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I thought you were playfully conflating google with MS given they’re equally fucked in 2025, but I looked this up anyway and holy damn.

I would try to get the repack set up via the lutris client using the appropriate method for the installation media you have. Do you know if it’s the steam or origin version?

I don’t suppose the lutris install script for this game helps at all?

https://lutris.net/games/command-conquer-remastered-collection/

sort of like a more accessible bookmark, separated out so as to not get buried within 800 tabs (if you’re anything like my mum). it’s not anything groundbreaking in actual use, I guess it kind of just appifies a given webpage (there is some technical nuance that I’m kind of glossing over to assure standards compliance and help them perform better offline).

It can be kind of nice on a phone to eliminate some of the UI chrome given the limited screen real estate you have.

I’m sorry that happened. I’ve never seen stuff like this but this is likely because I disable as much shit as I can every time I set Firefox up on a new system. As you can see from the list of recs I linked above, it’s a bit of a chore.

There are definitely smarter ways to go about it, like scripting the disablement of stupid shit in Firefox (or using a privacy respecting fork of the browser), but I like to do this / monitor this manually to keep track of any newly introduced anti features.

I don’t think PWAs are necessarily at odds with this? One use case I could imagine is setting up a website that a parent or grandparent frequently uses as an app icon on their phone’s home screen, it can help avoid a lot of browsing UX hurdles people like us often take for granted

pixelfed offer an app and a responsive website; you can think of it as an open source and federated alternative to Instagram (I’m not sure why I use it besides welcoming people leaving meta’s services and up voting pictures of cats and dogs).

The web experience is technically more capable than the android app, which I believe uses react native anyway. Having it as a pwa kind of neatly tucks it away from my other browsing on my phone.

I don’t use them for many things but in terms of UX, I can totally agree with that. my guidance would just be to disable unprompted suggestions on the desktop rather than the functionality of PWAs.

in my (albeit limited) experience, that isn’t how it works. for example, ublock origin should still filter content as you’d expect, and I’d imagine inspect element would work on desktops too.

this just renders a webpage without the typical UI chrome (tabs, address/omnibar). it can be handy on am android phone for webapps like pixelfed (which is the only thing I use as pwa so far).

the functionality is known as progressive web apps or PWAs. Did this notification come up unprompted? You may need to switch off certain settings within Firefox if so.

you can refer to one of my older posts for more info, reach out if you need a hand with anything.

It’s a real company, that ad looks as if it could be real as well, given that face is used on their website

I’d never heard of arrow lake dying like raptor has been? wild.

as far as I’m aware, those should be fine, I’d still recommend upgrading to the latest SBIOS (3.40) where available

But ASRock 800 series AM5 boards are killing granite ridge 3D CPUs en masse. Funny enough, it happened to me.

I begrudgingly switched to Asus after my CPU was RMA’d as that was the only other vendor to offer ECC compat on a consumer platform.

I’ll consider you lucky. I’ve had many experiences with their hardware across different segments (phones, tablets, laptops, mainboards, NICs, displays, GPUs).

They’re an atrocious vendor with extremely poor customer support (and shitty SW practicies for UMA systems and motherboards).

I don’t think many people have been as unfortunate as I have with them, the general consensus is they mark their products up considerably relative to competition (particularly mainboards & GPUs).

To be fair, their contemporaries arent much butter.

in that situation, Asus are the shitty part, though it is nice to see more TV-sized monitors. Fuck HDMI.

which distro and hardware config? Can’t speak to docker as I don’t use that any more, I’ve yet to get stuck into homeassistant, but games are just click and run on most distros with steam?

can they temporarily remove the GPU to give you a better look at the lower half of the mainboard?

If you get a shot of the rear IO, you can probably determine what is is using the AM4 google sheet, though that’d be a bit long winded.

in a notebook? would you be willing to try something like a graphite pad?

I’ll make my own internet… with blackjack

For whatever it’s worth, i learned something today from the other guy above in the thread, and I think it’s valuable that you shared your experience.