During covid lockdowns people were spending more. Now they've gone back to doing other things and are playing less.

New consoles have launched but supply constraints mean they're getting into few hands. People might be playing less because they can't get the latest and greatest.

Does it have a System V init option?

They missed this obvious choice for the distro to use!

Why not keep it on F-Droid and encourage users to move away from the Play store?

It just opens Edge to return results.
Currently you cannot load third party widgets to open other browsers. There are rumors this is coming, but it's not guaranteed, and there is no way of telling what restrictions may be imposed on them. If they arrive it's possible they would have to first be approved by Microsoft.

There is such thing as being required to go online to unlock basic functionality for a reason that both does not serve the end user and does not immediately facilitate the basic need

I bought a phone 2 years ago for this price and it's slightly better specs than the Volla 22.

When I'm ready to upgrade, there will be a much better phone around the same price running an open source OS which affords me independence and flexibility.

Thank you to the groups who are interested in producing and supporting these phones. Thank you to the users who are interested in buying them.

I think I may end up taking a small downgrade in specs to get a massive upgrade in control and privacy.

That's a good thing because it will set later as well. Who cares about the morning when you're at work? It's nicer to have some after work is done.

Many metaverses already exist and Facebook is trying to enter an already crowded market. But the problem is, people don't want to connect that way. The set dressing that online virtual communities provide is actually an obstacle that gets in the way of the act of communicating.

People don't want to see an avatar, they want direct video feeds from a phone's camera. They don't want to waste battery life rendering 3D environments, physics, and interact with game-like controls to try and find each other in a virtual environment. They just want to pick a contact and begin a conversation - and have multiple conversations going at once that they can bounce between. They don't want emotes, they want emoji and stickers.

And when people want to play games, to interact online, those already exist. And they are custom built to achieve their purpose. Games in online virtual worlds are typically created within the same engine and framework as the social environment and end up being clumsy imitations.

Metaverse is cumbersome and unnecessary, and is just a niche novelty.

Did they celebrate with open source versions of the WPF and WinForms stack?

Yes they love open source and open standards so much that they want to create the next interconnected network platform without W3C involved...

"To me, just being great at game building gives us the permission to build this next platform, which is essentially the next internet: the embodied presence." - Nadella

If you have more than one console in your home then they are the only viable choice. When you buy a game on one console, every user can play it on that console. On another console in your home, only the user who made the purchase can play it.

If you have multiple gamers and multiple consoles, the only way to let everyone have access to a game on each console is to buy the physical version. It works anywhere and for any user, period.

I have made the mistake of buying a digital game, and I had to buy the same game again because it couldn't be accessed by whoever wanted to play it on each of our three consoles.

DLC is digital only unfortunately, and this still does have to be repurchased.

One of the scarier quotes is "To me, just being great at game building gives us the permission to build this next platform, which is essentially the next internet: the embodied presence."

He doesn't mention the W3C anywhere in this.

One of the scarier quotes is ""To me, just being great at game building gives us the permission to build this next platform, which is essentially the next internet: the embodied presence."

He doesn't mention the W3C anywhere in this.

Bobby Kotick is loving this exit

They're becoming the Disney of the gaming industry