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Why would I want to move to an objectively more subjugated place?

Besides that, you say to just pick up and leave as if it were that easy. And I suppose if I followed your advice, it could be. Get a divorce, not care about the kids (sorry, but I'm not bringing my daughters there), ignore the fact my parents are in their 80s, server all my friendships, likely end my career.

Not all freedoms are good. Or rather some bindings, like family and other loved ones, are worth it.

I'm just not sure what to do. What the US is turning into is incredibly sad and I wish I could leave.

If this is successful, I can see this trickling down to the lower end phones in the following years. If for no other reason than keeping their hardware as similar as possible.

If I'm picturing what you're explaining correctly, I think this would be difficult. Suddenly accelerating the arm from zero to hundreds of mph would put immense stress on the arm, not to mention whatever you're planning on using to transfer that energy (you kinda hand waved that bit).

I think your assessment is correct about the energy losses. I'm just not sure about the fix.

I'm not saying they're related, but they also make and sell wireless headphones...

Considering the big players with R&D budgets valued in the billions have been struggling to make foldable phones, I can't imagine a niche player making one.

Yeah, but only the Fairphone 4 (which is very dated at this point), and only from Murena which is a can of worms in itself. Support also ranges from non-existent to atrocious.

Directly buying from FP is a huge deal for me.

> the needs will continue to grow beyond what the simple solution offers.

If they do, then migrate to a provider that offers what you need at that time. It's not like adding a new remote is hard.

This was eerie to read. I was very much Alan, only I reported to duty Monday morning because I thought, or rather knew, that's what was expected of me from my parents and from society.

This definitely gave me "road not taken" vibes and made me reconsider where I'd be, and more importantly how happy I'd be, if I'd done as Alan did.

Also, confusingly, I feel like I'm Alan all over again. I've been thinking of a massive career change (AKA, goose farming from the meme) a lot of recently due to AI sucking the fun out of my career.

My first real taste of programming came from trying to hack on gorilla.bas to add new features to it. Whoever created that game changed my life immeasurably.

It's amazing what you can get used to.

Doubt all you like. Customer support is a huge O&M cost to these companies and they will do nearly anything to reduce calls. I know they track why people are calling, or at least my place does. Half of my career has been spent writing software and making changes to our websites to reduce call volume.

Thanks for writing all that!

Of course I knew that the Librem5 existed, but at the time I was thrown off by the price and the smell of "impending shitstorm" the device reeked of. Afterwards, I was too deep into the Pine side of things to pay attention to what was going on over at the Librem side.

It's sad that these two devices have derailed open phones so much. Obviously there's a ton of things to figure out, radio chief among them. But I fear that the corporations have learned from what happened during the "PC compatible" era of computing and openness will be a thing of the past.

I hope I'm wrong about that.

> Purism

I haven't heard much bad about Purism. I was always more on the Pine side.

A quick search online didn't find anything. Can you give me a quick breakdown or link?

> I don't think the feelings are so much towards the companies themselves.

I respectfully disagree. Pine's MO was basically "create hardware and hope people create software for it". A bit tongue in cheek, but that's it. Which is fine as long as they're up front about it, which they are.

But in order for this to work, a community needs to form around the device. Pine doesn't have to be the ones to manage it, and some would say it's better if they don't, but they're surely a big part of it if for no other reason than they're the makers of the hardware. The infant PP community was doing quite fine until they announced the PPP and confused the hell out of everything. Couple that with some seriously brain dead choices (IMHO) around booting and charging, led to them not only torpedoing the pro but sinking the original PP as well. Probably in no small part because they split what little community had formed.

The pro was obviously rushed. I personally think they saw an easy way to grab some quick cash and took it.

Pine really fucked up with the PPP. That, and a few other issues around that time really soured me on Pine as a company.

Don't go in person. That just wastes everyone's time as corporate will never hear about it.

Instead, call them. Insist to talk to a human. Corporate really doesn't like call center calls, and they usually have monitoring set up to track why people are calling.

Yeah, and currently the hivemind-approved response to people complaining about apps not working in either GrapheneOS or Linux phones is to "just use the browser. Your bank has a website, right?"

Well, I fear that loophole is quickly closing with little fanfare.

I think politicians across the board are completely out of touch with the average US citizen. Some more than others, but in general they're from old money, Harvard educated, go golfing with CEOs, etc. It's always been this way, right down to the founding fathers.

Which isn't entirely a bad thing. The issues facing the world and the country are so much bigger than they used to be 200 years ago and aren't getting smaller. They require an entire team of educated people to fix. If only they weren't so corrupt. But since power corrupts, I'm not sure that's something that's even fixable at longer timescales.

I doubt that anybody who is "not that technical" is going to install an AUR package on their steam deck.

I've looked at gram, but unfortunately it, being a fork of zed, still has some dependencies I'd rather not deal with. Given the recent hacks (especially those a few weeks ago with lots of compromised AUR packages in Arch) I'd rather not have npm or nodejs installed. I don't develop in it, I don't need it, and having it installed is just an huge unnecessary attack vector for me.

I do love what the gram developer is doing though.

I may check this out as I'm between editors currently. Liked zed for a bit, until a blog post showed me how they were installing npm and who knows what else on my PC without me knowing. Used Code for a bit after until suddenly they started requiring AI dependencies just to run the IDE.

So hey, why not try something new.

The internet's (at least as we knew it) days were numbered as soon as the dot com bubble happened. It changed from a thing to share info to a thing to make money. It's irrecoverably corrupted and this blatant overreach for everyone's PII is just a symptom.

What I would like is a setting kind of like the already-existing safety feature on pixel phones. You set a timer and if you fail to end the timer or respond when it goes off, it calls 911.

Instead, I would set a timer before going through customs and if I don't unlock my phone and disable it within a set time, it initiates a wipe. I think that would be a safer way of doing this than a duress PIN.

We also know fast food, alcohol, etc., are bad for you and yet most people do these things. I wouldn't bet on LLM usage going down due to it anytime soon.

Yup, but the community you build around a project is not.

Ooooo, JMAP support, that's nice.

This is probably a bit niche, but this guy writes about developing and using Darktable and I wish I had a fifth of his knowledge.

https://avidandrew.com/

> WebKit.

> A web browser designed from the ground-up.

Both of these can't be true. Perhaps they're thinking of Ladybird?

A hybrid drive train would have increased the price though, which seems to be a major selling point if this.