Are you okay with your phone being less water resistant then?

Yes, I don't bathe with it.

How about less battery as the phone must now be designed to be opened and internal volume sacrificed?

You didn't even read what you're replying to, moron. They. Don't. Care. If. It. Is. Thicker.

So you have the *same* battery in a slightly *bigger*, openable case.

Fuck's sake, you're a thicko.

This outcome from China was inevitable and has been their plan all along. Did Trump's tactics speed up the outcome? Maybe. But to blame him for what was China's obvious strategy all along seems a bit disingenuous.

That's your opinion. An alternative view would be that China knows that cutting off the supply totally and precipitately (even if just temporarily) is somewhat of a nuclear option which they would have been reluctant use if not for Trump's "tactics", since it may not work out to their advantage in the medium term. Using alternative sources and building refineries in different countries now becomes more attractive and may be state subsidised and facilitated as a national security matter, which will potentially undermine China's position in future.

Terminology difference then. I wouldn't class the package manager installing a new kernel, but not making it the default, as "upgrading", I'd class it as "installing an extra kernel".

But they said the upgrade *succeeded*. Obviously if it *had* partially failed then grub might not get updated.

(BTW I've been running Linux for 16 years.)

The description makes no sense. "decided to upgrade a bunch of stuff including the Linux kernel" vs " update succeeded but the machine doesn't have the new kernel". What does that mean? I've never heard of a "successful" kernel upgrade ending up with no new kernel. And this: "so edited my Grub [bootloader] config," is it implying that apt didn't do an "update-grub" like it normally does so the AI manually edited it?

Whole thing's as clear as mud.

OK, I missed a few more config bits you need to actually boot to a shell, but it's still below 1Mb.

Its main disadvantage is that it is based on the Linux kernel, which isn't exactly small

You can generate a very minimal Linux kernel of less than 1Mb easily (e.g. "make tinyconfig" tweaked to add support for 64-bit, console and printk) . It depends what you regard as "small" and what kernel features are essential for your use case.

Correction "between Chrome and Android" -> "between Chrome and Firefox"

Add-ons? Yes, I guess it wasn't clear, I do use uBlock Origin, I find many websites unbearable and some totally unusable without it - on the train the signal can easily drop out before the advert crap has finished loading.

The Power version of the G7 does actually have a 5000mAh battery though, however it *is* four years old.

Anyhow, my point was that battery life with Firefox doesn't *have* to be a problem for all day "no-charge" use, it will depend on your hardware, add-ons and which websites you use. Also, I did use Chrome for the first year or so of the phone's life, until late 2020 when the new Firefox for Android appeared, and I didn't really notice any battery life change (though I seem to remember it was a bit flaky for about a year and I switched between Chrome and Android until Firefox settled down).

There are a lot of issues with Firefox on Android, beyond the one you mentioned. Battery life impact is pretty bad, I'd estimate maybe 5x as much as Chrome. It really is that much worse.

My pretty crappy phone (old Moto G7 power, 2019 model, original battery) lasts all day using Firefox nearly constantly, so it can't be *that* bad. I've just used it for around eight hours on various trains and buses today (for train tracking, news, non-Google maps, and word games) and the battery only went from 98% to 48%. Of course, using uBlock Origin helps by massively slimming down the web bloat.

Maybe it's different if you use battery heavy "app" type websites though.

I was told long ago that glass has characteristics like a fluid. An extremely slow to move fluid, but a fluid nonetheless.

A myth. Total bollocks, based on old glass windows being thicker at the bottom leading to the assumption it "flowed down" over time. Actually due to that glass being irregular when made so they deliberately placed the "heavy end" at the bottom.

Linux is a fancy toy

Found the (poor) troll. Linux runs the world. No, not the desktop, the world.

But Btrfs stores small files directly in the metadata and not in 4KB chunks.

Even its precursor, ext4, has this feature.