bdonvr

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 week ago

It's pretty open hardware I'm sure it would be very easy to flash it to Fairphone's OS

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 1 week ago

Any of them rich enough to vacation in the Maldives are rich enough to have left and divested of the place

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay can we at least get him out of jail? Why bother answering if your answer will be so stupid.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 weeks ago

Just don't take the boxes with you. You came over with all that capiche?

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 weeks ago

5 minutes to NYSE bloodbath

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think I've seen aerosol cans of Axe around for a while, are they still a thing? I totally haven't been looking tho

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 10 points 2 weeks ago

They were never defending anything. Their victims just decided to fight back.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sure. Looks like on Ubuntu Touch the only thing not working is the fingerprint reader

https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/fp3/

The OS in general isn't ready for daily use though. It's maybe doable if all you need is text, calls, camera, and a browser. And the calls only work in some countries. But it's fun to play with.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Do you live in the US or Europe? There are some possibilities out there, but it's kinda region dependent.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

It seems like Linux-compatible android handsets stopped around 2021. Except a few bespoke models that are hard to get your hands on outside of Europe.

I have a OnePlus Nord N10 flashed with Ubuntu Touch as a tinker device, unfortunately in the US it's not daily-able because we shut down 3g and 2g networks and they still haven't managed to get VoLTE working on Ubuntu Touch yet (though it may be coming in the next year!) so phone calls don't work.

There's also the Pixel 3a/3a XL which are plentiful and cheap but I like the N10 a bit more because of the additional RAM. Makes it feel a little less old compared to the Pixel.

If you can get your hands on a Fairphone, Pinephone or Volla those are great but hard to get outside the EU.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 53 points 3 weeks ago

In here absolutely everyone knows this stuff and it's all just common knowledge.

Absolutely not. Not even close.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 month ago

Google gets to control the source code, what additions are added, and what features don't get into it.

Yes technically some organization could fork it and then maintain a fork themselves. But it's a huge undertaking that almost nobody has the money to fund. Browsers are free so there's really not a lot of monetization schemes for browsers.

So nobody as far as I know has really been able to maintain a hard fork of chromium for very long. Remember, every change you make then has to be maintained by you and then you have to keep it up to date with the chromium master tree while also keeping all of your changes compatible. It is a big undertaking almost as big as modern operating systems. Browsers are just too complicated so Google in this position does still have a monopoly that's very hard to fight.

Almost all browsers other than Safari and Firefox are based on Chromium, which gives Google a ton of control.

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