Thanks

I appreciate that.

tl;Dr? Why do I have to load 12 pages to read this?

I don’t know any of these words.

I don’t even know what this is supposed to say or mean.

Yes, I’m saying some games are entirely legal while others may entirely illegal, leaving the game collection as a whole “not entirely legal”.

YouTuber faces jail time for showing off Android-based gaming handhelds promoting pirated copyrighted materials

Possibly some of them are legal/open source and others are not?

at least not very often

The people you’ve seen are likely enthusiasts. A small minority of the millions of users. The vast majority probably never leaves game mode.

It’s not the “latest” Pixel generations, devices as old as the Pixel 4 receive extended support (although it’s obviously not recommended) and that’s mostly because Google does not support them. This will be greatly improved moving forward, since Google has promised much longer update cycles for new devices.

the OEM has to make and test these updates anyway. In virtually all cases they will then release these worldwide

I wouldn’t be so sure. There’s a vested interest in NOT shipping them outside the EU. It’s called planned obsolescence. Just looks at Macs and OCLP. It’s so easy to keep older Macs updated that it’s actually able to be done by some random developers in their free time (not to trivialize this effort, just to say that it would be extremely trivial for Apple as the developer of the OS and one of the most profitable companies in the world to do it). And yet Apple does not ship these updates to them. Why? Because they want you to buy new shit and they know not doing so will render them virtually useless in a short time.

I know it seems like I’m being mean in this comment

You are just being mean and extremely rude. It’s completely unnecessary and I’ve done absolutely nothing to deserve such language. You are actively making this community shittier.

does that mean we’ll need to start worrying about viruses on Linux now?

1. Linux is still a very small marketshare on workstations.
2. Pretty much every server runs Linux and is probably much more likely to be attacked than a workstation.
3. Lots of very profitable companies that run these servers need high security, so they will invest as much as is strictly necessary.
4. Everything is open source and auditable by anyone.

The stats come from webpages, something a Steam Deck is unlikely to ever see, or at least not very often, so I would say it has almost nothing to do with Steam Deck, other than maybe exposing more people to Linux.

The unfortunate reality of an app like this is that it requires a level of privacy that few are equipped to utilize.

Everyone who downloads ICEblock gets logged by Apple accordingly. Everyone who receives notifications from ICEBlock are similarly logged. The White House has made it abundantly clear that they will prosecute “to the fullest extent of the law”.

I usually just use SyncThing and sync the Home directory to another device.

That’s more complicated than a short comment can summarize

You realize there’s a whole rest of the world that’s not the EU?

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Not having security updates makes it effectively trash, as far as I’m concerned.

Yeah that’s great news. Esp. considering it’s an $800+ phone.