Ah. That makes sense, then. Thanks!

Any idea why that’s needed when Organic Maps doesn’t?

My understanding is this is an early fork?

Did that, did a lot of that. There wasn’t any doctor here who could shine my eyes. Not even for 20 menthol cools. Was anything you said true?

Yeah, their branding makes it harder to recover.

I don’t know how they’ll change their versioning in the future, so I just went with that.

If they don’t make an obvious split to when the extension system is stable, they may never get that new beloved version like KDE managed

If you just mean recently, one of the YouTubers with the most subscribers recently released a video about why he switched to Linux, and in it, he says he uses hyprland

May be affecting its popularity

GNOME 2 was different and easy to customize

GNOME is still in their KDE 4.x days where it needs time to mature.

KDE 3 was loved, KDE 4 made a ton of breaking changes, and was reviled. KDE 5/6 are now butter smooth and fixed all the issues from the 3 -> 4 transition

GNOME 4/5 will probably come back into the loved category if they start stabilizing the extension system some more

So, would your suspicion be that it’s causing them more failed boards in production?

I guess if it’s reducing returns, that might be something they’re accepting as a tradeoff?

Fixed, thanks

Their statement is that Alpine is designed such that it is friendlier to corporations who want to lock down their devices and prevent you from modifying them.

You cannot use coreutils and have a DRM locked down device.

You can use Alpine w/ musl + busybox and make a DRM locked down device

Alpine’s licensing favors large corporation’s rights in preventing the user from modifying their device

Operating systems using coreutils favor the end user’s rights

If they can take my unlocked device by force, they can probably also break my fingers to coerce me to unlock it See also: https://xkcd.com/538/

Randall is right in pointing out you need to consider your attack vectors, but this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take reasonable precautions

Most people are more likely to run into the type of attack OP references than someone who can break LUKS encryption stealing their device

My naive reading is the difference here is HP slapped a discount sticker on it without changing the price.

Where Kohls, et. al. set the price extremely high and then always have it “on sale.”

Now, how companies get away with doing the same thing for Black Friday, no idea

I wasn’t confident which requirement you were missing, but I love that error

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/include/math-emu/double.h#L29

The default in systemd, unless your distribution has modified it either globally, or for a specific service, is 90 seconds

Wasn’t France the one that started switching to Matrix and funded a bunch of improvements?

https://web.archive.org/web/20180426180007/https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed-as-the-basis-for-frances-secure-instant-messenger-app/

It’s great that Germany is doing the same, I just remember Matrix talking about money from France and helping the French government deploy Matrix for government use back in the day. A lot of the E2E encryption improvements were attributed to their collaboration with France at the time

That one’s especially egregious because the Direct Rendering Manager handles displaying things to the screen, where you might have Digital Rights Management involvement in the form of HDCP support, etc.

That’s already how it functionally worked for each major release

Here’s their previous strategy: https://web.archive.org/web/20220917195332/source.android.com/docs/setup/about/codelines

Google works internally on the next version of the Android platform and framework according to the product’s needs and goals

When the n+1th version is ready, it’s published to the public source tree

The source management strategy above includes a codeline that Google keeps private to focus attention on the current public version of Android.

We recognize that many contributors disagree with this approach and we respect their points of view. However, this is the approach we feel is best and the one we’ve chosen to implement for Android.

As far as I can tell, this would really only affect QPRs, since the public experimental branches that get made after they throw the next release over the wall is going away

Oracle happened to it

All the devs went to LibreOffice after that

I agree, but the wording of that is imprecise…

Google reimplemented the same API (which should be legal) but “use” sounds like they called Oracle’s implementation of the function

Oracle tried to argue that writing your own virtual machine with the exact same same interface as theirs (even a clean room reimplementatio, or an improved version) was copyright infringement

If Oracle had won, it would likely have killed things like OpenJDK, WINE, Proton, Rosetta, etc. and would have made licensing around OpenGL/Vulkan very confusing (for a few examples)

Kind of seems like they simply installed this dude’s tarpit from a few months ago

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/