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Besides the point here, but why is it so diabolically hard to decline cookies on this site?
I do hope that (for example) EU would force makers to provide a way to unlock the device and install any OS/distribution I want...
The EU wants to mandate 5 years of security updates, which is a lot more relevant to the immense majority of consumers.
Would it be OK if you were forced to use only the single OS that your computer came preinstalled with?
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Not all courts have the power to set precedent. Small claims courts in England don’t.
The way it's been explained to me is precedent is often referring to rulings that start with the similar courts geographically to other ones.
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The way it's been explained to me is precedent is often referring to rulings that start with the similar courts geographically to other ones.
It's not that simple either. Common law jurisdictions often use rulings at higher courts in completely different countries (as long as they are also common law jurisdictions) as precedent if it helps come to a suitable judgment.
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Up until your comma the comment suited me just fine, but then... let's not get personal about developers' health issues. It isn't helpful, and there has already been an HN discussion on the topic that you've unfortunately exhumed. There has been great progress at solving problems that had come up during a sad time for GrapheneOS and CalyxOS.
I understand that position, but one can also not simply ignore the situation. It'd be okay if the project had removed the maintainer, but they did not, instead he just sabotaged the Mozilla location service discussion while purporting to speak in the name of the Graphene foundation. There is a responsibility to warn users about that risk factor.
> This has set a basic precedent I would note that technically the small claims court in the UK does not set precedents. That would be the function of a higher court.
How so? I thought a precedent was just any case that has been ruled in a certain way, irrespective of the court it has happened in.
For instance, in a US District Court on most questions of federal law, as regards decisions of other federal courts: published decisions of any federal court can be cited as persuasive (most district court decisions are unpublished), and decisions of the Court of Appeals for the circuit in which the District Court is located, or of the US Supreme Court, may be entered as persuasive precedent.
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I understand that position, but one can also not simply ignore the situation. It'd be okay if the project had removed the maintainer, but they did not, instead he just sabotaged the Mozilla location service discussion while purporting to speak in the name of the Graphene foundation. There is a responsibility to warn users about that risk factor.
GrapheneOS and CalyxOS are great at what they do, and the present situation for both is positive and good. It can be exhausting digging up old interpersonal stuff that does not have a technical bearing on the present, especially as there are/were health and wellbeing issues that are/were at play. Choose to let it go, for once and for all. Peace out.
But let's indeed let it be here, it gets OT for the ASUS topic. The GrapheneOS warning just had to be mentioned as it was related to the bootloader re-locking.
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You mean Microsoft Windows which dropped support for Zen 1 with Win11 not even 5 years after Zen 1 was released? Meanwhile, Linux will still run on a 30+ year old CPU...
They said software support, not hardware support. You can take a win 95 gui app and run it on windows 10 without issue. You can’t do the same on Linux.
E.g. see this user report: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1743cec/almost_s...
Long is gone the time where unlocking bootloaders and installing custom ROMs was the best path to follow. Even if you are able to unlock it (with difficulties such as this one, or others that involve opening the device and soldering a shortcut), you will have a device where apps check for unlocked bootloaders and rooted OS, and forbid you from use the application.
This is rubbish. I'm running GrapheneOS and have left my bootloader unlocked, and there's no app that has refused to work. The only caveat is some of them need Google Play services. No, I am not rooted, but my last phone was rooted and there might have been one or two apps out of dozens that wouldn't work with root even with Magisk trying to hide the root status. Using a custom ROM is easily one of the beat choices I…