shaytan

I agree needing a phone number is a dealbreaker, the reasoning I've seen is:

• It's a core dependency on Signal, and replacing it would require a major overhaul.
• Serves as an Anti-spam feature
• Helps with contact discovery among common users

My opinion?

• 1st statement makes sense but maybe it's somewhat incorrect.
• 2nd statement is true, Signal has had an increasingly amount of spam since they added "username accounts" linked to number, I can tell myself.
• 3rd is true, I discovered two guys I knew used it and it was nice. When SMS on signal was still around, I suppose having a phone number also made more sense.

In general, signal has proved they store no data besides the phone number itself, and in court they have only been able to give phone numbers.

Now it's up to privacy oriented users like many here to think about ways of getting a burner phone number for his without their name on it.

But I still agree with your point, they could work on better or more private ways of using Signal.

I just lend my steam deck to my girlfriend and she games around, your aproach is 100% valid

Valve released a console, and you can use it as you wish, if you want help with installing wayland let me know, or you can search for any other tutorial online

Have fun gaming :)

Waydroid in this tutorial is running in a "cage" so it can run under X11 which is an older system used by the current KDE version in the steamdeck.

To install it on bazzite (under Wayland instead of X11), it's even simpler.

   rpm-ostree install waydroid

and

   sudo dnf install waydroid

So if you are ussing bazzite, follow first option here

That's fine!, maybe you find someone to help you here in case you need it. If you don't need help, then all good :)

This place is still about trying to revive topics we like, not just moderating them, so maybe someone sees this and decides to post something in there.

pd. [email protected] (your link gives 404, /c/ doesn't work thus it tries to load it as a user profile.

For me it usually comes to:

• Android TV to dock the steam deck on my living room and use it as such
• Some very specific games, like PvZ2, or roblox
• Specific apps like "Stremio", have a better touch screen experience under Waydroid compared to their flatpack version

You are right

But in this case, the "steamos-waydroid-installer" creates a cage ( A wayland compositor running X11), and uses XWayland to render that. That creates a nested Wayland environment, with some overhead, but it works :))

Edit: The good thing is, overhead isnt nearly even a problem, since you're probably not getting the steamdeck to suffer under android emulation. Still, I believe and hope next big SteamOS update will switch to Wayland, leaving X11 behind

Hello! I missed that on the rules, I'll fix it

I'll make sure it is updated, no worries

This is going into the wiki and you know it

Not a personal preference

In the new instance rule, the only exception allowed has been xcancel

It's outside of our control

To add to this, all kinds of fitness trackers are still trackers, and they will sell your data.

I don't have much knowledge of privacy-respecting alternatives, but this post on the GrapheneOS forum covers that for those interested.

Eventually, I'm sure we'll cover hardware privacy more extensively in this community, as it deserves its own guide.

We do have to be strict about this, as this rule comes from the instance and we must comply with that.

Still, avoiding traditional social media in general is a thing I support, so for me this rule is great. And I believe it also aligns with the view of a community who cares about privacy, as X/Twitter does like users data a lot.

A privacy report on X/Twitter here