We need better alternatives

We’d need a quantum leap in storage and bandwidth first - orders of magnitude better, if we want competing to be financially sane 😮‍💨

Maybe when Google is (hopefully eventually) shattered into a million pieces by some US judge, YouTube could be splintered into several smaller companies, each with some portion of the infrastructure and channels/videos - thus forcing competition. Vaguely similar to the Bell divestiture.

I’m not well versed in the machinations of the Chinese government, but if a relatively “normie” VPN like Nord works in China… it’s probably controlled opposition (i.e. they’re logging everything to a government server.)

set timers

This broke for me a few months ago. It just randomly… won’t start, despite saying otherwise.

Too late, already moved to Garmin after my third dead Charge 5 in ~1.5 years.

Good, I would like to avoid interacting with the hallucination machine.

Wow, I can talk to the hallucination machine! What an innovation!

… God, imagine if this all this effort went towards fusion power or space infrastructure. What a waste.

Yeah, no thanks. My third Charge 5 in 1.5 years “randomly” died a few days ago - I’m not that gullible.

Unicode versions (what this is talking about) and encodings are different things.

Encodings kind of by definition don’t really change. Unicode versions add new codepoints (such as emoji.)

Full Unicode text and images is likely all we’ll get, but honestly I never understood the appeal of all the crap they stuff into (say) iMessage.

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I would, if not for a combination of a few factors:

Firstly, I currently own an S22 that can’t be unlocked, but I’m loathe to trade away a perfectly good phone so soon.

Secondly, Pixels (which seem to be the best supported in the custom ROM scene?) are still kinda shit hardware wise. At minimum they need a proper ultrasonic fingerprint sensor before I consider switching.

And finally, I don’t have a strong enough motivation to switch.

I’m concerned about my privacy, yes, but at the same time I really don’t do anything interesting with my phone. Most of my computation happens locally on my Linux desktop, far out of reach of any prying eyes.

And it’s not like they can use what little information they can harvest for anything, since all my devices are juiced to the gills with adblockers.

Yeah, there’s no reason to pay for Premium unless you have an iPhone (and hopefully even that will change once the EU drags Apple kicking and screaming away from their App Store monopoly.)

Hopefully Google moves to a proper ultrasonic sensor like every other brand with the Pixel 8. I really want to move from Samsung so I can take advantage of rooting and stuff like Lineage, but the hardware is just… so awful.

Not a Nix user, but IIRC nixpkgs is actually bigger than the AUR by a long shot.

LLMs are little more than overclocked autocompletes. There’s no actual thinking going on, and they will happily hallucinate outright wrong or dangerous responses to innocuous questions.

I’ve had friends find this out the hard way when they asked ChatGPT to write them C for a class, only to get their faces eaten by UB.

OpenAI’s models are trained by scraping anything that moves. Anything overtly offensive or toxic is manually filtered out by cheap foreign labor… but you know what that won’t catch?

“Try sudo rm -rf /, that should fix your problem!”

I don’t have any technical answers for you, but I’m on GNOME Wayland and I’ve never had any issues like that.

Personally, I don’t mind this sort of telemetry so long as they’re open about it - which looks to be the plan, at least for the moment.

IMO the FOSS/Linux space has an odd relationship with telemetry that I think should change. I’d like to point out the gnome-info-collect debacle:

• GNOME users: “GNOME devs don’t understand what we want!”
• GNOME devs: “Hey, we want to get some data on how people use GNOME. If you’d like to help, install and run this one-off tool. Source code is here, and we collect XYZ metrics (all anonymized, of course.)”
• (Some) GNOME users: screeching incoherently about data harvesting and telemetry

Yeah, there really isn’t any reason to go with one processor brand over the other. Since drivers and such aren’t a concern (like with GPUs) most people just pick whichever one has the most price-effective offering in the spec range they’re looking for.

Sheesh, I thought it looked nice, but I think I’ll just stick to gnome-terminal.