João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

@dannycolin

Yes, ultimately people should more than free to do what they want with their devices. Even porting android.

But for me personally, spending time and resources to try to bridge with the Android world, either porting it or using Anbox/Waydroid for me feels like an anchor holding us. And consuming time and resources.

I would personally prefer to burn those bridges and invest the resources available with making good mobile ready mainline linux applications.

@martijnbraam

@dannycolin

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If another one of those 10 distros works on a new feature for Bluetooth and upstreams it, it benefits not in that distro but the other 9.

@martijnbraam @loveisgrief@mastodon.online

@dannycolin
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"We could say the same with having > 10 distros of Linux duplicating the work."

Actually not really. The beauty of mainline linux on phones not only that you are using the same software stack across devices (laptop/phone).

But that those 10 distros are using the same upstream components.

If a distro has a fix for a modem manager bug and upstreams it, it benefits every single one of those 10 distros

@martijnbraam @loveisgrief@mastodon.online

"Love" people stating/declaring to the devs of a project in chat rooms and issue tickets that the project in question is "unusable" in overall because it does not serve the personal use case of the person that is complaining.

tone it down a notch or two

First the widget to show travel tickets QR codes from the lockscreen on the way to #debconf22, and now this!

@agx we need you to travel more!
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@purism

@ta180m @douginamug ^^^

Every year in the summer in #portugal we have a competition of the portuguese media to see who can be the worst at covering the summer forest fires:

https://nitter.net/tomahock/status/1547193126233772032#m

In this case a person fighting a fire is asking the reporters to move their vehicle to somewhere else because it is blocking the passage.

The reporter answers: sure as soon as we finish the live report.

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This comment by John Bolton reminded me of a "joke" some friends of mine had many years ago:

Q: What is the one country on Earth that never had a coup de etat?

A: The US. Because it is the one country on Earth that does not have a US embassy.

John Bolton (former US ambassador to the UN and former US National Security advisor): “As someone who has helped plan coups de etat — not here but, you know, other places — it takes a lot of work”

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=5zyRr5jmGxw

@fabiscafe

In the short medium term, no not really. Even when gnome shell becomes adaptive there are several functionalities that would need to be added on top of it for it to be used like people expect on a phone: like say, being able to answer a call from the lock screen, access to the torch and camera from lockscreen, and several other quality of life stuff.

Also phosh is free software, so anyone can pick it up.

@brainblasted

@brainblasted

"There are so many papercuts with the existing desktop environments on mobile"

Care to list a few?