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by ekianjo 1y ago
They had to fire a lot of devs and now they are busy re-building a new Element X client for mobile that has a 10th of the features of the older one. If you want to look for mismanagement this is a good case study.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
Why would it fail if the code is available?
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by ekianjo 1y ago
> legal obligation to to assess and mitigate risks It's obviously not about risks. It's about convenience on their side to only support 2 platforms and call it a day.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
For Netflix sure. I don't care. But when it comes to banking and you are forced to use between two OS or this means no access to your bank digitally, this is a massive problem and restriction to citizens' freedom. Everyone needs a
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by ekianjo 1y ago
What I mean is, only Pixel phones. That's like a very small part of the whole range of Android devices.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
The large majority of Android devices have a browser by default.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
They can enforce it as a paywall then.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
You could always download apks directly from your phone...
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by ekianjo 1y ago
Only on specific models
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by ekianjo 1y ago
It's not laissez faire. It's lobbying (disguised corruption) at work.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
> saw every dns query sent to cloudflare doh by default, and with no opt-in True. And most people don't even know it.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
When you look at things per Capita in China things look very different from what you describe. Sure, you have pockets of very affluent societies (Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and more) but the majority of the country is not there.
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Gaming Capabilities of the Framework Desktop (Fedora 42, Proton)(boilingsteam.com)
4 points by ekianjo 1y ago|2 comments
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by ekianjo 1y ago
Wind + solar is just adding another failure mode for when there is no wind. There are many places without adequate wind speed. Nuclear does not care about either, and has the highest energy density on top of that.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
"Want to use" is not the same thing as "I used it and I love it"
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by ekianjo 1y ago
> most beloved programming language Citation needed
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by ekianjo 1y ago
Funny whenever people mention using Linux instead of windows there is always a user who claims Linux is broken, hard to use, while most Linux users live a peaceful and uneventful life.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
The EULA that nobody reads says no
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by ekianjo 1y ago
Seems like he has nothing to do with the Yamanote line melodies though.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
When you get this, I believe the actual song is missing
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by ekianjo 1y ago
Yeah that's him you see on the Ebisu beer cans
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by ekianjo 1y ago
They had virtually infinite budget at the time. SpaceX is much, much cheaper.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
> And we could see pretty significant damage on one of the fin They specifically said they're testing lighter fins to see how much they would hold. Let's not invent problems when it's an experiment that was clearly stated.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
> Banks have never accepted browsers. What are you talking about? My bank accepts browsers and is a major one.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
Android is open source but not "free software" which is exactly on point. People have been fooled to think that open=respecting your freedoms, but there is no equivalency.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
Most member states are for it.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
grapheneOS relies on the goodwill of Google to keep Pixel devices open right?
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by ekianjo 1y ago
True, so it's not an improvement. I guess it is even worse because when they unfollow an instance they may ban hundreds of users just because there are a few problematic ones.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
An admin can decide to unfollow a bunch of instances and as a user you have no recourse.
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by ekianjo 1y ago
Some Linux phones exist. And there is sailfishOS too.

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