I’ll hold off on a new phone to watch for this. Android could be great without Google’s nonsense. An OS that has high end hardware support and continues to work on convergence with desktop Linux both by the communities development and Google’s

If you have a stable job with good pay or good upward mobility in the company potential and don’t have periods of unemployment, if it has a 401k, you’re 401k is being invested while the market is down. When unemployment is high, the Federal Reserve sets the federal funds rate much lower to try and stimulate the economy. That results in lower rates for consumer loans. So people that have stable jobs that pay well enough can take out loans and/or refinance their current loans to do better than they were.

When the market recovers, you’ve had years of experience that you can now use for job hopping at more senior level roles when the job market recovers. Also a lot of late career people end up consulting for companies large and small with inexperienced staff. Those that didn’t fare well in a career during a market downturn, it’s either stagnation or hardship after hardship

It doesn’t necessarily have to be office/lab work. I know people that grinded the past decade+ in restaurants until an owner would trust them to manage a restaurant including all the supplies and payroll and then trust them enough to partner on a another restaurant and then that be their ticket to financial security. Some in their 30s, some 40s, some 50s. It’s a grind but at least they didn’t end up drug addicts and alcoholics like so many others

The s&p 500 tanks a ton and banks call on loans from these AI hyped companies using the price of the stocks as collateral (previously expected to rise). Credit crunch and now companies tighten the belts even further so higher unemployment again. Federal funds rate gets slashed and those that can manage steady good work during the recovery years will be fine. Everyone else will be struggle busing as usual

Signal is really simple and has a sizable userbase now. I’ve worked with people in non-tech companies and they’ll have signal installed because theres someone in management that cares for security to a degree and does official nonofficial team communication with signal

Element/Matrix I think has a chance. The newest Element X app looks a lot better on the phone and on desktop. It’s progressing to good user experience

Streaming sites use them so there’s a solid chance you’ve used it plenty without actively choosing to

Steve Jobs just didn’t have the right foresight. PWA’s were a solution when the web was supposed to be the future of applications distribution. If he knew native apps were still the future and in app advertising and microtransactions were going to be where all was at, he would never have pushed PWA’s. Steve was a salesman first and foremost

I remember how much games media was hyped on the activision acquisition. It’s probably because Kotick and Blizzard execs are a bunch of bastards but that doesn’t make MS execs great. Just less shitty. Also had the feeling like games media at the time saw it as strengthening western games studio employment stability. Things have not gone as hoped for in the last few years

I switched back to RSS sometime ago. Been using Inoreader

How’s the GPU drivers though? Especially to me for Linux. These should be used in PC gaming handhelds but Qualcomm support is mediocre

F-Droid is different. It distributes apps that have been validated to work for the user’s interests, rather than for the interests of the app’s distributors. The way F-Droid works is simple: when a developer creates an app and hosts the source code publicly somewhere, the F-Droid team reviews it, inspecting it to ensure that it is completely open source and contains no undocumented anti-features such as advertisements or trackers. Once it passes inspection, the F-Droid build service compiles and packages the app to make it ready for distribution. The package is then signed either with F-Droid’s cryptographic key, or, if the build is reproducible, enables distribution using the original developer’s private key. In this way, users can trust that any app distributed through F-Droid is the one that was built from the specified source code and has not been tampered with.

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If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution sources as we know them today, and the world will be deprived of the safety and security of the catalog of thousands of apps that can be trusted and verified by any and all.

It’s preparation for 26.04 and it’s a lot of work to maintain support for the older hardware that’s not very popular. Optimizing developer resources towards what should be the first RISC-V hardware to try and get mainstream adoption

Because Ubuntu is only supporting RISC-V chips that meat RVA23 standards. There’s no consumer hardware out there yet released. RVA23 compliant hardware is supposed to be the big jump to be a solid alternative to ARM and x86 consumer hardware so that’s what they want to support that going forward rather than the older more dev/experimental hardware that they’ll still support on 24.04

To me a temporary solution (which may be many years) where hardware support is real good on Android but terrible on Linux for these phones. In particular the high end chips. On Linux I rarely ever want to use an Android app. On Android it’d be cool to dock my phone and use Linux applications

I have an old laptop running it since a year ago. It’s getting there. If you use it long enough, you will still regularly stumble on little things that are nicer to use on gnome or kde but it’s getting there. I plan on switching my primary desktop to it for the 26.04 release

Shout-out to every dumbass that thought just because that bill to give the president to unilaterally designate companies as foreign companies national security threats and ban them was being passed during a democratic party Presidency, that meant the ACLU and EFF were wrong and this was actually a good thing. The most popular easily abusable legislation of the past ten years.

Don’t support government powers that you wouldn’t want your opposition to possess. They will be in power someday, bet on that no matter what. Especially stupid stupid after 2020 Portland federal law enforcement disappearing people it should have been clear that the powers of the executive should have been limited before it was going to inevitably be in the power of opposition again but nope, Tiktok bad because China makes us feel insecure.

Stupid bill and stupid people that were, I know ACLU and EFF are against it but TikTok needs to be banned, dumbasses - a bill can be written that targets a single company rather than a blanket power to block out any company from that selection of countries. Of course now that it is law, a willing congress - an inevitability - can remove the country specifics or add any and for some reason dumbasses after 2020 were like - it won’t be abused

I put the base at 5 years being optimistic. I’m not expecting 5 years from final spec publishing. A stable spec is released end of the year so pretty much 2026. Take a couple years for hardware decoders to start releasing in niche to expensive gear. Pretty much demonstrative gear.

Then progressively decoders proliferate down to consumer gear with years to get down to cheap entry level gear. Keep in mind the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 this year was the first 7 series chip to get an AV1 hardware decoder. Don’t know about Snapdragon 6 and 4 series of chips. AV1 stable spec was like 2018

Maybe AV2 adoption will be quicker because VVC seems to have garnered minimal interest since 2020. However long it takes, you’ll be itching for a new computer by then. Lessons learned from what adoption took for AV1 for AV2 development. Regardless, content distribution will trail hardware decode adoption on mass media devices, phones - maybe even have to wait for people to replace their televisions with ones that have AV2 decoders in them

Don’t sweat it. By the time AV2 starts getting serious adoption rolled out, your hardware will be 5+ years old

I prefer smaller scale remakes rather than like FFVII. The art here works for me. It’s not standout. It doesn’t have the same amount of charm to it. Maybe all too clean. The one in Romancing Saga 2 looked pretty generic but at least it wasn’t a game that required a huge amount of sales to break even. Still charming

it’s been asked a lot and I’ve seen others respond about how the passcode and account username that were added in the last few years are steps in the process to make accounts not dependent on phone numbers. I’ve just given them the benefit of the doubt that someday we won’t be tied to a phone number anymore

It’s not a real replacement but if you want to support open source stuff, fossify apps including the launcher. Users and support will get it improving faster. On F-Droid and google Play store