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smileyhead , to asklemmy in What song hits you hard whenever you listen to it?

I love how when he sings “or are you unforgiven too?” in my head I picture it as “or are you unforgiven 2?”, with both fitting the lyrics.

smileyhead , to asklemmy in What song hits you hard whenever you listen to it?

The short mix “Silence” is awesome.

smileyhead , to asklemmy in What song hits you hard whenever you listen to it?

All three “parts” of Metallica - The Unforgiven God, those lyrics…

smileyhead , to technology in Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs

everyone everywhere can communicate securely

We can do it right now without the need to please phone operator, device manufacturer and OS developer to add support for a protocol that does not even have E2EE standardized yet.

smileyhead , to technology in Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs

It’s like SMS but with some lacking chat-like features added. No benefit compared to standard Internet chatting.

smileyhead , to linux in Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈

Maybe. But this does not change the fact that managing Windows is so much pain even if some of clients I manage computers for have Windows because of the software like Adobe, I think every day how good it would be to get rid of it.

smileyhead , to technology in Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs

My background: have build some already done ROMs and spoke with some Linux mobile people about it :). Just to let you know, I also need some source to prove it, but having so little info how RCS works in floating in public non-specialized space is also telling something.

smileyhead , to technology in Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs

This basically means adding the feature ourselfs and making our own build, not something we can name Android to give low level access to RCS in modem. This is feature we will just add.

Also on the side note, while in theory possible it will be a pain. We can’t just reinstall one package like modemmanger on typical Linux system, we must make a whole new builds for every device and apply patches again on every major Android update. While modem manufacturers do not even share documentation for them, just share a proprietary Android driver that should be in OEM system. So adding such feature means big reverse engeeniring, big effort for automatic patch and build system, all to support in my opinion already outdated and useless protocol which because it is already obsolete with standard XMPP or Matrix based apps.

smileyhead , to technology in Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs

Using RCS requires low level access to phone’s modem. You won’t get it on Android. Google is bypassing it’s own restriction by using proxy servers while having the deal with phone operators.

smileyhead , to technology in Google is silently blocking RCS messages on rooted Android phones and custom ROMs

They want it to succeed. And they (Google with Apple) will be the only ones having to say who can send a message.

smileyhead OP , to technology in The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

Really? Seems like I am late to the party.

smileyhead , to technology in Apple Walks Back Decision to Disable Home Screen Web Apps in the EU

Requiring an app for contacting services like renting a bike or online shopping I find stupid, this should be done on a web page or via standardized protocol.

I think your perspective might be from looking at the current market, when it feels like everything is starting to require a mobile app. But it does not have to be like that. On my laptop I counted 270 installed programs (5000+ packages) and cannot feel any slowdown or any more battery usage. And whole system takes no more than 30GB. It is full of tools, always available for me and easy to update with single command. (I use Arch BTW).

Web is becoming so complicated it is impossible to create a new browser engine. Even if you someone spend billions to create one, there is a high chance many webapps won’t work because standards are not perfect and can be interpreted by current browsers.

Native software is simple. Take Rust program for example, it is compiled to a binary and distributed via your OS. With webapp, there is hack upon hack upon hack to make it working and fit an app into what basically was created as a document format. There is not even a standard way to keep track of licences of the script a website sends to the browser. Today most webapps are just proprietary WebKit apps, with no access to source code and no clear licence, that can be easly changed remotely by the creator but not the user.

smileyhead , to technology in Apple Walks Back Decision to Disable Home Screen Web Apps in the EU

Ability to add any app repositories would be much better.

smileyhead , to linux in Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈

This site is using stats based on browser’s users agent string, very unreliable source of imformation today. Please stop celebrating when it have an anomaly and do it’s temporary spike up or down every couple of months.

Linux is in fact rising, like all desktop OSes besides Windows, because Windows is losing market share. But celebrating stats from this site is not worth it.

smileyhead OP , to technology in The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

I guess HDMI-CEC and some DRM.

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