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  • They do these types of things, a lot more often than open source projects actually.

    Thread Group:

    • ARM
    • NXP
    • Samsung
    • Qualcomm
    • nest labs (google)
    • Apple

    I will list more that for example google and/or apple are a part of, but not the involved companies to not make a wall

    • OpenID Foundation
    • FIDO Alliance
    • AOMedia (AV1)
    • CSA (formerly ZigBee alliance)
    • Bluetooth SIG
    • Apache Foundation
    • Unicode Consortium
    • WiFi alliance
    • LLVM Foundation

    Not to mention smaller groups that collaborate to discuss strategy over activies like golf or dinners.

    The downside is that very very often, the collaboration involves how best to fuck over consumers and the general public for more profit margin.




  • Similar goal, different function.

    There aren’t install scripts like lutris, which makes it harder, once in a while, to install certain games that might need a modification.

    What makes it special is that it puts each program in a “container” (hence the name) that is sandboxed from your system. E.g. if you were trying to run a program infected with malware, it would have a very hard time trying to infect the rest of your system, where with lutris and Heroic, that separation doesn’t exist so it would have full access.

    It is less targeted at games and more at general programs.

    That is about it. The interface is much worse than lutris or heroic, but it is still a useful program.



  • What other people haven’t quite touched on is that the in-built system certainly won’t be powerful enough to run demanding VR games with good frame rates and resolution.

    I also have my doubts about the 6GHz WiFi connection being enough for it, I hope there is also a wired option.

    But it will be awesome to be able to do normal tasks like coding, writing, etc… outside in the garden, as an example. I think for people that don’t have a dedicated VR space, this could be awesome with 6GHz WiFi outside without needing base stations.


  • Yep. I have posted on stack overflow exactly 3 times. One time it was marked as duplicate and referenced to something that was not even the same topic. One time I had too much detail and debugging done for the classic knowitalls to come make a smartass remark and was completely ignored. The final time I got one comment, addressed it, and that person was never heard from again lol.


  • I started using activities instead of virtual desktops with 2 desktops each.

    Separate wallpapers, separate start menu favorites, separate panel pins, etc… Plus you can hide activities not in use to keep it tidy. I used to use virtual desktops more, but I think of it now as a 2D grid. Vertically activities very organized and for each you can switch horizontally where organization doesn’t matter as much.

    Activities are great except there is a bug where the little wallpaper previews won’t show with the default, batch resized and renamed wallpapers.




  • Everyone will claim it is the hardware, but we can see from cheap phones that a majority of people actually get outside of the US that it doesn’t matter as much.

    It was never a complete phone after 5 years. It never had the software to actually use it as a daily driver. Calling still “doesn’t work all the time” according to users and similar with texting. If your phone literally can’t be trusted to make a simple call and receive a text out of the box, then it won’t be bought to be used as a normal phone. That’s as simple as it gets.

    It has just been relegated to being a fun side experimental phone for enthusiasts, but you can’t have a company-carrying product like that because the consumer base is too small to fund the software development.

    They also specifically say

    While in the future the PinePhone Pro will be able to serve as your daily-driver smartphone, at present the PinePhone Pro should be considered a development platform.

    On the store, which further discourages consumers.

    Building a smartphone OS and all the features needed is an extremely expensive task, so it is completely understandable that it has gone at a snails pace.



  • Maybe people have gotten Saned for network scanning working on other things than bazzite, but I can’t figure it out and the discord is never helpful.

    But document signing is a technical limitation caused by flatpak. You can technically do it by installing your entire office and authentication suite on a rooted distrobox, but then that is defeating a fair amount of the point of ease of use and sandboxing. I haven’t tested that though so even that might have some bugs or not work.

    There are but trackers on different upstream flatpak software for it like Firefox, but it has been completely dead for 5 years with no plans on looking at it.


  • Bazzite or an immutable if you do gaming and don’t need a lot of special functionality (e.g. network scanning doesn’t work, document signing doesn’t work and will never work, managing gpg keys, embedded firmware development, Belgian EID, etc…)

    Mint if you don’t have a brand new system and just want an easy experience.

    Arch if you want all niche software to simply be available through the package manager and never have to find rpm/deb packages.

    Debian for a server (or maybe opensuse MicroOS nowadays)

    Opensuse if you really want an EU OS or something very integrated with a snapshot system.

    And of course, Hannah Montana Linux if you are enlightened.




  • It’s funny because everything you describe is exactly the problems my company had with all of our laptops on windows 11 and not linux, every single one has been reported dozens of times with windows 11, especially on 24h2.

    Plus additional like installing printer drivers smashing Microsoft office fonts together, teams in a restart loop because an update changed a registry value that is just plain broken, even a problem where windows secretly and silently mutes the microphone, but says literally everywhere that it is enabled and unmuted such that you have to use the audio troubleshooter to unmute it (and now that doesn’t work because they replaced the audio troubleshooter with a shitty LLM that literally only checks if there are drivers installed).

    Laptops not going to sleep when you close them is also like the #1 issue on all windows forums because of stupid fucking modern sleep that you can’t disable.