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Ever traveled outside of your own countries a lot of airports have facial recognition entry/exiting ports that will scan your face and your passport.
this is a textbook false equivalence. Travelling hinges on the ability to verify your identity. Using a piece of software does not and must not require sensitive documents like a passport.
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I don't consider OEM bundles malware, a practice that goes all the way back the early days of home computing. https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/games/james-bond-007-action-... http://www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/amigahistory/bundles.html
So malware magically ceases to be malware as soon as it’s preinstalled by the vendor?
> computer software that is designed to damage the way a computer works
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I don't consider OEM bundles malware, a practice that goes all the way back the early days of home computing. https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/games/james-bond-007-action-... http://www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/amigahistory/bundles.html
Congrats on reverting home computing back to the amiga days then. I have walked into target, bought androids, pulled them out of the box and connected them to the network over which they would immediately proceed to download gigabytes of malware from the play store.
> computer software that is designed to damage the way a computer works
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/malware
As home computing being reverted back to the Amiga days, I really look forward to it.
PC, macOS, iOS, Android are devices with a soul, where hardware and software is designed in alongside each other.
Whereas GNU/Linux folks keep trying to put a PDP-11 sh into a mobile phone.
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Indeed, https://www.google.com/chromebook/chrome-os/
Ok, well now I can't do most of the stuff I was doing on GNU/Linux without doing it on a machine that someone else is hosting. So that's still a step backward.
Want a GNU/Linux phone? Buy Openmoko, or any other commercial failures that followed them.
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It is definitely better than default GNU/Linux installations.
What? Point me to a single piece of malware in any major distro's repositories; I'll wait.
curl | sudo sh rulez!
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Ever traveled outside of your own countries a lot of airports have facial recognition entry/exiting ports that will scan your face and your passport.
this is a textbook false equivalence. Travelling hinges on the ability to verify your identity. Using a piece of software does not and must not require sensitive documents like a passport.
Travelling hinges on the ability to verify your identity
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I really love my pinephone, but frankly, what doesn’t lag on it?
Hackernews, dino, FVWM, and vim don't.
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> Human knowledge stand on the giant shoulders of others and patent and copyright with ever-greening and useless litigation are making it hard and difficult. Can't fathom someone can copyright a rectangle drawing and sue phone companies for launching rectangle phones. How is this even an argument, given that patents expire?
> How is this even an argument, given that patents expire? These days, many patented technologies expire faster than patents on them. In those cases, patents are quite literally halting progress.
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Technically, “was” is wrong because the new Nest Hub doesn’t run any part of Android. These are Flutter apps targeted specifically for Fuschia. There’s no evidence yet that they will run Android on top of Fuschia.
They are actually working on porting the Android Runtime (ART) to Fuchsia. [1] [1] https://android.googlesource.com/device/google/fuchsia/
Fascinating to see how much is 'inspired' by Apple's design and Microsoft's for the document app. I'd feel dirty in so blatantly copying someone else's design, but Huawei doesn't share those concerns. Maybe for good reason.
The problem is that, in general, when a company doesn't respect intellectual property laws or obviously makes use of industrial espionage (and I'm not suggesting either is true for Huawei) they are sending a clear signal that laws do not apply to them. So as a customer why would I trust any company with my most personal health, banking or own intellectual property if that company sees no reasonable limitations to its…