The problem is though an OS is only as good as its apps, unless it has some killer feature that can make up for the lack of it. Linux worked because Wine and Proton made the huge back catalogue of windows games work on it, but that’s a different use case from a mobile phone. Bank apps I particular are a bit pain point with how they keep using Google’s features to only work on non modified official android versions. I’m sure you could get browsers and such to work otherwise, and some banks you might be able to use via a browser, but that’s already a big hurdle to get over and sell to people as worth doing for all the other benefits.

“unprompted”, really?

Interesting, I’m not too familiar with how they work, what makes Apple’s more privacy-friendly than Google’s?

You can achieve most of that via third party apps, which is where the beauty of android comes. Instead of being forced to use Google if you want the best integration or be treated as a second class citizen if you try to use a third party service, most android features can have app defaults to set, so you can use bitwarden or proton if those work better for you (and imo that makes it more versatile, not less). In terms of integrating and syncing notifications with your desktop either KDE Connect, Microsoft’s companion app or Google’s companion app should work, though it’s not going to be automatic or as in depth as Apple’s. I’m not gonna touch the smooth and easy argument as that’s something you get used to over time really with these. I find iOS super clunky to use, you find android super clunky, it’s about which one you got used to first.

How is the notification system better for privacy on iOS? On android you have notification groups to toggle and you can set which notifications show up on the lock screen and how much of them is visible there. The notification system is to me arguably the best designed thing on android and one of the worst on iOS

Man your username fits.

Nobody is installing power line if running Ethernet is simple.

Not sure why you’re adding any more, you’re literally agreeing with my comment, but sure, act like my comment was about future replies, and not the op.

Yeah but between power line and ethernet, it’s not a 1:1 comparison. If you can have ethernet you’ll likely install ethernet. Power line fills a need for ethernet-like internet when you can’t wire the place up.

I’m envious of your energy if you’re willing to spend it to set up a self hosted thing to batch process 5 images when there’s an off the shelf solution that works just fine but has ads. Sometimes the job is big enough to be annoying to do it one way but not too big to be worth the trouble of setting up an entire GitHub repo locally.

Sure, but then the question is “can you install network cabling?” If yes, then do that. Even without the interference bit, power line adapters are so finicky and unreliable that they shouldn’t really be your go-to solution anyway

I mean does anyone go for power line adapters as their first choice when straight up ethernet is an option?

Never heard of stremio, sounds like it plays the role of a media server, in which case it doesn’t have to be streamio? Plex or Jellyfin could work too

The point of the setup is you only need to do it once, you don’t set up everything every time you want to download something…

Go with a self build + unraid. NGL a Ryzen 5500 build is so cheap and much more powerful than these overpriced boxes, and unraid is pretty good. If I didn’t buy a ds415+ a couple of years ago I’d swap over.

Then Microsoft makes windows free and monetizes the shit out of services in the OS.

I think I’d prefer if there was a minimum updates guarantee that OS sellers would have to disclose, but even then I’m more in favour of other companies being able to pick up the work by making sure devices have their bootloader unlockable after they don’t get any more updates for X amount of time, rather than add burden to OS makers, because forcing people to support a project for Y amount of years would really harm indie developers releasing Linux distros and the like

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Well most review sites give it high scores with the negatives being primarily the performance so at least this time there might be a good game in there somewhere underneath all those shader compilation stutters

Wdym it’s like a couple of clicks

Presumably that will work like test flight does where you can only install the app through an invite system