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Re:Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @08:07AM (#49344494)
We don't need multiple OSs for that. One unlocked and FOSS OS is enough.
Re:Framework Laptop 13 Pro on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @05:53PM (#47855038)
I do. Why not?
Not water proof and definitely big for its capacity.
On Pixels too.
Pixel 8 is nearly 3 years old. Battery is still perfectly fine.
Re:SDL bans AI-written commits on Thursday April 16, 2026 @01:53PM (#47797044)
You absolutely do need SDL, it's full of knowledge by humans from trial and error over years of using input devices in the real world.
Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @01:16PM (#47590543)
You mean OpenSL ES? Is anyone actually using that on desktop? On Android there's https://github.com/google/oboe.

While Mesa has OpenGL ES it wasn't always available (for example not all drivers are using Mesa).

Re:ninja: a small build system with a focus on speed on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @07:18AM (#47585715)
Good point. I think it would be fixable by using the Change Time instead of the Modify Time, because that changes when moving the copy over the original.
Re:ninja: a small build system with a focus on speed on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @07:16AM (#47585684)
Good news, I've been working an adding file content hashing to Ninja: https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/pull/2735

That will fix the "switch branches back and forward" case :)

Re:Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years? on Friday March 20, 2026 @08:16AM (#47453503)
Audio APIs on Android are completely different than on GNU/Linux.

3D was also different (OpenGL ES vs OpenGL mess), only now it's starting to become kinda the same with Vulkan.

Re:Astral to Join OpenAI on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:46PM (#47444854)
Well if it's GPL without CLA and they accept outside contributions, they can't relicense / make it propriatary. Unlike with MIT.
Re:US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @02:32PM (#47156595)
> Multiple citizens faced police raids, investigations, fines, or suspended sentences (jail risk if violated) for online posts calling Green politician Robert Habeck derogatory names like "idiot" or "moron," or sharing mocking memes [...]

The police raids were done because of the posted Nazi images, NOT because of the Habeck insults.

Sure thing, as long as it doesn't require any permissions. I have installed multiple apks on my phone from unknown people. Note that Google's requirement is also for completely permissionless apps like games.
Did your users really consider your app if it wasn't in the Play Store?
Fairphone 6 with /e/OS for example.
We can also do both, right? :)
Even more reason to use these forks (and support them), right?
Have yoz really checked for GrapheneOS? Which country?
Only require Developer Registration for apps with READ_SMS then.
Re:GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @08:59AM (#47047548)
You can lock the bootloader again with GrapheneOS and many banking apps work.
> A similar spec Android costs about the same but usually has a flimsy plastic build and will become unsupported in 2-4 years

Maybe 10 years ago, but this couldn't be further from the truth today.

Shouldn't sales reduce inflation because they increase supply?
A wealth tax would be like 5% of the $100k, nothing to do with the gains.
Why are you still on X?
Re:Banned C++ Features in Chromium on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @10:15AM (#46886830)
You're right, sorry.

Good point, so maybe the standard should just add some functions that take std::string_view. Definitely not add a whole new class like std::u8string ...

Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @11:23AM (#46797447)
I'm using KDE with Wayland and 2 non-standard DPI monitors (one at 100% the other at 150% scale). No workarounds needed, nothing is blurry. I think your experience comes from GNOME which lacks behind in this regard.
Re:Banned C++ Features in Chromium on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @03:20AM (#46792498)
I never said always. Just add some new methods for which it has to be UTF-8. All current functions that need an encoding (e.g. text IO) also switch to UTF-8. Of course you could still save arbitrary binary data in it.
You are moving the goal post. But you're right: Signal's E2EE is miles better than telegram's. I was just trying to point out my experience in getting people to switch, most of the time they have different prioirities.
Re:Banned C++ Features in Chromium on Sunday January 25, 2026 @05:50PM (#46759406)
Perfect is the enemy of good. Or do you think the current mess is better?

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