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Re:A new wave of Linux applications by goodpoint on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:59PM (#30366350)
The idiotic silent downvotes are unnecessary.
Re:A new wave of Linux applications by Arnavion on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:55PM (#30368201)
This board has a real hate-boner for the PinePhone for some reason. Any phone that isn't 100% as capable as a flagship iOS or Android gets defined as "not ready to be a daily driver", because people think their definition of "daily driver" is some universal constant that everyone abides by. The rest of us who happily use it as a daily driver apparently don't exist in their worldview.

Already in this subthread there's "We're not there yet", "I couldn't conscientiously hand it to a non-techy", "It's nowhere near ready to be used as a phone outside of tinkering", "something that falls apart in their hands like wet sawdust", ...

Re:A new wave of Linux applications by dang on Sunday February 20, 2022 @02:45PM (#30408657)
> This board has a real hate-boner for the PinePhone for some reason

What a strange thing to say. It's hugely popular on HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Re:A new wave of Linux applications by Arnavion on Sunday February 20, 2022 @07:10PM (#30410518)
That doesn't change what I said.
Re:A new wave of Linux applications by goodpoint on Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:14AM (#30371870)
I wonder if it's a sign of the HN crowd moving from startups to FAANGs.

So much for the "hacker" news...