All tech news reads like marketing.

Nothing prevents anyone from forking it.

You have no idea how open source works.

Nothing prevents you or anyone else from forking Android. It is not owned by anyone.

Android is open source. Google does not own it.

I didn’t say toppling Android. Why on earth would that be a good thing? It’s breaking Google’s control over Android, which is great.

Huawei’s appstore took off in a lot countries. That happened only thanks to the US government.

it’s useful. I use it.

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Because websites are optimized for dummies who can’t copy paste.

Ironically, the US government probably managed to break Google’s monopoly on Android by trying to kill Huawei.

Max Payne works with a platinium rating, see in winehq: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=661 and also in protondb: https://www.protondb.com/app/12140?device=any

Just because a game hasn’t been verified by Steam does not mean it doesn’t work.

I regularly play games that are not verified.

By now probably all games in Steam are playable on the Steam Deck (minus those explicitly banning Linux users)

A BRICS payment and clearance system would solve a lot of problems the world has right now.

I prefer gog.com

I refuse to buy a game that has DRM or anti cheat.

A lot of americans and some other westerners always assume that anyone who disagrees with them must be infected with Russian/Chinese/(insert bogeyman) propaganda.

Whereas the truth is that the Western civilization is on a murder spree and the rest of us who are not Westerners are disgusted by it.

How can we have a pleasant conversation about the murders the American soldiers are committing in the Middle East? How does one be pleasant about murder?

Is it wrong to engage in a conversation with people we disagree with?

Would you rather have us segregate based on our opinions?