For another platform to rise, there needs to be some heavy market shift. There already were opensource mobile OS: Maemo/meego/Tizen. Heck! I'd even throw phosh and ubports in the pot. But those are about as rare a sight in the wild as lightphones.
Phones have become essential to daily lives and the catch22 is: companies won't support niche platforms for their apps and users won't switch until the apps are there.
Android happened to get adopted before everyone started relying on mobile devices as computer substitutes. Unless a major player pulls out a Valve move and does with waydroid what Valve did with wine, I can't imagine the market changing significantly.
One of the benefits of mobile GNU/Linux distros is that it is possible to run Android apps on them. Waydroid works well. The one catch is that it can be difficult to trick certain picky apps into running on an "unsecured" device.
You can never catch all "bad actors". Sure, you can make a best effort, but govts are not efficient/usually work better at doing one thing, not 100 - they should be regulating the common platform not all actors on it.
Anyways, that's just as bad as what Google's trying to do.
> that, through developer laziness, refuse to launch on alternative platforms.
Android Dev is (relatively) quite difficult. The code and UI elements do not translate easily to other platforms. If a solitary developer (keep in mind, they may be a volunteer doing things in their free time, or just someone scratching a personal itch) does not then go out, purchase multiple other pieces of hardware, and write the application on multiple other platforms, that is not "developer laziness", rather that is a high cost to entry creating practical hurdles.
I think next time I upgrade my "phone" I'm going to get a gaming capable tablet with wireless and give it the steamos treatment. This gives you decent linux/windows/android interop.
I already lug a small backpack around most of the time, I can leave the tablet in the bag and use buds for conversations and when I need an actual computer it'll be way better.
Will you be able to notice when you receive a call? The only way that I can think of off the top of my head would be to make it ring out loud, which is more disruptive than a phone in-pocket set to vibrate.
Well, maybe women who’ve been sexually harassed for most of their lives, and who couldn’t even feel safe at their own community events, were fed up with “letting it go.”
(Caveat: I have no idea what happened with this particular person.)
I mean, that’s not great. But saying “they shouldn’t do that” accomplishes nothing. People will wield their power to cancel whether you like it or not. Want it to end? Work towards making people feel like they can actually seek justice whenever they are wronged.
Ultimately, I admit that I'm much more troubled by women routinely getting threatened and harassed for daring to speak up against their assailants than the occasional undeserving victim of cancel culture. One problem is just orders of magnitude more common than the other.
What will really happen is people will just tune out all women due to this, because it’s more convenient. It’s not like they get paid to pay attention eh?
And the pendulum swings.
In office environments anyway, the false accusations I’ve seen were easily an order of magnitude more common than actual issues. Transparently so.
When investigating, I’ve had multiple women flat out admit they were making the accusations to get retribution or leverage to get the accused party to go back to them.
> In office environments anyway, the false accusations I’ve seen were easily an order of magnitude more common than actual issues. Transparently so.
It probably wasn't always like that, but when accusations got more powerful and less risky then of course bad actors start doing it more. Women aren't better than men, they just attack people in different ways.
What I truly appreciate is the completion system from a dev perspective. Writing completions is comfortable. Even wrapping completions into other completions is fairly clean (e.g. sudo {cmd}TAB).
> people thinking that taking Ozempic is a personal failing
Considering our society is pushes us toward sedentary highly-caloric lifestyles, I'd say we're set up to fail from the get-go. Therefore the failing is systemic not personal. I wouldn't compare to individual health issues. You can't cure celiac, but you sure could reduce the obesity using policies to drive the food industry toward less-sugar/more-fiber.
This reads like someone which had bad management using effort estimates as hours and bugged the team about it. I'm saying that having seen plenty of environments where they do Scrum wrong.
> Because there are no sprints, you don’t have to worry about whether something fits into a sprint
I like fitting things into sprints. It forces tasks to be broken down into manageable items. If it's too big to fit, it's also probably ill-defined. Sometimes it goes over the sprint; it's alright; discuss during retro and learn from it.
> If an emergency arises, everyone pauses their work
You can still do that with Scrum. Scrum is a framework to estimate the effort and measure at fixed points in time. That's not an excuse to dismiss issues. Unless all of your work is unplanned, you can handle surprises AND estimate your leftover velocity.
Having read that, I really wish to back to being GM and trolling players by awarding them non-fungible plots of land as rewards. Then players get challenged since they failed to occupy the land, so at a later visit, they discover their plot occupied by squatters.
It can be a lot of fun if the players actually do occupy the land and start influencing the game world at a higher level than just adventuring all of the time
It also gives them something to invest their hard earned treasure into that isn't just trying to buy more and more powerful magic items to minmax their builds
Or coming back from year or two on adventure and wondering where is everyone and why there is tribes of whatever creatures around. Just to find that your peasants are really really angry for abandoning them and not doing your duty to protect them and moved to neighbour who is actually around to do their job.
There are long term/generational campaigns that run like this. It's just that the majority of the playerbase is playing a different game, whether they're murderhoboing or badly copying Critical Role.
It's actually very practical and useful. A common problem is absent players (their characters are busy trying to run their domain). Another common problem is too much money among the adventurers: easily fixed with costs of construction, required finery, and a constantly deficit-running domain. Sometimes it helps if one of the player has some form of authority over the others - set the adventure in or near their domain.
I find editors to be deeply personal things. Throw a vim user in vscode and you might be disappointed, and vice-versa. I don't care about your tools, I care that the sum of you and your tools make you good.
I think the good middle ground is having both a canned environment and allowing candidates to use their own... Unless the job is about debugging production systems where only vi is available, in which case that interview might as well represent the actual job.
Quebec does have a few. Amongst the issues is that scaling hydro power is hugely expensive, is riddled with red tape, and over all takes too long. Meanwhile you could build a datacenter and a solar farm in Texas and be up in 2 years.
They do tell you that you are missing now. On ubuntu 24.04, apt now reports/nags me about security updates behind esm-apps.
They also publish an oval xml for use with openscap tools to get a list of unpatched CVEs. The issue is not enough people know about those tools.
https://security-metadata.canonical.com/oval/
Aha, thanks. I'm trying to look up the CVE on https://ubuntu.com/security/notices and the site's search responds with "504 Gateway Time-out" or "500: Server error". Come on Ubuntu.
They finally agreed to publish OSV data in addition to OVAL. OVAL XML files are terrible to use, and OSV is amazing in comparison, so this will get more tool adoption.
Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157000