Readit NewsNewJazz commented on Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/nickthegreek
I'm stating a general fact that the patches in ACK are not needed for Android to work.
Many past Pixel devices, which are still in support, cannot seem to run a mainline kernel.
NewJazz commented on Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/nickthegreek
They have been been upstreaming patches to the kernel. In fact Android works with a stock Linux kernel now.
For the nonexistent Pixel 8? Or are you referring to running on a Pixel 6a, for example:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Google_Pixel_6a_(google-b...
This device is marked as not booting.
CameronNemo commented on Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/nickthegreek
Android common kernels(ACK) are downstream of Linux kernels with so many patches which are not there in the Linux kernels. So Linux having short 2 years update cycle doesn't have much implication on ACK.
That's a disappointing answer if it is really the case. One has to question why they can't forward port their changes for a handful of years.
CameronNemo commented on Pixel 8 leak promises 7 years of OS updates arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/nickthegreek
I'm curious about how they're going to manage this at the same time Linux LTS kernels are returning to being supported for 2 years rather than 6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37591050
The Fairphone is aiming to upstream their new phone's drivers. Chromebooks typically run a much closer to mainline kernel than Android devices.
https://liliputing.com/fairphone-5-is-a-repairable-e699-smar...
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20230830-fp5-initial-v1-0-5...
400 times 10-20 USD = 4000-8000 USD.
Divided by 20 amounts to 16-33 years. Roughly.
That’s why I don’t bother about CDs anymore. I used to carry them around privately on a NAT Server many years ago, copying them to my iPod.
1. You are assuming the goal is to spend as little money on art as possible. Which isn't the case for a lot of us.
2. Not everything is on Spotify. E.g. the song Golden Girl by Frank Ocean. Or most Neil Young songs.
CameronNemo commented on Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix matrix.org/blog/2023/09/m... · Posted by u/jrepinc
I always get so confused by the naming between Matrix and Element. I get that Element is the client, but I honestly thought that the name Matrix for the server (or is it just the standard for the protocol?) was sunset.
Great service though and hope if gets UX improvements too, as Discord and Slack keep getting more clutter.
Maybe you are confused because the old client name, Riot, was sunset in favor of Element?
AIUI the protocol was and is called Matrix. There seems to be no intention to depart from that name.
CameronNemo commented on AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B toonk.io/aws-ipv4-estate-... · Posted by u/atyvr
Question for the networking folk here. How can the rest of us help move things over to ipv6?
NAT64 and DNS64 can help your v6-only hosts cope with the ubiquity of v4-only hosts.
I get that the AI is going to be important in the next decade but Mozilla has shown that despite having a clear competitive advantage in something it cannot continue to grow. I don't mean to devalue what Mozilla is doing but its browser is completely ususable on my Linux Mint 20 with a high end graphics card. Compare that to chrome which works like a breeze.
Although I champion open source & privacy at my org - I cannot but for the sake of my own productivity use any Mozilla product despite repeated attempts every quarter to try if it works better now...
Now, people are paying money to use these LLM products. Which is a niche pricing strategy for search engines.