Why is a phone using a connector pretty much every other phone uses… news?

There is no “real version” of Android.

Sure there is: https://source.android.com

You know, I don’t disagree with vendors putting whatever hardware they want in their devices, and I don’t mind vendor-customized software. But what I do mind is the barrier of supporting these devices without relying on the vendor.

If I buy an x86 computer, I can use it basically however long I want to. I can put a variety of operating systems on it, and I don’t really need to rely on vendors much aside from binary driver blobs, which isn’t really that much of a problem these days.

I really wish that Android wasn’t so customized per device. I wish I could just install upstream Android on anything that can run it, instead of special binary images for each vendor’s make and model. Android is open source and all, but simply having the sources to work with is the easiest part. Making it actually work is significantly n more difficult.

Imagine buying that aforementioned x86 machine, but you had to run a giant, customized binary blob specifically made for a laptop’s make and model. And you had to throw it away after a few years not because you need more resources, but because you cannot upgrade the OS anymore.

Maybe we just need to tighten them? Perhaps a lock washer will help 🤭

This is evil

If you used weak passwords, gave them to a third party, the third party had their data stolen, and you didn’t rotate them, it’s your own fault.

Why isn’t the Internet seen as a utility, yet?

What’s your opinion on free speech?

So we’re gonna sit here and pretend that there weren’t automatic sign-ups for Instagram users? They got signed up without choice. Facebook did that.

Edit: I was wrong! I remember reading about this early on, but I think I read misinformation. Sorry about that.

DATA BREACH LEVEL: MAXIMUM

Yup. Might as well blame Nginx.

I’m sad to see so much click bait on this site.

It’s owned by meta, which is notoriously bad with your privacy.

Saved you a click.

Not even ThinkPads. I can’t find any aside from HP ZBooks. I don’t care about HP, and they are very large and heavy. Plus, they’re very expensive. Think $6k for something reasonably high-end.

I know you’re being sarcastic, but I want to share that my daily machine is a Lenovo P50 with six individual mouse buttons. Six! I use them all, and have remapped the upper left and right click to be back and forward. These navigation buttons work in my browser, file manager, and more.

I would have expected this laptop of all laptops to have options for buttons. I don’t mind the Apple touchpads, but I greatly mind how anti-consumer Apple is and don’t want to fund their lawyers and patents. It seems like every other vendor is attempting to mimic Apple, but are doing a terrible job at it.

Predatory pricing catching up with them.

Saved you a click.

I’m actually upset that there is a laptop with this much modularity and there are no god damn physical mouse buttons in sight. Good lord. Fake buttons suck.

That’ll show them, right?

If they were in a car, would they still be lazy?

Hey thanks! That’s my favorite one! Congratulations!

Your 150 supports WristApps, which are little 6805 binaries that get uploaded into ~780 KiB storage over the Datalink connection! It’s tiiiiiny, but enough to have programs for useful things like countdown timers, small games, etc. I’m kinda thinking of making a collection of links to WristApps somewhere to keep these things from getting lost to time.

Here’s a fun example!

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=87121

And here’s a video of it :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9GiiOL-B8U

For the Notebook Adapter emulator, the RPi Picos should work great, too! Adjust the GPIO pin to the onboard LED, and it should just work! The whole thing is mostly just passing serial data around, making an LED light up, and sleep statements :)