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by blihp 6y ago
As you noticed, it's not just a RAM issue. The problem is that Linux GUI and apps generally expect laptop/desktop-ish levels of hardware capabilities because that's what they were developed on/for. You're literall
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by blihp 6y ago
CPU speed is often bound by memory bandwidth and latency... it's all related. If you can't keep the CPU fed, it doesn't matter how fast it is theoretically .
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by blihp 6y ago
That's basically what they did when they made the switch from PPC to x86. IIRC, there was an edict a few years before the switch (Jobs talked about it in an interview at the time) where teams were told something along the lines of not
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by blihp 6y ago
It's a contributing factor. If things like retain/release are fast and you have significantly more memory bandwidth and low latency to throw at the problem, you can get away without preloading and caching nearly as much. Take so
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by blihp 6y ago
Re: the Pinephone: 1) You can (mostly) reliably make and receive calls 2) SMS but no MMS. IIRC, if someone sends you an MMS it will jam up the SMS app (not sure if it is/was a modem firmware or app issue or if it's been resolved
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by blihp 6y ago
Not going to happen as long as people keep following their lead. It's in Google's interest to do things like maximize compression (especially for video and images) since it reduces their operational costs in the form of transmitt
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by blihp 6y ago
Basically what the workstation companies did was sell capabilities that would be available years down the line at a premium with much better margins. The problem (for them) was that Wintel kept shrinking the gap. In 1981 they were selling
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by blihp 6y ago
I've had one since July and unless your needs and expectations are very low, it still has a long way to go to achieve daily driver status for me. If you only need it to replace a very low end smartphone (i.e. just making phone cal
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by blihp 6y ago
You vote every time you choose to buy a product from company X or one of their competitors instead. Remember back when Apple made phones with smaller screens? They took notice when millions of consumers were buying Samsung/whatever de
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by blihp 6y ago
It's not so much that it's hard, but rather so far just hasn't been worth it. The average small business owner / consumer spends what, $100-200 for a printer and maybe $100/year on consumables if they print a moder
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by blihp 6y ago
I'd alter your conclusion that open source work isn't production ready. As long as it works as described, it is production ready for at least some subset of use cases. There's just a lot of low hanging fruit re: performance
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by blihp 6y ago
If you want the best bang for the buck, wait for the Black Friday sales (which usually start in early Nov) when resellers will probably be heavily discounting the 3xxx series. If you want the absolute best performance, wait a few months on
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by blihp 6y ago
It started with the Pentium 4. The tradeoff of power/heat for the increased clock speed stopped paying off. In fairness, Apple/IBM/Motorola also learned this lesson with the G5 but they were minor players in the market and
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by blihp 6y ago
The press follows, rather than identifies, the trend. It doesn't help that in most 'news' organizations, the news is considered entertainment and isn't terribly rigorous. The 2xxx series wasn't terribly impressive
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by blihp 6y ago
He's simply pointing out that there needs to be some supporting work on the software side to minimize the risks. He's a pretty prolific hacker who's been around the Pinephone scene pretty much from the start and pointing out
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by blihp 6y ago
Just like the PinePhone, Librem etc. This is the future for hackable (hardware and software) mobile devices given how locked down the mainstream consumer manufacturers are, and getting worse by the day. Mid-to-high 5-figure to low 7-figure
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by blihp 6y ago
They aren't punishing, they are monetizing. Switching to another commercial product would just be repeating the mistake on your part. There are no (i.e. zero) for-profit companies that aren't trying to sell you something at some
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by blihp 6y ago
Right, but that's a different model. The 2GB CE's are otherwise identical to each other aside from bug fixes.
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by blihp 6y ago
At least a couple of non-technical reasons: I believe Maxima was open sourced a few years earlier (1998 vs 2001) which helped it get established. Maxima was also supported by a rather prolific open source developer which probably helped a
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by blihp 6y ago
They're doing CE batches which run about a month each but the underlying hardware is the same for all of them. Just follow their blog ( https://www.pine64.org/blog/ ) and wait for the announcement for the next batc
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by blihp 6y ago
License servers and downloadable content. Roughly 2005 is about the time when these started to become commonplace because developers began to assume always on Internet for applications that didn't have obvious network dependencies. S
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by blihp 6y ago
That was reported but I've never seen anything close to that even with all wireless turned off. This could be due to other power saving issues on Mobian... I just don't know yet.
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by blihp 6y ago
Yes... theoretically. (i.e. still a work in progress: it's buggy)
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by blihp 6y ago
A huge recent improvement is support for Crust firmware ( https://github.com/crust-firmware/crust ) which should get you 12-40 hours of standby (the low end is with wifi and cellular on, the high end is with them turne
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by blihp 6y ago
I've got a Pinephone (the UBports CE, though I'm mainly running Mobian right now) Short term, the use cases are as hacker mobile Linux devices with most of the mobile hardware working (device drivers are still a WIP, Linux text
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by blihp 6y ago
There are laws on the books in many states/municipalities thanks to heavy lobbying efforts by our cable/telco companies that prevent it.
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by blihp 6y ago
Sure, FAANG companies have enough resources to do pretty much whatever they want. The rest of the world doesn't, which is what I presumed 'target for everyone' was referring to.
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by blihp 6y ago
In the world of Linux, 'no major OEM adoption' is the norm for most distros especially with no substantial corporate backing. UBports is definitely in the top 5, if not top 3, of (free/libre) mobile Linux distros. So yes, f
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by blihp 6y ago
One of the primary advantages for authors in contributing back code is to get their features/bug fixes incorporated so that they are maintained going forward and you don't have to maintain a separate code base yourself (i.e. savin
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by blihp 6y ago
You're confusing carrier subsidies with Apple selling at a loss... Apple never sold phones at a loss, the carriers did. Apple always gets paid.

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