It likely doesn’t matter if you install LineageOS on it. When I look into phones at the very minimum I check to make sure it has support from LineageOS, since I don’t want to run or sign into Google apps on my phone. Better if it can run GrapheneOS, but that’s unfortunately only available for Google Pixel.

Sponsorblock and Blocking channels is available for PipePipe, but not NewPipe.

The forks are great too like PipePipe. I find sponsorblock but most importantly the ability to block channels invaluable, since the algorithm always pushes certain big channels to the top of search results for certain topics. So you always have to scroll past them.

I love libre office. Moved to it years ago. And dropped OneNote for Obsidian.

That’s hilarious. Great way to stress test those hinges. Hope someone records how many hours the hinges held up to playing foldy bird.

If the ARM translation ends up being something that can be done to run Steam games on Android that would be so cool.

I’d rather go without VR than get a meta headset which is why I haven’t had one for years despite interest in it. I plan to get steam frame. Not sure if at launch if price is too steep, but eventually if it gets discounted after a year.

Have you tried flying games? I’d imagine that would feel really cool in VR.

I think what device work makes you use isn’t too important since they provide the hardware and nothing on it is private anyways regardless of the OS that is being used on it.

Work and private devices are different, since one of them is for you and not some company.

It’s so insane how whatsapp has become so heavily used by businesses in some countries. World is filled with stupid people.

The one group I can think of that actually tests burn in is rtings and they do that for TVs and monitors.

Phone reviewers just cycle through multiple phones so are the least reliable not using one phone as often or as long as regular people. Especially even more now that how long people retain phones has gone up with price increases.

Which actually has me wondering. How long do you typically use phones. Some upgrade every year. Some every 2. I’ve upgraded maybe on average 3 years or longer. So long it was the reason I shifted to custom roms in the past as security updates stopped. And getting nav burn taught me to try things like auto hide it.

I still have a oneplus 6 I use as a back up which is a phone that came out 7 years ago. Not sure how many years I’ve had it, but that’s got burn in couple years ago. Do you use phones that long?

During normal use I wouldn’t notice until I started reading webtoons and manga on my phone which shows a lot of white color that you don’t typically see. And that’s when I’d see the burn in my screen had picked up.

As for why there is more fuss about monitors than phones is because people use monitors for many more years than phones. And can use them for many more hours with lot of static elements with sometimes one program being used day in and day out. Its same reason why there is less talk of burn in for TVs versus monitors where TVs are more likely to have constantly changing visuals than monitor use case.

I’ve been hearing how burn in isn’t an issue for years, but every phone I’ve had has had burn in. So I make sure to avoid apps that has a persistent UI if they are ones I’d use frequently.

I wouldn’t notice in normal use cases then be surprised when I read manga or webtoons on the display.

Even when well meaning sometimes malicious code can slip through like with smarttubenext due to a compromised machine.

So I think people forget that just because something is foss doesn’t mean it is automatically safe and caution can be thrown to the wind. Skepticism and being overcautious is still good practice before installing things.

I like to wait a while before installing new updates just to see if anything is caught by the community to try to reduce potential risk.

It’s just the process of the handover that is making people skittish with the github going private then reappearing with a new maintainer.

I think best route would have been for researchxxl to just fork syncthing-fork to put on F-droid, and catfriend1 just leave their branch archived with an endorsement of researchxxl.

After some time passes and researchxxl gains trust in the community I’m sure people will trust their work. The transition just wasn’t handled well.

You wouldn’t know them. They go to a different school.

You should use Firefox with ublock origin in the future or Brave over Opera. And also set downloads to something like ask location before downloading so it doesn’t auto download stuff without your permission.

And with you being on Windows 10 I’m guessing your think pad is pretty old. I’d move onto Linux with it being much lightrr and running better.

And if they have a thinkpad their hardware may be pretty old with it on Windows 10. Linux will run better on it anyways which is another reason to move on to it.

If you really want to stretch that gift card check out isthereanydeals which will show you the lowest historical price of games and then wait for a sale since you’ll have an idea of what a good sales price is. You don’t need to spend the 20 bucks right away. It can buy multiple indie titles or old triple a games during sales.

I like that I dont have to bother going into desktop mode with Steam games compared to heroic launcher.