Valkhyr

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by Valkhyr 6y ago
I used to jailbreak. I now use Android. When I did jailbreak, it was never about apps and rarely about high-level features (I did use NC settings before that was an official thing, and I installed a torrent client and some emulators, I thin
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
> Phosh, their GNOME-derived shell, is now also used by many distros on the PinePhone, which is exactly the spirit of free software I wanted to see for the smartphone when I originally backed this. It is hard to overstate the importance
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
Looking forward to getting mine. While I don't see this replacing my Android as a daily-driver anytime soon (and possibly never), I am very excited to have an unrestricted computer in my pocket :-) Especially once the pandemic gets u
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
I cannot disagree with a single word in that article. I would also go further and mandate that all general purpose computing devices should be forced to have an unlocked (or easily unlockable) boot loader so you can easily acquire full cont
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
I absolutely love that people work on this kind of stuff, but it all feels like an incredibly hacky workaround (running a server to reinstall an app every 7 days...) for functionality that should really be present out of the box (install wh
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
Whether you are advanced or not to do that doesn't matter. I am advanced enough to sideload applications via XCode. I have done so. I stopped doing it, because reinstalling every 7 days is an annoyance that no app was worth. I switched
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
> Then again, maybe I'm just having a "get off my lawn" moment, and Apple is on the right path. No, you are not wrong, and they are not on the right path, except maybe for themselves. They have no right at all to tell peop
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
The big difference is that you generally see more people who would find it useful to run arbitrary software on their phone than on their TV or smart fridge, especially considering that recent phones have single core performance approaching
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
Same here. I run Termux on my Pixel, but I also have an iPad and was really excited to when I installed iSH. I hoped their initial approval of iSH meant that Apple was becoming more liberal. Hell, I was even wondering if this would make it
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
Agreed in principle. Do you know any on-screen keyboard for mobile Linux that is as good as (or at least approached) Hacker's Keyboard on Android? I have a Librem 5 on pre-order, and am following PureOS and PinePhone related developmen
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
iSH is great, I have it on my iPad (my phone is a Pixel with Termux), but performance is atrocious due to the emulation. Maybe it's better on the most recent Apple SoCs, but on my iPad mini just opening a small text file in vim takes a
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
Don't you feel much safer now?
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
Primary: File management. I tend to prefer the command line for that kind of thing. Includes occasionally rsync-ing or scp-ing stuff to and from servers, and modding a few games I have on Android (Beamdog's Enhanced Edition mobile port
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
This.
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
Could not agree more. There should be a "I know what I'm doing" switch that disables a bunch of restrictions and essentially enables full root privileges for your user.
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
It all depends on your personal definitions of 'shiny' and 'work' I suppose. Current GNU/Linux phones unfortunately don’t even clear the ‘work’ threshold for me, and are far from it. If current GNU/Linux phones
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
I love this. As a backer who will hopefully get my phone in the next few months - and who understands that the software is an ongoing piece of work - I am happy that I have the ability to put my money where my mouth is when it comes to aski
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
I can say with 100% certainty that I would never have backed that. I may not agree with everything about the Librem 5 (in particular I care much less about hardware openness and would prefer better performance + battery life), but the whole
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
> What's not an opportunity is locking down the entire world so children can't screw up. Massively agree. It's also not good to teach children that computers are locked-down things you can't control.
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
I'm of two minds on this. Fundamentally, my opinion is that Apple (or any device manufacturer) should not be restricted what an end user can or cannot do with a device they own, and that includes restricting what software can be instal
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
> I do like their pro privacy stance against the big dogs I do like their pro-privacy stance as well, but I take issue with that sentence in that it makes it sound like Apple is not a "big dog" and taking a stance for you, the
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
The way to fix app "subscriptions" is not to charge more (or less) but to fix the customer-hostile structure of app "subscriptions". The big issue with app "subscriptions" is that they don't actually work
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
This. With very few exceptions (content subscriptions (e.g. Netflix) and services that have a server-side component core to its functionality (e.g. Dropbox)), I avoid subscriptions like the plague. With applications, I don't choose be
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
I'd really like an unbranded version with these (or better) specs, even at a slightly higher price (I don't particularly identify with any of the distros that have been released so far, not to say there is anything bad about them
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
I understand :-) I am not even arguing that the subscription price is not worth it - it might very well be. I do however disagree with charging for this kind of software (which to me is only a local client, since I do not use or care about
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
As many others have said, I'll be interested once they provide local vault support on Linux. I dislike subscriptions - not for the financial cost as such, but because I like to evaluate whether or not I want to pay for a given version
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by Valkhyr 6y ago
That is a common misconception, but is actually not true. Source: I used to work at the Genius Bar, with a stint in APAC AppleCare Retail Service Operations, and have confirmed this very question on one occasion with superiors in the US App