Manufacturer are going SDV, whether we like it out not. Software defined vehicle. They’re a computing platform on wheels.

Like a computer or a smartphone, buying the hardware does not grant you access to all software ever made for that plateform.

Hopefully one day we’ll see some computing hardware standardization across brands and openness for third party apps and subscriptions.

The current status of being at the mercy of a single vendor is terrible. Given standardized and similar computing hardware and APIs, I’d like to try Mercedes or Cadillac or Tesla’s FSD one month each and see which one I prefer and can afford.

sudo apt --update upgrade -y

Well that’s just depressing. Bought one a few years ago thinking I was doing my part in cutting emissions. There weren’t really any other brands that had cars available, not to mention the supercharger network.

Now I’m funding far right. FML.

Oh man that’s the old SteamOS 2.0 from 2015.

Valve completely rebased and revamped it in 2022 for the steamdeck. Steam OS 3.6 is the current version and only available for the steamdeck.

There’s no ISO.

https://github.com/TheBeastLT/torrentio-scraper/issues/288

Yeah that’s the only way out of this madness.

It doesn’t include the Playstore per se, but it does provide an installer for a sandboxed Playstore.

Give Grapheneos a try!

Google Pay and RCS don’t work. Third party launchers shouldn’t be an issue if you don’t give them network access. That’s how I use Nova.

Posting from my Oneplus 9 Pro running LineageOS as a proof we do exist! There are dozens of us. DOZENS!

It’s actually an OTA update.

KDE system settings → Power Management → Advanced Power Settings

The problem is vendor support. As soon as a device stop receiving OS and baseband security patches, it becomes potentially insecure.