Not that I know of. I don’t use any Google apps so I would not know of those. My bank app works. I use OSM& for maps but OrganicMaps is nicer. e/OS ships with MagicEarth which worked fine but is not FOSS. Search for locations (eg: shops) is infinitely better on Google Maps but I’m happy not to be stalked anymore.

Sometimes apps from the Play Store stop updating. It seems they find workarounds and get that running again after a while so then updates come through again. Has not been an issue so far. There’s also no Google Assistant and I have not found a good AI helper based on speech.

All in all it’s a good experience and I’m super happy I can use it. It just feels so much better to have a phone which blocks trackers in apps and not being spied on.

Holding a stock phone will feel like holding poop afterwards though. Like, you can hold it and wash your hands after, I guess, but you don’t want to touch it unless you really have to. It’s just dirty.

Use it as a daily driver. Works fine. Feels much more hygienic than stock Android.

There’s a bit more changing on the web than what you may expect.

The web moves so fast that we ditched W3C standards for the WHATWG living standard because it took too long to release new features. I guess the “move fast and break stuff” stood too much in contention with W3C’s vision of a standardisation track, and it did take a good while in the past. Anyhow, the last updatebto that stabdard was yesterday. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/document-sequences.html

Features like WebRTC, HTTP/3, CSS grid, JavaScript decorators, … do not come for free. This is just a tiny fraction of what appeared in the past few years. The web is a highly evolving platform which (used to be? is? aims to be?) backwards compatible. This even ignores updates for required maintenance due to base platform APIs or frameworks changing.

It could be very smart to bring its evolution back under W3C so it would move at a more achievable pace with an equal voting process, but that’s not the case today and I doubt it will happen any time soon.

In the coming years, building or maintaining a browser engine will be expensive.

Looks like you’re right. Global HQ in Sydney and US HQ in San Francisco as per Wikipedia. Same feeling on acceptance though.

Thanks for the information, I did not know!

It feels like people gave up. I hear many many people complain about it similarly to complaining about the weather. As if you can’t do anything about it anyways. Jira gives off a similar vibe. Hard to find anything bad about Teams on Microsoft Bing powered DuckDuckGo so perhaps just my close circle.

Addition: For video conf Jitsi and BigBlueButton work great for us when we can choose. Sadly it is often blocked by admins in large organisations.

Yes, you have to download the local area. Processing happens on your phone.

Organic Maps is a bit smoother to get started with but I’m very happy with OSM& now I have it set up as I want and was also glad to have it when renting a boat on vacation. If you’re new, try Organic Maps first.

noisetorch does an ok job for video conferences and works on your speaker (easier on you) and on your microphone (easier on them). We often use it to limit keyboard noise during meetings.

I have not had many issues in the past 15 or more years myself running Linux exclusively aside from a shorter Macbook period. Perhaps I have just been lucky.

We sported (in guessed cronological order of first buy): Dell, HP, Lenovo, Slimbook, Tuxedo, Starlabs, BTO all running Linux at our company. We have not had big issues with any except for keyboard on a Dell, Tuxedo, Slimbook and cooling on a Lenovo. Since I chose the Slimbook many have followed on the path of smaller suppliers and I think we rarely buy from the big makes now.

I have been very happy with slimbook. I came from a macbook (bad idea) with the bad butterfly keyboard and the slimbook was a big upgrade on that front. It’s still not the greatest keyboard for some but I do like it. I have been wanting to buy a new one but whenever something broke or was insufficient I could either upgrade (2 x nvmeSSD slots and RAM can be replaced) or they still supplied spare parts when I sent them an email (keyboard replacement after 4 years). I wanted a framework but Slimbook has offered me spare parts as needed for longerbtham could buy a framework and the slimbook still works well. Plus it’s less expensive. Replacement of the keyboard was not toolless requiring glue to be heated but I did manage to quickly do it with a sleepy head at night. I’d buy their new 13" if this one would be out of service. I’d buy one now but it feels such a waste.

Things I did not like 6 years ago: webcam and microphone of lesser quality, display nice and matte with good color rendition but lower resolution than I’d prefer, no USBC charging on USBC port. Display and USBC are resolved on the new models, no clue about webcam and microphone.

Not CoreXY but you may want to check out FLSun’s delta offerings too.

I have an older one and it has served me well. I bought a QQS pro (I think) for tinkering. It worked well out of the box but I could not resist changing the stepper drivers, installing Klipper, changing the hotend, … It still works well, just faster.

Looking at the few reviews of what they have today I’d buy again but would try not to swap out parts. That or the Prusa you’re looking at.

When the battery gets fully discharged it degrades much faster.

I’d be searching for what’s draining the battery and in the meantime I’d add a battery disconnect switch for these periods.

Agree. They’ll surely to pay the cost and they have a proven track record on handling any potential lock in.

The Docker runtime is probably ok as it is a tool instead of a community. The registry has a community aspect and is where we’ll likely see exploitation of vendor lock in. Luckily Docker was grounded well and you can set up your own registry.

I consider code and data to be mangled within the context of a macro.

In the macro definition we receive the code as data even though it looks like code when using the macro. Being able to use any lisp code inside of the macro definition, including other macros, makes for a mentally cohesive programming environment.

Not sure I ever used eval aside from some genetic programming experiments.

Could you provide some links on the advertised manipulation of the algorithms for their interests? Thanks.

Can you share some examples?

To my understanding EREV, like the i3 pictured in models with the optional ICE, is mostly driven on battery power with the generator as a backup. It doesn’t even provide full power when running on the generator whilst the battery is low. I don’t know of examples of EREV without a battery or with a tiny battery which would be classified as EREV but would like to see examples. I know of some studies showing lowered fuel consumption but nothing for consumers.

I would understand your frustration towards EREV in the cases where it’s mainly burning fuel as that’s indeed not BEV at all.

Did not look thus up, do verify if necessary.

EREV is a BEV with a backup engine. PHEV is mainly a combustion engine vehicle with a limited electric drivetrain bolted on.

EREV powers a generator to drive the electric drivetrain. The electric drivetrain is the only drivetrain and must thus provide the full functionality. The intent is to drive fully electric and have an emergency backup. Markets place maxima on the amount of fuel the fuel tank may carry in some markets (eg: 10L).

PHEV has the dino burning engine drive the wheels and an electric drivetrain. The battery can be charged. The electric drivetrain often doesn’t provide the full functionality (eg: it has too limited power and and may be limited to low speeds).

Answer: they’re holding up just fine

Parent post may have been a suggested correction rather than an accusation. Hard to gauge.

Check out termux so you can combine the native install with tools such as Git to have a fuller installation. org-roam seems to work. No native compilation but performance is still ok. Also turn on touch-screen-display-keyboard and touch-screen-precision-scroll.