m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@gordoooo_z
I don't know why this still didn't happen, the phone I use now looks too powerful to me, it has an eight-core CPU, the performance core being clocked at 3.0 GHz, it has 8 gigs of RAM and 256 Gb of fast UFS 3.1 storage. I have a 200 Gb SD card in it on top of that. I think it's more powerful than the laptops I use. And device like that is used for answering phone calls and some lightweight web browsing? 🤷
@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane

@gordoooo_z
I've been using my Lumia phone like that until recently. The battery got too old and the phone started to shut down randomly and as getting new one is extremely hard, I had to put the old thing in the drawer. I got it in 2015 and I thing it wasn't to bad of an age to retire this device at last.
Purism tries to do that with Linux phones, but AFAIK there are lots of issues with Librem 5.
@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane

@gordoooo_z
MS got it right with Continuum. Unfortunately the whole Windows 10 Mobile thing didn't take of and they've scrapped it. Then the community made it possible to install desktop Windows 10 on ARM and later 11 on Lumia phones. It worked nicely, even though the UI wasn't optimized, you could use it as a phone, but when you plug it into dock with external display and periferals, it's a normal Windows PC.
@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane

@benjaminhollon Yes! The interoperability was stellar at the time. So when I iPhone came out I thought it would be more of the same, but even better, but no… To my disappointment it wasn't — instead of using old and tried iSync they moved that functionality to iTunes, most probably because they didn't have iSync for Windows, but they did have iTunes and they wanted to market it to PC folk too.
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z

@RL_Dane
It does — it's real Firefox, but last time I checked the underlying version of Ubuntu used by mobile OS was so dated that Firefox was pretty old too, so it was very clunky on a small screen. It was possible to use it, but no multitouch support — I wasn't comfortable doing it.
Stock browser was better, but didn't open some websites.
It was a year ago, maybe things improved since then, they had plans to migrate to newer Ubuntu, but I didn't revisit it.
@benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z

@RL_Dane Back in 2005 or 2006 I could connect to my Siemens phone (it wasn't even a smartphone!) via Bluetooth and use Address Book.app on my Mac to send SMS-messages 😁
Then, for some reason, mobile phones made a giant leap backward in terms of being able to be used together with desktop computers.
@benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z

@benjaminhollon It would be perfect for me to have a device with SXMO/SWMO capable to run a simple dialer, email client and normal desktop Firefox with decent performance and proper multitouch support. I'm fine with using things like Matrix and Fedi as web apps — I have a phone capable of running desktop Windows 11 (what? yes!) so I know what it is like. Element and Mastodon/Pleroma work nicely scaled to small screen. Proper onscreen keyboard is a must too!
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z

@benjaminhollon I have a phone that, in addition to Android can run Sailfish and Ubuntu Touch. Both systems aren't quite there in terms of making them your daily drivers, main problem being the browser not being on par with what you can have on Android. You can work that around with Waydroid (running Android in a container under host os), but that kinda defeats the purpose because using Android as host OS you can always have better battery life —mine lasts for 5 days 🤷
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z

@enduser@berserker.town Maybe they see Fedi as *asocial* media 😅

@amerika
> Like an AI ruling us? Seems like an attempt at monarchy.
Except AI doesn't have any personal interests like a monarch would, which makes it more trustworthy.
And in most fictional dystopias "the AI" turns out just a good old meatbag pretending to be one 😂
But that is what is the problem would be with it in reality. If AI is ungovernable, it's really scary, if it's possible to influence it, various groups might do it pursuing their personal interests.
@greyknight33 @PawelK @julianna@101010.pl

@RL_Dane
I think it can also use X11 — dwm is used in this case, or it can use Sway and Wayland, I think this is what either X or W in SXMO/SWMO stand for.
@Haijo7 @benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z

@RL_Dane
Instead of clunky DEs, try Sway — that's what SWMO is based on I think. It's lightweight and blazingly fast, scrolling is butter-smooth on Wayland. If your hardware is well supported, it's perfect. I use it on two different laptops running Void and I'm very happy with it. Both use integrated Intel graphics though, I'm not sure how things are with discrete GPUs.
@Haijo7 @benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z

@PawelK @useless_idiot The collapse is imminent, but the question is how many more have to die before it happens and what happens next.

@PawelK @useless_idiot 🇨🇳 quickly showed Putin the door so he had to go for 🇺🇦. I think he was reluctant to do that from the very beginning, but the resistance he got even surpassed his expectations. And of course he didn't expect oil and gas sanctions to be that serious. He got the justification for economic hardships he wanted, but he miscalculated and the war only accelerated the economy spiraling down.

@PawelK @useless_idiot Russia's economy is in decline since 2013, but "Crimea effect" somehow justified the lowering standards of living for the masses. It didn't make the news, but COVID was a serious blow too. Putin wanted to pull off this trick again: quick and victorious war. Focus shifted to Ukraine now, but there was an attempted Kazakhstan incursion just a couple of months before that.

@PawelK
> collapse of Soviet Union 2.0
I think that is exactly what is going to happen.
I was expecting a major turning point like that by spring, but I was expecting the frontline to collapse earlier than having such obvious signs of failing economy, but okay, we can have them in any order 😅
Most believe that economy is like that because of war, but actually it's the other way around: the war happened because the economy was collapsing.
@useless_idiot

@neural_meduza Ну да, нечто похожее он вчера и заявил 😂

@useless_idiot It's already worse than that. This one looks like the first sign of incoming regional defaults.

@enduser@berserker.town
That background reminds me of the famous Pet Shop Boys video: https://youtube.com/Me4AhOi6LYE
@safiuddinkhan

@safiuddinkhan One of my cats is like that, the other one is a natural-born model, he always strikes a pose and even looks into the camera if you make some noises or talk to him 😹