What’s doubly ironic (and evil, for that matter) is that FDroid apps are so much safer than Google Play apps. Open Source apps verified and compiled from source by a trusted repository is the gold standard.
Meanwhile, malware stealing all your personal info, apps lists, and contacts are rife on the Google Play store. I avoid it as much as I can.
For the Steam Frame, x86-64 is run through a compatibility layer already anyway, so who’s to say that would be any better than the Lepton compatibility layer? At least for Frame users, obv.
Yes, but that’s only relevant for SEO. Since they’re established sites with good reputation (inbound links from other sites, basically), they rank highly on search indexers (Google). The existing readership is irrelevant.
Right, but nobody goes to these sites independently, it’s all to plaster so much spam that they get search traffic.
Try searching for any niche topic in the form of a specific question, and you’ll get search results that are a barrage of slop.
The article addresses that. These are not numbers released by the company; they’re from independent analytics companies’ estimates.
an Uber spokesperson said, "We strongly disagree with this decision and disproportionate fine, which we will appeal. The AP examined historic policies that were discontinued years ago. …
So, basically, “we broke the law 4 years ago. That’s like forever ago, so you can’t fine us.”
If that’s their legal defense, LMFAO.
Just FYI, since nobody responded, the steps to check:
A few Linux phones work, but there are only a handful of models supported. If you don’t have a Fairphone 5 or a phone specifically marketed/sold as a Linux phone, you’re most likely out of luck, unless you’re willing to make major compromises, like non-working cell connectivity, camera, etc.
A more balanced requirement would be replaceable storage or removable storage support.
If you can install your own (bigger) drive, then that’s a fair alternative, imho. Like a 64GB–>1TB Steam Deck.
And USB is reaching 10-40 GBps transfer speeds, so swapping cards doesn’t offer the same speed savings as it used to.
Most (all?) Canadian carriers shut down/are shutting down 2G and 3G, so older phones don’t work at all.
It also means that locations that have spotty 4G connectivity can have big dead zones now, for non-5G-enabled devices, that used to be covered by 3G bands.
Even some 5G phones are affected. Like, I have an international model phone that has most but not all Rogers 4G/5G bands that used to fall back to 3G, but now is just worse.
Really? I was just watching some of their newest videos with my son and we thought they were great. I haven’t noticed a drop in quality.
That quote I strongly agree with, but I think you completely misunderstand what the professor means.
A huge problem in education right now is students using AI inappropriately, in many different ways. As an extension of the “digital literacy skills” education has been focusing on teaching in the last ~1-2 decades, educators are now teaching “AI literacy” skills, because students are using it wrong all the time. And it’s unacceptable both academically and professionally.
AI literacy skills are mostly about teaching students how bad AI is, what it can’t do, and why they should not rely on it. Like, understanding how an LLM works means that students will understand that they’re just fancy word predicting machines, not “intelligent” in any way. Students who understand this are much less likely to trust LLM output.
AI literacy skills are not teaching students how to vibe code faster.
Yeah, fair. I was more thinking in terms of a neurodivergent special interest, but desired to “hobby” to be more inclusive of neurotypicals.
Eh… I think it’s fine if some people want to subscribe to a car. Some people really like cars, and want to have the newest model. They can lease a car, then return it (lightly) used for someone who is price conscious to get a cheaper car with warranty protection.
I buy old, used, cheap cars because I don’t give a flying fuck about what I drive. The cheapest I can get my $/km, while having a reliable vehicle, the better. Sub $10K CAD direct buyer sales are great, for me.
I think it’s a waste of money, but I’ve spent $thousands on my hobbies, so who am I to judge someone else for their hobby spending, assuming they can afford it.
This was my thought, too, especially with how stable Linux traffic is relative to other OSes.
It might just mean that more people are web scraping, and that web scraping is easier/cheaper on Linux.
The Steam numbers are more interesting to me, as a measure of consumer usage, since they should mostly represent people actually using their computer.
PornHUB puts out annual usage stats, too, but idk if they include OS. (When I used Reddit, their stats would come up on dataisbeautiful frequently enough to come to mind years later—they had some interesting stats, like average visit duration and that the most Republican states were the most likely to search for gay and incest porn, but I digress.). Would bots make up a high volume of traffic for them? I imagine not, since there’s little economic value in scraping it (to train LLMs, in particular — I think it would poison the training data rather dramatically!)
ikr? My video card died last week. RIP my wallet.
What banks charge fees for web banking!? That doesn’t make a lick of sense, imho… That incentivizes using much-more-expensive in-person banking.
Also, even if there are some banks that don’t have web banking, it’s easy enough to switch banks (at least, in the countries I know about). Some people even regularly cycle through institutions to get sign-on bonuses a couple times each year.
But, yes. It’s less convenient to use platforms that respect privacy, and requires some trade-offs.
It’s easy enough to work around most of it, with web apps. You can even install them to have separate icons. Granted, there are some things that are impossible, like digital ID, but there aren’t any that fundamentally affect phone usability, for my personal use.
What’s holding me up is work stuff. I get a stipend to have a work phone, so I just use my personal device, but I’m getting a separate device for work soon so I can cut out everything Google/Microsoft on me personal device. Digital control and privacy matters.
It’s tightly interconnected with accessibility because alternative input systems, like eye gaze input, macros to expand text, and other accessibility tools for alternative input hardware all friends in the same types of window-agnostic input interacting. (Similarly for output hardware, I think?)
Like, custom text replacement with XCompose breaks because of how Wayland “silos” programs, which is why ~/.XCompose files only partially work in KDE Plasma. If Wayland/KDE fully implemented accessibility tools, then it would be possible to solve all of these problems.
Or, at least, that’s my layman’s understanding of the situation.
There was a fantastic blog post about accessibility problems with Wayland, but I think Wayland is upstream of KDE, isn’t it?
In other words, do you know if what you’re suggesting within scope, or is it upstream? Or maybe it’s both, and KDE and Wayland both need changes to enable proper accessibility?
I don’t know enough, but I’ll see if I can track down that blog post and post about accessibility. Worst case, it lets KDE devs know that accessibility with KDE/Wayland is a major issue for many users.
Edit: I found the post: My Accessibility Stack and the future on Wayland
Meh. I like seeing it. I don’t spend a lot of time thinking/worrying about it, but it’s a nice data point to keep up with.
As with most “computer geeks” forced to use Teams/M365, I have a strong reason to want more people comfortable switching to open source. The faster we can ditch American property slopware, the better.