey-beards are very resentful of these I feel they represent real positive progress. There’s also support for kb backlight and other features of my laptop.

I’m also really enjoying PRIME rendering on my laptop, using Intel and Nvidia at the same time for different things. It works beautifully/seamlessly and even more so that I can just type “yay” and get a new Nvidia driver or a matching driver if there’s a kernel update without having to do any babysitting manually.

I do everything on Linux now, Office work, Rustdev and I play games like BG3/Guildwars2 simply by launching them from Steam.

The only pain is that I have to configure each application manually to use Wayland, that’s a bother.

Well that’s a massive difference you’re experiencing. For me Native and Steam work the same.

I’m lucky that I don’t need long battery life, I’m always plugged in for gaming, so I have set the Nvidia GPU in Dedicated mode. I suspect not having both (optimus or prime) have eliminated a lot of issues, it works well with Wayland and Plasma and games like BG3 and Guildwars2 under Proton+Xwayland.

Actually it’s not too bad on the battery when not gaming, despite always running NVidia.

I’d like to hear from people who read more on those devices.

I started reading books electronically on my Palm Pilot III, later a Palm V, then a SONY Clie. I loved the convenience of it, especially because I didn’t have the shelf space for all my books at home and I’m into 800+page fantasy books that are a hassle to carry around. After reading on PDAs anything is a luxury. These days I read on my smartphone when out and 11inch iPad at home. It’s important to manage display brightness though to not tire the eyes, unlike eInk which depends on ambient light.

I generally use Google play books, it syncs across devices and have translation which is good as I started reading French books. But these features are also available on other readers like Kindle.

Interestingly I once worked on an eInk reader for a book chain competing with Amazon. I didn’t get any freebie though.

Yeah, I recently moved from Authy to 2FAS, took about an hour moving everything over. It can do cloud backup and export/import files manually as well.

Love that game so much, I waited for it for 20 years and it exceeds my dreams!

Funny enough the DirectX version is stable on Proton but there are still a few crashes in Vulkan mode.

Yes, I have logged more than 14000 hours in GuildWars2, mostly in WvW maps and since it started playing well on Proton I never touched Windows anymore.

(I have no life).

I leave it on, I’m proud to help the last independent browser engine we have working for a truly open web. The telemetry data is available for you to sift through here: https://telemetry.mozilla.org/

I’m looking forward to it too. They have mentioned a few times in the past they wanted this but I think as long as it’s not officially possible they are not going to post progress reports. Without having any evidence I’m pretty sure it’ll happen but I can understand Mozilla not making any promises until it’s possible for sure.

Furthermore it will in all likelihood only be allowed in markets that legislate for it which ultimately will probably be everywhere but not to start with.

We just have to be patient.