they’re owned by Tencent

About 35%

Tim Sweeney himself owns 41%

Heroic Launcher runs on both Windows and Linux

Until those willing to stand up and fight build up into a critical mass, every individual is at risk of being disappeared by the thought police. So until then, there is a good reason to be scared.

I mean the microphone is active, so it’s listening, but it’s not recording/saving/processing anything until it hears the trigger phrase.

The truth is they really don’t need to. They track you in so many other ways that actually recording you would be pointless AND risky. While most people don’t quite grasp digital privacy and Google can get away with a lot because of it, they do understand actual eavesdropping and probably wouldn’t stand all their private moments being recorded.

Your phone listens for the phrase “Hey Google” and uses little processing power to do so. If it was listening to everything and processing that information, your battery would die incredibly fast. We’re talking charging your phone multiple times a day even if you weren’t using it for anything else.

As someone else mentioned in another commend, being near Spanish speakers’ phones, Bluetooth/Wifi tracking are what Google is using to track you. They search Google in Spanish, Google can tell you spend time with them, Google thinks you speak Spanish.

If you got nothing to hide, what’s your credit card number?

The basic tool is protonup-qt, which will lets you choose which versions of Proton and Proton-GE (and others) you want to install.

I don’t know if Heroic lets you install new versions or just lets you choose among installed ones.

To be fair to the cashier, they were just trying to do something nice for you and getting you a free discount. I doubt that any “training” was involved, they probably didn’t think that anyone would refuse to give a phone number for a discount.

Most people wouldn’t care, but I used to get so any spam calls that it wasn’t worth the risk anymore.

This only works if you’re from a country with 7 digit phone numbers.

A mistake doesn’t mean it’s an accident. A mistake means they made the wrong choice.

Does installing the Proton BattlEye runtime do anything?

I don’t play many games that use it, but for Ark you have to install a separate BattlEye.

Is your scaling set to something other than 100%? That seems to mess with gamescope and mouse location detection or something like that.

The -W and -H are the resolution you want to display at, so you want those to be your monitor’s native resolution. They default to 1280 x 720 if you don’t specify.

The -w and -h specify what resolution to render at, and are only really useful if using DLSS or FSR for scaling. Skip them if you’re not using that.

If ever there was a time to not share your opinions, that would be it.

On my phone, it gives a 5 second delay before making an SOS call.

Google maps does work if you give it the right permissions. Google Pay does not, as NFC doesn’t work under GrapheneOS.

Is it at all common for BT headphones to be able to pair without specifically enabling pairing mode? I’ve never heard of that before.

Most headphones require you to hold down the power button when powering on to enable pairing.

Not the same person, but I streamed Ark Survival Ascended a couple times on Linux.

I’ve found the experience is pretty painless.

The game ran for me out of the box, so I’m not sure what your issue is. Have you tried different versions of Proton?

Do you have gamemode installed?

require back doors for strong encryption

That’s what the headline implies. Encryption is useless if a third party can decrypt it.

What’s your setup for Youtube videos? Is it automated? I’m curious about that.

Isn’t Kubuntu just Ubuntu running KDE?

To simplify what’s been said already, if your nvidia card is working on Linux in your system, it will work fine with Proton.

I have no idea. It took me some messing around to figure out what my problem was. The Deck’s AC adapter has enough juice for all that at 45W, but the port itself doesn’t seem to output enough. I don’t know about the official dock, but the one I use doesn’t power the other ports directly, it only outputs to the USB-C.

The Steam Deck appears to have weak USB power. I found that I can have external storage or hdmi out, but not both at once. Are you using other USB devices?

Is there anything else going on in the background? Is something else using up your drives or CPU/GPU time?

I’ve been exclusively on Linux for a while, and I know shader caching happens, but I’ve never noticed it happening. AFAIK it should be very quick and seamless for the most part.

Are you perhaps using the Flatpak version of Steam?

Except this is for a single country. Is it worth that kind of expense for 5 million people? Does Facebook make $36.5 million in profit just in Norway? If not, then this is a net loss for them.

Iheartradio has partnerships with many radio stations.

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