the EU needs a smartphone brand like…yesterday

• https://www.fairphone.com/

• https://www.hmd.com/

• https://jolla.com/

Germans, get cooking!

• https://www.gigaset.com/de_de/cms/smartphones-uebersicht.html

Yes, they incentivize another 0.001%. How is google going to survive this?

Tech geeks acting as multiplication factors are the people who brought Apple from obscurity to mainstream.

Maybe but those 1% of buyers are multiplicators incentivizing others to buy the same phone.

Full AOSP compatibility for Pixel devices is a huge reason to buy a Pixel instead of a 3rd party OEM. They’re shooting themselves in the foot.

This is the reason why I’m not a fan of permissive licenses.

If Google is the sole copyright holder, a copyleft license would change nothing because they still have the option to change the license going forward.

RADV was an external effort.

Not only external but a fork of Intel’s Vulkan driver. That’s why Intel’s copyright is mentioned in many file headers.

Isn’t X effectively dead anyway, and most people moving to Wayland?

Yeah, XWayland will be around for quite some time but X11 / Xorg Server as stand-alone display server is pretty much dead.

MKVToolNix has a great cropping feature that completely lossless because it just writes an information into the file how many pixels to leave out.

The massive problem since quite some time is that I’m not aware of any media player respecting this. VLC used to support it but a decade ago suddenly stopped: https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/13982

If you have the originals, maybe encode them again. HandBrake has a nice preview feature.

It wasn’t “half the internet unusable”.

Everything behind the same AWS and Google IPs which is a lot.

I live in Russia

So you pay taxes to Putin. Good to know who actually helps funding the regime.

Telegram is not banned in Ukraine either. There also are no Ukrainian sections against the founder.

I also did not call him a fighter against the regime. You have a vivid imagination.

Russia tried blocking Telegram once but Telegram relies on AWS and Google Cloud, so the blocking attempt backfired, leading to half the internet unusable in Russia, leading to quick back paddling by the Kremlin.

Since Telegram is not banned in either country, it’s the best source for unfiltered news from the front.

Intel tried with OpenAPI because ROCm was not invented here.

I‘m saying whatever the server asks the client, a client can choose to hide the UI elements. Nothing more, nothing less.

Because its competitors care about Not Invented Here instead of building common industry standards.

Grok UI elements and number of GIFs in the picker are 100% local features clients can choose to ignore.

Definitively certain and I didn’t call anyone an angel, so no idea why bring such a thing up.

Discord is just a website.

They can’t force local UI elements via server. That’s impossible to do with forks who decide against following server side requests.

Telegram founder fled Putin.

That’s not how the GPL works. Any such agreements would be voluntary.

The beauty of open source is that there will be 3rd party clients that don’t care about all of that.