space_iio @ space_iio @sopuli.xyz

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Thank you for the effort!

my general experience with Lenny is that it's a ghost town

sometimes forget it exists for weeks

As someone who hates appliances beeping, I love push notifications

I'm so tired at things beeping at me

Pixel: Absolutely not

Pixel devices are a vessel for distributing google software services. Hardware-wise they're pretty mediocre. Google is not making a profit from the pixel hardware devices themselves but instead from the added software upsell.

Google TPU: Yes!

Google Nest: I think yes, Nest used to be its own thing without Google

and people like me are why Linux has even gotten to where it's at today.

Consumers don't make software, developers do.

8K TVs are pointless

It's an interesting trick because it makes me ponder: why would google do this?

Pre-compiling on the server means spending compute resources that are not free on something that was free before. In other words: cost. Why would google incur a cost on something that is non-user marketable or even perceptible? Were there really that many users complaining about how long it took to install x random app? Would google do this out of the kindness of their hearts?

So here's my best theory of why they're doing this: **Automatic installing of apps / ads on the background. **

here's why I think that:

• Google has a history of trying this in-between state of app/website with "instant apps". Instant apps were never really "instant" though and they never really took off.
• There are already several full screen ads for dopaming-hacking games that are partially interactive. It wouldn't take much to jump into a "pass the first level to skip the ad" kind of mechanic instead of "watch 20 seconds of this video to skip the ad" The limiting factor is how quickly does the ad install on your device.
• Xiaomi and other Chinese companies have demonstrated how lucrative auto-installed crapware is. If one assumes that the concept generates revenue, imagine the following pitch:
• For $20 we'll highlight your app on the play store
• For $200 we'll show 20 full screen ads on 1000 users
• For $2000 we'll pre-install the app on 1000 users from May 1st to June 1st

If you think capitalism is bad wait until you see what's coming next: neofeudalism

Extremely wealthy few who control everything. No more payment, you'll simply be a serf. No more owning, you won't own anything, all in your life will be leased.

In that world, you have kids because your told to, or else. Individual freedom? What are you a lord? A feudal master?

It's 2025, Lego quality is not "insane"

It's run of the mill injection molded plastic that you can get for cents a piece.

The counterfeit ones are cheap

Waste your money if you want, or not

The working class in America are so docile and subdued at this point that they won't notice when all this happens.

Death penalty would take several years to happen and by then people will have forgotten. Only a couple of remaining groupies will make a fuss.

I mean... Those are the source of the problem in other countries. Take the addictive active compound away and people will stop using it

I'm so happy vapes are illegal in Norway

No they don't need internet. You can keep it isolated from the net

This is a popular myth. It's only a problem if public infra wasn't properly designed

Fasting more effective and far cheaper

And FM radio!

Okay so you want "actual linux and open source" AND it also needs to work on more than 1% of the phones?

It's like the people who complain about phones not having a SD card but they never buy the phones that actually do support them

There are phones you can buy that run Linux in our open source check out the pinephone

So why not use Ubuntu Touch?