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  • Linux phones are more important now than ever.

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  • I've been a mobile dev for many years, I fell in love with the Nokia 810 with maemo which kinda got me started, but I never had one myself. I moved to OpenMoko and saved to buy a Neo. But then Android became big with Google's support and all companies rushing to have an alternative to iOS with the iPhone. Back then when Android meant openness. As much as I loved the openmoko project it had plenty of issues as a daily driver, so eventually I cracked and moved to Android with a Galaxy S2, ah, the innocence back then when one could think Google was actually different... Actually doing good and creating a great Linux phone.

    I absolutely agree on all your points. It is time to kill Android as a free/open source idea if it is not dead yet. And you know what, Linux is absolutely ready to substitute anything as a mobile platform. It needs more polishing in terms of UI but Maemo nearly 20 years ago already offered a great UX IMO. Thank you Microsoft and all Nokia management for destroying it.

    Now, I say Linux as a mobile platform is ready... But we all know it doesn't lack problems. What are those? The problems come from anticompetitive practices, locked hardware for chips, drivers and so on, specially all related to phone networking. The other main problem is apps which is only a small issue with all the ways there are available to make android apps run on Linux, that is... Until google comes to fuck things up with the points #3 and #4 you make. Those are the biggest threats right now, and it's no wonder Google is doing that. They are preventing the possibility of competition arising. Like I said, I have been a dev for many years, it absolutely sucks the path all tech is taking. But there are solutions, just need to have proper anticompetitive practices and protections... At least in Europe we kinda do, but more needs to be done.

    The main point is, Linux as an alternative is kinda ready, if only there was a real posible competition to be had outside of being incredibly rich.

  • Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form]

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  • Give me liberty or give me symbian maemo

    FTFY

  • Is there any animal you wish Ubuntu used for its naming convention?

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  • Tardigrade. Also Macaw if it hasn't been used yet.

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    Keybee Keyboard: The most ergonomic keyboard for Android.

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  • Yeah, I saw the comment in github but it felt too surreal and without looking at the patent I didn't want to assume anything. But hey thanks for the link to the actual patent, I have had a look at it, and read some parts of it and I'm still kinda confused about the whole situation with this keyboard.

    The patent was published 10 years ago. It says it is withdrawn but I don't know if we can somehow see the reason or if it was voluntarily withdrawn.

    The patent itself recognizes that the hexagonal keyboard alone lacks on innovation to warrant the patent so the author proposes together with that the "best" order for different languages.

    Then the code in github seems to have been uploaded 6 months ago. Maybe they withdrew the patent until they can show an example?

    But how often do devs working on some free software code go through the trouble of making patents? And the code appearing such a long time after the patent... I don't know, I don't like throwing accusations without proof but the whole thing feels like they are more interested in the patent than creating the keyboard but I can't be certain of it.

    And then we get to the whole ordeal of the key positions, changing over different languages, trying to choose the optimal positions... I don't think that it is enough to be patented (but I've seen worse so...) and likely it won't ever be something people can agree on. Creating such "best" order would be impossible and probably each person would have different ideas. Now, predicting the next most likely letter... That would be more interesting but it was done ages ago too. And the most important aspect of what makes us fast typing is not the order of the letters, but the fact that we have muscle memory to reach them once we are used to a layout. As I use three different languages daily, using the same keyboard layout for all, is the best option, but with this idea I would need to change the layout of the keyboard... It would make me so incredibly slow!

    And more in detail with the patent, many claims are borderline ridiculous. But this comment is already long enough so I'll leave it herewith my final criticism for the author. Forget the patent, and just create a good keyboard that people want to use.

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    Keybee Keyboard: The most ergonomic keyboard for Android.

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  • I'm glad to see an open source keyboard for a hex design. But I'm confused with the patents... Hex keyboards are not particularly new, I've used them years ago, so on what basis are they patenting it?

  • Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal

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  • Is it though? Nearly 10 years ago they were going to sell them in retail for 200$, now it is 225$, and its going to be so much better. My time steel lasted for so many years... And it was wonderful, I miss it so much. After the battery started to get too weak I started the search for an alternative, there's so little offering what pebble offers. Ended up with a Garmin, which is... OK, but the price makes me nearly consider it not worth it, around two years ago it cost me 350€, and it was the cheapest version. It's probably great for super sporty people, but I just want a basic watch that helps me get notified and check a bunch of things.

    In my opinion what pebble offers is incredibly good for the price, specially compared with what there is in the market currently.

  • Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal

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  • I love the changes they have done. I loved the pebble time steel, and personally the design of pebble time 2 was not my thing and I was devastated that pebble time 2 was dropped. This new design manages to marry the pebble time 2 and the pebble time steel incredibly well. And the color options seem really great actually... It's going to be difficult to choose.

    And furthermore, it is a relief to have again the metal buttons. I'm going to have to dig out the time steel to see if I can use it to test the new version to see if I can get back to developing some watchfaces.

  • Help Us Make A Linux Stack!

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  • You must be acting all offended on purpose... There is no way from his post that you get the idea that he wants you to work for him. And even if that were the case, if you don't want to provide advice then why comment? Why are you losing your valuable time here instead of working?

    Your comparison is flawed in so many ways... He hasn't asked anyone to come and cook for him. Following your comparison, he has gone to a community called restaurantfood where there's a lot of people interested in food and many working with restaurants asking for advice if someone has any to offer on how to improve his menu at his restaurant to provide healthier and better food to his customers.

    Providing some advice, specially about free software is not the same as working. Why are you in a community of people sharing information and knowledge of Linux if your only objective is to earn money? Do you get paid for your help to other users? Do you think the only allowed people in this community are the ones that won't profit off of Linux? Because it seems you do...

  • Spotify boycott: Artists leave ‘garbage hole’ platform after CEO invests in AI weapons

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  • Well sure, since you ask... Spotify might be crap, and the CEO is... Well, the usual shit person CEOs tend to be. That doesn't make physical media any better, digital media is by far much much better in many ways. Specially if you go sailing with your wooden leg and hook hand and parrot on the shoulder. You don't want to carry all the extra weight of physical media while sailing... And if artists sell directly their music even better, I always support artists selling on their own without intermediaries.

  • Donald Trump Illegally Withholding $7 Billion In School Funds, No Reason, Just Being A Prick

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  • This kinda makes me think of the episodes of the Simpsons of who shot Mr Burns... Now just waiting for someone to shoot the cheetoh

  • Donald Trump Illegally Withholding $7 Billion In School Funds, No Reason, Just Being A Prick

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  • Now? X)

  • 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events

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  • When being from the lgbtq community means that you are persecuted, punished and your life is threatened, doesn't it mean it is political? why do you say it is not political? Or is that about fighting for survival? Is fighting for survival political? Does it even matter? You don't specify it in your comment, are you supporting the other comments that because it is political companies should stay away from it?

    When laws and states and governments try to push too far to limit things such as gender identities the lives of many become political as they are threatened by the laws, states, and governments. And yet, the rights and survival of people in peace is not truly political. That's just the excuse used to try and censor the discussion of such topics.

  • 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events

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  • Pride movement is as political as Christmas is political. There will be people that make it a political issue, but that doesn't mean it is actually political. A company that celebrates a holiday that big part of the population celebrate is not siding with a political party or even with a religion. The rights for any minorities in a government or a state is political, but pride is a celebration and as such it is not political. A state making a religion official and forced/encouraged is political. Celebrating Christmas is not political. And celebrating Christmas as a company doesn't mean they alienate customers or employees that don't actually follow the religious side of the holiday.

    Don't get sucked into the idea that a company cannot show support for minorities or make events depending on the celebrations socially occurring because you need to be neutral. That's not neutrality, that's self censorship.

    To take it to the extremes, are we expecting companies to say they are not against slavery but also not in favor, because it is political? Child labour is bad, but I don't want to support any side because it is too political. Terrorism attacks? Well we don't have a stance against or for them, it's just too political.

    There's a big difference between siding with one party or another and not showing a stance into what should be universal human rights. Are universal human rights political? Well kinda, but we shouldn't support, or allow any company that is afraid of supporting human rights because it might alienate some customers... Pride and lgbtq rights might not be on the same level as slavery, terrorism and child labor but hell who someone spends their life with is a human right and has nothing to do with politics.

  • CoMaps Logo Voting Round 1 is Complete!

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  • Definitely number 4, I'm tired of map applications overusing the directions marker. I feel the compass is an improvement in that sense.

  • *arr stack keeps downloading .arj files

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  • That's a terrible way to put it and sincerely misguided in my opinion. I have a handful of public indexers, they work fine in 99.99% of the cases for my needs. In fact, never before I've had this issue until recently, with two unreleased episodes that were fake files. For me, not allowing the unreleased episodes is just another layer of security. In other words, using your example, I don't want the water filter for my car to use the bad gas station, I want to get the water filter to make sure that if there's ever some water by accident or not then it won't get to the engine.. If I see the indexers or trackers start publishing a lot of fake stuff it will get removed, but from public indexers I understand if there's something ever getting past, and I don't want the devs of some software deciding that me requiring that a show has been aired before I even try to download it is dumb.

  • *arr stack keeps downloading .arj files

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  • Precisely, just make it optional, hell even just apply the way it is now as default, but give the option to those that prefer it. But each time it is requested it gets shot down immediately and when people ask why not make it optional no one answers.

    The needed change is not even that complex and someone provided the link to the pull request for radarr that implemented the similar function (actually even more complex as it has more options for movies). I've even considered trying to do it myself, but its quite the effort to prepare the dev environment, make the change, test it and make the pull request just to get the same dev shoot it down just out of spite. If the feature request was still open even if the usual devs don't want to do it then it would show that they would accept it...

  • *arr stack keeps downloading .arj files

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  • The main devs are rejecting the feature with really bad excuses. Basically, it comes down to two reasons:

    • if you get those lnk files and what ever, then you are using a bad tracker and you need to do better.
    • episodes are often released early and with such a setting you would miss out on them. The thing is I don't care about early releases, but when a show arrives officially.

  • *arr stack keeps downloading .arj files

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  • I went down the rabbit hole on this the other day as I was trying to find a way to block unreleased episodes. It's unbelievable to me the resistance they put against such a simple feature. Like no one is requesting to force it that way, just give the option to make it so.

    The two reasons I saw for canceling the feature request over menu duplicates is the "use better trackers" mainly but also that shows are so often released or leak early they this setting would block you from getting them faster... Those are the dumbest reasons ever to not provide a setting that people are literally asking over and over again for.

    The change is done for radarr so it might not be terribly hard to adapt into sonarr. Being open source I would have expected someone to do the change already but if they fight against it so much as a principle who would expect them to approve the change..

  • J.K. Rowling uses Harry Potter wealth to fund anti-transgender organization

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  • The artist is not the same as the work.

    The world of Harry Potter, the books, the movies, future shows or whatever involve a lot more people than just this fucking idiot shit writer. And a shitty person can anyway create a good thing that helps people.

    Now in this case where the author is still alive, let people enjoy harry Potter stuff, while asking people to not send money her way. Help people pirate her books if they really want to read them, pirate the shows and movies. Better yet, make those involved in the shows and movies voice their opinion against her, make the money going to those works support trans people to counter JK. Make her see her works support the causes she hates.

    Alienating people for liking some book series, movie or show that was made, paid, produced, written or whatever by some asshole won't help the situation. In other words, in this case, harry Potter is not the problem, it's the author.