Went ahead and purchased one primarily to tinker with windows emulation. Most excited I’ve been with a phone in a while

Like the other person, in the west it’s being pushed as a Christian thing but it’s pretty indiscriminate. Heavily rural conservative Christian pastors, evangelicals, southern baptist, etc - really push the idea of Nigeria as some christian genocide thing to push fear in US christians and probably drive attendance and donations

These days it’s more about tradition nomadic groups vs the settled towns. Similar issues along the Sahel like in Sudan with the janjaweed groups in the past to today’s civil war. Nigeria has a significant problem with bandits and those pastoral nomads that come into heavy conflict with their staunch beliefs in their rights to have their animals graze as has been tradition for who knows how many thousands of years.

I think it’s to a degree recognized in law for pastoral rights for nomads but it’s pretty non-compatible with modern city/property rights society and they’re hyper aggressive to a point where it’s probably many taking advantage of historic rights to pretty much be bandits. Nigeria has an insanely complex web of different violent dissident groups throughout the country

Someday the evangelical Muslims may be the primary aggressor again in the future but today it seems to be the pastoral nomads and generic bandit groups. Boko Haram is way smaller than it was like 15 years ago. Maybe a backseat these days to the ISIS affiliate that’s spread around the surrounding countries substantially like if I recall correctly, Burkina Faso and Mali. ISIS in Nigeria isn’t to the degree as those two. Not even close yet. ISIS or Al Qaeda affiliates. Incredibly complex and hard to keep up with

This has been simmering for like 30 years it was just easy to ignore because US politics is like a spectator sport to feel good about your own country. Should be no surprise that white and/or Christian nationalism wouldn’t look much different in Europe

The Nobel peace prize has got to be one one of the most nonsense rewards in history. A prize legendary for giving it to warmongers and war lords

For those that don’t follow the going ons in Africa. Kagame is pretty much a dictator with western backing. Rwanda funds rebel groups in neighboring countries that happen to staff a lot of well armed, trained, uniformed “rebels.” These rebel groups happen to rapidly take mineral rich regions and adjacent cities. Those minerals then manage to make it to Europe and the US. African countries that oppose Rwandan expansion happen to be treated as examples of despotic regimes in Africa that need to be sanctioned

They pretty much do the same thing as Israel where they use the military and financial support of western countries to pilliage neighbors to build up tourist attractions and market themselves as the beacon of democracy in Africa

edit: I still want to clarify that although almost every historical post-1950 dictator/genocidal despot in Africa pretty got their start as a puppet of Europeans, the politics extends much more than just Europeans playing the great game in Africa. Like the whole Ethiopia-Eritrea-Somalia conflict exists regardless of Europe. Al Shabbab and other rebel groups in Nigeria exist regardless of Europe. Sudan though - that’s a very multifaceted proxy war involving western Europe, Russia, USA, Saudia Arabia, Egypt, UAE, …

The whole Francophone Africa is currently exiting the trainwreck era of French dominance and racing towards another trainwreck

Regardless what happens in the future, maybe this time we won’t fool ourselves into some more white savior nonsense and end up setting whole regions back another century by playing kingmaker for another resource puppet king

You can buy the cheapest brand and run a different OS than the companies software. Like I have a TerraMaster NAS. Use what you want on it

At least 200 years of making everything worse. At least starting with Afghanistan/Durrani

I have a 2 drive TerraMaster. I’m no advanced user of NAS’s. It was easy setup and use for me

they’re worried about that? It’s a country in Europe. It’s a war in Europe. These countries back Ukraine but to the minimum they believe they can do. Why wouldn’t it at a minimum be a major failure of other European countries to fail the objective of Russia losing in Ukraine

What physical export would even be competitive with domestic industry? Software services the same. What’s better than their domestic or US services? Agriculture, I’m pretty sure latin america, south and southeast Asia would dominate over european

Yes. Need the kind of love desktop hardware got for Linux with mobile hardware. I don’t need tap to pay and mobile deposit. That can come when the ball really gets rolling and the user base is too large to not service. For now I’d be happy with consistent phone/text support, signal application, a mobile Firefox, and the phone dockable to run full desktop applications. Strong enough hardware. Google are a bunch of jackasses. Need more phones to support PostmarketOS or something

Most apps I can replace with a web browser but the mass market has shown it’s preference for an app store. Got to get payments integrated into Flathub

Sweet. I have really high hopes for cosmic and system76 for making inroads with mainstream users someday. Cosmic is way more stable compared to a year ago. It will probably be good enough for 26.04

I’m thinking of buying a fairphone or test it out. I do have a pixel 7 that I can give it a go with

Planning to become a primary iphone user with a PostmarketOS side phone. Want I want in the future is that if I’m using Android apps, it’s through Waydroid or Android Translation layer. Then hopefully in my lifetime I see non-Android Linux become popular. Or a non-commercial organization take lead on an Android fork that gets significant adoption

I figured the PowerVR GPU would be trashy. Even if the design is good, the drivers were certainly going to suck. Google is a budget hardware vendor selling for premium prices. I think I saw some reports where the chips pretty trashy compared to the competition even of CPU constrained tasks

Minisforum V3 from what I’ve read seems good with Linux now

I read the article and it just sounds like they’re praising ChromeOS for being web browser centric. Need office, open Google docs/drive. Pretty much a Linux distro but by default come with a bunch of progressive web apps installed for common applications?

Consumer expectations. On Linux you can just use the web browser just like most people already do on ChromeOS and I assume windows and mac’s. But on regular Linux, Mac, and Windows people expect more. So I guess a distro that brands itself and markets to users to just use the web browser for everything and maybe a store of progressive web apps/preinstalled ones

Also out of the box support. ChromeOS is Google backed. Laptop makers sell mainstream ChromeOS boxes. Linux doesn’t have major mainstream device support. It’d be far less fussy if hardware vendors were releasing plenty of Linux out the box hardware. Right now it’s some workstation centric hardware from Lenovo and Dell and smaller companies like System76

On that note I’d place my hopes with System76 since they’re currently focused on consumer experience. Cosmic DE is still not prime-time ready but maybe a couple more years. 26.04 release use as the default for their new hardware and it still effectively be early adopter phase for Cosmic DE. Then 28.04 ready for primetime. Keep trying to break into being a mainstream hardware brand. Other is what happens with KDE Plasma with Valve and SteamOS, Plasma Mobile, and maybe the TV interface. A bunch of consumer centric use cases driving development in KDE land. Maybe they’ll come up with a way to get flatpak permissions work in a way that alerts users on need and makes it easy to do like on Android/iOS

Excellent. The umbrella of KDE is home to a bunch of my favorite applications. Kdenlive, Krita, Digikam. I’ve been hotly anticipating the day I get a phone running Plasma Mobile

This may be better eventually than Plasma Mobile for what I imagined as an ideal gaming frontend that isn’t just Steam Big Picture

Maybe someday Waydroid and Android Translation Layer will make Linux as a HTPC+gaming great

Some years ago there was a documentary called Mayor about the mayor of the de facto capital of Palestine. I remember they had mediators from like Germany in the negotiation for the Palestinians to build a cemetery and the Israeli negotiator and German mediators telling the mayor that he needs to compromise and satisfy the Israeli demands. Some compromise.

The gist is that there wasn’t really a compromise to be made. The Palestinians wanted to build a cemetery in their city so people could have a place to bury loved ones and the Israeli military that say these people are free and independent are saying no to the people to build a cemetery for non-specific reasons.

There wasn’t anything the Mayor and the people of the city could do to be able to build a cemetery and not be attacked by the Israeli military that had in years past invaded and we’re occupying. It was more like they didn’t want anything built for the local population at all. They were effectively living in captivity with no real self-governance. Freedom could only be had in lands away from their home and that very well may have been the purpose. Before this direct genocide, the method in cool periods was to make life miserable for the native people’s to push them out for Israeli colonizers

Reading this stuff reminds me of earlier in the 2010s when Iranian weapon systems press releases were always met with mockery, I live in region with heavy military tech development companies. I had a feeling back then that progress is progress and eventually they’ll be at a point of close enough to make the risk calculation too high for the US to operate so far from production/maintenance compared to whatever country is the current target for invasion/bombings and their weapon sources. I think we’re getting to that point

Operate and lose equipment that cost a billion+ to make equipped with ammunition that are hundreds of thousands to millilions of dollars to resupply that also need to be serviced for extended periods of time and major parts replaced after only a few uses. Parts of the US intentionally let costs run away. Whether they thought the technolical advantage actually made a justifiable enough difference for the poor production rate and maintainability cost is another question