[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

In case people didn’t know what company he was referring to. /s

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

What’s the experience so far?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I see it more of a limitation, you don’t want your laptop to warm (and it shouldn’t in light use), but you want to cool it for the few times it does.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I think UEFI was something that took a while to be standardized and mostly because of Intel’s influence over it, while ARM seems more diverse both in manufacturers and types of devices. When things are decentralized it becomes much more difficult to get everyone on board of something.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I wonder what percentage of desktop users still use Ubuntu nowadays. Seems like there’s no way to have a clear picture, besides DistroWatch which is more like “interest” and not actual usage?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

There’s also the issue of testing all the packages. They have to make sure all the versions frozen in the repository will work smoothly together.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Oh I got it. I’m still stuck in the time when tweets had 140 characters, so I didn’t think there was more text 😆

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Wasn’t that already there case? What’s changing?

[-] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The problem with Android has always been the hardware integration. The sleep problem is just one symptom of a larger integration problem that spans across media standards, availability of hardware features, subpar drivers etc.

Android still suffers from many apps being designed to work on background (which works on pure Android on the emulator), but being killed depending on the manufacturer running the OS, which require tech savvy users to fix them by tweaking obscure configurations.

Android is what happens when you have a technical engineer idealizing features instead of a product person thinking about the end user first. All the problems from Android seems to be a lack of effort to standardize things or to think how that feature will impact users experience of that product.

The fact most manufactures just care about selling the device and not support it after creates a perverse incentive to fool users with bad features as long as they look good on ads.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This seems to have happened in most of the world. The US still sticks to SMS because it is free since before chat apps became a thing. SMS was a terrible experience because you would pay per message thanks to carriers’ greed. It didn’t keep up with the demand for constant communication.

Nowadays in Brazil SMS is also free, but by the point they did that, WhatsApp had already become ubiquitous, and had much better features such as sending location, consistent experience with features over different devices, group chats with moderation, voice messages, free voice calls to any user over the world, etc., besides being built from scratch as an SMS substitute (would simply use your mobile number). No one would willingly go back to SMS.

Seems like only some Asian countries defaulted to a different app such as Kakao Talk.

There was Kik Messenger back then but it was more like an anonymous chat app.

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