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  • maniii@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlIs Pine64 dead?
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    7 days ago

    It is the same/similar problem that Nokia/Maemo and Sailfish/merOS have all had.

    Some things are binary-blobs + NDAs and many things are still locked, the OSS community can only do so much before they hit the commercial roadblocks.

    We need a complete CoreBoot + OSS silicon-chips + OSS firmware + all-community / all-commercial dual production lines.

    The open-source-based company should be able to sell both the commercial locked-version and the oss-all-unlocked-version with the ability to switch infinitely between the two models.

    But the world of electronics rarely will ever work or reach that level of interoperability , repairability or recycling this way. Not for a long time maybe in some distant future.


  • Now it is up to Kamala and the DNC to hold their promises and keep fighting till election day.

    1. Keep campaigning in key rust-belt states.

    2. Stay on message.

    3. Pass as many executive orders to be finalized after Jan 6 2025.

    4. Keep fighting for the middle-class families and get people like Bernie Sanders and Katie Porter and Tammy Duckworth to front-run every possible middle-class campaign and draft bills for congress, house and senate.

    DO NOT GET INVOLVED IN CONTROVERSIES OR SIT BACK IDLY!

    Get Elected and then do whatever PR statement, controversy, bs etc.


  • Downright idiotic to use “Northern India” as a known climate. During COVID the air-pollution cleared up enough to photograph the foothills of the Himalayas from New Delhi.

    Can you imagine HOW much Indians have screwed up the entire climate of India ?

    It is not even funny the deaths caused due to man-made pollution in India.

    And Indians are the majority causing the man-made pollution not “foreign” entities.


  • A billionaire took the family fortune of billions and reduced it to mere millions over several decades.

    It is astonishing how difficult it is for a billion USD to get spent on luxury items would still remain in the hundreds of millions for decades. A billionaire has to leech off the workers and wages and company and society to amass a billion dollars. It is greed on a different scope and scale.

    Anyone who hits a billion dollars should get instant prison time. A single island in the middle of nowhere with ALL amenities. Jetski, Yatch, Resort, everything EXCEPT coming back into normal society. NO visitors, NO people. Just prison guards and maintenance staff once a month under supervision and then everyone leaves under surveillance.

    And I don’t think we will have to worry about running out of islands … there are more abandoned rocks in the middle of the oceans than there are billionaires on the planet.


  • Sony Support SUX.

    When you go to Samsung or Moto/Lenovo support, they would give you a loaner phone when yours was in for repairs. Repair centers accepted wherever they were located.

    Sony would tell a 1500USD phone customer to F*CK OFF if they asked for a loaner phone during repairs. You have to go to the Sony Mobile repair center to get any kind of help. There are tons of dealers and TV / audio / other Sony repair and none of those have any kind words or help for customers.

    Sony Support is DOGSHIT GARBAGE.


  • Evangelists exist in all communities. I was simply stating that people whose agenda to convert you to Linux may not always have other peoples best interests at heart. Clearly I don’t have that agenda. I would prefer people made their own decisions and choices based on their own needs. Not forced into an untenable situation.

    I like how upvote/downvote does not matter on Lemmy.

    Its about free speech as in beer. And not censorship. We can have our opinions without fear of being the unpopular opinion.



  • This is probably the last US election that will make any sense.

    Harris needs to NOT Fuck Around and Find Out.

    This is not the time for compromise.

    Majority 75-25 Win in the Electoral College, Senate and House.

    You need to solidify Medicaid/Medicare with WomensRights, All Healthcare coverage till Age 25 on parental plans. Pharma crackdowns on Drug prescription prices. Stabilize borrowing/lending money to Rich A-holes who are screwing the economy and stock market. Infrastructure overhaul roads, bridges and HIGH SPEED RAIL for next 10 years.

    DO NOT FOR THE LOVE OF <INSERT DEITY HIGHER POWER ALMIGHTY NAME> DO NOT … I REPEAT … DO NOT FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT.

    This is almost literally the End-Times before we can make meaningful changes.







  • No one in the Linux community wants to force users onto Linux. If they do that, then they are morons and should not be listened to.

    Windows is blatantly forced on users through monopolistic practices and underhanded dealings going back decades.

    I know what I actively will choose. Also it is my choice. It doesnt have to be your choice or even the right choice. Choose what you want and what you need. No one in the Linux community can or will force you to switch to Linux.



  • For some of us, X11/Xorg is better , way way better than using Wayland.

    Linux means we should have a choice without sacrificing our freedom. So if I want to use X11/Xorg or Wayland, I SHOULD MAKE THAT DECISION.

    Looking at the garbage trash fire that is systemd.

    Only way I can get SysVInit back is if I use Slackware, Devuan , so a complete switch of distro and tools. No choice no freedom.


  • I can tell you for a fact, in 1999, we were running Windows3.11 and MSDOS 5.x on a brand-new Pentium II ? or something like that, because the DSP-board and daughter-card system didn’t like Win2k. We were all on the network. Everyone ran Win2k Pro while loading the test codes via network / SMB/CIFs share to that machine.

    Same could be done using Linux on all those systems except for the test rig.

    NO YOU DO NOT have to use Windows on your desktop just for your toolchain. Put that shit on a separate test-rig and isolate it.

    Best Practices and Good Standard procedures makes it possible to use Linux on the Desktop.

    It is a matter of ability and talent to do things properly using the best tools at any given time.