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fsflover

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About fsflover

Qubes OS Elevator Pitch: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/how-to-pitch-qubes-os/4499/15

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    Comment #49222337

    Can't Chinese government exchange the data with your government whenever they need it?

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    Comment #49213764

    And in other cases, it's extremely bad for the consumers. See: enshittification due the lack of good regulations, https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/

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    Comment #49210046

    But not equally.

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    Comment #49208949

    I hate when such (great) articles end with "we have a lot to do". Please give at least a couple of examples of a constructive action. "Write to your government", "Support this NGO"…

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    Comment #49199166

    > processors phone home anyway at a level beneath the OS Links?

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    Comment #49198138

    This is not a practical way for installing apps though.

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    Comment #49198109

    Because the Free Software Foundation Europe ( https://fsfe.org ) that fights for this has a too low support of people. Please support them if you care about it.

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    Comment #49198068

    The slowness of Phosh is purely a consequence of the current, unoptimized software state. When I run Waydroid on PureOS on my Librem 5, it feels much smoother, despite being anothe…

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    Comment #49198021

    Librem 5 has an experimental support of a 5G modem: https://forums.puri.sm/t/librem5-5g-is-here-modem-sim8202g-t...

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    Comment #49197327

    There are actually some people using a GNU/Linux phone as a daily driver for years. I'm one of them.

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    Comment #49197263

    Pinephone Pro had a very small developer community and thus quite undeveloped software. It was discontinued for this reason. Librem 5 is being developed by both a community and a c…

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    Comment #49193813

    Thank you, I missed it.

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    Comment #49193767

    Is this a good enough camera for you? https://social.librem.one/@dos/tagged/shotonlibrem5

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    Comment #49193735

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189632

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    Comment #49193693

    So you are stuck in the walled garden. Alternatively, you could find a bank not forcing the duopoly on you. Worked for me.

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    Comment #49193675

    But which apps exactly are you missing?

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    Comment #49193589

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189675

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    Comment #49188338

    Did you consider postmarketOS? https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_4_(fairphone-fp...

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    Comment #49185878

    Debian XFCE is still strong with a low amount RAM, too.

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    Comment #49165397

    > The post you're responding to defined intelligence as learning rate. How is the learning method or rate related to intelligence? LLMs learn during the training, much faster than …

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    Comment #49162262

    > For an LLM to be as smart as a human it has to be able to learn like a human. "For a plane to fly as well as a bird it has to be able to flap its wings". "For a submarine to swim…

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    Comment #49152378

    It's called prostitution.

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    Comment #49152366

    > and worthwhile if someone goes into it well aware of the major tradeoffs they're making Are you suggesting me to write all tradeoffs of everything that I suggest?

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    Comment #49152350

    This is thinking of the adults though.