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It's like saying
"I like my polluting car, if you don't, don't buy one"
"I like my t-shirt that has been manufactured with slave labour, if you don't, don't buy one"
Can we stop with this naive "Let me buy one, if you don't like it don't buy it" ?
This puts your immediate personal comfort over the common future of computing, technology, freedom, privacy, economy and more.
It's just a Linux computer, so you can use whatever you like : Qt, GTK, web, Flutter, LVGL, ImGui, custom OpenGL UI (like Blender & Godot), etc.
But you might prefer a library that has mobile-ready widgets. For that GTK is actually not bad, especially with LibHandy, but QT/Flutter is also be great choice. It's up to you
I would say Linux people should use Linux and Apple people should use Apple. No problem either way.
You make it sounds like it's a simple as "take vanilla ice cream if you like vanilla and take chocolate if you like chocolate".
It's not, if you read the comments, you realize there's much more to the debate, it's about ethics, the future of computing, our societies, monopolies, privacy, independence, freedom, and much more.
From food to clothes to electronics, there is an ethical choice behind what you buy and we shouldn't reduce it to "pick your favorite color" without considering the monsters we are feeding by buying this or that product.
Google literally killed Linux on consumer devices. They, on purpose, made every single produced phone non-compatible with Linux and made them Android-only to prevent any competition.
Now Purism has to reinvent a phone from scratch with automobile spare part (I.MX processors) and Pine64 have no choice but to use old & crappy SOCs.
THAT is the impact Google has on FOSS.
Surely that specific contribution is welcomed, but overall I don't think those company ever deserve any "thanks" from anyone given the harm they are doing to FLOSS, Competition, Privacy, Standards, and Society in general.
Totally agree.
Nipick : Posh is not related to GNOME shell in any way. It is a from-scratch implementation of a mobile window manager in C on top of Wlroots (while Gnome is JavaScript on top of Mutter)
You don't have to trust them, everything is open and auditable.
The only black boxes like the modem are physically separated from the chip and sandboxed over USB.
If you don't trust them, format it and install your favorite distro + Posh (which is also open source ) that you downloaded yourself
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-rx68...
" While Radeon Open eCosystem (ROCm) support wasn't a focus for the initial Radeon RX 5000 "Navi" graphics cards by AMD engineers, that is fortunately changing for both the RX 5000/6000 series moving forward. "
Rocm seems to be supported, works with PlaidML, I wonder if PyTorch works ? That's the main framework I really need ..
Do we really have to created an account to donate ?
I donate to Blender from time to time and I like how they just put an IBAN on their donation page ( https://www.blender.org/foundation/donation-payment/ )
I copy paste the IBAN in my e-banking app, send, done.
Why here do I have to read pages and pages of privacy policy, create an account, give my email, etc.
From the non-encrypted ICloud, the eavesdropping on Siri conversations, to the non-encrypted spying about opened apps going through 3rd party server and some zillion other cases of Apple screwing up privacy... I'm not sure Apple cares about privacy beside their marketing propaganda.
Why do we need to take side ? big tech are like choosing between the plague and cholera.
The message to spread is not "Apple/Google is better for privacy", it's " Google & Apple are both screwing up our privacy and have awful anticompetitive practices, so buy an Android or IPhone whatever cause we don't have choices right now, but if you want things to change support Purism/PinePhone/Protonmail/EFF/FSF/etc."
We need people to realize the harm both Apple & Google ( & Amazon & etc.) are doing to our privacy and society rather than having them thinking one is the bad guy and not the other.
Hi, thanks for your work on Plasma Mobile.
Android has an Hardware Abstraction Layer (Android HAL) that acts as a unique central clean definition of what the hardware provides and how to access it. It makes it easier for Android to remain HW agnostic and for HW vendor to be compatible with Android.
Is there a similar effort on Linux ?
Then you can support PinePhone / Purism Librem. It's still very far from being as mature as IOS/Android, but it is our only hope of an alternative that respect us.
The long term vision is exactly what you said, convinance & security of a smartphone with, for those who wish, the openness and power of a computer
NetGuard is great, it can show you the requests done by any apps. Thx to it, I discovered that my default camera app on my phone was sending data to Facebook and many other quite concerning stuff.
Internet access should be a permission (like camera, mic, etc.) unfortunately in Android it isn't the case and any app can communicate with any server. With NetGuard you can decide which app can access internet or not.
Yes , and they are also selling Ubuntu edition where you not only save quite a few $$$ (because no windows licence) but you're also sending a signal to manufacturers that there is a demand for compatibility with other OSes (unlike on Apple or MS Surfaces).
So if the dev edition fits your need consider buying this one