ExtremeDullard
@ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
- Comment on Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10] 3 hours ago:
That’s the same reason why I gave Ubuntu Touch a go: CalyxOS going stale on my FP4. But I decided to buy an FP5 to give it a whirl and leave the FP4 alone, because I can’t really do without a reliable phone while I make sure the kinks are worked out.
- Comment on Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10] 7 hours ago:
Sure why not:
- The UI is really quite polished. Honestly, it’s slicker than you imagine.
There are weird quirk that you simply don’t encounter in Android, like the UI not really tailored for displays with rounded corners or with a camera in the top-middle blocking icons, or the side drag areas being too small for my taste. Or the keyboard’s haptic feedback seemingly not going away when you disable it, because there’s also a general touch haptic feedback that’s well-hidden in the settings menus, that you didn’t know about.
All this is fixable with enough time and minor hackery, but it still requires time and hackery you don’t need in Android.
I haven’t tried an external display. I have a computer for that.
Waydroid - the Android emulation - is very slick and quite stable. Integration is quite good: when you install an Android app, it shows up in the UT menu immediately. Sometimes they show up twice: just refresh the menu by pulling down and the extra instance disappears. At least in my extremely well-supported Fairphone 5, there’s no issues with access to camera, networking, NFC… But the camera has a quirk: you have to open the native UT camera first, otherwise Android apps won’t be able to use the camera for some reason.
Sharing files between UT and Android apps isn’t a thing natively, but you can download Waydroid helper apps to do that in the Openstore.
If you want long-winded Android apps, you have to leave the window open. If you close it, the app stops if it was the only one running in Waydroid.
There’s a thing called Libertine to run native desktop Linux apps in UT: I find it crashy at best. But it’s there.
Most important apps like calls, SMS, browsing, emails are handled quite well by native UT apps. Other things like maps are handled by web apps, and while I intensely dislike web apps, I must say they work really well.
All of this is easy to live with if you’re willing and persistent enough. But if you want a phone that Just Works™ like most people do, This won’t cut it. That’s why I’m saying, Apple and Google have absolutely nothing to fear from Linux phones: most people aren’t willing to spend a tenth of the time I’m willing to spend on a quirky phone for the sake of principles.
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 10 hours ago:
More proof that AI ruins everything - if it was needed.
- Comment on Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10] 10 hours ago:
As an actual person who owns and operates an actual Linux phone that actually works as one of the best Linux phones you can get (Fairphone 5 running Ubuntu Touch), I can guarantee you that neither Apple nor Google are losing a single second of sleep over this - much as I’d love that they quaked in their monopolistic corporate boots…
- Comment on FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project 2 days ago:
That’s nice but…
Here’s my experience with my Linux phone (Ubuntu Touch on Fairphone 5): it’s fully functional and mostly usable as a full Android replacement. But the keyword here is “mostly": The Openstore has native Linux replacement for half of the stuff I need (calls, SMS, emails, browser…) and for the rest, Waydroid picks up the slack (my Android-only banking app, Yubikey app…).
And then there’s stuff that’s neither available (or rather, working) in native Linux nor in Waydroid. And the killer app I desperately need, Signal, is in that group.
And that turns my promising Ubuntu Touch phone into a very fancy paperweight I mostly leave at home.
Here’s my prediction: the LibrePhone will be another paperweight for the same reason. And the sad thing is, it’s not for lack of trying on the parts of the alternative OS and app makers, or lack of good will: they really do try their best. But it’s a chicken-and-egg problem: people don’t want to code for niche mobile OSes and stick to Android, and the niche mobile OSes remain niche as a result.
Unless the LibrePhone comes onto the market with a certain number of key apps that a vast majority of people will need, it’s doomed.
- Comment on OLAY! 1 week ago:
That’s not Stephen Miller: this guy is flamboyant and he has balls - not to mention, hair.
- Comment on Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos 1 week ago:
That’s because Shitler is obsessed with her, and you hear a lot more about him that you want to also.
- Comment on Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos 1 week ago:
Just a reminder: Taylor Swift is a billionaire. Maybe she’s just as principled as all the other billionaires.
- Comment on Tell me why! 1 week ago:
Just as long as there’s never any MAGB bus…
- Comment on Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease 2 weeks ago:
The dementia is really starting to show…
What next? It’s available at your local Sharper Image?
- Comment on Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease 2 weeks ago:
What better accessory for your Trump Med Bed than a MyPillow.
All you need for a restful thought-free MAGA night. - Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
I agree. A much better test is whether you wear a red MAGA cap.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
I hate you so much right now 🙂
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
Feathered dinosaurs are a thing.
Well, in fairness, kind of.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
You have to be shitting me… Pluto is a fucking Care bear planet:
Nobody told me that in the seventies…
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
Well there are deepening levels of understanding depending on the learner’s pre-existing (e.g. matter > atoms > protons/neutrons/electrons > fermions), and there are things that are just plain incorrect, that were assumed to be correct, because science advances (e.g. Pluto is a grey ball of boring nothingness very similar to Mercury).
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 3 weeks ago:
The very architecture of the Internet (it was a written with a capital I back then) made it impossible to take over, and traffic would naturally route around any damaged links or nodes.
Google and CloudFlare have since proven that sonsabitches with enough money can subvert it completely, and it only takes a few dudes dragging an anchor from a boat to disconnect entire countries for weeks and months.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
He’s a centrist the same way the center of gravity of a hula hoop is at the center of the hoop.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That there is either a very confused short bus rider or someone cleverly hedging his bets.
I’m gonna guess the former.
- Comment on Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI 3 weeks ago:
If you come to me with this always-on Facebook spycam pointing at me on your gormless face, you’d better take it off pronto, because I didn’t consent to be filmed. And if you don’t comply pronto, I’ll make you.
- Comment on Chatbot site depicting child sexual abuse images raises fears over misuse of AI 3 weeks ago:
The Internet Watch Foundation said it had been alerted to a chatbot site that offered a number of scenarios including “child prostitute in a hotel”, “sex with your child while your wife is on holiday” and “child and teacher alone after class”.
Does it have to be this explicit? I’m sure asking for a Trump Enigma would yield plenty of pedo material.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
And in Wuhan too.
Those two will spread COVID everywhere again!
- Comment on Who sat next to whom at Trump’s Windsor banquet – and what does it tell us? 4 weeks ago:
It tells nobody anything new.
What it does do is confirm that the British monarchy is now firmly on the side of Nazis. That’s rather new.
As if this inbred lot wasn’t disgusting enough…
- Comment on Royals, Maga and tech CEOs: What we learned from state banquet guest list 4 weeks ago:
I am genuinely astonished that the UK royal family managed to become instantly ten times more nauseating than they were. That’s a true performance right there.
Then again, I suppose the royals being Nazi-adjacent shouldn’t really come as a surprise…
- Comment on When you ask a stupid question 4 weeks ago:
If you want to be extra sure you don’t end up on team Epstein, no question is a stupid question when it comes to ascertaining someone’s age.
- Comment on “TO THE PERPETRATORS WHO STOLE MY ASS: I HAVE BOTH HANDS ENGAGED IN FINDING IT AND YOU WILL SOON FACE THE FULL FORCE IF THE LAW!!!” 4 weeks ago:
Wow... I had never seen a Viking warrior upclose.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Enjoy your Dad while he's around. When you're old and he's not there anymore, you'll miss this shit.
- Comment on Britain is ‘a terrible place’ to sell medicines, says Pharma corporate executive 5 weeks ago:
They do. But that's not a reason so take advantage of people in need - which is the pharma industry's business model where healthcare costs aren't regulated like in the US.
The pharma industry is in this very unhealthy position of making a profit from people who desperately need their wares. Exactly like plumbers on a weekend: the pharma industry can - and will, left to their own device - charge you any insane amount they want for your treatment that keeps you alive, like a plumber will charge you any insane amount to fix that leak before the whole living room is flooded.
That's why it desperately needs to be regulated. If a Big Pharma exec thinks it's tough to turn a profit in a country, that country is doing its job correctly.
- Comment on Britain is ‘a terrible place’ to sell medicines, says Pharma corporate executive 5 weeks ago:
Good!
Fuck the pharma industry. They're everything that's wrong with capitalism and then some.
