Even as paying customers we still the product somehow.

Even moreso as a paying customer: being one is a strong signal that you have disposable income.

They do now: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-update-brings-ac...

There are community servers, official matchmaking was killed off.

Makes sense as they invested billions into Rivian to get access to their software.

Firefox has vertical tabs now, but they are still behind a feature flag I think. Using them for some time now and it's working great.

Also, the Sidebery extension for Firefox is great for vertical tabs.

What was the issue with your setup? TV not in game mode?

Never got to the bottom of it. TV was set to game mode, I tried various scaler settings on the deck itself, couldn't get it below about 90-100ms. I've tried on two TVs.

You can learn to play Space Channel 5 by tapping 100ms ahead of the beat. But I worried that if I succeeded too much, I'd end up doing everything that way: jumping red lights, taking espresso shots while they were still being poured etc.

Living With Lag: https://www.fastcompany.com/3029918/what-its-like-to-experie...

...what it's like to experience video game lag in real life.

The new screen option for the 13" model has a much better webcam.

The new Cosmic is written from scratch in Rust with the iced GUI library.

Good to know. I was going of a sibling comment with a link to their Github repo, in which Cosmic is described as a Gnome skin.

You don't have to run the web interface on the server.

You can use Cockpit Client (from flathub) to connect with SSH.

Dolphin has "selection mode" for a while now. I like that in combination with single click open.

https://pointieststick.com/2022/08/19/this-week-in-kde-dolph...