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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
It's like saying "I like my polluting car, if you don't, don't buy one" "I like my t-shirt that has been manufactured with slave labour, if you don't, don't buy one" Can we stop with this naive &
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
It's just a Linux computer, so you can use whatever you like : Qt, GTK, web, Flutter, LVGL, ImGui, custom OpenGL UI (like Blender & Godot), etc. But you might prefer a library that has mobile-ready widgets. For that GTK is actually
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
> I would say Linux people should use Linux and Apple people should use Apple. No problem either way. You make it sounds like it's a simple as "take vanilla ice cream if you like vanilla and take chocolate if you like chocolate
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
Google literally killed Linux on consumer devices. They, on purpose, made every single produced phone non-compatible with Linux and made them Android-only to prevent any competition. Now Purism has to reinvent a phone from scratch with auto
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
Totally agree. Nipick : Posh is not related to GNOME shell in any way. It is a from-scratch implementation of a mobile window manager in C on top of Wlroots (while Gnome is JavaScript on top of Mutter)
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
You don't have to trust them, everything is open and auditable. The only black boxes like the modem are physically separated from the chip and sandboxed over USB. If you don't trust them, format it and install your favorite distro
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AMD RX 6800 series ROCm Performance(phoronix.com)
2 points by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago|0 comments
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-rx68... > " While Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm) support wasn't a focus for the initial Radeon RX 5000 "Navi" graphics cards by AMD engineers,
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
Do we really have to created an account to donate ? I donate to Blender from time to time and I like how they just put an IBAN on their donation page ( https://www.blender.org/foundation/donation-payment/ ) I copy
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
From the non-encrypted ICloud, the eavesdropping on Siri conversations, to the non-encrypted spying about opened apps going through 3rd party server and some zillion other cases of Apple screwing up privacy... I'm not sure Apple cares
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
Hi, thanks for your work on Plasma Mobile. Android has an Hardware Abstraction Layer (Android HAL) that acts as a unique central clean definition of what the hardware provides and how to access it. It makes it easier for Android to remain H
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
Then you can support PinePhone / Purism Librem. It's still very far from being as mature as IOS/Android, but it is our only hope of an alternative that respect us. The long term vision is exactly what you said, convinance &am
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
NetGuard is great, it can show you the requests done by any apps. Thx to it, I discovered that my default camera app on my phone was sending data to Facebook and many other quite concerning stuff. Internet access should be a permission (lik
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by rfvrgvegbegn 6y ago
Yes , and they are also selling Ubuntu edition where you not only save quite a few $$$ (because no windows licence) but you're also sending a signal to manufacturers that there is a demand for compatibility with other OSes (unlike on A