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Palm Treo/Pre and BlackBerry users! And probably Clicks users too. It's not a matter of "Does Russian language use the Latin script?" (it doesn't), but rather "What is the least annoying method to input Cyrillic on a BB-style keyboard, which doesn't have enough buttons for the йцукен layout?". Phonetic layouts such as яверты or яшерты were very popular for such devices back in the day.
Pebble 2 Duo were reusing the existing stock of Pebble 2 housings and displays. This model was intended as a limited run from the beginning.
Pebble Time 2 are designed from scratch and expected to be still available after the pre-order batches have been shipped out.
Pebble watches can use Bluetooth LE and Bluetooth Classic connection profiles simultaneously. It's possible to pair two phones this way, but that's considered an undocumented hack. Also there's no ready-made desktop OS support, I'd look into forwarding your laptop notifications to a phone via KDE Connect or something like that instead.
Wikipedia quotes https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/cdjwm9eew0xo , which uses this article as a source: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6920516
Nikolai Durov lives in Saint Petersburg and works for the Russian Academy of Sciences. Pavel Durov had visited Russia multiple time since his "exile".
The public-facing story around Telegram is performative PR, which could be explained by the exact reasons listed in the parent comments: association with the Russian state had hindered VK growth besides the CIS region.
Their possible DB-related single points of failure are located in on-prem DCs in the Netherlands.
X1 Carbon is part of the Intel Evo Platform. These are co-developed with Intel and therefore this line is exclusive to them.
X13s was confirmed to be sunset, another T14s is the most likely candidate among the ThinkPads.
Phone UI paradigm isn't as easy as "Let's just scale down the Desktop/Tablet applications". In case of Sailfish OS development history, migration from clunky, but closer to Desktop, Hildon framework of Maemo 5 to purpose-built Qt applications of Maemo/MeeGo Harmattan was obvious quality boost. Same with webOS and UBports: app ecosystem starting from scratch within their corresponding "DE"s. If convergence-style cross-device applications were somewhat easily achievable, that would've happened in the early 2010s (Windows Phone / Windows RT? Ubuntu Touch getting more attention from investors?). It's the same story why Android Tablets suck and iPadOS doesn't, but in other direction.
And/or, it's a simple matter of time/money being spent on streamlining the experience. It's not like Sailfish OS is perfect (Qt6 migration is way overdue), but Jolla has already figured out lots of integration details which will become teething problems for Droidian and such. Including, but not limited to VoLTE support.
I want a Linux phone that works
That's Jolla C2 or some Sailfish-compatible Xperia 10.
Both GNOME Shell in the phone context and Plasma Mobile are evolutionary dead ends.
Containers with systemd as an init process are considered first-class citizen by the Podman ecosystem (the base images are named accordingly: e.g, ubi10-init vs ubi10)
Chromium choice is easy to explain due to PWA-shortcuts integration. That's less clunky than shipping Firefox with an extension or adding an external GUI PWA-manager.
The article doesn't mention which Linux distribution was chosen
Given they've chosen OnlyOffice?.. Astra Linux?
It's important part of the culture and is not considered cheating. IP protection laws legal precedents are not the universal truth.
This article on the topic is a good explainer, https://aeon.co/essays/why-in-china-and-japan-a-copy-is-just... , but it's a thoroughly studied phenomenon.
There's an opinion that it's part of coordinated campaign, not just slow news day.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114784469162979608 thread lists same activity in Swedish-speaking parts of the internet.
Security is a policy-driven spectrum of considerations and solutions. GrapheneOS targets very specific threat models, which is not possible with Fairphone hardware/BSP. Whether it makes it not secure for your own use cases, it's up to you to decide.
Case in point: re-lockable bootloader requirement. Not everyone is a target for an evil maid types of physical attacks or possible state actor pressure. But when you actually need it, it's not negotiable.
https://clearthis.page/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.historytoday.com...
seems to be the whole article.
Em dash as an AI detection trick doesn't work for text in Russian. The author just seems to like that way of composing sentences.
If we can extrapolate the PhotoSir/himirage[1] example to the whole slice of creative industry software, there's no such top-down plan currently. OTOH, CapCut is fairly popular, while not being overly serious kind of "professional", but a TikTok influencer kind.
[1] YeeHeart Inc sells the Windows and macOS builds, but Linux versions are only available on the Chinese version of their site. Kylin package can be installed on Wayland-enabled Ubuntu. The UI seems to be Chinese-only. On-topic: they have a HarmonyOS Next port as well.
Eclipse Oniro is an interesting proposal to build on top of OpenHarmony. Kind of "Palm/HP webOS and Firefox OS were right conceptually, but too early", minus Linux kernel and middleware.
It's a quote from «The Secret of Monkey Island». Works as a law of nature unless proven otherwise.
Never pay more than 20 bucks [1] for a computer game.
[1] as of 1990. $48.94 adjusted for inflation.
Regular reminder that Boox is notorious for their constant GPL violations.
driver support
It's Pine64, their whole business model is «Here's the hardware, you're on your own now».
https://docs.pipewire.org/page_module_raop_discover.html
RAOP Discover is currently at the point «It just works until it doesn't» (like most things zeroconf). Behaves fairly reliably in my experience if you don't mind some latency.
Power profile. The SoC will need more space for battery and cooling that's physically possible in the smartphone formfactor.
Crowdfunding scam waiting to happen. RK3588s is not phone-capable by any means.
Ransomware
Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit organization, they can't handle donations. Mozilla Foundation don't need your money and won't use it to fund Firefox.
Firefox 135 is expected to be released on February 4.
There were no oligarchs in St. Petersburg when Putin got into politics
How do you call people like Gennady Timchenko? There's a nuanced difference between "Successful fossil fuel mogul" and "Member of a crime syndicate".
Pinning this on Americans is a huge stretch
I didn't. It was a minor detail explaining that these were the second president elections ever happened in modern Russia and there was no local expertise in manipulating public opinion yet. And there was no legal checks and balances preventing abuse of power of the current president. "Administrative resource" had become a common noun after 1996.