ozymandias117 @ ozymandias117 @lemmy.world

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The quote of “removing RISC-V from generic kernel images” makes a lot of sense

It only kind of works on arm64 right now, trying to add a whole new ISA seems rushed

If they make exceptions for customized kernels for other architectures for now, that seems fine

They made so much more that they can afford to keep spending their lawyers time on it

All three major carriers vowed to appeal the fines after they were announced today

I believe you’re thinking of trademarks

Yeah, I meant it’s unlikely Microsoft would try to sue Gnome or KDE for it, because they’d likely lose the patent

It’s been known for a long time that they cheat on benchmarks

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks

They specifically detect benchmarking tools and run at a frequency they can’t maintain for the length of the benchmark

Gnome and KDE had this feature LONG before Microsoft, so they have prior art to prove it’s an invalid patent

As long as they’re happy, it’s perfect

Are the on-device pinyin keyboards unusably bad at typing?

I know it’s complex to get the right meaning with the English alphabet, but I’m surprised at cloud-based keyboards

“Generic system images”

Since device manufacturers don’t support their hardware, Google has tried adding another layer of abstraction between hardware and the Android UI

Presumably. The company was made by an ex-Apple designer

The ext4 driver can read ext2/ext3 partitions while supporting the 2038 time issue

The only change here is the driver loading the filesystem

Ext3 support is already only available through the ext4 driver

There’s assembly and makefiles too

Less of a joke answer, there has been work to allow Rust bindings for drivers.

Any idea how this demand is different from the current state of Android?

Under Epic's terms, any app downloaded from anywhere would operate identically to apps downloaded from Google Play, without Google imposing any unnecessary distribution fees.

Last time I used it, I downloaded all my apps through F-Droid, and I didn’t think they were paying Google anything?

If there’s actual upstream support, it would be a massive shift for Qualcomm

Red Hat has been trying to get them to support their processors for years now with no luck

Google gave up on Qualcomm supporting their processors and told them that they aren’t allowed to modify the kernel

I think it’s a trick question. Bottom right is https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

This isn’t new. It’s been around since at least 2006 in the Gnome 2 days when everyone seemed to prefer Gnome

Dconf was a continuation of Gconf

What? The kernel only implements HCI - a way to talk to hardware

The Bluetooth stack and its protocols are implemented in BlueZ or on Android in Gabeldorsche

Unless they’ve changed it very recently, Wells Fargo’s passwords are case insensitive

On top of that, another problem that was reported last total solar eclipse is that your eyes will dilate because it looks dark

Enough of the UV radiation will still reach them, though, and especially right as the sun comes back into view, while your eyes are even more vulnerable than normal while they’re dilated