caseyweederman
@caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 4 days ago:
Yeah. And if nobody’s done your specific model, you’re all the way out of luck.
- Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 4 days ago:
Technically most things we call “Linux” aren’t even Linux, they’re distributions that use Linux as a base. Android forks their own Linux kernel and then shovels on a whole bunch of non-Linuxy stuff on top of it and then locks it all down so that you can’t make any changes.
So what people mean when they say they want a true Linux phone is that they want an OS on their phone that behaves more like most Linux distributions (where you are in control, and can even install a different kernel if you wanted).
As for the forking question, being downstream of Android means A) undoing everything they did it lock it down and B) constantly having to do that moving forward as they do everything they can to stymie you at every turn. - Comment on Why is it called linux phone? 4 days ago:
Not easily anyway. Probably if you could do it at a hardware level, but manufacturers have been making it harder and harder to even get the dang thing open, and every model and revision would require intense research just to prove it out.
- Comment on Almost halloween tbh 4 days ago:
Hope that all the tiny little people had the sense to get out of the way because I sure can’t see them from all the way up here
- Comment on 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Producers Promise Season 4 Will Be Better 4 days ago:
“they should keep politics out of Star Trek”
Ah I see the problem here.
The problem is that I thought I had to care about your opinion, when I really, really do not.
Go back and watch literally any episode, ever, and come back and apologize for this embarrassment of a post. - Comment on No words 6 days ago:
Obligatory Mandy Patinkin was making the opposite point than is suggested by the OP’s excerpt
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. Technically Castlevania is a Metroidalike.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is breaking Steam, Nintendo’s eShop 2 weeks ago:
The developers are the ones who didn’t opt for preorders. Nobody in the industry knew the game was even coming out until two weeks ago.
- Comment on Captain's Log 2 weeks ago:
Why does it look so much like an ice cream sandwich
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed 2 weeks ago:
Excuse me, MagusFungus actually wrote the book on Vanilla_PuddinFudge, and can be considered the authority on the subject.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
Is it Robin Williams?
- Comment on Out of 10. Be specific! 3 weeks ago:
Zero thousand.
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 4 weeks ago:
I’m picturing you all alone turning the volume down in case someone broke into your home so you could protect yourself from the embarrassment from hypothetical robbers.
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 4 weeks ago:
enabler
- Comment on I have tomorrow off :) 4 weeks ago:
Alphanumeric!
- Comment on Go on, keep them. 4 weeks ago:
No… It’s gotta have the elvish/shellfish half rhyme. Slant rhyme? Two-fifths rhyme?
- Comment on Go on, keep them. 4 weeks ago:
Ok now somebody do “It’s some kind of shellfish”
- Comment on Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More 4 weeks ago:
Wow. Just in case you accidentally enjoyed yourself? Kudos to you, I guess.
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 4 weeks ago:
This but for tinnitus too please
- Comment on LYING TO CHILDREN 4 weeks ago:
Also the entire point was that he was incompetent
- Comment on They will remember 5 weeks ago:
Now do Java
- Comment on Is it everywhere? 5 weeks ago:
whHSHSHoomp
- Comment on Arch btw 5 weeks ago:
Was it a Snap backdoor? Oh wait
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 1 month ago:
Not the only one, in this thread
- Comment on Great Birthday Gift 1 month ago:
I’m 30
- Comment on Anon starts to believe 1 month ago:
Oh my god is this that bodybuilding forum post, are you doing the bodybuilding forum post thing
- Comment on Puppets Explained, Sybok Teased, TAS Episode Scrapped, And More ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ SDCC Reveals 1 month ago:
Yeah! More tool-assisted speedruns!
- Comment on Apple accidentally posts Galaxy Z Flip 7 promo video on official account [U] 1 month ago:
Context for those who don’t feel like clicking:
- Galaxy is a Samsung line and directly competes with Apple
- Apple is saying that it’s a bug caused by the platform used by the person who was streaming the Apple feed
- Comment on Easy mistake to make 1 month ago:
Gender-affirming care
- Comment on Ah shit 1 month ago:
Hello fellow ADHD enjoyer