"Who needs beta testing or early access, we made Anthem, this will be brilliant! Who needs a staff, we can run it with the bare minimum."
Feel sad for all the devs who already lost their jobs a few weeks back n now these last few left but fuck that company! Thought they could simply profit off all the work from their staff by sacking them all immediately after release.
Sometimes companies do get exactly what they deserve.
It really depends on the banking app, for example mine used google play store to download but doesnt need it to run at all (updates happen from it though). So i can run it on my main profile with GPS (google play store) disabled.
Protip - Download something like the Shelter app so you can set up a Work profile space and install the apps that need GPS to run n then this can be the space where you have these apps. Shelter has a really handy feature that lets you get notifications from these apps when on another profile n can send files between. Best of all you can pause the work space, basically stops all apps.
At the start i had quite a few GPS apps here but I've slowly using less n less. At the moment there are three apps there that I need for work but only rarely so really need to unpause that space like 2% of the time.
P.S - try and ensure the apps on your main profile are not downloaded from GPS/Aurora Store. You can check the app info to see which store you downloaded them from. If you can, get them from other stores (others have given good tips on those already) or their own websites/githubs. Basically want to have zero connected apps n can disable google play store n services on your main profile.
I am with ya. I completed it first time, took a while to get used to, very flawed game but did enjoy it. Basically became very powerful (fed on everybody lol).
On a replay trying to be 'good', it just annoys me that so much fun is taken away from you and it makes a tedious game excruciatingly tedious. Like i get it, making your choice to be good have consequences and you live with them. But that choice also directly stands in the way of fun. Dropped that playthrough after couple hrs.
Still would recommend for 90% off though.
How weird is it that there aren't more good vampire games? Like hasn't been a single 'great' game since Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines and even then, that was a pretty terribly made game. Unofficial patches and mods made that great! Seems to be such a gap in the market.
I think Vampyr comes with some serious jank, similar to VtMB before it, although doesn't come close to its grestness, unfortunately.
Since you specifically mentioned gaming and streaming, a great option for you as a beginner is Nobara.
It is built specifically for gaming and streaming and has many of the tools pre-installed and makes DaVinci Resolve setup really easy (is a challenge otherwise lol). It's based on Fedora, heavily modified kernel for performance and makes Fedora ready for gaming out of the box (which is why I discourage Fedora for gaming as a beginner, that takes a lot of set up for gaming and nvidia).
Nobara is also great for beginners because it comes with some brilliant GUI options - apps that let you click onto the specific drivers, packages you might need and the Welcome app includes options step by step of what to install. You will mostly use such an app for updates, so it takes away a lot of the fear of the terminal (but you can still use no problem). It also includes some great options for streaming apps you'll need.
Also comes with KDE as its main suggestion (Nobara version of it or pure KDE, very little difference, basically the same with a few extra Nobara icons added i think). KDE is a fantastic DE, the workflow is similar to Windows out of the box and you won't be unfamiliar with it, great one to start with. Plus its so customisable so you can get it looking very different from windows if you wish (which i did with mine).
They have a great Discord too if you wanna ask any questions about specific games or issues. It's basically Fedora but gentler learning curve and everything you need ready to go out of the box
I can second Hyper X for Linux. Using the USB dongle is perfect for wireless, as I dont like having Bluetooth enabled all the time. I only enable it when using my controller on my laptop. Headphones are great and not crazy expensive. I just wanted headphones that worked and they do exactly that.
Haven't had a single issue with my Hyper X Stinger headset across the distros I've tried (PopOS, Nobara, Cachy, Endeavor).
Umm yeah, thats right! Big Cinema only wants certain films to be promoted and available, so it releases films at the cinema and it might seem its the exact same treatment as other films. But if those films criticise 'the guilty', then it disappears them. I heard it sends the films to CIA black sites, never to be seen again.
If I were you I wouldn't wanna be caught up in such a serious conspiracy, what if Big Cinema gets to you for simply pulling the curtain aside?
Definitely dont wanna get caught up in the ongoing, underground war between Big Streaming and Big Cinema!
To a certain degree, this has already been happening in Spain for over a year now (believe it started in 2024, possibly even 2023). Vast swathes of the internet gets blocked during games because they share the same Cloudflare IPs. It's affected so many random businesses that have absolutely nothing to do with football.
I have to deal with tons of app issues in work, from users of Samsung and Xiaomi. I would honestly never buy either brand.
They are both filled with proprietary garbage, you have to use workarounds to try and disable and even then, these two companies are some of the worst for simply ignoring the workarounds and overriding them.
I bought a laptop very similar (same model group but from the year after) to this just before Christmas for my niece. Got it 2nd hand, as my brother was just looking a laptop that she could browse on and maybe do some homework.
I refurbished it and got it cleaned up and I tried lubuntu, xubuntu, linux mint xfce and one other (forget now). Same thing kept happening. Would simply freeze when trying to boot them. Had removed Secure Boot too.
After couple days of trying I ended up giving up and going with a Windows 10 LTSC IoT version from Massgrave for her.
Wish I had better news or something more productive for you. Sorry!
While my personal opinion is that the ending was very silly lol, I would still highly recommend Sense8 overall (original idea was just awesome). I thought it was just such a lovely show at times, could make you laugh and cry. Really highlights how empathy is fundamental.
The hubris lol... Oh the hubris!
"Who needs beta testing or early access, we made Anthem, this will be brilliant! Who needs a staff, we can run it with the bare minimum."
Feel sad for all the devs who already lost their jobs a few weeks back n now these last few left but fuck that company! Thought they could simply profit off all the work from their staff by sacking them all immediately after release.
Sometimes companies do get exactly what they deserve.