community-driven project […] shareholders

How does that work?

Worse performance & accessibility, more restricted UI-Features, needs work to port… and now you need to care for mobile too.

Better pack it in Flatpack instead.

This will be a privacy nightmare.

But material costs don’t matter much in computer pricing.

CPUs are not made in a home depot.

Why put CAD software in the browser?

No.

I prefer less uptime at saturday over a random rare outage.

Now, if the camera isn’t the reason anymore, why would you still pay $1200 for a flagship if you get essentially the same for $300?

Funny enough, my old Galaxy S3 is exactly as “thin” as the Oneplus 9 but has replaceable battery (even now) and a microSD slot.

Software side too: Linux’s deliberate choice to not have a stable driver interface is detrimental to atomic distros with the usually shitty proprietary vendor drivers. Causing you to get no updates after a few years or get a new device.

Which is why i think BSD would have been a better fit for Android.

the company is owned by a guy who lets himself be “refreshened” with the blood of younger people.

Aside from the moral aspect, did his AI tell him that would work?

Same thing in blue.

LLM are not built for logic.

Grown ups.

Kate/Kwrite.

Lol, no. I made a usercss for this (currently not released) but explicitly disabled it here. But that one uses a base style that switches via @prefers light/dark:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --text-color: #DBD9D9;
    --text-highlight: #232323;
    --bg-color: #1f1f1f;
    …
  }
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: light) {
  :root {
    …
  }

Guess your site uses one of them too.

Well…

In parallel, Google has rolled out its Play Integrity API, which allows developers to limit app functionality when sideloaded, effectively pushing users to install apps only through the Google Play Store.

All of this while EU forbids Apple to do the same, what is the idea here? Measuring how EU reacts?

The trend to more complicated but cheaper instead of doing it right. Result is news about security incidents every single day.