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by microtonal 10d ago
Arm is important, but for R & D. The impact of not having Arm will take a long time to be felt. The same for a lot of the others you mention. Not having a supply or Intel and AMD CPUs would be felt much faster and would be harder to fi
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by microtonal 10d ago
Somewhat sad, but also full of opportunities. For instance, in the EU a lot of things are set in motion that used to be taboo, like moving away from US tech, moving away from US weapons, stronger European military integration. Stronger ties
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by microtonal 10d ago
Imposing tariffs one day and TACOing out a few days later and infinitum is not reliable. There is no 4D chess going on, only incompetency and self-enrichment. The US is on the path of Russia since the end of the iron curtain, moving to a kl
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by microtonal 10d ago
After decades of globalization, everyone is just extremely dependent on everyone. I think hardware is a bit complicated by the way. A lot of hardware is also not US controlled. For instance ARM Holdings is British, Japanese, or global depen
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by microtonal 10d ago
Imagine they were in the EU. The EU could leverage the trade bazooka in the current tariff war. Even if Canada doesn't join the EU, there is a lot of mutual benefit from an economic and military defense pact (beyond NATO, which is near
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by microtonal 10d ago
I bought a dbrand case from Canada last week. Even the packaging is funnier (in a comical way) than US products. Sorry, my brain is fried by a cold :).
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by microtonal 11d ago
Same, installed Slackware Linux in 1994 when I was twelve, on our family 80386 SX-25 with a 40MB hard drive and 5MB RAM. I often had tugs of war with my 4 years younger brother over how to partition the 40MB, trying to convince him with pre
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by microtonal 11d ago
I keep a Linux laptop on the side and usually buy what Linux fans recommend and is Linux certified, which is typically some kind of ThinkPad. It is certainly usable, but I wouldn't recommend it to most people. It starts with much worse
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by microtonal 11d ago
I mean every OS breaks I love Linux (first used it when I was 12yo in 1994), but I also had a Mac since 2007 and macOS never broke for me? The other thing is that even basic stuff like calendars, address books, etc. work many times better
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by microtonal 11d ago
Zero karma and all comments are pro-Russia, anti-EU, and anti-Ukraine. HN is successful enough to be on the radar of Russian troll factories eh?
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by microtonal 11d ago
Several reasons: - Extinction Rebellion and other environmental groups always claim the action pretty quickly and openly in NL. - If you look at the locations of sabotage, it’s all close to the ‘farmer heartland’. Most left-wing and environ
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by microtonal 11d ago
I was trying to see what happens here. It does give the Sound settings panel as the first hit. But when I then press Return, it opens System Settings, but does not actually go to the Sound settings, but General. Also, search inside the Sett
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by microtonal 12d ago
I have a pair of Sketcher slip-ins for when I want to do some quick errands. They may be ok when comparing to Nike or Adidas, but IMO they generally just feel terrible and don't provide good support. In no way comparable to e.g. my ECC
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by microtonal 13d ago
Android 16 was released on Fairphone 6 on March 16 2026. Yes, I know, way too late. The Android 16 build of /e/OS for Fairphone 6 was released on July 20 2026. Four months later. This was exactly the point of my comment.
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by microtonal 14d ago
LG is contradicting themselves here. In order to detect a wake word then they must be collecting or recording ambient conversations. I don't know how LG TVs do it, but e.g. many smartphones use a dedicated ASIC/audio processing
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by microtonal 14d ago
Very few of them will support RCS (I think currently only Google Messages?), which GrapheneOS also wants to support. I agree that a new backup system is also high impact, but there can be more than one high-impact thing, and the Message app
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by microtonal 14d ago
Unfortunately, 25% would be extraordinary for any project. Though they were stating $10 per year. You only need 2.1% of the users to donate $10 monthly to get to the same amount. I think GrapheneOS is one of those projects that is really
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by microtonal 14d ago
It starts with simply rolling major releases out earlier than /e/OS. Remember that to get security fixes for vulnerabilities not marked high/critical, you need the QPR/major updates. Those vulnerabilities may not be an i
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by microtonal 14d ago
LLMs do not solve every problem. You are dependent on Qualcomm for hardware firmware updates and apparently they charge quite a bit extra if you want continuous monthly security updates [1]. This is possibly one of the reasons that smaller
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by microtonal 14d ago
I don't think they can, even if they wanted to. From the GrapheneOS device requirements: Device support code updated to new monthly, quarterly and yearly releases of AOSP within several months to provide new security improvements (Pix
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by microtonal 14d ago
This isn't a hypothetical, Fairphone supports alternative OSes. Heck, you can even buy it with /e/OS in their store: https://www.fairphone.com/the-fairphone-gen-6-plus-e-operati...
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by microtonal 14d ago
A brief search says that iPhone sales in 225 were approximately $200 billion. 5% of that is therefore approximately $10 billion. If you call that a "massive flop", your standards are completely unrealistic. That is a massive succ
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by microtonal 14d ago
But you see people talking about the mini almost every time there's a discussion about iPhones (or phones in general). ...in tech forums where people hold strong opinions about tech and the people who have their pet peeves come out.
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by microtonal 14d ago
I don't believe this at all. If people yearned for smaller phones, they would have gotten it despite COVID. My wife and I both had a Mini and I remember going to the local electronics store (most of the summer there were no closures) a
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by microtonal 15d ago
It's doubly disappointing because just 4 days ago the project wrote [1], on using AI for the new Messaging app: Why? Using an LLM as an additional reviewer seems like a good use of LLMs? Personally I have found LLMs very useful for t
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by microtonal 15d ago
A bunch of the AOSP apps feel like you have to rewrite them for modern standards now and then you can basically have them in maintenance mode for years. The AOSP messaging app has also lasted for 15+ (?) years and has basically had no maint
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GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released(github.com)
327 points by microtonal 15d ago|255 comments
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by microtonal 16d ago
The other day I needed something wired for reasons and plugged in some lightning EarPods (not AirPods!) and they sound crappy. These were the earbuds that came with iPhones and that most people used. You can now get AirPods Pro 3 or Galaxy
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by microtonal 16d ago
Better than the iPods on Android experience . If you do Android-on-Android, the experience is on par. See e.g. Samsung Super Wide Band for voice.
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by microtonal 16d ago
Yeah. It seems like part of Mastodon is completely derailing. Recently I found out that you are a fascist if you say that left authoritarianism exists (the context was a harmless statement like "we oppose authoritarianism regardless if

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