darthinvidious

Probably still with only 1 year warranty…

lemmy.world also blocks me from posting when I use VPN at times…

Better love story than Twilight.

I still have some (albeit shrunken) shirts from RedBubble that had some project or Linux logos/texts. Incidentally, they also sell stickers. https://www.redbubble.com/shop?query=linux&iaCode=all-stickers&ref=search_box I would definitely get stickers from a project that helps them out though if that’s your thing. Otherwise, enjoy the stickers. ;)

AI is just a program.

I’m sorry for your loss.

Idk why but I thought the blue shirt wasn’t wearing pants. lol

There also used to be an open source Alexa-like kind of smart speaker that went by Mycroft AI. They were doing crowd funding I believe but that didn’t go anywhere and so they eventually stopped working on it. You can still find their stuff on YouTube though: https://www.youtube.com/@MycroftAIForEveryone/videos

Looks like a GPS

The only thing that’s turned me off about FOSS is if I see suspicious stuff about it in their bug reports. All software has vulnerabilities, sure, but depending on what the code is trying to do, cannot trust it.

Was about to comment this. lol

I used to dream once that I would be able to give my future son Q4OS to grow up with and if a daughter, something like PuppyOS. Alas, I’m a single 30-something guy living in his parent’s basement with no real prospects of owning my own home or getting laid—so go figure. At least somebody out there is living the dream! 🤝

I like your name btw. Are you my FBI agent?

Unfortunately, I run startx without a proper DE installed.

We should have never lost the capability to have LAN parties for all games.

It didn’t fail, really. A bunch of distros managed to port themselves which AFAIK, this hasn’t seen the success rate that the PinePhone managed to achieve. You were even able to flash a really old version of Android on it and it well… booted.

Granted, yes, even though you could put OpenSuse, Gentoo, and Fedora on the PinePhone, that alone didn’t make them very usable. Fair enough.

PostmarketOS, Mobian, and Manjaro had dedicated their work to the PinePhone to get it a better experience. It got to the point where folks were actually trying to use it as a daily driver. The major obstacles with PinePhone and any of its iterations is the same culprit that probably made it very difficult for Ubports, FirefoxOS et. al to get to a point where it could actually be used as a daily driver.

IMO, the proprietary stuff keeps getting in the way of folks seeing progress with using it as daily drivers. The only other real thing for me that the PinePhone lacked is a good battery. Just a lousy battery. Hardware. Imagine, they figure out how to put a good battery in one and everything else would pretty much work half the time.

The benefit we all have at this point in time is that this did not end up like UBPorts or FirefoxOS because now the entire community can take advantage from what came out of this initiative. Mobile Gnome wasn’t a thing before. It is now and Purism guys have been contributing upstream last I checked. Same with Mobian guys. We didn’t have Plasma Mobile before. Now we do.

Maybe I’m just in the “glass half full” camp this time but I don’t see this as a loss.

I can’t speak very well about it because I’ve never used it myself but I kind of always the dream of giving PuppyOS to my future daughter if I ever had one. I know sounds delusional but I found the OS looks cute and maybe works.

Most secure box is the one that does nothing.

Whenever I read these headlines, I always immediately hear the “my brand” commercial guy stim in my head.