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I don't understand why the Google Assistant has to be thrown in. Beside me not liking the idea of Google Assistant processing my request, I don't really believe that it's a feature that many need or even request. Of cause I'm in a non-English speaking country, so that may change the usage, but I don't know anyone who uses Google Assistant, Siri or Cortana and only two people who use Alexa, which technically isn't eve…
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Yeah, terribly sorry, I just pasted it without looking, was on the phone.
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firefox os had so much potential, now with pwa's being the next big thing, it seem like firefox os could be a game changer. Too bad they killed it.
I'd be interested in this on a modern smartphone platform with a touchscreen and virtual keyboard just to cut Google out of my life.
It's a stretch to call these "Linux-based" phones. The kernel [1] comes from an old Android fork of Linux 3.10 which is nearly 6 years old. Android kernel code is largely incompatible with mainline Linux which is the reason there are very few phones that can run actually run mainline (real) Linux. [1] https://github.com/kaiostech/kernel_msm-3.10
>which is the reason there are very few phones that can run actually run mainline (real) Linux. You mean the drivers not being in the Linux Kernel/hard to port ? because I have a very hard time believing most smartphones couldn't run the Linux kernel, provided it's compiled to whatever architecture and the drivers are there.
[1] https://source.android.com/devices/architecture/kernel/andro...
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Any word on US availability? There are plenty of people who don’t need an entire iPhone, or can’t comprehend one due to age or other handicaps. It’s good to have choices.
You can buy a Nokia 8110 4G in the U.S.A. IIRC, and it's powered by KaiOS.
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firefox os had so much potential, now with pwa's being the next big thing, it seem like firefox os could be a game changer. Too bad they killed it.
It's kind of funny that PWA was Jobs original vision for iOS apps with HTML5, before they came up with the walled garden cash cow approach. > “The full Safari engine is inside of iPhone. And so, you can write amazing Web 2.0 and Ajax apps that look exactly and behave exactly like apps on the iPhone. And these apps can integrate perfectly with iPhone services. And guess what? There’s no SDK that you need! You’ve got e…
Additionally, unlike modern PWAs, web-apps back then had persistence for data only, so you had to reload the entire application over the network at each launch. People back then loved the switch to native apps because they were extremely snappier.
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firefox os had so much potential, now with pwa's being the next big thing, it seem like firefox os could be a game changer. Too bad they killed it.
I'd be interested in this on a modern smartphone platform with a touchscreen and virtual keyboard just to cut Google out of my life.
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Minor nit, but I always appreciate receiving these -- in US English as well as British I believe it's always written "bury the lede"
I don't think that's the case. Lede is at best an alternative spelling, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paragraph#Spelling and FWIW, I'm British and I've never seen it spelt lede outside of this forum. I guess it's an American thing, and even then, it's pretty wrong.
So as clear as mud then!