Readit NewsI cannot imagine a legal defense for forcing someone to accept the terms of service of Apple or Google to use their bank account.
I've always wondered though how it works with KVM: I know KVM is a virtualisation accelerator that enables passing through native code to the CPU somehow; but it feels like QEMU/KVM basically runs the internet now. Almost the entire modern cloud is built on QEMU and KVM as a hypervisor (right?) but I feel like I'm missing a lot about how it's working.
I also wonder if this steals huge amounts of resources away from emulation, or does it end up helping out. Because to say the modern internet is largely running on QEMU is likely a massive understatement.
Any VM is just a `quickget ubuntu 24.04` and `quickemu --vm ubuntu-24.04.conf` away. The conf file is just a yaml that is very readable and can give you more cores/ram/disk easily. Just run `quickget` to get a list of OS's to download.
All wisdom aside... I think you're right. I takes a certain grit to start to appreciate the ultimate effect of software freedom culture and licensing. Never mind the the whole philosophy.
It's like explaining CRISPR (yeah I'm a biologist) to a normie... Ok, so lets start with what DNA is... proceeds to guide someone through a lifetime in the molecular biology field....
Google is a big company and there may have been some factions pushing to make android an open ecosystem, but I don't see that that was ever the companies intent overall.
Is it the lack of deep, DNA encoded morality? What are we going to do about this? What is the DNA of an organization anyway?
How, as a society can we take away these stimuli that make it so natural to consume individual freedoms when we grow our tribe-size?
Maybe we need more freedom, more freedom to say: "F-this I'm out of here, I just like the set of rule of this other society better." Maybe we are still too constrained. By our ways of generating income, by our countries, continents and ultimately our planet. We have 1 lifetime, we have to make do with what we find.
So, how can anyone expect FOSS mobile OSs to ever exist unless forced by law by the US or something?
So, how do we get to a commodity layer for Mobile devices? It looked like it was going to be Linux (Android), and that was Google's intention. But now they are just using their significant resources to corrupt that original idea, using their trojan horse called "play services".
The public at large only cares about convenience, not about privacy. Why don't we? How much enshitification is enough to draw that line in the sand?
Moved from Gentoo to Arch because I was tired of compiling system updates. Was fun compiling when tweaking the kernel and compiler settings trying to maximize Doom 3 on Linux. Enemy Territory didn't need any tweaking.
I don't mind new or more distros. Helps learn new ways of doing things to make Linux more presentable to others. Tools still needs to be presentable to the masses.
I love new distro's, especially paradigm shifting ones. Ubuntu at the time ("It just works"), Gentoo ("squeeze max performance out of my hardware and know it thoroughly") Arch ("So fresh, unmatched package availability through AUR"), NixOS ("My OS lives in Git, and that is where it is supposed to be") and the new Fedora silverblue/bootc stuff ("Get some of those cloud paradigms on my personal devices"). Although I haven't played with the latter, mostly because the advantages are NixOS like, and NixOS does it well, and I'm not done learning by a long shot, but it deserves some checking out, it's certainly a new paradigm.
"debugger vendors in 2047 distributed numbered copies only, and only to officially licensed and bonded programmers." - Richard Stallman, The Right to Read, 1997
I only have Linux PCs (laptops) and servers, 100% of my work and personal stuff is done there (though for work I do need to hop into MS365, Google Workspace, Zoom, etc, hooray for browsers, my final firewall between me and the walled gardens, though we can have a whole discussion on that).
For mobile, we have PostmarketOS, Phosh, Ubuntu Touch. I really must try living in them, is it on me? IDK, our government even has an identity app for iOS and Android. I should not be using it, I should stick to web. But its so much more convenient. I'm just weak, aren't I?
Maybe I should go for Ubuntu touch, with an iPad on the side or something. At least my most personal device is something I control then. Or just keep my Linux laptop handy (or make a cyberdeck!). But I want a computing platform that does not require carrying a bag. It's kinda sad. Even GrapheneOS (one of the most personal and secure mobile computing experiences out there)'s future is in the hands of its greatest adversary, the one that does not want you to have a personal computing experience.
May be an a-b test?