Fuschia did get used on some of their smart home stuff that they’ve shifted focus away from. I suspect they were just building a dedicated embedded OS to standardize on for non-phone gadgets that don’t need full fat android

Fortnite already has a game mode in it called “rocket racing” which is a pretty competant track racing game.

I’m guessing it’ll be like their other game modes where they basically port it to the specific version of Unreal Engine that Fortnite uses and build it in as a gamemode. There’s actually already some clones of Fall Guys and Rocket League in Fortnite but it’s still more a case of “playing $realGame but worse” due to limitations of the exposed engine features

I mean Fortnite is more a game engine than a game itself. It’s far more comparable to Roblox than anything else

Hey that’s me! I’m one of those 5k new installs!

I ran a mix of Xubuntu and Linux Mint full time for a few years but switched back to Windows just a few weeks before Valve started releasing the crazy updates to proton in the lead up to the Steam Deck launch. I have one laptop which still has the same Linux Mint install that I did a few years ago too! But I ultimately switched back because a couple of games I enjoy were either a royal pain on Linux or did not work at all, plus I’d tinkered with my installs to death so they all had some wild issues that I never could pin down.

Decided with the Windows 10 EOL date that I’d try out Bazzite and see if I liked it, and honestly I expected to have found a blocker by now but everything I keep trying keeps working flawlessly, and I even got a couple of 25 year old games that don’t even work on Windows working flawlessly on Linux with just a couple of toggle switches in Proton

Something something the cloud is not a backup

My work has me using 3 different 2FA apps depending on what service I’m accessing. It’s great! Especially with the noticable battery consumption increase after setting up 2 more 2FA apps than I had before

Edison’s lightbulb invention story makes for a really good rugged individual story. Dude keeps trying after 400 failures finally finds the one that worked and becomes rich and famous for it

My understanding is that Android has shitloads of out of tree modifications to the open source projects it relies on, then every single device manufacturer has even more out of tree modifications to Android and aligning all of these modifications of modifications of modifications of open source projects whenever the mainline project gets an update takes a ton of time and testing, and ultimately managing to get all of that done within a few weeks of an upstream update is a massive headache.

Basically it all comes back to the original sin where Google decided not to force hardware manufacturers to open source their device drivers and let the drivers exist out of tree. And while Google could still make it happen, they choose not to likely because a truly open ecosystem can lead to devices running forks of Android with Android app compatibility (like Amazon’s FireOS) which then might reduce Android market share and therefore app store recenue

This is actually a project on my to-do list for my kids. Sucks that each seat can’t share a framebuffer (otherwise multiple GPUs would be entirely optional) but to get 2 decent gaming experiences out of a cheap used PC plus an extra GPU is pretty sweet