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    Google's new rules could wipe out sideloading and alternative app stores, F-Droid warns

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  • I know, I've played with postmarket os before on an old Pixel. The issue is that the usability gap between even AOSP (which is barely usable) and the latest and greatest mobile linux distro is enormous. The issues that exist right now may or may not bother you and I, but they are showstoppers for normal people.

    I just don't see what there is to be gained (for end users) from creating another Linux mobile OS instead of just building on top of AOSP. In theory, having a community-driven OS is a great idea because even a GPL fork of Android wouldn't survive long due to divergence/fragmentation. If a truly community-driven OS can achieve a sustainable development process, that'd be nice. However, in practice the evil stuff Google does is on the business side, not the code side. For example, if you port Phosh to Android as a custom launcher, you'd end up with a similar user experience, except with the added benefit of a phone that actually works and a massive ecosystem of working apps. Sure, you can't apt install blender, but nobody actually wants to run desktop apps on a smartphone.

    And another thing is that a lot of the freedom-restricting bullshit on Android today is the fault of device manufacturers who lock the bootloader and make it difficult/impossible to run custom operating systems. Even if you build a feature-complete alternative to Android, you're still going to be struggling hard to get it running on real devices without buy-in from OEMs. How will you convince OEMs to ship your OS over Android? Answer: you won't.

    So IMO, Postmarket OS and similar projects will only ever be toys for nerds like us who want to play with e-waste devices abandoned by the manufacturer.

    Want to break Google's stranglehold on Android? Write to your representatives and start voting in more than just the presidential election (If you're American). We live in a democracy, and Google is obviously breaking antitrust laws. It's just that current politicians are corrupt and incompetent boomers who don't understand tech, and are more likely to listen to the billionaire's lobbyists than us internet nerds.

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  • Besides myself, I think I've only ever met one or two other people who know enough about technology to even be capable of using something like that.

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  • I don't think that's the right answer. Android isn't a good operating system, it's a great operating system for mobile. All these mobile Linux distro projects face a monumental challenge to reach parity with Android on almost any metric. Even if any one of them was backed by major investment, I don't think they'll ever succeed...and if they do, we'd just end up with multiple competing open source operating systems which just creates pointless fragmentation.

    Android is open source, but it's held by an evil monopolist. The most effective path to freedom on mobile is legal/regulatory, and supporting efforts to break Google up. They've already been declared an illegal monopoly twice in two separate cases. The first one ended with a slap on the wrist, because the judge was a spineless coward. The second one is currently in the remedy phase, and hopefully will have a real impact.

  • How Ruby Went Off the Rails

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  • Excellent title

  • Linux Distribution "NixOS" drama: Moderation Team resigns in protest over Interference of Leadership; Elected Leader works for US Military Company, fearing alignment with US fascistic development

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  • Peter Thiel is a character who believes in a single world government using AI outside of any democracy.

    Sorry, but your description doesn't paint an accurate-enough picture of this guy.

    Peter Thiel is a lunatic who believes that AI regulation is the anti-christ, and he's currently one of the most powerful people in the world.

  • A Lot Of Rust Code Lining Up For The Linux 6.18 Kernel

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  • Earlier this year, Hector Martin resigned from kernel development because he claimed kernel devs were trying to sabotage efforts to get Rust into the kernel. While he's been gone, it seems the pace of Rust integration has increased significantly, suggesting that maybe he was the problem all along.

    Lesson: always push out egomaniacs who like to create drama more than they want to solve problems.

  • The Programmer Compass

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  • What's the logo between Guix and C?

  • The Programmer Compass

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  • Found the soydev

  • Teams

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  • An RTO mandate isn't growth. Growth would be if they mandated all hard drives containing Teams source code be thrown into a dumpster, and the dumpster lit on fire.

  • Rustdesk Server Pro allegedly violates AGPL license by not distributing source

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  • Isn't the dev behind rustdesk (at least the original) anonymous? I remember that standing out as a red flag for me when I was evaluating options, and ended up going with Mesh Central instead (which works much better imo)

  • The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ on sale now at $200

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  • Define "ultimate"

    Pis are neat, but they're not particularly great at anything, and they in fact suck at most things. They're toys except maybe for some very specific use cases (for which anyone reading this doesn't fall under).

    You can find something more powerful and useful for $200. Just buy a used laptop, and you even get a battery, screen, and touchpad (neither of which come with the pi)

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

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    In major backtracking move, Microsoft makes Windows 10 extended security updates free for users in the EEA

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  • I wonder (fantasize, really) if this is in response to more and more people moving towards Linux and alternatives to MS Office? If it's about the threat of being sued over the DMA, a one year extension seems arbitrary and probably not enough to address whatever the legal issues would be.

  • Linux Users

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  • bash supports this feature too btw

  • Bytedance Proposes "Parker" For Linux: Multiple Kernels Running Simultaneously

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  • Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the point of this is to reduce overhead associated with virtualization (aka VMs). Few workloads are able to take advantage of the massive compute resources that a single beefy machine has, so partitioning it is the most efficient use of resources, especially in data centers where maximizing efficiency is important.

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    Notorious software bug was killing people 40 years ago — at least three people died after radiation doses that were 100x too strong from the buggy Therac-25 radiation therapy machine

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  • My (expensive) Frigidaire microwave has a feature where you can 'add 5 seconds' to the timer by pressing a button on the touch screen. However, if you press it when there's less than 5 seconds left, the timer display freezes and it doesn't add any extra time. This shit infuriates me like you wouldn't believe. Either they're so lazy/incompetent that they didn't test this one edge case, or they did but didn't care enough to fix it. If I wasn't a programmer, I probably wouldn't be bothered by it, but seeing such sloppy code seriously pisses me off. A fucking unpaid intern could fix that.

    My head would probably explode if someone I loved was killed by a software bug. This is why I'm terrified of people trying to shove AI into every product. 99% of these people don't know what the fuck they're doing, and even the experts who created the model they're licensing aren't able to solve critical issues like hallucination.

  • Might need to switch distros, which one should i use?

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  • KDE recently released their own immutable distro based on Arch. It's still early though, so maybe use Bazzite or Kinoite in the meantime.

    OpenSUSE MicroOS is another immutable like Fedora Atomic, and you can use it as a desktop.

  • Firefox is Ending Support for 32 bit Linux

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  • Whoa, take a deep breath, relax a bit. Modern life can get us constantly on our nerves, I understand it, but let’s not take it out on each other.

    Any comment can appear hostile if you that's what you're looking for. I didn't think my comment was hostile, but intent isn't always obvious on the internet (and up/downvote systems tend to quickly distort it). In any case, if you're trying to keep a discussion civil, making condescending assumptions about someone's mental state is the wrong approach.

    I didn’t comment like complaining in a demanding way, like thinking that mozilla devs would have to maintain it for me. I just commented to express myself and show that there are real people still using 32-bit software around the world

    That's fine, and I never accused you of doing so.

    I assume you saw my other comment already in this thread, which explains my position. I'll take this to mean that we're in agreement, so this exchange can have a happy ending 💖

  • Firefox is Ending Support for 32 bit Linux

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  • It depends. Spend enough time on bug trackers and forums for open source software, and you're bound to encounter hostile assholes shitting on devs when they make decisions to drop support for ancient hardware like the OP. It's particularly egregious IMO because they usually are willing and happy to use an ancient build of some proprietary software without complaining, but feel entitled to demand more from open source maintainers for some reason.

    If you're doing it for your own fun, not making demands of devs/maintainers, and accepting that you're not going to get support for a lot of software, then it's all good.