drwankingstein @ drwankingstein @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Great video from brodie, Regardless of where you stand on the issue, This video is an unbiased and decent take.

Working with android can be a bit of a pain for sure. I'm only talking about android here since that's all I've tested, so don't apply what I am saying to chromium, Android and Chromium are two seperate projects, by two separate teams. but in the end it's important to realize that google has actually needs for these devices. As long as you work within the bounds of needs it's actually not that hard to actually work with. Android has a LOT of stuff for sure.

Android actually allows you to configure most things (granted the documentation is absolutely horrid, Grep my beloved). It is true that most android phones are running proprietary stuff, but this isn't really any fault of google. Google has gone to fairly great lengths to make AOSP a fairly open ecosystem. Nearly every rom is heavily customized as per customers requirements. AOSP can actually run on most hardware fairly easily. Hell it even works just fine on the vanilla kernel (Waydroid for instance). The Issue is that it's nearly impossible to market consumer devices with only FOSS/AOSP stuff, the margins on phones are actually terrible. The biggest issue is finding a phone that can accommodate the more open stuff, not the issue with google pushing crap. In the end Google is making devices for people who will fight tooth and nail to grab the gun to shoot themselves in the foot. A lot of their motivations are based on that. But doing your own AOSP is still easy enough. Just need hardware for it.

Chromium and AOSP are not good examples for what you're saying. Both Chromium and Android have thriving ecosystems of forks and alternatives based on them. Built on the work that Google is doing with them. So I really don't think those are good examples of applications that aren't healthy because you can just use a fork.

Yes, Google controls upstream, but there's no reason why you can't use downstream.As you said, it puts maintenance burden on the forks, but people are willing to do that. That's the thing.

EDIT: This is my off account, So, unfortunately, you'll have to take my word for it, but I did used to be part of an Android ROM team in the past and still do Android work private sector today.

I find that fair, but at the same time, proton has a rocksolid history at this point. OFC they will likely add their features to it, and maybe remove some. But im the end its still open source and under gpl licence, so its not like proton cam change that unless they remove all other commits.

That's because he is increadibly bias and is presenting "facts" in the worst possible light by manipulating context. The references they have are bias at best https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandsCommunity

for instance the pronouns thing. https://blog.vaxry.net/resource/articleDrew/pic1.png

Key takeaways:

The victim misgenders staff on purpose. The victim doesn't seem to even treat their pronouns seriously, stating it's only to make people angry. Labelling this as a "harassment campaign" is a joke.

For another instance of how people are using willful ignorance to attack vaxry, look no further then the recent email

https://blog.vaxry.net/resource/articleFDO/LyudeMails.pdf from https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2024-fdo-and-redhat

• Hazing someone in your discord because they have pronouns in their bio
• Speaking pretty bluntly against queer people and minorities at large

• "at 15 he doesnt even know what he will be studying at uni and he already wanna go get AIDS?"
• "I think this server's motto should be 'love guns, hate damn minorities™

Vaxry got warned for these.

• The first one as went over, an already bias situation, nothing to do with bigotry
• The second one is somehow bad? Im not sure i follow, they give no explanations are context for this. Simply "speaking bluntly" should not be taken as bigotry.
• I'm personally not sure what anything the 3rd point has to do with bigotry.
• the forth one is best explained from vaxry's response

  This relates to the 4th quote you gave. For what it is worth, that is a direct quote from a comedy

Back to drews garbage, he quotes the podcast clearly hoping people don't watch it, youtube link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nskemNa_Kn4 , full link is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ic1zzb_xl4

The whole "not as bad as calling someone the n-word thing" yes vaxry did say that, but he also said, before and after, that yes it was unprofessional behavior, and that it's not allowed anymore. Something drew very conveniently left out

He compared himself to Terry Davis, the late operating system developer whose struggles with mental illness were broadcast for the world to see, citing a video in which he answers a phone call and refers to the person on the phone by the N-word “ten times” – Vaxry compares this to his approach to answering “stupid questions”.

This is some of the most malicious ways of relaying what Vaxry talked about. Just listen to it yourself https://youtu.be/nskemNa_Kn4?t=730

Perhaps not worth much, but my interpetation of it had nothing to do with racism as devault so heavily implies here, It as he said is about the attitude.

I highly reccomend watching the content and replies, because drew's entire thing is based on taking various things out of context

I use arch for stuff like this myself

I personally use an expected keyboard. Really nice, especially if you use termux. FCITX5 for Android is another good keyboard if you like the more AOSP style keyboard that supports other characters

https://github.com/fcitx5-android/fcitx5-android?tab=readme-ov-file#supported-languages

Unfortunately using codeberg itself is kinda crap. Its not the worst thing in the world, but it still has zero discoverability , and is missing features like code search.

it does have potential though if it is resilient.

its easy enough to send angry shit to every server, dmca and whatever rights violations they can think up, and it can become an issue.

Of course, the Federation is great, but you still need an instance that's in one of those privacy-oriented countries.

and yet, they still obey them...

the issue isn't federation or anything like that, the issue is finding a repo hosting service in a dmca resilient country

I mean that's fine, but when people complain about text being too blurry and not sharp enough, their response was something along the lines of sharpness not being the sole metric for performance...

who the fuck does that? and they do this shit all the time

This is probably the best take in fedora not adopting KDE i've heard to date lmao

oh I can explain mine, Bad performance, lacking features, devs who don't care about problems that effect the user.

OOB experience matters a LOT.

LMAO no.

Neverwinter, will entertain me all day long

Not tailscale, but I have used zerotier as an alternative and it worked well

I hate that I just read the words " back in the day" in the context of chromebooks. this feels too new for me xD