Forwarded from Bones' Tech Garage
This is a positive trend. Games aren't the only thing that are produced as shovelware many phone apps are like this too.
What's really at play behind 'early access' is a lack of a proper production budget that floods a market with substandard products. Knock offs of popular apps and games just for the purposes of fleecing uninformed consumers. Valve called it early access, in app stores on phones we have no such warning.
https://www.xda-developers.com/steams-new-update-wasting-money-dead-early-access-games/
What's really at play behind 'early access' is a lack of a proper production budget that floods a market with substandard products. Knock offs of popular apps and games just for the purposes of fleecing uninformed consumers. Valve called it early access, in app stores on phones we have no such warning.
https://www.xda-developers.com/steams-new-update-wasting-money-dead-early-access-games/
XDA
Steam's new update will stop you wasting money on dead Early Access games
Look before you leap.
Forwarded from Bones' Tech Garage
Sometimes you have to use what you have to use. For school and work people are often forced to use Windows. When the choice is yours there is a better one.
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-linux-helped-me-avoid-spending-money-on-a-school-chromebook/
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-linux-helped-me-avoid-spending-money-on-a-school-chromebook/
How-To Geek
How Linux Helped Me Avoid Spending Money on a School Chromebook
Money saved is money earned. Wait, does that mean my kid made me money?
Forwarded from Hacker News
Forwarded from Bones' Tech Garage
Always a good tip to preserve battery life.
https://www.maketecheasier.com/stop-apps-draining-android-phone-battery/
https://www.maketecheasier.com/stop-apps-draining-android-phone-battery/
Make Tech Easier
How to Find and Stop Apps from Draining Your Android Phone's Battery - Make Tech Easier
Do you often wonder, "what is draining my Android battery?" We have the most accurate answers to prevent battery drain in this updated guide.
Forwarded from Bones' Tech Garage
For those who might have been aware of the resignation. Another steps up to continue working for Linux Kernel maintenance on Apple Silicon.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Silicon-New-Co-Maintainer
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Silicon-New-Co-Maintainer
Phoronix
New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up For The Linux Kernel
This week was the dramatic decision by Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin to step down as upstream kernel maintainer for the Apple Silicon (ARM) code following friction with other kernel developers over Rust affairs within the kernel
Forwarded from Bones' Tech Garage
Nope you are not Arch Linux users if you use Windows WSL.
https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-linux-wsl-image/
https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-linux-wsl-image/
It's FOSS
Windows Users Will Soon be Able to Say “I use Arch, BTW”
After much discussion, an Arch Linux WSL image is finally on the way.
Forwarded from Bones' Tech Garage
Those loyalty rewards that are being pushed everywhere are bad for your privacy.
https://www.makeuseof.com/why-store-loyalty-cards-are-awful-for-your-privacy/
https://www.makeuseof.com/why-store-loyalty-cards-are-awful-for-your-privacy/
MUO
Store Loyalty Cards Are Awful For Your Privacy, But I'll Keep Using Them
I know my store loyalty card is terrible for my privacy, but I just love the deals.
Forwarded from Bones' Tech Garage
An oddly peculiar story. For those that grew up in the time. Predates even Napster.
https://www.xda-developers.com/the-game-wizards-hidden-tale/
https://www.xda-developers.com/the-game-wizards-hidden-tale/
XDA
When FBI raids and a rare SNES cheat device collided: The Game Wizard’s mysterious history
A rare SNES cheat device entangled in FBI raids, bootleg crackdowns, and elusive origins
Forwarded from Bones' Tech Garage
Phoronix
Curious Intel Linux Driver Maintainer Changes In Recent Days
This week besides the drama over Apple Silicon maintainership for the upstream Linux kernel, in recent days there has also been a number of rather subtle changes to the maintainership of several Intel Linux kernel drivers.
Forwarded from Bones' Tech Garage
In recent years I have found that pushing to 4K is not really worth what it was cracked up to be. 8K is just too much and unnecessary. At a certain point we do hit diminishing returns in resolutions.
https://www.howtogeek.com/8k-will-never-be-a-thing-stop-trying-to-make-it-a-thing/
https://www.howtogeek.com/8k-will-never-be-a-thing-stop-trying-to-make-it-a-thing/
How-To Geek
8K Will Never Be a Thing, Stop Trying to Make it a Thing
It's pure pixel madness!
Forwarded from Bones' Tech Garage
Rumble
Disable WebRTC | Stop leaking your true IP address (even when behind your VPN)
While we take steps to mask our true IP address every day through tools like VPN's and Tor, there is yet another culprit that is guilty of leaking our true IP address even when connected behind our VP