Not a bad list of games, but I was thinking steam, pc, and independent like hollow night.

The ones on your list are from consoles (from a long time ago). All but one are large publishers, and most are fairly loved games, even after 20+ years for most of those.

Ok, like what? Got a top five they were really great but no one noticed?

I am pretty old and I barely knew the top 40 wishy washy back then… If you are interested in different it was there, streaming helps some, and true a lot is at your finger tips, but most people will still drop into a top 40.

Spotify doesn’t even have much of the music I listen to, I find it mostly useless so there is that.

It doesn’t if you don’t use services and algorithyms… But damn crap like Spotify is popular. I would never, but it’s like they hand it out when you turn 5 and say this is the default!

Good old days? XP was what made me go Linux full time. The enshitification was beginning.

just how old is that screenshot?

Its funny, because that is my experience with carplay, but not my devices.

Car play fucks up. One of the reasons I don’t want it.

I just want a touchscreen cast. Is that too much to ask?

True, but then again I dont want to mess with any screen while I am driving. I line up a couple of podcasts or episodes and that is several hours right there. Or stream from my server, and just line up what i want. I can still skip fast forward change tracks, and I don’t see why, on a linux phone, I couldnt make the blue tooth inputs do more if I mapped them that way.

I noticed that googles is horrendously bad. The open source stuff is ok.

Thanks for that, it hadn’t occured to me Costco would have tofu.

Yeah that would make me pretty damn angry. What about people who don’t have phones at all, what are they supposed to do?

No country should require the technology of 2 monopolies by law.

Once the Bluetooth is paired the one time, there is nothing to do though. Get in car, last thing I streamed is now streaming automatically.

I find car play awful. So I guess there is that. Half the time it does something stupid or the screen gets strange or a bunch of other problems like forcing my nav map when I want a different one.

What I want is true screen casting with touch feedback. That’s it.

Bluetooth works fine (or should work fine) with music, podcasts etc. I do it now with a phone, it’s a standard I don’t see why a mobile device running Linux would be any different.

As for maps, the voice goes over Bluetooth so I don’t see an issue there either.

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Are they must haves? I don’t use tap to pay, pretty useless feature for me.

Cars? I don’t want or need android auto. Bluetooth is the only thing I care about.

Navigation on the device is good enough for me, it doesnt need to use the screen.

I have no interest in mobile banking, but that could be an issue if people are used to sending money to each other instantly via a bank app.

Where are you getting a half pound of tofu alone for under 3$?

Also, its personal preference but damn if siracha isn’t over and just tastes badic and boring. Surely there is a better sauce substitute here.

I find them better. Most of the time. Google is needed every now and then.

DuckDuckGo gets to the point and skips the seo stuff… Mostly.

Although at this point search is nearly useless no matter what you use.

I can see your point. It is so ingrained in me to use a phone I forget that we didnt always do it that way. I shouldnt make the assumption everyone has a phone.

What’s hard about signal? It’s easy to use, my friends and family aren’t tech savvy and they were using it in minutes and it has stuck ever since.