benjaminoakes

> Go ahead and install BeOS on it.

How unexpected! I love this comment.

Yikes, that shouldn't be possible.

That's a reasonable reaction. But can't we just take the source code and remove that part? I think it's more about getting people familiar with their ecosystem. They want us to be familiar with what they offer when we do bigger robotics projects.

If they can do it on the desktop, Apple can do it on mobile as well.

> They give you a link to download a DRM free copy

Please say more

In my opinion, simonw shouldn't have to play those games

This has some good improvements but they're not quite reliable enough yet:

https://github.com/petitstrawberry/minibook-support

Awesome speaker improvements too:

https://forum.chuwi.com/t/minibook-x-improve-speakers-on-lin... https://codeberg.org/diamondburned/minibook-impulse

I have a Chuwi Minibook X N100, 12GB LPDDR5 RAM, and a 512GB NVMe drive. Got it for about $200, new. I asked for a Linux discount since I had no desire for Win11, and they obliged! It's not my only machine: I got it to keep in my backpack at all times and it works well for that. At 2 lbs with laptop and tablet modes, I'm pretty happy! Just wrote a bunch of heavy-ish Ruby code on it and it kept up quite well.

There's room for great lower end hardware, but I'm not sure if it'll be any good running Windows.

GrapheneOS, /e/OS, LineageOS

Ideally buy a phone with it pre-installed

I know you're right about Asia and Latin America, but should any one platform or person have that much power?

I suspect that AI is a convenient excuse to go closed source. They have probably wanted to do that for years after leaning more commercial.

I love this idea. However, I found the article difficult to read because the images are far too large in terms of file size.

I was already part caveman in my messages to the LLM.

Now I full caveman.

I thought they delayed Leopard, not Snow Leopard...

Don't many financial transactions in US dollars get stored as integers anyway? The number of pennies, in other words.

Then just convert to dollars with a decimal place when needing to display, etc.

I recall this being pretty normal regardless of what database you use.

I'm happy to see this comment. Best of luck!

No problem. Honestly, I have this on my mind a lot these days. It feels like I'm being forced out of an apartment and I'm wondering where I'm going to put all my stuff. First I left the iPhone for what I thought was greener pastures on Android and now I'm finding that there's not a lot of great options that don't give Google or Apple complete control. What little trust I still had in Google has basically disappeared. We need open phones and I'm more willing than ever to buy one. And if that doesn't work with how carriers operate, I guess a dumber phone or a cheap smartphone just to do phone calls and data is what I'll do.

Anyway, for navigation, try out Organic Maps. It's not as good as Google Maps in some ways, but in other ways it's better. I'm honestly very impressed with it as an open source project. I think you have to use a Google signed version of it to run it on Android Auto though, but honestly, maybe it's better just to have a phone holder instead of the finicky Android Auto experience that at least I go through.

LineageOS? /e/OS? ArrowOS? Android has so much momentum that seems like it would be difficult to avoid a fork. I know Waydroid exists, but I'm not sure that's good enough. Ubuntu Touch sounds really cool too, but I've put effort into it with a used Google Pixel 3A and it's not an easy, cheap thing to try out right now. And it's still dependent on binary blobs for drivers, as far as I know. Not a great situation.

Regarding banking apps and things like that, I don't run into to any issues except for not being able to scan checks for deposit on the mobile website. And also I have to have physical credit cards. If you can't do what you need, consider changing to a local credit union which has your interests in mind far more than a for-profit bank.

I've never run into a need for apps for a government purpose, but perhaps I will someday.

I'm sure my situation where I live may be different than your situation where you live.

I don't use an open source fork of Android daily and from what I can tell the best option that exists today.

The only hardware that I know will continue to be open enough for this to be viable in the future is Fairphone. I hope there are others. I would definitely would NOT trust Google Pixel to remain open for the foreseeable future.

Personally, I'm trying to get out of the habit of using my phone anyway, so I might as well have laptop or desktop hardware that can fulfill my needs.

Hard agree. I pay for monthly hosting like FreshRSS, Wallabag, etc and support the devs who make those projects. Privacy and developer support. And it's not that much.

Definitely interested in making Firefox, Thunderbird, etc sustainable too.

Something I've been working on: https://getoffpocket.com

I hope it can help you

Perhaps cheaper? https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag/wiki/wallabag-ecosystem...

Pocket has 85 public repositotories. If it's possible to host the entire thing, I bet it isn't simple. https://github.com/Pocket/

Related bit from my other comment:

> If you don't want to bother with self-hosting, there are some hosted options available: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag/wiki/wallabag-ecosystem...

Related bit from my other comment:

> If you don't want to bother with self-hosting, there are some hosted options available: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag/wiki/wallabag-ecosystem...

Related bit from my other comment:

> If you don't want to bother with self-hosting, there are some hosted options available: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag/wiki/wallabag-ecosystem...

I'm glad people are mentioning Wallabag. It's open source and self-hostable, so it's not as likely to disappear on you. If you don't want to bother with self-hosting, there are some hosted options available: https://github.com/wallabag/wallabag/wiki/wallabag-ecosystem...

I've run Wallabag before but stopped around the time my son was born so I'd have more time to take care of him. And... I switched to Pocket. Oh well! I guess I'll switch back now, probably for good.

Given the lawsuits against Google from Sonos in the last 5 years, it doesn't seem to be low hanging fruit. Might not exist yet.

Related: Juice is the non-essential visual, audio and haptic effects that enhance the player's experience.

https://garden.bradwoods.io/notes/design/juice

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