m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@PurpCat
Most "localised" hardware is rebadged Chinese solutions, but when it comes to software it's even worse — no one wants to touch anything Russian unless required by the law: I can remember government organisations still investing in solutions based on Oracle and even DB2 and buying new licenses in 2016 (!), when it was already obvious that it would become a problem really soon. And I'm pretty sure they still use all that — just without support or paying licensing fees.

@xianc78

@PurpCat
That is so! When it comes to industrial equipment and heavy machinery, a lot of stuff still gets imported through proxy countries, with consumer stuff the overhead costs make it non-viable though and yes, China became a major player: more than half of cars imported last year were Chinese brands, most consumer electronics is Chinese too.
With computer equipment I was always skeptical about this whole localisation thing…

@xianc78

@mischievoustomato
Is the backend lighter than Blemora? I've been eyeing it for using with Bloat for quite some time.

@theorytoe

@Tony
From the sidelines it looks incredibly silly, but I expect it to be great fun when you take part 😄

@xianc78 @PurpCat
Besides, no one is denying participation — everyone can still send in patches, no one's even stripping them of their credits for contributing, the devs were excluded from *MAINTAINERS* only — had they handled it better, shit wouldn't even hit the fan. But Linus not only did it like an asshole (his usual thing), but as an utter dumbfuck too — I'm not new to this, but even I was somewhat… bamboozled🤪

@xianc78 @PurpCat
No one would use it outside of government organisations and state-owned companies, which would probably have to if they pass a related law, but I won't expect them to be adding features either — same as with "Russian alternative" to… anything really, it would likely become another sinkhole for government spending and would die out of natural causes (lack of interest) in a couple of years.

@amydentata
Right? I couldn't even expect it to be the case, no analog inputs of any sort — okay, fine… but no headphone jack?! 😲
Still debatable, but one could justify its absence on a phone — miniaturisation, water resistance, etc… But this 50" thing, always sitting in the living room? Oh, come on!

@millihertz

@alice
Somehow this reminds me of Busdriver's RoadKillOvercoat cover art 😹

@millihertz Some newer Samsung TVs don't have any other audio output except for Bluetooth and HDMI-based eARC though.
And I have to go into the trouble of making my laptop act as a Bluetooth speaker or hook the laptop to the TV and plug the my wired headphones into it in order to watch a movie late at night 😩

@skylar @MK2boogaloo
I would definitely start working on an autonomous local network infrastructure: chats, forums that people could access without "global" Internet. Maybe people could come together and find someone cool they could interact with in the neighbourhood 🤷

@santiago
My G4 Mini is temporarily acting as a wireless access point while I'm looking for a router to replace my dead one 😂
A solid machine — it's 20 years old at this point and somehow… it still runs!

@millihertz
I have an olde networked 10 Mbit Ethernet print server with a traditional parallel port that I can use with my equally old Epson LQ-100. The print server is by HP and the printer is Epson — and yet they somehow work fine together 🤪
Maybe you can find something like this too.

@Jain @kaia @georgia
There was something wrong with it — that is why everyone started switching to Mule in the first place, but I'm not sure what that was, would appreciate a link to an article about it if such a thing exists.
Me? I'm still on Fennec 118 — the last one that has an option to switch WebP support off 😁

@santiago
I remember running VNC server from Cydia on my original iPhone 🤭
Other than multi-touch gestures it was surprisingly usable and ran really well.

@nice-snoot
Black and white what?! A… bird?!!! 😲

@Hyolobrika @condret
What about crypto mining… operating heavy machinery at a mining farm 🤔

@newt
Hey, this is one of those rare occasions when this doesn't make any sense even as tar parameters: create — extract — pipe through gzip — create — verbose — create, WTF was even the plan? 🤪

@metallcorn
Ой, да ладно — я вчера ночью столько съел, когда не мог уснуть 🫃