Re:Bringing the Android kernel back to the mainline
by pedrocr on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @07:38PM
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> What I was mostly saying is that those of us who had wide-eyed naive optimism for the future and were there when the internet started gaining steam are now anywhere between 30 to 50 and we can only dream of the ages past when we could do the things you described without any other worries.
I agree and identify with this. The reason I point these things out here is that the kinds of people actually doing the leg work on these platforms are on the site. And in some cases if they did a few things differently (e.g., upstream the drivers much earlier in the SoC bringup) then maybe we could actually fix this. I'm not nearly as pessimistic about the situation as you :)
I agree that it's rather horrifying what we settled for these days. The world to me is a lot darker compared to my student years back in 1997 to 2001 when I played Quake3 for days on end, without sleep, with only WC and food breaks -- and when I was coding my heart and brains out on things I believed could shape the future world.
These are the times I'll dearly remember until the end of my life. And nowadays almost nobody seems to be wanting to make things better. It's saddening and extremely discouraging. I get it and I agree with your overall premise.
What I was mostly saying is that those of us who had wide-eyed naive optimism for the future and were there when the internet started gaining steam are now anywhere between 30 to 50 and we can only dream of the ages past when we could do the things you described without any other worries.
In the end, I am just pointing out that these past life phases are long gone and aren't likely coming back for the most of us. And I'll say it again: I have a big respect for those who still manage to truly innovate and disrupt.