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I'll agree as a 90% typist dev. There is a certain class of problems I've sovled for a dozen times. And as often forgotten. Mostly parsing. Recently, I had a local qwen just build …

Well, sometimes it's not a choice you have. I am arguably still a hobby programmer, but was forced by circumstance to go pro. I could not earn enough in graphic design to fix my te…

I'm running SailfishOs on Gigasets assembled in Germany and they have G5. It's a port and I don't have android support at all. I maintain a number if apps and it feels like ownersh…

The safety contacts issue is legislated in Europe. Removing them is breaking the law, I believe. Can be done if you really want to hack.

Bluetooth support is for Jolla's android support. 5.2 for ports and waydroid is awayz out. My guess,18 months.

The Deutsche Wetter dienst is just as 50/50 as any meteorological service. May/June were atypically warm, but rainfall sufficient in the north east. July has been mixed extremes fr…

If by 101 you mean the decades long debate between Dennet and everyone else, I think you'll find the 101 gloss throws up more questions than answers. Presuming that language is nec…

I'll go so far as to propose that many brains, dog or cat, certainly display 'signs' of consciousness. They are nothing like LLMs either. Confusing some stream of language with con…

Thanks! That was a nice read.

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Well, there is something remarkable in human intelligence. We have yet to find anything like it in the known universe. As for the rest, the wise mathematicians are leaning, sorry, …

I fondly remember writing, mostly poetry, with wordstar on my first portable, the kaypro. I still have all the files. I believe it was CPM under the hood...

2FA is not an issue. Many, but not all banking apps work fine. I have an android phone for 3 apps which I need about once a month. Daily driving a linux phone since 2016.

I'm also a bit dissapointed by that, but the community sponsored me a phone and I've been testing usb dongles. They're actually surprisingly good for no money. I think if I was a d…

I still have my first Jolla from 2016. Still works and got updates till 2 years ago. The android stuff I used was minimal but worked fine except for bluetooth and nfc. I build my o…

Mal, from Jolla has ports to from the 2 till the 5, I believe. I used an FP2 for about a year. Big difference is andoid app support, not present on the fp ohones.

A museum country like Germany manages to have a larger automitive manufacturer than Ford.

Exactly! Jeffrey Martin https://jeffreymartinportland.bandcamp.com/album/alive-july-... double LP on vinyl is a pleasure.

Strongly agree. I have a number of projects (RP2040/RP2350) where I stick to using the piggy back mcu because it's actually cheaper than doing the whole design with small quantitie…

I do workshops with kids occasionally. Last week, 4 13 year old boys. In this case I did breadboarding with them first and then showed them the transfer to fritzing -> breadboard -…

Yipee! Ok, I can't afford more hardware, but it's my favourite mobile os and I develop/maintain apps for it, so I'm happy to see the amount of effort Jolla has put in in the last 2…

Exactly! SDL2 apps run well on SFOS :)

Not true. Gradual but slow progress. https://github.com/sailfishos They also recently split the automobile UI part off from the Phone bits. That joint work was part of the problem …

The main distinguishing feature is that you generally lack a keyboar / mouse /pointer thing. Hence, the window manager and interaction in general are tuned for touch interactions, …

I've also been using hardware that some of the Jolla team worked on 20+ years ago. N9, N900 to currently Sony and Volla/Gigaset devices.