Not inviting Iran and Oman to these talks is a dick move and also just stupid. It is their territorial waters, and Iran will have military control over Hormuz by the end of the war, so any plan that doesn’t involve them is likely to get rained on by missiles.
Windows 11 is less of a poop smelling ice cream truck and more of a Kaiser’s Coffee Shop van. And you ain’t in the driver’s seat.
Better still, in the Nix world there’s https://github.com/nix-community/plasma-manager which allows you to set up all the settings exactly once, and then auto-apply them on all the machines!
Honestly for desktop usage it doesn’t really matter. All inits have their idiosyncrasies (“A stop job is running for Session”/logging hell on openrc/etc). But for managing a fleet of bare-metal servers I find systemd to be the best, most polished one out of the lot.
Windows disappearing is a hiccup while things adapt
I would argue it’s not. There’s still a lot of professional and industrial software that doesn’t run on Linux at all, even through Wine. I’ve had a glimpse into the world of industrial automation, there’s a bunch of devices that simply don’t have the drivers to run on anything but a specific (old) version of Windows. Supply chain issues would persist for decades.
That’s just not true. Most ATMs still run on Windows. There is a lot of industrial machinery running Windows 98 or XP to this day. A lot of POS devices too. Almost all accounting is done on Windows. The amount of chaos if it disappeared would be immense, it would probably be on the same order of magnitude as the last pandemic in terms of immediate economic impact as businesses have to manically switch to alternatives, and hundreds or thousands of people would die from financial chaos alone.
Linux is probably still worse because it would mean that more than half of smartphones are suddenly bricked, literally all of the internet just stops working, and a shitton of industrial automation stuff is gone.
No (well, in theory it could work but I didn’t manage to set up 81voltd). Regular calls via 3G networks do work.
Well, you have to get one used :) It’s like 7 years old now
To be honest ATM I just copped out and I’m running Plasma Mobile (with some tweaks). I really wanna get used to sxmo but it just doesn’t click with me.
As for a tutorial, I think this is somewhat similar to what I’ve done: https://github.com/mwlaboratories/phoneputer
Except I also flashed an older version of OxygenOS with edl (https://codeberg.org/magdesign/sxmop6/wiki/EDL) to get GPS to work.
No, but regular calls (via 3G networks) work-ish; the only problem is that you can’t switch the audio output, i.e. hands-free calls are not a thing.
You mean NixOS? Well, it’s definitely not as polished as pmOS, but most things do work. My gf is using it as an LTE-enabled music player, and I’m using it to ssh into my servers when I’m out and about.
It required some hackery to get GPS and the modem to work, but then it’s mostly similar to pmOS. I need to find some time to sit down, clean up my config and publish it somewhere, but life’s main quest line is preventing any side projects rn.
If you can get it for not too much money, I’d definitely spring for it. Even if you find it doesn’t suit your daily needs (it probably doesn’t just yet), it will at least be a fun toy for playing with mobile linux.
OnePlus 6/6T + PostmarketOS (I run NixOS on mine but I’m weird). Seriously.
Ok, so the first two sound reasonable, but blabbering about “non-retroactivity” and being against reparations is fucking pathetic. Imagine taking that legal position during Nuremberg.
“Will not affect power users at all” is just not true. I will now have to wait an entire day before I can start using my next phone. Well, either that or android-translation-layer advances enough for me to switch to a Linux phone full-time.
This seems to be an opt-in, user-supplied field that apps can use to implement parental controls easier. If you’re gonna do birth dates at all, this is the way.
But IMO it should be more granular: there should be fields for WWW access, social media access, sex/nudity/violent content, and apps should respect those individually. Then parents can choose what is appropriate for their child at their development level.
I mean, it is some carbrain propaganda that aligned with the government-approved destruction of walkable cities and public transit. Soo it is kind to a hymn to enshittification in its own way.
Man vs reeducation camp guards
If you’re ok with a little piracy, this exists: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dd3boh.outertune
And then you can also buy your favorite albums/songs on bandcamp to actually support the artists!
Soo, they piped a probabilistic token predictor straight into a root console of a customer-facing service, and it only caused an outage twice so far? They should consider themselves lucky.
Yes. But that’s just a dick move, because while it sucks there’s not much Ukraine can realistically do about it.
Meanwhile this is also stupid because Iran clearly holds all the cards (and anti-ship missiles) there.