But they are pretending not to be. Every week Trump says he's mad at Putin. Honestly I don't know why they are doing this. EU knows they are allies but is to weak to do anything about it and MAGA base loves Putin now. I think it's only so that Republicans can pretending Democrats are crazy and the whole "Russia Russia" thing was a scam.
ExLisper
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Miler and Trump are buddies. Russia is the pretend enemy now.
Is it about how everyone is using the term wrong and it doesn't mean anything anymore?
The stolen painting.
Relax everyone, it's just some algorithm, not oven with LLM chat bot. It's not even clear if it uses machine learning. It's "AI" as a marketing term, not AI in technical sense.
I'm saying that there's enough laptop providers and enough different factories to maintain supply of unlocked hardware. You don't have to worry about locked CPU/GPUs, only about locked bootloaders which have a lot of different providers. With mobiles it's easier to lock because it's all packed into SOCs and you don't have as much choice for latest hardware.
You need way, way better sleep handling. To get decent battery life everything needs to be able to go to sleep really fast but also be able to listen for signals from specific devices like GSM modem and wake up immediately. Without it it's not really usable. Desktop PCs didn't have any sleep functionality for a very long time and even now they mostly just disable everything and wait for a button press. Sleep/wake-up cycle can last couple of seconds without issues.
Mobile hardware also has more devices. I don't have GPS, GSM, accelerometer or finger print reader in my laptop. When Linux was developed they also didn't have cameras or bluetooth. A lot of this additional devices are not easily available like PC parts and require closed source drivers and firmware.
To make a usable mobile phone you need to figure out all if it at once. You can't really release a phone without GPS or GSM and expect people to use it as a daily driver. With PC you can live without the camera or build in WiFi. I remember using USB dongles for WiFi and simply not having a working camera in my Linux laptops and I was fine with it.
They might add binaries to mainstream kernel that lock you out and who can stop them ?
Who are "they"?
It seams you don't know how Linux kernel is maintained. Linus is simply releasing the most commonly used versions of it. Nothing stops you from choosing a different one. If someone takes over the main kernel and starts doing weird things distros will simply package another kernel by default.
Too late to do this for PCs. You already have Linux laptop providers and Linux distros supported by corporations. Most of the components have multiple providers. You will be able to source "unlocked" hardware from somewhere.
The problem with mobile is that the hardware is too complicated for open source projects to handle. Many have tried, all have failed. So far. Hopefully we will finally see something usable come out of projects like PinePhone and PostmarketOS.
Arrested? They will be lucky not to get bombed.
Most of they will but hopefully we will still have projects like PinePhone or Fairphone that will support it.
I see it used as "things got worse" a lot but I did a quick search and looks like you're right, on lemmy it's used correctly most of the times.