“read the changes before installing a major update”

As if people have the time to read the changelogs for every single package all the time… 🙄

This is pretty important on a server to avoid disruptions and outages, but people have other things to do.

And once it is no longer on and has become a setting, they can just remove the setting and force people to drop gsettings and then remove it completely.

They could also instead ask people on first launch. Some people enable telemetry, so they will find out how many people prefer to keep it, which I bet will be most.

Then that could be solved by displaying a message the first time GNOME is launched, not by disabling it. This will just break workflows for quite a lot of people.

WebPush could be implemented.

XMPP server, do some decentralised communication under your control. It will federate to other servers, allowing you to speak to other people and join public chats. An old Raspberry Pi should easily be able to server 100 or 200 users. Try Prosody for that or Snikket if you prefer containers and everything working out of the box.

You could also use it as a NAS, if you don’t need a fast NAS. It will probably be enough to stream HD media using VLC on a cheap Android TV device/dongle.

But why? Then the users thinks “huh, weird” and goes on.

I’ve seen that countless times with people that are less technical.

Foundational research on a topic does not help you, directly, no. It just lays foundations for more science later.

Could anyone pls explain it like I’m 5? Or perhaps 10?

Well, UBPorts still uses .click packages, those did not seem like good solution even in 2015… Those are just .deb files with a different extension and metadata.

Nowadays Flatpak seems more interesting, although… I personally prefer Debian packages.

I was always wishing the BlackBerry Classic would run the same OS, but FOSS and up-to-date and based on Linux.

The Classic will likely never come back (has not even been rooted yet), but it’s nice seeing an OS like that.

Hoping for tight XMPP integration into the hub and something like the BlachBerry Classic hardware-wise. With Mainline Kernel, USB-C and 5G. Ready for the next decade.

That would be my dream.

If there’ll be enough people working on it for quite some time and can figure everything out, then yes.

I’m not going to buy one just in case it gets support. It’s more likely I’ll be disappointed or would have to do it myself. And I’m already mainlining another phone, I really don’t have the capacity to work on this one as well, so… nope.

The SoC will be an unpublished MediaTek Dimensity 7000 series chipset. As it is still unpublished we can’t disclose details about it and need to wait the SoC vendor publications

Pretty sure there will be no mainline support at all…

If Google decides to, it can remove anything from AOSP, as it has done countless of times. Android is deeply controlled by Google.

Does that use pipewire-pulse while you are using pipewire? That occasionally has weird issues.

Try launching Pavucontrol and see if it has similar issues.

A tiling windows manager with workspaces IS a switcher.

Sway. Windows manager, switcher… all that. Fully keyboard controlled. You can change any key combination you don’t like. :)

The OS itself is kinda nice, but having their own app format surely does not help.

They’ve waiting too long with open sourcing some components and have only just started open sourcing a bit more, I believe they’re currently open sourcing the gallery app.

I test it occasionally, but there isn’t even an XMPP client that supports OMEMO (although XMPP is built into the system), no KeePass compatible app, no Syncthing, no public transport app I could use for Germany, …

I could use it with the Android app support, but that’s proprietary and the goal would be to use Linux instead of Android, not an Android container on a Linux running on an old Android kernel.

On other distros, I can just use regular packages or Flatpak (for example pretty much everything from the GNOME project works on phones these days) and don’t miss anything really.

Somehow I, actually, find this font hard to read. o.O

Security tools are there for a reason. Sure, I can encrypt my Linux rootfs, but that doesn’t stop anyone from tampering with the initramfs. Secure Boot + UKI does.

I also feel concerned about GrapheneOS. Here’s why.

I got banned from the GrapheneOS Matrix chat simply for asking a question, it was worded similar to this:

“Hey there! GrapheneOS is cool. I noticed CalyxOS added support for eSIM, are you planning to add that as well?”

The post got deleted, I thought I had not sent it and posted it again. It was deleted again. I asked something along the lines of “Wait, where has my question regading eSIM support and doing the same as CalyxOS gone? Seems to have disappeared, lol”.

THAT was also deleted.

Then I posted something along the lines of “Huh, my questions seem to be disappearing”.

That was NOT deleted.

Then I asked something like “Anyway, are there plans to add eSIM support just like CalyxOS? :)”.

That was ALSO deleted.

I got a private message from a mod saying I was banned.

That was alle the interaction I ever had with the GrapheneOS project. I might have started contributing, but I could not even ask a simple question. It seems that they don’t like it if you mention any other custom ROM, I guess.

(This has been a while ago, so I don’t remember my precise wording)