I don’t understand anything you just said.

It’s hard for me to imagine how this benefits a for-profit company, and probably requires significant resource dedication so it’s not surprising.

Probably because you need to be technically proficient just to access the site anymore.

And that’s exactly the sort of thing the fediverse is intended to avoid.

It’s not. Your passport account would be portable, just like any other account. I really don’t see what the problem is.

This isn’t centralization, it’s duplication.

Flipboard is it’s own media platform that is embracing AP. So these are just mirrors from Flipboard publishers.

Because they were added by Flipboard.

I muted the entire Flipboard instance. They were just annoying. If I need any of those, I use RSS.

AP is supposed to be interactive but I’m pretty sure none of them are looking at those. And the ones that are already have accounts so these are just redundant anyway.

Revenue is a useless metric. What’s the profit?

Or they could offer annual subscriptions?

securely exchange information

Uh-huh, and who is in charge of what information is exchanged? The AI?

Link is dead

I am not exaggerating one bit:

Wish I could believe you but I honestly don’t believe anyone who says this anymore.

The one that suggests Signal collects your IP addresses.

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The only metadata they collect is:

1. The last time you connected to their server

2. When you first registered

it’s a direct drive steering wheel

Yeah, probably none of that is going to work without lots of tinkering.

I also run a Quest2 for VR through Virtual Desktop

VR is also notoriously problematic in Linux.

Would a dual boot be viable until I can be sure everything is working?

Not really necessary, that’s what live boot disks are for (basically booting from a USB drive). To test if things work.

Why publicly criticize a distro based on a guess that its users are unwilling to use what it offers?

Because expecting users to manually add shit after the fact to make the OS functional is dumb.

I don’t know what that is.

BTW

I agree. However, I will say, in my experience, if you want to use it exclusively as a gaming PC and exclusively with Steam, and without any sim peripherals, and without some competitive online multiplayer games, it works extremely well, and without any hassle.