Because the Android SDK is owned and controlled by Google. They’ve consistently made decisions to make it harder to stay out of their ecosystem (like the new “Integrity” API).

As consumers, we would vastly benefit from having another choice that isn’t controlled by one of the biggest tech companies in the world.

I like how their idea of entry level is a 16GB RAM phone for €890.

Yeah, fair enough. That’s a great point. I will update my opinion of this advancement.

The catch is that it’s useless in most plastics applications, where you really don’t want it to dissolve easily. Probably more catches, but that’s the one I see right away.

You see the thing is, the point of plastic is that it doesn’t dissolve easily. I can see this having some niche applications, but this won’t be replacing most plastics any time soon.

The most successful handheld gaming PC in history (admittedly, only if you don’t include consoles like the Switch), and still can’t get no respect.

That answer depends on your ISP. It probably goes to a distribution box for your street, which connects up to a distribution box for your neighborhood, which connects up to your ISP, probably through many more distribution boxes.

At a certain point (probably the first or second distribution box), the signal goes from coax cable to fiber.

There are tons of different kinds of distribution boxes, routers, cables, technologies, etc for these networks, so what yours looks like is unknowable to any of us. Here are some examples of neighborhood or street level boxes:

Fiber:

DSL (landline phone lines) in a fiber junction box:

And then the higher level stuff would look something like this (I’ve never actually seen it, so this is just my guess of what it probably looks like, taken from a fiber supply company):

If you want to get a very basic understanding of some of the infrastructure between you and something on the internet, you can use traceroute. When I just did traceroute google.com, it took five hops just to leave my ISP, so that gives me a very basic understanding of how many levels my ISP has before my traffic gets out to the web.

Basically the sidewalk is only usable if you have two sturdy working legs. If you use a walker, cane, or wheelchair, youshallnotpass.gif

The biggest thing keeping me from daily driving a Linux phone is the camera. I want a good camera, not an afterthought. I can only guess from the renderings, but this thing looks like the camera was an afterthought.

Here is all the information I could find from their website:

Main: 32 Mpx

Front: 13 Mpx

I run an email service called Port87. I was reading some copy to a friend who resells MS Exchange services and I said “legacy email services, such as Microsoft Exchange”, and he got a bit offended. That was much more accurate than this, and he still felt offended.

Because my noon is the best noon, and your silly noon is unreasonable. It happens at 4am, you silly goose.

Plucky?

Back when I wrote my own start menu replacement (for Windows XP), it worked by turning itself transparent and not responding to mouse input. When you clicked the start button, it would turn itself back to opaque and start responding to mouse input. This meant it opened in maybe 32 milliseconds if it was being particularly slow and took two frames to open instead of one.

Lolwut? They made the Start Menu with JavaScript? Who are they, me?

Fedora

TS devs: 😢

Oh no wouldn’t that be a shame. /s

I’m sorry but if your industry requires that you commit a bunch of crimes to make money, it’s not a legitimate industry, it’s a criminal industry. We’ve had these for a long time, and generally they’re frowned upon, because the crimes are usually drugs, guns, murder, sex trafficking, or theft. When the crime is intellectual property theft, apparently we forget to care. Then again, same with wage theft.

Lol, this is like the vampire, after you said no, asking, “come on, please let me in? I promise I’ll be good.”

My wife’s electric car doesn’t have a dipstick.

Was your tent just a sheet over a single string?