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Paianni commented on Jolla Phone Pre-Order commerce.jolla.com/produc... · Posted by u/jhoho

m4rtink · 14 days ago

IIRC they were negotiating a startup funding round that failed, so they ended unexpectedly up not having enough money to run the company let alone pay for the tablet manufacturing. Even remember hearing about the manufacturers selling the units with Android by the time they secured at least some funding for the company, so there was really nothing to salvage.

Or it might have just been their excuse back then - if you have some newer details of how it actually all went down with the tablet, please do share! :-)

Paianni · 14 days ago

I know that the specification changed multiple times prior to launch (mostly screen related I think).

Paianni commented on Jolla Phone Pre-Order commerce.jolla.com/produc... · Posted by u/jhoho

kogepathic · 14 days ago

Hard no on giving Jolla a cent. Jolla rug-pulled [1] people who crowd-funded [2] their tablet in 2014.

Jolla used the crowd-funding campaign to butter up VCs for their next funding round [3] and then decided the Asian LLC handling the crowdfunding would go bankrupt, leaving backers with no tablets and most with no refund. [4]

The real kicker was that the tablets were ALREADY manufactured by their ODM, Jolla just never paid them. Took backers money and stiffed their manufacturing partner too. For a while after the campaign folded you could buy Jolla branded tablets (running Android, it was just an ODM model they flashed Sailfish on) on eBay or Taobao [5]. I just checked and there's a Jolla Tablet listed on eBay right now. [6]

10 years later, it looks like they're trying the same thing. Maybe they think the internet has forgotten, but I have zero interest in supporting their next hardware rug-pull endeavour.

[1] https://together.jolla.com/question/97695/information-regard...

[2] https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/jolla/jolla-tablet-wor...

[3] https://jolla.com/content/uploads/2017/02/46_JOLLATABLET_STR...

[4] https://blog.jolla.com/second_phase_refund/

[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/Jolla/comments/3x2s7e/jolla_tablets...

[6] https://archive.ph/Ncf17

Paianni · 14 days ago

afaik the tablet was in development hell for much of 2015, by the time it was ready it was no longer profitable and Jolla couldn't afford to buy more than about 600 units without going bust.

Paianni commented on Jolla Phone Pre-Order commerce.jolla.com/produc... · Posted by u/jhoho

Paianni · 14 days ago

I hope they've learned their lesson after the tablet fiasco.

Paianni commented on Everyone in Seattle hates AI jonready.com/blog/posts/e... · Posted by u/mips_avatar

mr_toad · 16 days ago

I remember when everything had a have the word ‘digital’ in it. And I’m old enough to remember when ‘multimedia’ was a buzzword that was crammed into anywhere it would fit.

Paianni · 16 days ago

or 'interactive' or 'cloud' (early 2010s).

Paianni commented on GNOME 50 completes the migration to Wayland, dropping X11 backend code linuxiac.com/gnome-50-end... · Posted by u/upofadown

mx7zysuj4xew · a month ago

They weren't "developers" more like a Jr intern asked to do some minor maintenance

The real work was done in the 80s/90s through a consortium of universities and corporations

Then one day, some nobody shows up and in their infinite wisdom decides: I know better than all the 100s of people before me.

And now we have to listen on and on about how this nobody was somehow a "major developer"

Paianni · a month ago

The work done in the 80s and 90s was for very different hardware than now, when accelerated graphics wasn't the norm. MS made that mandatory with Aero and then Windows 8 a long time ago, Apple's been at it for even longer.

Wayland exists because, thanks to hardware innovations, there's a better way to do the job than what was possible in the 80s.

Paianni commented on Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX press.asus.com/news/press... · Posted by u/Roachma

martinald · a month ago

Me and a friend were just chatting how annoying it is monitors stalled out at 4K. I think I got my first set of 4k monitors ~15 years ago (!) and there's been no improvements since then apart from high end pro monitors resolution wise.

Why is this? 5k/6k at 27" would be the sweet spot for me, and potentially 8k at 32". However, I'm not willing to drop $2k per monitor to go from a very nice 27" 4k to 27" 5k.

You can get 8K TVs for <$1000 now. And an Quest 3 headset has 2 displays at far higher PPI for $600.

Paianni · a month ago

The Asus PA27JCV is rather less than $2k...

Paianni commented on SailfishOS: A Linux-based European alternative to dominant mobile OSes sailfishos.org/info/... · Posted by u/ForHackernews

Paianni · 2 months ago

After the tablet fiasco in 2015 they've never been able to afford to staff their OS properly; the web browser engine still lags behind Firefox by a long way (using Gecko 91 currently).

Paianni commented on China has added forest the size of Texas since 1990 e360.yale.edu/digest/chin... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

throwup238 · 2 months ago

What were those variables?

Paianni · 2 months ago

The scenarios were calculated based on hypothetical 'policies' of a society and the availability of natural resources. The scenario (from the 2004 book) we are tracking most closely is no.2, i.e 'business as usual' but with twice as much resources as was assumed in the 70s.

Paianni commented on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs old.reddit.com/r/DataHoar... · Posted by u/jjbinx007

breve · 2 months ago

The solution is to run Linux. KDE is a good desktop environment: https://kde.org/

90% of Windows games run on Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45736925

LibreOffice is an okay office suite (good enough for my purposes): https://www.libreoffice.org/

GIMP is a good image editor: https://www.gimp.org/

VLC is a good media player: https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Paianni · 2 months ago

LibreOffice is ok for reading and making minor changes to existing files but I haven't used Writer or Calc for anything new in years. LaTeX and Gnumeric are my tools of choice.

Paianni commented on Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy retrohax.net/sony-playsta... · Posted by u/ibobev

M95D · 2 months ago

Most CF cards are marked as "removable drive" by firmware and can't be changed. I'm not sure PS will accept that.

Industrial CF cards that don't do that are very expensive.

Paianni · 2 months ago

The Transcend consumer cards are/were generally 'hybrids' - they would work in IDE mode if connected to such an interface.