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by blihp 6y ago
tl;dr version: there's nothing unpredictable about the supply chain if you don't cancel your orders. That's the narrative (re: dependence on foreign chips), but it's not what actually happened. Last year the auto manufa
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by blihp 6y ago
Try talking to an American automotive supplier some time... it's generally a lousy business to be in. Fortunately for Intel, it's likely to only represent a tiny sliver of their business and the American autos are pretty desperat
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by blihp 6y ago
> It's the beta release. It's gonna be faster with GPU acceleration AFAIK. No it won't. A (the?) big problem with performance is that we're running desktop applications on a slow-ish mobile device. (all of it: slow C
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by blihp 6y ago
That's the right attitude, IMO. Most consumers respond to polish and 'wow!' factor. The Linux desktop doesn't even provide that compared to the competition... Linux on mobile is even further behind both from a hardware
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by blihp 6y ago
Pretty much. They really don't want regular consumers to be buying the PinePhone from them. They've been very upfront about this: the phone isn't priced for, and they aren't equipped to provide end user technical sup
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by blihp 6y ago
Sure, and for hardware this old the FPGA could re-implement the CPU (which ran at <4MHz) and the shift register at almost the exact frequency (or whatever frequency is necessary to reproduce the original behavior) of the original as nece
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by blihp 6y ago
It's not the raw materials that makes semis expensive, rather it's the extensive processing it has to go through to get be transformed into the final product. The biggest issues with materials I'm aware of are often the &#x2
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by blihp 6y ago
Of all the natural resources we consume, semis would be the one I'd worry the least about. We'll likely run out of many other (more vital) things before semis make it to the top of the list.
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by blihp 6y ago
The problem with any of the old 'killer applications' like spreadsheets is that the network effect now dominates the productivity market.[1] So you'd spend most of your energy on trying to maintain compatibility and feature
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by blihp 6y ago
It rarely does unless there's been a very public screw up on the part of the executive that results in bad PR the company.
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by blihp 6y ago
Unfortunately even then Google doesn't view you as the customer in any substantial way. Advertisers have been, and continue to be, who they want to keep happy. The reality is that, in aggregate, most users are willing to take a fair
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by blihp 6y ago
A typical manufacturer approach is to beat the hell out of your suppliers on price to make your margin which is likely most of what Samsung does with its buying power. Apple does that but is also willing to throw money at issues and go as
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by blihp 6y ago
Unfortunately that doesn't seem very likely. None of the major vendors (including ARM itself) seem terribly concerned about the open source world. Given they're dealing in 100's of millions to billions of units and the open
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by blihp 6y ago
They pretty much did it with all of the utilities they produced... and I'm glad they did. I don't think it was nefarious, they just thought their extensions made sense at the time and/or filled gaping holes. Even in the e
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by blihp 6y ago
It's called sucking up to the boss. Whoever was responsible for the tweets evidently believed the Bezos would approve of the content. It gives him plausible deniability (after all, he didn't write it) and in many cases may imp
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by blihp 6y ago
Not with Enterprise software they aren't. The vendor contracts (as it's typically written on the vendors paper rather than the customers) have more than enough wiggle room to get out of virtually any scenario. It's only wit
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by blihp 6y ago
It's more a combination of executive CYA and availability of resources (employees, contractors and vendors) who know the product. The actual support provided, even when you are a large customer, often leaves much to be desired. It&#x
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by blihp 6y ago
I'd definitely proceed as pabs3 suggests. As a short term solution, you might want to contact a-wai and see if your work could live in the Mobian repo in the meantime as I think MMS is still a highly sought after feature.
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by blihp 6y ago
Yeah, figuring out the Debian process can be a pain. More often than not, Debian is just a 'middle man' for the code. So for modemmanager see https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/modemmanager and note the m
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by blihp 6y ago
I understand your frustration. I'd imagine this is probably the wrong time to be trying to (presumably) be a new Debian developer trying to get new features integrated with everyone focusing on Bullseye. I suspect they'll get ar
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by blihp 6y ago
Photos keep getting larger (raw, higher resolution, capturing additional information such as depth etc), videos keep getting higher resolution at 4k+ with higher bitrates, you can currently easily fill up a 1TB+ drive with video game asse
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by blihp 6y ago
Look at how Apple, and to a degree Google, are controlling/constraining mobile apps today and imagine that Microsoft had done that (x10... they were much worse in their time) 20 years earlier on the desktop. They were pretty successfu
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by blihp 6y ago
Yes, I believe it is. You're dismissing out of hand one of the primary security benefits of an open device while giving far too much credit to Apple. For the open device, (with one glaring hole: they don't support full device enc
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by blihp 6y ago
The security advantage it offers is specifically to remove aapl/goog from the equation. The security features big tech is offering these days is primarily designed to lock you into their ecosystem and out of your device rather than
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by blihp 6y ago
Maintainers come and go over time and these things don't just package themselves.
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by blihp 6y ago
Specifically related to the story, Apple has a rather troubled history as an Open Source 'contributor'. They tend to not contribute unless they need to and then prefer to run the show. They basically steamrolled KHTML with a for
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by blihp 6y ago
Oracle is the most (in)famous via various acquisitions. But IBM/RedHat/Canonical/Microsoft are a few other large players that have been trying with varying degrees of success recently related to Linux. Corporations apprecia
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by blihp 6y ago
Based on previous large company involvement in 'open' projects, yes. It usually starts out fluffy and friendly and just 'wanting to help'. The large company (or companies) take on an increasingly large role eventually
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by blihp 6y ago
For those in that situation, turn off the water to your home and drain the pipes. Bursting pipes can do massive damage to your home and make it uninhabitable during the rehab.
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by blihp 6y ago
How is that different from the deals that pretty much every other large company looks for when locating a new facility? Amazon pretty much had local governments humiliating themselves in their HQ 2 'contest' not too long ago.

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