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thatradomguy @ thatradomguy @lemmy.world
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  • Why did PinePhone fail?

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  • It didn't fail, really. A bunch of distros managed to port themselves which AFAIK, this hasn't seen the success rate that the PinePhone managed to achieve. You were even able to flash a really old version of Android on it and it well... booted.

    Granted, yes, even though you could put OpenSuse, Gentoo, and Fedora on the PinePhone, that alone didn't make them very usable. Fair enough.

    PostmarketOS, Mobian, and Manjaro had dedicated their work to the PinePhone to get it a better experience. It got to the point where folks were actually trying to use it as a daily driver. The major obstacles with PinePhone and any of its iterations is the same culprit that probably made it very difficult for Ubports, FirefoxOS et. al to get to a point where it could actually be used as a daily driver.

    IMO, the proprietary stuff keeps getting in the way of folks seeing progress with using it as daily drivers. The only other real thing for me that the PinePhone lacked is a good battery. Just a lousy battery. Hardware. Imagine, they figure out how to put a good battery in one and everything else would pretty much work half the time.

    The benefit we all have at this point in time is that this did not end up like UBPorts or FirefoxOS because now the entire community can take advantage from what came out of this initiative. Mobile Gnome wasn't a thing before. It is now and Purism guys have been contributing upstream last I checked. Same with Mobian guys. We didn't have Plasma Mobile before. Now we do.

    Maybe I'm just in the "glass half full" camp this time but I don't see this as a loss.

  • Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

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  • Is it safe to assume the people that made this AI thing for TB got fired and hence AI kind of did make somebody lose their job?

  • Who would win?

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  • Ignoring the whole sides thing, this would make for a pretty cool movie. I think the US could be taken down a peg or two at this point.

  • South Korea bans phones in school classrooms nationwide

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  • I didn't think it would be a problem in other countries outside the US. It's probably the same everywhere now where kids have no respect for teachers. That's the only reason I can think of aside from maybe cheating for why this would even be a problem anywhere outside the US.

  • What would be the best setup to ease my niece (10) into tux land?

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  • I can't speak very well about it because I've never used it myself but I kind of always the dream of giving PuppyOS to my future daughter if I ever had one. I know sounds delusional but I found the OS looks cute and maybe works.

  • Tank you, Pam & Ri Chun-hee

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  • Also when you find that one vid on YouTube where Jenna's character asks a bunch of raunchy questions: thank you Jenna Fischer.

  • Army base used for WWII Japanese internment now nation's largest ICE detention center

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  • Finally see someone else use this GIF. Kudos

  • Army base used for WWII Japanese internment now nation's largest ICE detention center

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  • In other words, history repeats itself.

  • Was my memory wiped or was the Star Wars sequel trilogy just that forgettable?

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  • I have this saved on my phone. lol

  • 4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC

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  • Who tf is funding 4chan with a lawyer?

  • Was my memory wiped or was the Star Wars sequel trilogy just that forgettable?

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  • It was bad enough that it was a repressed memory. To this day, I still feel that the trailers for The Old Republic video game are 100% better than that whole sequel trilogy combined.

  • Do you guys just have flawless experiences or what?

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  • I don't dare do hardcore gaming on Linux 'cause I'm lazy. I went and bought a Raspberry Pi at some point and only tried out some distros on it. I had troubles from day 1 where like OP, I could figure out. Right now, I can't even get Redshift to work on basically a RaspberryPi OS fork and I have no clue why.

  • Car trouble

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  • Was just thinking I'm surprised this ain't over there. lol

  • Wages aren't keeping up with inflation, with some jobs falling further behind than others

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  • fr man

  • The rich are ruining our world

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  • ... and who get to live that ideal livelihood while making sure nobody else can.

  • You are here

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  • Gee, I suck then

  • Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says

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  • It's a mad world.

  • [ButtPoems] Creative Expression

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  • +1

  • Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says

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  • The min wage and salaries in general should have increased with every generation. Me says.

  • Hasan Piker Thinks America Might Be Cooked

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  • Cool. So who wants to bet on where Democracy 3.0 will start happening? My bet is on one of them socialist countries.