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2 days agoWhy can’t you run your own OS anymore? You don’t have to buy a Pixel. This news is about Pixel phones, one of the many many many Android phones…
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You heard stuff? What stuff specifically? Care to elaborate and provide sources?
Isn’t SailFish a Russian outfit? Also, every time I’ve looked at their phones, they were either sold out or somehow unavailable. Are they still active?
Get a FairPhone with /e/OS. Give money to people who actually want to see an open ecosystem, not lock it down.
2·6 days agoIf they moved it to Kiel, I don’t know what would happen to Munich and their Microsoft policy. One can only hope the federal politicians aren’t as corrupt as the ones in Munich, but they are just people too.
Nearly every government in Europe is beholden to Microsoft. There was a news article recently about how only one single municipality in the Netherlands hosted their own services on their own hardware. If Germany, the probably least digitally progressive country in the EU, suddenly decides to do more than just talk about opensource and actually use it across all government agencies, it would be a huge signal.
Only time will tell. Trump better keep beating his great big drum to keep the pro-opensource voices strong. Without it, it would be back to business in no time.
You did not read my comment did you? Please read it again…
Because reports say “Germany” when they talk about some town in the middle of a rape seed field nobody’s heard of adopting Linux. Everyone’s heard of Limux, the distro for Munich, that was killed by the Christian conservatives for sweet sweet Microsoft money.
I can understand your scepticism, Germany is not the country of innovation and progress these days. However, let’s not spread fake news about “Germany wanting Linux for a decade”. It simply isn’t true. There hasn’t been an official statement like this from the federal digital minister… ever. At least not that I can find. That this comes from a Christian democrat is even more astounding.
Whether it will result in anything (he just wants to “raise awareness”) and be tabled as soon as this invitation to be lobbied by GAFAM is taken up, who knows. The Christian democrats have promised 100% fiber internet for a decade too and any trip through Germany has always been a lesson in patient with the internet. Hell, rice fields in fucking Vietnam and the middle of the goddamn jungle in South America have had better internet that in the middle of large German cities.
At least, if it’s said by the digital minister of Germany, there’s a possibility other European countries will listen and actually do more than Germany promised.
9·7 days agoI assumed this was going to be a negative article because my experience with canonical was equally disappointing. It only took me one go to drop it though. The pseudo-scientific questions in the online assessment got me so annoyed I was just cursing by the time it was over. Companies with this kind of selection process do not deserve the talent they get.
Shuttleworth’s involvement in the recruitment process explains why Ubuntu is such an annoying operating system to deal with. He probably gets involved in wrong places all the time. There likely is some kind of vision, but the dude won’t listen to critique, and surrounds himself with yes-men.
Redhat was… not as bad, but there’s something equally annoying about yet another opensource company deciding to copy silicon valley recruitment processes, instead of thinking for themselves and trying to be innovative in that regard too.
1·11 days agoI really think if flatpaks were built upon nix, it would resolve these problems. It would however bring a new problem: people would have to learn forsaken nix 💀
1·11 days agoThat knowledge is gone. Everything is a web app running JavaScript in a browser. We don’t need to be encumbered by pesky things like pages and folders. 😋
11·12 days agoThe weights for the neural network or the embeddings?
We’re not 20 years in the past, old man.
364·13 days agoIn a decade, most games will be cross platform but compiled for
windowsproton and people will have forgotten why. Then somebody or some group will come up with “cross platform compilation” and the circle will start a new only to return to proton or some form of it.
What is a “kernel” in this context? It doesn’t seem to be related to the OS kernel but some kind of graphics kernel? Whatever that is…
5·13 days agoAre you doing his in any official capacity? Who are you? And who is “us”?
LOL. Let me guess “just use Emacs/vim”?
No thank you bruv. Been there, done that. Terrible experience.
https://github.com/emacs-tw/awesome-emacs
https://github.com/lunarvim/lunarvim
All of these emulated only a fraction of the power of IDEs, even after weeks of trying to get them configured properly.
Inb4 “you’re doing it wrong”. Nah mate, IDEs work out of the box and don’t require opening a text file to change settings while going through reams of documentation.
I right click in a file and it shows me the most important contextual commands. No need to find the " leader key", scroll through all the 1 billion commands, I don’t have to “download a LSP and DAP” then “configure treesitter” or whatever the fuck kind of apes are in the editor.
Those editors have steep learning curves and get you productive eventually. IDEs get you there much more quickly. Yeah yeah, they hide complexity and “people don’t know what’s actually going on anymore” but sometimes I just want to get going instead of fighting my editor first. Feel me?
Meanwhile: vim and Emacs users, constantly installing and configuring plugins to emulate a fraction of the power of IDEs, go “just use vim/Emacs”.
Did they resolve their issue with that other company? I can’t remember what was going on but the owner of automattic was pissed about them not contributing back or something? Did something change?
Anything built on top of atproto I tend to distrust. Doesn’t it all hinge upon the makers of bluesky hosting their central node for it to work?
Oh sweet! a question then for you: can you explain what the FairPhone is missing in terms of security? Do you maybe have notes comparing it to the Pixel? As a security layman, I’m curious.
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