Don’t need something the size of AWS these days. I ran one on my PC last week. But yeah, you’re right otherwise.

Nah, for system stuff that updates via Google Play, it’s always been like that. Like Android System Webview for example, if you search Google Play for it you only see the Beta and Developer versions of it. You need a direct link to see the default one included with modern Android.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.webview

By upgrade, do you mean OS upgrade?

I’ve never had an app frozen through ADB get auto-updated by the Play Store or Google Services and get re-enabled because of it. An app with an update available will even disappear from the Update list if disabled, and in order to update it you have to enable it first.

You can’t search for it. You have to open a direct link.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore

Using ADB:

adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.safetycore 

If you have Shizuku and aShell/ShizuShell installed, then just run this command in aShell:

pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.safetycore 

Alternatively, for a GUI method, setup Shizuku and then use an app like Hail or Ice Box

Reminds me of the recent news that the Pebble Smartwatch founder asked Google for the Pebble OS source code, and Google actually released it.

You can freeze using ADB/Shizuku as well. No root needed.

People have been able to extend the electromagnetic effect to a few feet, but yeah, there’s a reason why most just use the close range version we have today.

Here’s a demo from 2009: https://youtu.be/MgBYQh4zC2Y

Microwave transmission has also been explored in addition to lasers, as you say, but either way both methods involve power loss in energy conversion, and they both are very directional, making it impractical for consumer use.

But anyway, just wanted to say that the tech technically exists since it’s funny when normal people bring it up without knowing the limitations of current technology and physics.

I mean, wireless electricity tech does exist, it just sucks and is horribly inefficient at any reasonable distance.

I mean, maybe? They have 'til April it seems. Time to make yt-dlp work overtime I guess…

Glad I already ripped my Kindle library and started buying elsewhere a while ago. I’ve been sticking to either DRM free sources now, or DRM rippable sources, and enjoy the piece of mind that I can’t be locked out of my purchases or be told what devices I can read them on.

If a fix hasn’t made it to Stable yet, then switching to Experimental is the appropriate action to get the game functioning. Just keep in mind that if a ProtonDB review is old but mentions Experimental, then most likely the fix is in Stable by now and switching to Experimental might not be needed anymore. In those cases I’d try the latest Stable first, and then try Experimental if that doesn’t work for some reason.

Keeping note of specific Proton versions is more important if someone says that an older Proton version works better than new ones for reasons. Or if they’re using a forked version of Proton, like GE-Proton, it’s important because that fork explicitly includes things not in normal Proton, like exotic video format support that Valve can’t normally include for legal reasons.

Not SteamDeck, but there is evidence that Valve is working on x86-ARM emulation for a stand-alone VR Headset.

FYI, if you switch to Desktop mode on SteamOS, all those applications you listed are available via the included app store that taps into Flathub. SteamOS also ships with Firefox out of the box. I have them all installed on my SteamDeck already.

I agree on durability concerns, but it did double the height of the display. Not sure how much bigger you’re expecting.

Yeah, but they’re coming to Desktop stable soon. Or you can switch to Beta and try them out. It’s up to you. Just wanted to show that Valve is addressing the issues with Big Picture Mode.

Not sure what’s not on Desktop for you. I’m on the Steam Desktop Beta and this all shows up on my Desktop Big Picture.

PS: These screenshots were made on a Windows PC which is why the Compatibility tab isn’t in the Game settings.

Experimental is its name for a reason. It’s for testing fixes which may or may not fix an issue that they’re investigating. If the fix doesn’t cause any immediate issues they’ll then push it to stable.

So you should really only use Experimental if you have a game or game update that just came out and isn’t running correctly in Stable.

To simplify these are the TLDR ranking:

• Stable

• Next (ie: Release Candidate, last bug fix check before pushing to stable)

• Experimental (ie: Beta, latest fixes that are being tested)

• Bleeding Edge (ie: Alpha, automated merges for the latest submitted code from devs, things can easily break)

• Hotfix (For quick bandaid fixes for specific popular games that just released or just updated with some breaking incompatibility.)

I’ve been messing with more recent open-source AI Subtitling models via Subtitle Editor which has a nice GUI for it. Quality is much better these days, at least for English. It still makes mistakes, but the mistakes are on the level of “I misheard what they said and had little context for the conversation” or “the speaker has an accent which makes it hard to understand what they’re saying” mistakes, which is way better than most YouTube Auto Transriptions I’ve seen.