Read the Business Insider article prominently linked in the source. They are creating the pretense of oh so scarce AI tokens critical for career success of programmers to push for a modern, more useless version of company scrip. Something outlawed back in the days following the industrial revolution for a reason.

Yes, at least that company script could buy you real stuff, food etc. AI tech bros want to pay you in hot air. Anyhow, isn’t that illegal even in the US? It surely is in the EU.

Yes.

The Volla Quintus appears to be almost identical, to the Daria Bond that is sold in the UAE. Specs look identical from what I could see and the only difference I can make out are very minor design changes in the back side shell. Volla’s marketing and statements are pretty misleading about that. I am not saying they should not work with Chinese OEMs but they create the impression there was meaningful customisation going on from their side, maybe there was but it looks very much off the shelf from an OEM model.

At the same time Volla also sells Plinius. It is actually a stronger phone, for a lower price than the Quintus but looks very much like the strongest Gigaset phone (which is lower mid-range), so should be actually manufactured in Germany (as much as any phone in Europe could possibly be I think). It is bewildering that they don’t put the Gigaset model square and centre.

They might think that they are upholding open source secure communication but what they are really achieving with it is fortifying the US big tech duopoly. There are other aims than theirs, of maximum security, in the EU we are facing the real and very relevant issue of digital sovereignty, which is separate from the ambition for getting hardened mobile systems. Sure, possibly legislation would be preferable to regulate and open up what Google’s Play Integrity API is doing, but as long as that legislation does not exist, creating alternative systems is crucial.

I can’t shake the feeling that this isn’t really about the UA but the private feud of Graphene OS developers with pretty much every single other alternative OS or degoogled android. Yes, they are all less secure than Graphene OS, primarily because Graphene OS relies on huge man power effort by Google to keep the firmware at the cutting edge with swift security updates. That is all good and fine, for their cause but it is not the only legitimate cause out there.

What’s that “Ranch”? Just the usual mix of fat and sugar to drown any food and its taste with, good American style?

The war over civil rights is continuing, no questions but this has been an important vote against the surveillance state ambitions.

And yet, the Eu has given the largest aud of all to Ukraine so far. Hungary makes a fuss and things complicated but the EU can always fudge around it, it just causes a slight delay.

If you bully Germanball or EUball enough, you’ll get Reichtangle though.

Heroic is great for newer stuff but I still have Lutris because some older games work there out of the nox just fine while they don’t even launch in Heroic.

So they are concentrating immigrants in warehouses now?

Trump makes George W. look like a super intellectual pacifist. Almost likeable… almost.

Just think of how much money Google could save if they replaced the CEO with Gemini. Possibly we would not even see a degradation in decision quality and it would save easily more than half a billion USD.

Graphene is heavily relying on security and firmware updates from Google to stay as secure as it is. In fact, the fast and strong updating regime of Google on its Pixel, reference Android, devices, is the reason why Graphene is so far only available for Pixel phones (even if they plan to diversify to Motorola).

And the leading candidate int that survey is not only pro car but also a thoroughly corrupt populist as well. Let’s hope the survey bias did a lot of heavy lifting there. How do other surveys look like?

A better link for Jolla is probably their store: https://commerce.jolla.com/

I have pre-ordered the Jolla Phone and am hoping everything is working out (won’t see it for another 4 months at the very least I suppose). I am very excited getting to know a completely new mobile OS to me and the actual successor of Nokia’s Meego. Like with any alternative system, and to some extend also with degoogled Androids it is advisable to inform oneself first before jumping ship.

In many parts, walking is suicide simply because there are no safe ways to cross many roads and in some places it is entirely impossible. But even where walking is possible people are not even considering it as an option. I had a similar experience in a mid sized town, where we walked maybe 30 min into the centre from an inner suburb. The walk was nice, except for a scary part where we had to cross a highway with its looped exit lanes. People at our destinations looked in the exact same way, as if we were pure lunatics. This whole thing could only be explained by us being Europeans and Europeans do this kind of crazy stuff.

He probably wanted to say “English (simplified)”

You don’t need internet to rollback to a previous snapshot before you nuked your system files by editing that config to turn Wayland off. But given that this is in the past, it is water down the river I guess.

To be precise, it is not a “toggle button” as such, it is a menu at the bottom left that is defaulted to X11 but can be switched to Wayland. Tumbleweed also has snapshots. I don’t know how messing around with Wayland could make even launching into a snapshot impossible but I never messed with Wayland/X11 either.