If I tap-and-hold the image of an image post and tap “Share image,” it shares the image with a URL, which in Signal results in a message containing only the URL. If I use the share button instead of tap-and-hold+share, it shares the actual image. Why are the behaviors different? Why would sharing an image ever lead to anything happening other than just sharing the image?

This is Voyager, btw.

Skate Story was a real trip. I love the surreality of the thing. It may be my favorite skateboarding game apart from Tony Hawk.

I’m on a much weirder setup than you’re proposing — Bazzite Linux with a Pico 4 connected wirelessly via ALVR — and it mostly just works. I had to jump through a few hoops to get everything working to start, mostly related to tweaking wireless and audio configuration, but these are things I doubt you’ll encounter at all with an Index. I haven’t tried a game yet that doesn’t work. I mostly just care about Beat Saber and a couple of others, but they’re all working well. I’ve even bought a few new games since switching to Linux, and I can’t recall any I’ve tried that don’t work, out of maybe a dozen or so total I’ve tried. I suspect you’ll have a much smoother experience with the Index.

I’ve tried a few of these, and I’ve never found one that doesn’t feel like I’m inviting a sales rep to live on my home server. They’re technically open source, but it’s obvious their primary purpose in this form is to upsell you. I understand it, but it’s just not what I want so I’ve ended up getting rid of each one after tinkering with them for a while.

I guess the same could be said for n8n, but I find it more tolerable. I have set up a Valkey instance though and use it for persistent storage through n8n’s Redis support. That works well enough for my fairly limited use case.

I’m using ALVR with a Pico 4 headset on Linux, and it’s pretty solid. I’m not playing a ton of VR games, but so far I haven’t found anything that doesn’t work. It has some quirks, but it works pretty well. I’m very happy with it.