Someone on the Steam subreddit was asking for Valve to make a #SteamOS phone (seeing how the new VR headset is Arm but also playes x86 steam games). And I thought "Hey, I've already got #PostmarketOS on a phone. We know Valve is using some 'FEX' library. How hard could it be?"

As it turned out, remarkably easy. (Though, it helps that someone already wrote a guide for it: wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Ste… )

Pretty sure it's a YMMV situation, but my milage was pretty good.

#FEX_Emu

Ubuntu 15 years LTS. What to think of it?

Imagine living on 2010 software today:
- OpenSSL 1.0, curl 7.20, gcc 4.4.3, autotools 2.6.8
- no http/2, no Lets Encrypt, no Rust or Golang

You‘ll not be able to built todays software on this without upgrading most of the system.

But for people needing linux in products with long term contractual support clauses, it may be good business.

As a FOSS project, you should drop free support for old releases though.

canonical.com/blog/canonical-e…

Ubuntu Pro now supports LTS releases for up to 15 years through the Legacy add-on. More security, more stability, and greater control over upgrade timelines for enterprises. […]

Ubuntu Pro now supports LTS releases for up to 15 years through the Legacy add-on. More security, more stability, and greater control over upgrade timelines for enterprises.

^{Canonical (Ubuntu)}

One category that is missing from #Mapcomplete is ‘repairs and construction’, since it is not unusual to find old houses being demolished, streets under repair or even cycle paths closed due to temporary changes... and it cannot be said that this is not essential.

@MapComplete

Una categoria que todavia no encuentro en MapComplete es la de "reparaciones y construccion", pues ya no es tan inusual encontrar viejas casas en demolicion, calles cerradas por renovacion o ciclovias cambiantes... y no son cuestiones que podamos decir que no sean relevantes

It's cool to see how you shut off AI features on Gmail and you lose the entire inbox folder structure.

Thank you, Google, for being so shitty.

This is an excellent way to convince me to unsubscribe from some newsletters I get and to move to Proton Mail.

Any other e-mail suggestions?

Fortunately, getting killed by the CIA by means of predator drone strike is not everybody's threat model. For others - certain French judges for example - a real threat can be getting sanctioned by the US government and completely locked out of US services.

So yes, know your threat model when picking between #Signal and #Conversations_im.

My parents have an alexa kettle that can only be turned on by speaking to alexa or using an app.

So I can have tea as long as they have a wifi connection.

Welcome to the 21st century.

RE: mastodon.social/@r_alb/1155950…

Problem with the GDPR isn't with the intent, but with its implementation. Which is the issue with regulations: the unintended consequences.

US/Chinese companies grow in the US/China without complying with GDPR, all the while their EU competition is getting mauled by regulation. Then those companies will sell their GDPR-incompatible products & services to Europeans anyway, and of course we'll buy everything they offer, as there are no choices left.

Note: “human right” is only what we agree on.

Prüfet alles und behaltet das #Gute.

Die sog. #Jahreslosung der christlichen Kirchen aus der #Bibel (1. Thess. 5,21) für 2025.

Gefunden als #Postkarte in einer #Kirche 😎
Für mich persönlich gibt's da eine Verbindung zu
@pruef_de@mastodon.social
#pruef#FediKirche #ZurFeierDesSonntags

Proton screen reader accessibility update:
So far it's decent. I can navigate around by headings and landmarks. Each message is a landmark with a level 2 heading. This is functional and very reasonable, but it makes navigating the message list clunky. I've also yet to figure out how to view any message except the latest in a conversation.
Message content is in a frame, so they're easy to find. If I want to get back to the inbox, I navigate back by landmarks til I find the back button.
Navigating the inbox in focus mode sucks. Most of the keyboard shortcuts don't play nice with NVDA, and the only info reported is the message subject. No info on the sender, the data, and whether it's read or unread, making it near useless. opening the context menu does at least correctly move focus to said context menu, so that's good. So, so, so many web apps with custom context menus just don't do this and stick the menu aaaaaaaaall the way at the end of the DOM. Web apps that do it correctly always win brownie points with me.
The Windows desktop app is nice, but for some reason, NVDA can't see anything until I click with the mouse somewhere in the window. Then it works just fine.

Overall, it's pretty good. Not perfect, but more than adequate for checking mail. message navigation could be improved though