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  • We need to get to a point where smartphone work for more than 5 years. Hardware wise the battery is the only part that is guaranteed to need to be replaced.

    Now whether they do it by stopping the race on Android version or supporting every device is up to them.

    Desktop OS (Windows or Linux) support any version as long as the PC is powerful enough. Why on phone we're limited not by the capabilities of the CPU but its release date?

  • I don't think it's wasteful to have both KDE and Gnome. It's healthy competition and as you say, innovation.

    However the job of a distribution is to gather upstream software into a meaningful OS, and rewriting everything that should be an upstream software shared with other distributions is a distraction.

    So Unity was unnecessary "not invented here" syndrome. Just like Snap is.

  • They tried Unity and gave up for Gnome 3 - however they ship a heavily customized Gbome 3.

    Now they're trying Snap. How long before they give up and use flatpak like every other distro?

    What's the point of this?

  • I don't hate Ubuntu, and it was my distribution from nearly 20 years. Meaning since it was first released until recently. I loved it for a long time because it was based on dpkg which was much better than rpm at the time AND it was way more user friendly than the others. Even as a software developer I like my distribution to move out of the way to let me focus on using it, not babysitting it.

    But I moved away because of Snaps. Currently on Fedora and it's pretty good. I know it's possible to get rid of Snaps or use a derivative but I prefer to stay close to stock for whatever distribution I use.

    If Ubuntu works for you and you don't mind snaps, then just use that!

    So if

  • I'm not sure what the business model is here (I have no interest in iMessage) but unlike the previous ones this solution doesn't require a Mac mini farm. Messages are sent directly from the Android device.

    So it doesn't require a monthly fee to be profitable.

  • Most kids are clueless with tech to be honest. Yes they know how to use it, but they have no idea how it works behind the scenes. This has pretty scary consequences on how they are easily manipulated or scammed.

    Some of them are very smart, sure, but on average I'd say they are less tech savvy than Gen X and millennials who grew up at a time you couldn't use computers without some kind of knowledge of how it works (and smartphones didn't exist).

  • Yes, that's the thing.

    The 3DS and before had a smaller screens, but games were designed for that screen size.

    The Switch is basically to play games designed to run on a TV so there is a limit how small you can go before it becomes hard to play.

  • Yes, I thought he was talking about the film industry ("we're fucked") and how AI is/would be used in movie. In which case he would be competent to talk about it.

    But he's just confusing science-fiction and reality. Maybe all those ideas he's got will make good movies, but they're poor predictions.