Does the app check for strongest variany of Safetynet / Play Integrity?

I’d say even cheap Androids can last long: Samsung A series receive 4 OS updates and after updates are over, you can get a few more years with last supported OS until battery or app compatibility becomes a problem.

This still works, it is my only method of interaction with Teams

Software Updater is an application, maybe you can turn it off with ADB.

nevermind. the cache part of HDD won’t appear in task manager, it is transparent to the OS. But this HDD has only 8MB of cache, not really useful. Still it is very good if the HDD can stay responsive.

afaik Android System Intelligence and apps using that will not show the mic icon

It is actually Valve allowing or denying refunds, not the developer. When GTAV Online stopped working on Deck, some people with hundreds of playtime successfully refunded the game, iirc someone even refunded their Deck.

cough S Mode cough Windows RT cough

nope

Some HDDs are “hybrid”: they have a sizable amount (~8-16 GB) of SSD storage that the drive firmware stores the most often accessed blocks, rest is accessed from usual spining rust. You may have that kind of HDD.

I also touch grass if I need to check if filesystem is read-write

An SSD will make a huge difference

on a VM, I could boot windows from only 256MB RAM

BCM4360 doesn’t work reliably for me even to this day

Now imagine Linux withmitigations=off

I had to set up an app on Wine + macOS, the app spawns bg processes that have a window (on Wine, not on Windows) for some reason and each time that happens the main window app loses focus. Couldn’t solve it. On Linux + Plasma Wayland the problem is inverse ie. even the main window doesn’t have an icon on taskbar, if you minimize it you can restore with only Alt + Tab.

people who install Windows on their Steam Deck?

I see this way too often, nearly half of the 2nd hand Decks sold here have Windows🤷‍♂️

https://manjarno.pages.dev/ Manjaro’s Pamac took AUR down twice, also their website had its SSL certs expire 4 times

My plan is exclusive to carrier’s data only SIMs, the SIM card has a phone number but cannot receive calls. I don’t think I can call even emergency services. Using a 2nd SIM with no plan to receive calls and the outgoing calls are always over WhatsApp. The point is if you look for data only SIMs you may find cheaper plans.

“Mission complete” sound on Space Cadet Pinball