poetaster

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by poetaster 5y ago
The point i was making us that you can build apps without silica. That will result in your apps looking like they do on apple, ie whatever. I could fake most of silica if i wished, but i hope jolla finally turns the corner and can stop bein
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by poetaster 5y ago
So guess we're left with librem then? Ubuntu touch, plasma, mobian, etc are not useable. For my part I'll keep working on opening it up. Like my local school system, city hall, etc. All of which have lock in with private companies
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by poetaster 5y ago
Hmm. Don't use the built ins, but i do use silica. My focus is to do dev, and convince them to open more as the external devs generate more value. See the obs build service... Etc.
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by poetaster 5y ago
The ui bits atop qt, silica, is indeed closed. But you can develope for sfos without silica. I have a pure sdl app. Still, they are trying to find a way without going the data hog way. As they are doing license foo in automotive space, i&#x
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by poetaster 5y ago
Libhybris is andoid dependant. There are a ton of community ports. The volla I use (gigaset gs290 also) also has ubuntu touch support. But sfos is much better. Mobian can also be installed via ubports, but i havent tried.
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by poetaster 5y ago
Ditto. As an old apple guy i was dumbfounded that ios hadn't picked up anything from meego and on.
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by poetaster 5y ago
Just try a community port. I iwn a jolla phone, but daily driver is a volla phone and backup a fairphone 2
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by poetaster 5y ago
Oh, and I don't have to beg apple to sign for me. Signed via play or the apple store means nothing. Signed with my gpg key, sure.
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by poetaster 5y ago
There is still some truth to this. But the os does not phone home like google and apple phones do. Not even close. Package signing is usable but still not widly adopted. App jails are still in beta, since, 4. Luks passphrases are almost re
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by poetaster 5y ago
I like SFOS because it has coherent ui and flexible styling. From meego to here guy, though. I actually like the SDK, even if it's a bit stale. I maintain c , js and pytheotherside apps. It's fun over here.
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by poetaster 5y ago
You can audit the source. There is very little closed, and that is primarily the android bits. I don't use those.
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by poetaster 5y ago
Yes. But there is progress. The only real suckage is webview & co. I'm ok with lagging a bit, but for web.
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by poetaster 5y ago
I use a gs290 from gigaset. Dirt cheap. Use a community port installed with ubports. Dead simple. Build apps with qt. Qt. Have fun.
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by poetaster 5y ago
A great deal is FOSS. Look on github. All my apps are gpl. The move away from libhybris is just a matter of time. And jolla has more experience in the space than anyone.
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by poetaster 5y ago
Sigal via whisperfish. In rust!. I'm still on 3.4. Community port. Gigaset gs290. SFOS rocks.