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smileyhead , to technology in Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair

Companies like Fairphone would love to open their drivers so distros like PostmarketOS could add support that then mainline Linux can be ported. But they can’t somehow.

I guess Apple would have a much better time in that having their own design and being much bigger in influence.

smileyhead , to technology in Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair

But I guess it would be really hard to write it into strict law without loopholes.

smileyhead , to technology in Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair

Until they publish the schematics and drivers for device components for usage in making the device software last as long as possible, those are just empty words. Yeah, sure I can finally replace the broken camera sensor, as I should be able for years, but I must buy whole another phone if I want something slightly different in the OS image.

smileyhead , to technology in Sideloaded app stores are coming to iOS in the EU

There’s hardware we don’t know how to write free software for, because they won’t tell us how to use the hardware. That’s shocking. They want to sell you the product and they won’t tell you how to use it. They say “Here’s a non-free [proprietary] program you can use. Run it and shut up.”

Some time ago this was only about the peripetials and drivers, now this is about all phones, tablets and smart things…

smileyhead , to technology in Sideloaded app stores are coming to iOS in the EU

I would love to see alternative operating systems, not just app stores.

smileyhead , to linux in Reasons to consider NOT switching to Linux

Android already runs on 1 Billion devices which is basically Linux…

At which point? It takes only the Linux kernel. But kernel is the least important part from practical usage perspective. Everything else is different, the bootloader (no GRUB or systemd-boot), screen compositor, sound system (not a Pipewire or PulseAudio), package format, init process, shell, even the standard C library (Bionic instead of glibc).

There are projects to run Linux on phones (see: wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices), but it takes huge about of reverse engineering and work.

smileyhead , to technology in Why Linux is Best for Most People

Agree, a lot of Windows weirdness is taken as like it’s like computers work overall. An example I give is when program freeze everyone knows Ctrl+Alt+Del to get the task manager. On Linux mostly there is Ctrl+Alt+ESC and click on the window to kill it.

smileyhead , to technology in Why Linux is Best for Most People

Yep, don’t even dare to advertise it to a midtier person. There are just going to download random .exe and find out how broken it is and have no idea how to get back and uninstall the software.

smileyhead , to technology in Why Linux is Best for Most People

Personally I haven’t heard of anyone getting support from Microsoft or finding Microsoft help pages useful. MacOS and Windows are making money on the support for corporate users and for manufacturers preinstalling the system (Apple being it for themselfs). Nothing that Linux cannot also do.

We are talking about going mainstream, then do you think that if Linux would have ~80% of the desktop market, there won’t be any commercial support companies and normie level help? There certanly is for the server space, even home servers like NAS devices.

smileyhead , to technology in Why Linux is Best for Most People

It’s not because it’s not used by the common public, it’s because there aren’t normie-friendly resources and or a company help desk that average people rely on when they need assistance.

And why there aren’t normie-friendly resources and or a company help desk? :)

smileyhead , to technology in Why Linux is Best for Most People

I think that Linux is the worst for middle-tier tech people.

For elderies, kids or someone that just visit social media, listen to music on Spotify and edit photos from vacations this it is perfect. They might learn where the app store is, how to open up menu and that’s all.

For tech saavy, programmers, engineers I… don’t really get how you can use Windows at all until you are forced by your environment. Going from Windows to Linux to do work is just like going from ChromeOS to MacOS.

But the worst would be the midtier, a friend who does a joke in “ohshit.exe” style, but don’t know what is an executable. That has multiple free games from Epic Store he never plays but must be installed and work. That have bought Photoshop and “original” MS Office licence years ago for outdated version but keep it, because “original”. And that has some amateur audio eqippment that even if Linux have build-in drivers for, would complain the .exe installer from that “download for free” website does not work.

smileyhead , (edited ) to technology in Why Linux is Best for Most People

Another argument in the style of “Linux cannot be used by the common public, because Linux is not used by the common public”.

Windows is super annoying to help someone with it, as you can barely do anything. Let’s say that after the update the graphical interface is not starting, what can be done? Because you cannot Ctrl+Alt+F3 to get into a console mode. Or that for remote help I can a dictate command that sends me the info or open SSH to me instead of recieving blurry photos of the screen. Like Android, easy to help if they just don’t know where a thing is, super hard to fix deep system problem.

smileyhead , to linux_gaming in Ayaneo next handheld is going to use SteamOS

Yes, I agree!

Who would want to enable cycling through application windows on the taskbar via graphical settings in KDE Plasma, when you can just press Win+R, enter regedit.exe, get administrator privilages, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvanced and add a new 32-bit DWORD named LastActiveClick with the value of 1 in Windows.

smileyhead , to technology in This startup is bringing a 'voice frequency absorber' to CES 2024 | TechCrunch

Now we need this in the bondage muzzle version

smileyhead , to technology in Oppenheimer and the resurgence of Blu-ray and DVDs: How to stop your films and music from disappearing

But there is a regulation prohibiting breaking the DRM. And obtaining a program that can decrypt the disk and save the file while having keys to latest disks is hard.

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