I suspect its lead will only widen since Mario Kart World will intercept most new purchases for that franchise, and we certainly won’t see another Red Dead Redemption for a LONG time.

Wernstrom!

Yeah, I noticed this, so I started using RSS feeds of my subscribed channels. I honestly think RSS (and other web 2.0 tech) is when the internet peaked from a user experience perspective.

RSS only faded away because it’s so convenient that it’s hard to monetize. When the goal became keeping people on your platform as long as possible, RSS was antithetical to that goal. So platforms either abandoned support for it or (like YouTube) stopped advertising its existence.

Top is really versatile, but I still love my btop.

As for the “Sound Connect App” that’s unfortunately the core of the problem. That app doesn’t exist for Linux. If the hardware relies on that app to set up or manage profiles, it creates an unavoidable roadblock for desktop Linux users.

The app runs on your phone (Android or iOS), and then you use the phone to manage Bluetooth connections for the earbuds. IMO you shouldn’t need a second device, but I guess they just assume 99% of people are connecting to a smartphone.

It just seems to be a non-standard implementation from Sony that doesn’t play well with the standard Linux audio stack.

I think the issue is that the actual Bluetooth connection is obfuscated behind a proprietary connection to the app, and the app exposes the protocol.

I agree it’s a stupid implementation, prioritizing a UI for pairing over literally everything else, but you still might be able to get it to work. I’ve successfully paired my WF-1000XM4 earbuds with my EndeavourOS (KDE) desktop.

Drivers (other than your Bluetooth chipset) generally shouldn’t matter. AFAIK Bluetooth audio device protocol is generic.

How are you pairing the headphones? Are you adding your PC as a device using the Sound Connect App? I have different SONY earbuds, but they can pair with 2 different devices and switch between them with the app. Perhaps they still have another device (like a phone) selected for output?

Hopefully this is a sign that organizations are beginning to recognize that capitulation to this regime has very little benefit and will only lead to increasingly unreasonable demands.

It is just me or is this is a weird thing to make?

1. They already remastered Halo:CE in the Master Chief Collection. I know it was criticized as a bad remaster, but it’s weird to just do it again before…
2. Halo 3 still doesn’t have a remaster. Why didn’t they remaster/remake Halo 3 instead?
3. It’s been obvious for years now that 343/Halo Studios has no good ideas left Halo franchise anymore, and this just further proves that.
4. The Halo IP created an interesting world and framework for countless compelling stories. It was time to leave Master Chief behind a long time ago and make some compelling spinoffs. Reach and ODST (to a lesser extent) were successful. It’s so frustrating AAA studios are so terrified of trying anything new.

I hope they at least make it a DLC to the Master Chief collection which did a good job of consolidating the series. I suspect this will be standalone and be confusing when people try to “Buy Halo 1”.

Smells like desperation. Still struggling to find a sustainable business model are we?

I really like the theme of that blog.

Yeah, way too many services have chats. I think it’s because every large platform wants to be an “everything app”. Messaging is a really easy to feature to implement to (theoretically) add value.

How about: “You probably should trust or use X at all… ever.”

They keep your private key on their servers.

Then it’s literally not even E2EE, lol

Import our Postman library. ❌
Clone our curl repo. ✅

A house that needs the internet to function is not a “smart home”, it’s a “dependent home”.

A frustrating number of devices rely on cloud connectivity for astoundingly rudimentary tasks.

I was once at a friend’s house for a game night and it was really cold; everyone was under blankets. I asked to turn up the heat and they said, “The internet is down, so the heat doesn’t work.” 🤯

double grins in self-hosted Fedi instances

lol yeah I definitely have more downtime than AWS.

The main differences are:

1. I usually control when that downtime is.
2. I can inform literally every single person that uses it exactly what is down, why, and approximately for how long.

I can hear the smug grins on homelabber’s/self-hoster’s faces from here.

It’s like that Futurama “Scary Door” bit where the scientist creates a robot to automate everything in his life and gets shocked when the robot gets all the credit: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/The_Scary_Door#Episode_7,_featured_in_the_Futurama_episode_“Benderama”