Alligators.

Originally mastered by narco-gangs to smuggle illicit substances up and down the estuary delta, zoologists from Amazon have found our new reptilian overlords can also be used as mules for consumer electronics such as smartphones with a IP68 rating. A teething problem was exploding batteries but with a lot of alligators out there complaining about working conditions, absorption of lithium into their bloodstream provided a boost in antidepressant vibes. /s

Meanwhile.

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Gravity is a human construct only invented by Sir Isaac Newton in the 17th century!

If you've ever seen the Christian allegory, The Matrix, Neo isn't bound by the conventional laws of nature.

Absolutely. And as I said in another reply I have an elderly relative who requires care and is beyond making such a choice.

It's a horrible thing to contemplate that he may keep living for another few years physically as a 'burden' in a home and the associated guilt that yet secretly we're all perhaps hoping that 'the Lord' (from a religious background) would bring a swift end because one can no longer have a rational conversation with the man we once knew. And yet he still roams the corridors of a dementia unit in his own world causing mayhem!

Which all sounds very conceited. :( Well, I'm sure my niece and nephew will have similar discussions about me in a couple of decades if my mind becomes shot too - bloody terrible to contemplate being the subject of problem management.
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Yeah I agree largely that if our only source of truth is Word telling us that our application of grammar rules are wrong based our long forgotten understanding of the fundamentals we learned as 8 year olds then perhaps society should ditch punctuation as an archaism to be misused inadvertently through enraging those grammar n*zis whom we unconsciously seek to antagonize.

That or shorter sentences, unlike the one above. But even what I wrote in the previous didn't even have a verb nor a subject but you got the point anyway.

Maybe historians will identify that we're in the final phase of Late English where the rules codified in the 15th century by the printing press no longer satisfy the needs of globalization.

We had 'assisted dying' laws go through a few years ago here in Victoria. I believe you can get permission for things like early alzheimers etc but there are checks and balances about coercion from children seeking an inheritance etc.

Sensitive topic, I have an uncle in his 90s who is now in 24/7 care in a facility. My aunt could no longer look after him but he is no longer of sound mind, to use a euphemism, to have signed any paperwork even if the option had been available to him.

OTOH, my extended family live with the sorrow of youth suicide. Blessings to those whom you love.

I did play around on an old laptop with Chrome OS Flex (or Neverware CloudReady as it was called) during Covid lockdowns. But I don't own a Chromebook so never got to test out the Google Play store functionality. For an iPad-like experience you need an app catalogue; where Windows 11 never cut through but Android on ChromeOS would, I assume.

Why run ChromeOS at all if you're going to use the Crostini stuff?

Well yeah, all good, I am back to XFCE/Debian on that old laptop. :)

Well, not without some justification, the trope that Microsoft sabotaged their 20th century desktop paradigm of Windows 7 and have spent a decade and a half with 8, 10 and 11 dragging Windows into the iPad era only for Apple themselves to resist!

c.f. Qt manages it at the toolkit level thanks to the work Nokia did all those years ago with Symbian and Meego. I'd try out the KDE spin for Fedora but I don't have an x86 tablet handy.

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c.f. Google's vision for Chromebook.

it has the Android runtime for touchscreens but has a WSL-like container for desktops.

The only thing lacking is a decent web browser! I'd sudo apt install firefox in a heartbeat.

I thought it was Pontius pilot.

Yeah I was going to mention that. Cheap hardware out of China with Rockchip, Amlogic or Allwinner is probably using some labyrinthine obsolete fork of AOSP or Armbian that has to be meticulously reverse engineered by the likes of BayLibre or Sunxi.

Forgive me if I've never seen an 'OpenAtom' product for sale.

Contributing resources directly to kernel.org, uboot, edkII and the bsds as reference implementations of lots of near identical knockoffs of each other from online retailers would help.

Huh, I thought the distro-wars ended when they abandoned Unity. Every IT department diverging from Windows that I've experienced seems to have standardized on Ubuntu. Well known, you can Google the answers, and any Gnome-hater such as myself knows about how to select a desktop environment from the xDM menu.

[ That is unless your hosting mandates something from Red Hat land ... ]

Yeah, 'the economy, stupid', it's the mantra of neoliberalism - ageing population; import people of child-bearing age from developing nations.

Consequently, Australia has a self-fulfilling housing crisis.

They are/were active with Sailfish (via libhybris) too. Trouble is, I haven't seen a sony phone for a decade since they no longer have a sales or retail presence in my country/region, so I'd be relying on grey imports.

HMD would be my hope. They've committed to supporting hardware on certain models through ifixit. Committing to software would tie in.

Hey Google, since we know no one from your company reads this...

What does this mean for "mainline"? You had made various mission statements that you wanted to work directly with the Linux kernel team in upstreaming your changes and branching the Android tree off LTS releases.

So within a reasonable timeframe, maybe one or two LTS releases after launch, one should expect to build a Pixel device directly off Android sources through the source code you've already sent to Linus.

As for 'binary blobs', please work with the 'linux-libre' and Replicant teams to openly document and/or reverse engineer whatever secret gunk you and partners are hiding in your firmwares. Tensor is your own chip, for example.