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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Japanese does not have spaces between words and it works just fine. ^_^
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
I think there could be a non trivial ammount of pumping. Also building all the radiators and structure from in-space resources could be quite substantial energy investment, same with the energy to put it in the final orbit.
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Well, there is CentOS Stream: https://www.centos.org/centos-stream/ And Fedora is still the upstream of RHEL, nothing changed there.
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Sure, it is impressive how much solar power Starlink currently captures, but ISS actually does not get that much - as far as I can tell its about 250 kW maximum even with the new roll-out solar arrays that have been installed quite recently
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
That is a very optimistic scaling assumption - and would almost certainly require substantial in space infrastructure (large scale lunar and asteroid mining and refining, lunar mass drivers, at least solid core nuclear drives) before you ca
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Not not mention the California gold rush basically killed the existing functional local community (often literally) with very few people actually getting rich and even fewer from the gold itself. Har not to see parallels with the current AI
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
There was a talk from someone from Yahoo back in 2013 on the Fedora Flock conference in Prague about how they can re-provision baremetal machines in less than one minute. They used the regular Anaconda installer (used for Feodra, RHEL and r
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Surprisingly even Samsung uses Mediatek in quite a few devices they sell.
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
I would phrase it differently - many European banks choose hard dependency on proprietary technology provided by two non-EU duopolists (Apple and Google) that don't answer to anyone. And they usually don't provide a suitable alter
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Salifish OS is already as far as you can usually get with Linux on these mobile devices - it uses Wayland, glibc, DBUS, RPM, Bash, Python, Qt, etc.
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
I remember they had success with a prototype on I think Mobile World Congress, even winning some price. But when they wanted to start manufacturing the screen was EoL and they had to redesign the board for a different screen. This forward p
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
With all the latest Windows fuckups its picking up recently in the form of SteamOS and Bazzite.
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Consumers decided - and Google also decided to ban manufacturers from building phones with another OS or they loose access to Google Play store and Google apps on the lucrative Android phones they also manufacture: https://arstec
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
But isn't it a timebomb waiting to blow up eventually? Like, Meta fucks something up with it and there is nothing you can do. IIRC South Korea used to be fully depedent on a horrendous AcriveX applet running only in Internet Explorer f
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
The Firefox engine legacy goes back to the Maemo times - its not ideal, but what else would you use ? The web engine situation is quite bleak even on desktop Linux distros and its even worse on mobile Linux.
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Btw, Jolla created libhyris back in the day for the first Jolla phone in ~2013. It has been since used by other phones and comanies for various purposes when the only thing you have is a board with only Android bionic libc compiled blobs av
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
I have Sailfish X on an Xperia 10 III (eg. officially supported Sailfis OS) and I am getting Sailfish OS updates just fine. As for phone model support - mobile hardware is a mess at low level with most APIs that make PC hardware easy to sup
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Its a compact Linux PC in a phone form factor - especially if you do not install the Android emulation layer. :)
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
This is really nice to finally see this happen! It has been super awkward that often small bugs and messing features persisted for years for the sole reason of the given app being closed source, so the permanently busy Jolla engineers just
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Well, that could help drive the production numbers up, hopefully driving the per unit price down. :)
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
I would not sey they are ignorant - rather, some things are unfortunately just not possible with their staffing and budget. Connecting Android bluetooth blobs compiled against bionic libc via glibc Linux distro to a container running Androi
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
IIRC they were negotiating a startup funding round that failed, so they ended unexpectedly up not having enough money to run the company let alone pay for the tablet manufacturing. Even remember hearing about the manufacturers selling the u
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
The new OS launched in 2013 on production hardware and has a legacy even longer in the Maemo project under Nokia.
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Basically all the middleware in Sailfish OS was always open source and many of the apps as well. They have been also IIRC finally open sourcing the primary apps as there are no longer pesky external investors forcikg them to keep things clo
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
They filled for bankruptcy again last year (first was the Tablet debacle in I think 2015) but have since managed to survive it again, so all is well. :)
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Yeah - its a real daily usable thing on supported hardware & I have been using it on primary phone since 2013. :)
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
I have it - Wayland, BTRFS, RPM and systemd on a phone - in 2013! Why did it not set the wolrd on fire back then ? Ruthless monopoly building on both Google and Apple side IMHO. It's a great success Jolla still exists and does its thin
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
They have been selling Sailfish X for selected Sony Xperia devices for years.
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Not sure about DRAM companies, but many businesses would still go under if they sold their annual production to a company that then goes bankrupt and won't pay anything for the delivered goods.
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by m4rtink 11mo ago
Just build more tulip fields/railways/websites no matter the cost - the golden age is inevitable! ;-)

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