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Avid Amoeba

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  • Jolla Trying Again To Develop A New Sailfish OS Linux Smartphone

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  • Kinda. But also kinda not. The cost of getting a phone made has decreased and there are many, many manufacturers who can make one for you these days. From that perspective, if you have small niche where people are alright with paying a bit of a premium, it may in fact be easier to make a phone for them than say in 2012.

    The total device cost will be 499 EUR or 599~699 EUR as the "normal" price with the voucher deducting from the phone's cost if/when available.

    This price for a low volume device would have been completely unachievable in 2012.

  • WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

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  • They knew they could be overlords and were that before The Great Depression too. We are just surpassing the level of wealth inequality that was reached prior to the system collapsing back then. What followed in the 40s and 50s was an abnormal period created by the implementation of a significant number of socialist policies that stemmed the desire for blood by the disposessed masses. These fuckers have been working to dismantle them ever since. If we find a formula that allows for such reforms to stick for longer than several decades, that would be nice. There's good reasons for skepticism though.

  • WTF Just Happened? | The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron

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  • Steve still doesn't quite see that this is the capitalist system working as intended - serving the owner (capitalist) class, but he's definitely getting radicalized by the current reality of it.

  • Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]

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  • It's still informative. His other stuff is good too.

  • Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]

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  • Good vid but he's falling a bit for the corporate propaganda that costs determine prices and that consumers have real power over price setting. Most firms maximize prices while minimizing costs. Consumers have especially little market power in a consolidated market like home appliances.

  • Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port

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  • Indeed. The hard lesson that I learned over my 20 years of experience with FOSS is that the social infrastructure around a piece of software is more important than the exact details of the technology itself such as programming languages, frameworks, patterns, etc. And the license is a part of that social infrastructure.

  • Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Initial Wayland Port

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  • On a technical level, that's cool.

    On a practical level MIT-licensed OS better not get much mindshare. Cue everything that happened with important projects under permissive licenses over the last decade. E.g. Android, Chromium. I used to dgaf and was even quite excited about stuff like Fuscia OS. Boy did we dodge a bullet there with Google abandoning it.

  • Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense

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  • I don't think meaningful communication is a KPI they optinize for. More likely time spent in the Discover feed.

  • Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense

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  • I doubt it.

  • Valve's version of Android on Linux (based on Waydroid) is now called Lepton

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  • Has been for a long time with Waydroid. This is probably gonna make it easier to use.

  • WHY???

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  • Because hexagons are the bestagons.

  • Mastodon features

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  • Or Circles from Google+.

  • Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds - LTT

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  • if his employees felt like they needed to form a union, then he would have failed as an employer

    This is a standard anti-union line. It aims to maintain a union-free status quo. Employees in a non-coop union-free workplace have very little leverage to get more of the profits they generate. The workplace environment might be alright, employees might be paid alright. That doesn't mean they're paid fairly for the value they create. When there's no union, employee pay is set by the labour market, regardless of how much value they create for the employer. If an employee creates 10x what they're paid and they ask for triple pay, their employer would say there's another candidate to take their place, that it would be a bit of hassle to train so they'd give the employee some marginal raise, to not deal with that. A union on the other hand creates the negotiating leverage to get much more of the value employees create, by threatening a significant financial and reputational loss for the employer. Linua doesn't want that. Most employers don't.

  • Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds - LTT

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  • If it helped you, that's great. We can dislike LTT for our reasons and appreciate the positive impact when they have it.

  • I highly recommend journalctl-desktop-notification

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  • This is cool but for self-hosting you probably want a more robust monitoring system capable of alerting at all times. Prometheus is what I use. It also gathers data over time and can monitor many machines.

  • Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking and Instruct land in llama.cpp

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  • So not an AMD AM5 dual-channel system. 😅

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • Ubuntu

  • Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B Thinking and Instruct land in llama.cpp

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  • How much RAM does something like that need?

  • Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream

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  • Fun fact, Igalia is a worker co-op that does open source development for hire.

  • Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica

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  • That's odd because the clients are just web apps I think. That should work without crashing on a stable OS. I use them on Android mobile and Android TV with extensive subtitle usage and haven't seen instability.

    A funny thing I noticed is that the client distributed in F-Droid is extremely old even though it says it's updated recently.