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by boogies 6y ago
Did you mean for this to be a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24343643 ?
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by boogies 6y ago
Unless you’re on Firefox? Edit: nvm, on GNU/Linux mobile you can use FF or Chromium (or GNOME Web or lynx or netsurf or…)
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by boogies 6y ago
45.8% of respondents used primarily Windows on the 2020 Stack Overflow survey https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-de... . I’d guess that’s less than 45% of dev work, including a lot of less experie
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by boogies 6y ago
Oops. This is why I try not to rush HN comments. This one I did and tried to remove my partial list of complaints about Mozilla and left one element, that’s not the most important one.¹ Mozilla markets Firefox as ‘the only browser made for
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by boogies 6y ago
Same. If I care about a browser being > ● Privacy-oriented: zero behavior tracking, zero telemetry > ● Lightning-fast startup time > ● Tiny binary size > ● Low RAM usage why would I use an OS that’s the opposite of all of these?
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by boogies 6y ago
I don’t know about Linux, but Mozilla has mandated many things that I would have hoped it never would have, like XUL depreciation, and especially added many anti-features to their largest product, deciding each was not their hill to die on
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by boogies 6y ago
They can be used by the original authors, if the original authors stop intentionally licensing their code so weakly that anyone can make changes that no one else can even see.
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by boogies 6y ago
I was going to comment similarly. The comment could be described as “inaccurate and hyperbolic”: if spelling counts, the second link does not say Linux was “forcing adoption [emphasis added] of HDCP.” Systemd stinks and I don’t care how i
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by boogies 6y ago
Mozilla’s trademark policies have been annoying enough in the past that Debian used to ship a fork with the branding stripped. Hyperbola continued this practice for a while, but stopped for a variety of reasons in the It’s Foss interview, a
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by boogies 6y ago
The article mentions possible ABI compatibility challenges and I also think it’s not a good thing for a language in such critical applications to only have a single major implementation.
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by boogies 6y ago
Probably a crazy unpopular opinion, but I kind of agree with the Hyperbola (GNU / formerly Linux-libre, in future using a fork of the OpenBSD kernel https://itsfoss.com/hyperbola-linux-bsd/ ) devs that Rust in Linu
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by boogies 6y ago
> Isn't this the case for Windows RT, or is that dead already? IDK about RT but IIRC this is the main distinguishing factor of 10S
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by boogies 6y ago
I think there’s good reason to hope, there’s a variety of implementations: + 2 companies, Pine64 and Purism, making 2 lines of phones - Pinephones in various community editions, $150 and $200 with and without the convergence package
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by boogies 6y ago
I think there’s good reason to hope, there’s a variety of implementation: + 2 companies, Pine64 and Purism, making 2 lines of phones - Pinephones in various community editions, $150 and $200 with and without the convergence package
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by boogies 6y ago
You’re welcome :)
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by boogies 6y ago
(nitpicks) blue text ≠ links → grumpy reader “opesource” typo under “Support the project” (loader itself) too simple and speedy, fast and flawless to criticize, complain, or comment
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by boogies 6y ago
I blame Google for the modern web. Tracking scripts, ads, etc.
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by boogies 6y ago
The lowest quality of comments and the highest quality comment. Take my upvote now and I might come back when I earn downvote.
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by boogies 6y ago
> Where are you going to go? Google? Doing the exact same thing. Neither? Cabin in the woods territory. Oh for the Nokia N900, right? The Pinephone is on the frontpage at the moment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24
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by boogies 6y ago
Eww, not “termination”, that sounds harsh … maybe “exit” or “closure”?
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by boogies 6y ago
> If Apple is planning for obsolescence, they're doing a poor job of it, compared to literally any other phone manufacturer in existence. I don’t think that’s true at all. The Fairphone 2 came out the year after your mothers’s iPhon
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by boogies 6y ago
* 1, 2, and/or 3
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by boogies 6y ago
> It would take at most two more tenths of a cubic centimeter more volume I wonder how much empty space is in current gen iPhones, the 7 had so much that a YouTuber was able to squeeze the adapter Apple shipped with it convert analog aud
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by boogies 6y ago
> What's the rationale for allowing governments to run lotteries? Using the profits for education, etc.
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by boogies 6y ago
This article seems to simply use “iOS shouldn’t be Windows” as a strawman for “iOS must be iOS.” GNU/Linux doesn’t have the garden walls of iOS and yet I somehow don’t feel any need for an antivirus or any of the other Windows problems
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by boogies 6y ago
> None of the Linux vendors make their own laptops Dell, Lenovo, Purism, Pine64 et al. do. The two in your parent may (at least System76’s laptops are said to) use Clevo hardware, but they can still ship with custom open source firmware.
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by boogies 6y ago
Because that’s a massive, expensive endeavor that may only solve one specific problem between one person and one company if it works at all. (Edit:) Much like anti-trust hearings: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community&#x2
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by boogies 6y ago
Yep, now’s just the time to try elementaryOS or any free/libre OS and get weaned off Apple before addiction to macOS becomes more of a restrictive/oppressive/heavy burden than ever.
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by boogies 6y ago
I don’t think they ship anything with it preinstalled right now (unlike each of the other companies I and the parent mentioned). But they’ve had a reputation of generally good Linux support for a while now, and it’s seems they’ve just now d
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by boogies 6y ago
The fact that people are being evicted after not using Zoom https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2020/spring/trial-by-proprietar... is insane. The industrial revolution and all of its consequences may not have been e

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