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Well, I've found and read the source for the DSP part. The small OS on the modem processor on my current phone actually is open source, and hardly use the modem anyway since I've switched to VOIP for voice and SMS/MMS.
Re:Why I stopped releasing EasyOS as an ISO file on Thursday December 09, 2021 @07:35AM (#29496645)
>Installing Windows on actual hardware and not just running a VM with virGL.
Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @07:28AM (#29496598)
This isn't the first time I've heard this complaint.
Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @07:27AM (#29496583)
> Google needs to support their own phone past three years

It's not really Google's choice. Qualcomm gives up on their SOCs pretty quickly and unlike on Linux Android's license doesn't force them to publish driver sources.

Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @07:25AM (#29496566)
People who argue Android is superior to PMOS take note.
Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @07:23AM (#29496561)
>We are currently only aware of one user report related to the occurrence of this bug.

Sounds about par for the Android team's awareness of what a steaming pile of cow dung their OS is. I gave up on Android long ago and I'm aware of many reports like this.

I've gotten emails from people asking for help hosting image albums. I'd be shocked if their end goal wasn't hosting CP. (I rejected it of course.)
Do not run closed consumer software ever.
Re:Young Dems more likely to despise the other party on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @03:44AM (#29482454)
Some of us feel the same way about the positions of the democrat party.
Whatsapp is just signal 10 years from now, I'd rather move the world to something not controlled by one company like XMPP.
Re:Simple Raspberry Pi Powered SMS Gateway on Sunday December 05, 2021 @11:02PM (#29455990)
No.

That would take value add away from apple et all.

Install Xorg.

Eventually people will be paying yachtsmen to move totes.
The admins have had two years to fix staffing/equipment shortages. If they're still struggling it's not the public that should suffer.
>Just two more weeks
Re:Apple broke up with me on Sunday December 05, 2021 @07:05AM (#29448650)
Hopefully more people notice these problems and stop using online services so much.
This is why I bought a sailboat. All you can do is put computers on her; There's a real limit to how much you can make her function dependent on other people's code.
Yup. This happened to me two years ago. Thankfully I hardly used them for anything important. They started freaking me out years ago and I've moved to self host everything.

People still send emails to my gmail address, including my own family. It forwards to swiley.net for now but that probably won't last.

System software gives you a ton of control over the user. It's easy to say "oops that doesn't work" when they use apps that don't make you money or give you more control. With an app the user would just install something else but switching OSes means work, not just installation but adopting the differing paradigms.
Have you tried editing text files on iOS and copying them to another machine without an online service? On every other OS you have OpenSSH and some text editor installed already, on iOS the easiest thing to do is install iSH but it's still pretty painful since it's slow and can't see everything.
Re:Web4 Should Run on LaTeX on Sunday November 28, 2021 @12:45PM (#29370990)
Exactly, HTML would be amazing if people weren't trying to use browsers as application runtime environments.
Re:Ask HN: Do FAANG and hire designer developers? on Sunday November 28, 2021 @12:41PM (#29370949)
One of the companies I worked for did. They would always make these vary pretty mockups that would be hell for people to use.

Information density is ugly and it makes software hard to sell. This is part of why commercial software is almost universally crap.

A type DNS records are used for looking up IPv4 addresses, AAAA records are for IPv6. This effectively takes Reddit off of the IPv6 internet and is a bit of a step backward.
We already had a system that didn't need satellites, it was deemed redundant and shut down.
They're more a PR organization than one driven by science at this point.
Most mainstream things are like this now.
Re:Remote Work Is Failing Young Employees on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:14PM (#29357011)
Don't forget, this is the same newspaper that mocked Robert Goddard for wanting to go to other planets because "rockets don't work in space."
More likely smart enough not to.
Re:The Paywalled Garden: iOS is Adware (2020) on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:06PM (#29356956)
iOS apps are how you add notifications to your website.
Re:Save the planet Program in C, avoid Python, Perl on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:48PM (#29273939)
The compilers, runtimes, and by extension requisite operating systems are fatter though.
heh

If you're entire job is to tell the truth and people catch you repeatedly lying what else could you expect?

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