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They supported linux in order to have their own platform outside of Microsoft's reach (first through the Steam Machines, now the Steam Deck).

Indeed the Mac support is lackluster, but it's yet another proprietary platform and Apple makes it difficult to work on.

That's not true, games without DRMs installed through Steam can be launched without having Steam running. It all depends on the publisher's policy, Valve is just complying.

Thinkpads will always have better keyboards, better connectivity and the trackpoint for them.

Yeah it's depends a lot on the model, I should have precised it's only for some models. Otherwise normal cassette players are still very easy to find.

Even today a big chunk of the music indie scene is still selling tapes as they are way cheaper to produce than other medias and they have that "cool" factor you don't have with CDs or vinyls (portability, format easy to share).

Unfortunately portable tape players are becoming quite hard to find: Stranger Things and Guardians of the Galaxy have create a huge demand for some Sony walkmans, whose prices are now in the triple-digits.

Yeah it mostly has to do with the fact all the historical tape player manufacturers are either closed or moved out to newer technology.

I researched a similar device some time ago and I only found "We Are Rewind" selling a "modern" tape player but from what I understood the sound quality is not on-par with the best portable tape players from the 90's and such.

A refurbished Pixel 4 will fit your budget and is still a great midrange phone

You don't have to root your LineageOS install, I personally run a LOS device without root. I think some adblocking solutions need root so it might be a valid use case for some people.

I had the same experience with a AR-750s. The GL-iNet OpenWRT image with its fancy web UI had a lot of small bugs and required some reboot from time to time to be working properly.

I completely resolved the issue by flashing the mainline OpenWRT image from openwrt.org. It has been working pretty well ever since.

Yeah indeed I should have specified that the whole "mainline linux compatible" is mostly because the Pinephone and the Librem don't use Qualcomm (or worse Mediatek) SoCs.

AOSP is still a google-controlled project that requires a ton of blobs, whereas the Pinephone (and other linux compatible smartphones like the Librem 5) has an entire ecosystem of healthy linux distros (from Mobian to Archlinux) running as close as possible to mainline linux.

> GrapheneOS have put huge effort into de-googling

They are doing great work but they're still depending on google for maintaining Android (Can GrapheneOS do anything against a feature pushed by Google in Android 13/14 and so on? Nope).

> Cameras work

You still lose all the post-processing stuff which account for a good portion of perceived picture quality.

Those figures are useless without power consumption.

So why is Tesla calling that feature "autopilot"?

Yeah what he doesn't show is the difficulty of learning all the quirks and features of the OP-1.

Professional musicians or even hobbyists prefer to buy several specialized devices that do one thing very well instead of having a very expensive device that can do a little bit of everything but with some limitations.

There is the Citroën Ami that has already been talked on HN before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22438418

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24856541

Yes very! I use the AR750S as my home router and I never had to reboot it manually in any situation.

Though the updating process can be more streamlined, I had to redo all my configuration when updating from openWRT 19 to latest 21 (could have been my own mistake during flashing, at least I have firmware updates).

By comparing https://www.gl-inet.com/products/ with https://openwrt.org/toh/start?dataflt%5BBrand*%7E%5D=inet the OpenWRT support doesn't seem to be 100% but almost all of them are. I personally own an AR750S and a MT300.

I've had very good experience with Gl-iNet products. They have good hardware, very good openWRT support (the official firmware is based on openWRT) and are beefy enough to be used as home routers even if they are marketed as travel routers.

> But I also need a phone that does video calls, has a working browser, messenger etc

The current Pinephone has almost all of that right now (desktop firefox run very well, messaging works - MMS too -, video calls works in the browser).

> One that works with at least a good bunch of most common apps.

That's on the "most common apps" devs to do the work, and they are very unlikely to do so.

You could use something like Waydroid on the Pinephone to run some Android apps in a stable-ish way (SailfishOS has a similar feature).

That's basically because they outsourced the design to a cheap chinese smartphone manufacturer. It was definitely the right choice as the Pinephone has basically zero hardware issues, unlike the Librem 5 or even the Fairphone.

In 6 months there have been tons of progress yes. Though I didn't have any issue with the touchscreen 6 months ago so your issue might lies elsewhere. You should try reflashing completely yours with Mobian or another well-supported OS.

What OS did you use? I use mine with Phosh (tested Mobian and Archlinux) and I don't have the same experience at all. The device is still severely underpowered though so the Pro version with a much better CPU is a welcome change.

Unlike the Z Fold 3 it doesn't kill the camera completely, you end up with a lower quality camera without its post-processing features but it's still usable.

Another happy user of a left-handed classic trackball here!

It feels perfectly right in my hand, the 3d printed texture is fantastic and the qmk firmware allows a level of customization you will never see on more consumer-oriented products.

Some drawbacks I can think of are the mouse wheel placement and feeling, the USB type B connector and the included ball that is not perfectly round (there is some sort of tiny nub on top of it that can interfere with the bearings).

There are exclusive games made by some famous people in the industry, and it features a new gaming device: a crank.

> "isn't 100watts a lot of power?" <-- typed from gaming computer with a 1000watt power supply

A gaming computer with a 1000 watt power supply will reastically have a 50W idle load. It's only if the CPU and GPU are fully utilized (like in a gaming scenario) that it might draw several hundreds of Watts.

Hope it succeeds, the HN-crowd is obviously very tacky and already know some well established alternatives (used thinkpads, librem laptops, pinebook, MNT reform) that may be even better for a niche audience (open hardware, no management engine, trackpoint option, etc.), hence the criticism.

But marketed directly to the people that buy all the "normal" laptops out there, it could be a great success.

Thanks to the Notepad++ maintainer for making free-as-in-free-beer software political.

Free software has always been political but judging by the reaction here and on the github commit, its philosophy is becoming less and less vocal.

I have been primarily using Linux as my main gaming system, and I can say it's pretty great.

Among the games that did run flawlessly for me are The Witcher 3, Skyrim, GTA 5, numerous indie games (Dead Cells, Hollow Knight, Northgard, etc.) and so much more!

I also had good experience with mini-PCs like Chuwi's. They are pretty cheap, have a good amount of ports and have the advantage of having newer CPUs with very little power consumption.