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Palm Treo/Pre and BlackBerry users! And probably Clicks users too. It's not a matter of "Does Russian language use the Latin script?" (it doesn't), but rather "What is the least an…

Pebble 2 Duo were reusing the existing stock of Pebble 2 housings and displays. This model was intended as a limited run from the beginning. Pebble Time 2 are designed from scratch…

Pebble watches can use Bluetooth LE and Bluetooth Classic connection profiles simultaneously. It's possible to pair two phones this way, but that's considered an undocumented hack.…

Wikipedia quotes https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/cdjwm9eew0xo , which uses this article as a source: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6920516

Nikolai Durov lives in Saint Petersburg and works for the Russian Academy of Sciences. Pavel Durov had visited Russia multiple time since his "exile". The public-facing story aroun…

Their possible DB-related single points of failure are located in on-prem DCs in the Netherlands.

X1 Carbon is part of the Intel Evo Platform. These are co-developed with Intel and therefore this line is exclusive to them. X13s was confirmed to be sunset, another T14s is the mo…

Phone UI paradigm isn't as easy as "Let's just scale down the Desktop/Tablet applications". In case of Sailfish OS development history, migration from clunky, but closer to Desktop…

>I want a Linux phone that works That's Jolla C2 or some Sailfish-compatible Xperia 10. Both GNOME Shell in the phone context and Plasma Mobile are evolutionary dead ends.

Containers with systemd as an init process are considered first-class citizen by the Podman ecosystem (the base images are named accordingly: e.g, ubi10-init vs ubi10)

Chromium choice is easy to explain due to PWA-shortcuts integration. That's less clunky than shipping Firefox with an extension or adding an external GUI PWA-manager.

>The article doesn't mention which Linux distribution was chosen Given they've chosen OnlyOffice?.. Astra Linux?

It's important part of the culture and is not considered cheating. IP protection laws legal precedents are not the universal truth. This article on the topic is a good explainer, h…

There's an opinion that it's part of coordinated campaign, not just slow news day. https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114784469162979608 thread lists same activity in Swedish-sp…

Security is a policy-driven spectrum of considerations and solutions. GrapheneOS targets very specific threat models, which is not possible with Fairphone hardware/BSP. Whether it …

https://clearthis.page/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.historytoday.com... seems to be the whole article.

Em dash as an AI detection trick doesn't work for text in Russian. The author just seems to like that way of composing sentences.

If we can extrapolate the PhotoSir/himirage[1] example to the whole slice of creative industry software, there's no such top-down plan currently. OTOH, CapCut is fairly popular, wh…

Eclipse Oniro is an interesting proposal to build on top of OpenHarmony. Kind of "Palm/HP webOS and Firefox OS were right conceptually, but too early", minus Linux kernel and middl…

It's a quote from «The Secret of Monkey Island». Works as a law of nature unless proven otherwise.

Never pay more than 20 bucks [1] for a computer game. [1] as of 1990. $48.94 adjusted for inflation.

Regular reminder that Boox is notorious for their constant GPL violations.

>driver support It's Pine64, their whole business model is «Here's the hardware, you're on your own now».

https://docs.pipewire.org/page_module_raop_discover.html RAOP Discover is currently at the point «It just works until it doesn't» (like most things zeroconf). Behaves fairly reliab…

Power profile. The SoC will need more space for battery and cooling that's physically possible in the smartphone formfactor.