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PinePhone Pro canned in pursuit of RISC-V business

PinePhone

I really wanted to like the PinePhone, when I got mine, I tried Mobian, which had the Phosh shell and that was weird. Some things you tapped, some you swiped. I really liked the Ubuntu Touch, but it barely supported any of the phones feature; and settled on KDE Plasma Mobile for a while. That was really nice too... Then came the "oh, all my friends and family use WhatsApp", and back on Android we go...

I don't know if Waydroid ever made significant progress, but the PinePhone always felt sluggish, and if they've dropped the higher spec one, then it's going to really struggle. And that's a shame.

Prohibition never works, but that didn't stop the UK's Online Safety Act

Re: Ignorant politicians

DNS is terrible for parental control. That's what I'm currently using, but it really doesn't help if you want to allow sites during specific times, and not in others.

I keep meaning to try and set up a proper firewall, so I installed opnSense on a tiny N100 computer, but I couldn't get to grips with it (to be fair, I didn't play with it for long, so I probably need another go)

UK's Ministry of Defence pins hopes on AI to stop the next massive email blunder

Wasn't there an article recently about AI using blackmail and threatening techniques? Surely this can't bode well

AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev

Re: Bullshit

> especially in the OneDrive case, the fact that the account belonged to someone making a competing product

Wait! What? I think I've missed this story, but what product were they competing with? OneDrive? If so, why would you put your stuff on OneDrive, and not the product you're building?

Re: Jumping the gun maybe

Whilst you might very well possibly be correct, the cynic in me thinks that if you had your own backups of everything, this would just be a grumble at AWS and carry on. You wouldn't need to make a big deal about "10 years worth of work", because you still have it all. You'd just create a new account (ideally somewhere else) and upload it again.

I don't see what would make it a newsworthy post if it was literally "AWS deleted several accounts, people complained"... Though, seems like some people do like internet drama, so I guess you never know

Coldplay kiss-cam flap proves we’re already our own surveillance state

My wife kept talking to me about this story, and some of the memes, but my response was "I just don't care about two people i've never heard of, having an affair". I just wish that was more peoples opinion too.

Netflix, Apple, BofA websites hijacked with fake help-desk numbers

Re: Ad blockers more important than ever

It's as though ads rarely provide any benefit to anybody (legitimately). Imagine my shock

What does shock me on why they are still so prevalent!

Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development

Removing the contributions?

I get they (xorg) might disagree with the guy, but why undo all the commits that have been applied? Surely they were accepted because they did something useful?

Is this cutting your nose off to spite your face?

Ransomware attack on food distributor spells more pain for UK supermarkets

All the eggs in one basket?

Why are so many companies relying on a single company? The food analogy seems rather appropriate.

Is it time to unplug from the internet?

The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet

Re: Not so much "end of life"

I'd like to downvote you (but i won't), only on the basis that my work has already "upgraded" us to Win 11, and i am not saved from the updates

Alt-browser Flow breezes through web tests, but still far from a daily driver

Re: Is it embeddable?

I haven't, but I'll take a look, thanks. I wouldn't need 100% compatible, just something I can use as a GUI layer over a C# application and pass events between them.

Is it embeddable?

There seems to be quite a few web browsers sprouting up. Hopefully it will lead to good things.

What I'd really like to see is a nice embeddable browser that isn't Chromium based, so I could use it as a presentation layer in a C# project. I previously used GeckoFX (Firefox), which I found quite nice if a little complicated to set up on Windows, but I failed miserably to get it running on Linux.

Does UK's Online Safety Act cover misinformation? Well, that depends

Re: Feel good

Maybe I'm just cynical, but it feels more of a thought-police policy, where it can be bent to target any chosen individual or group on a whim.

Microsoft lists seven habits of highly effective Windows 11 users

Re: My 2 cents...

Look up RetroBar on GitHub... Gives you a task bar that you can style from 95-XP, and it can be placed vertically

Trump kills clearances for infosec's SentinelOne, ex-CISA boss Chris Krebs

Re: No relation

For a start, I don't understand this mentality of emailing a complete stranger saying horrible things... but to send it to the wrong person... well... that's a whole different level of f**ktard

I mean, if it were me (not that I'd do that nonsense), I'd at least make sure it went to the person it was meant for... otherwise my email would be meaningless anyway... but then I suppose that's what a lot of these emails are...

Microsoft tastes the unexpected consequences of tariffs on time

Re: The BREXIT Bonus

Do you live in the UK? Our council tax has just gone up, but I can tell you, without blinking, that we'll almost certainly see absolutely no difference to the services we get.

Roads will continue with potholes, dog poo all over the pavements (which are crumbling), and our local police station that's unmanned.

It's weird to think that the country is going down the swan, yet immigration is up. Why? Surely you'd pick a nice place to go to...

Crypto takes a dip as Trump signs Bitcoin Reserve order

Yes... "the hackers"... that's exactly who...

The IT world moves fast, so why are admins slow to upgrade?

> which is bad news for tech vendors such as Microsoft that are seeking to pump their latest and greatest products into enterprises customers via subscriptions.

Maybe latest... but greatest? Not bloody likely.

On MS SQL specifically... Our new "development server" is a higher spec than one of our production servers, because we're migrating to MariaDB, and it's cheaper (and more useful) to put the money into the hardware

Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke

Re: Perfect timing too

Who's to say it wasn't planned? #tinfoilhatmoment

KDE Plasma 6.3 released – and 6.3.1 is already here

KDE Neon was painful, but KDE 6...

For the duration I ran it, there were two major updates to KDE, and it broke the system both times... they were fixable, but only because I managed to find some threads dotted around.

That said, I really liked the improvements in the KDE version compared to what you get on Kubuntu. I can't wait until it's rolled out further.

Type-safe C-killer Delphi hits 30, but a replacement has risen

Re: Memories...

I do like C# as a language. Never played with wxWidgets, and maybe I'm missing more than I know, but I certainly wouldn't say there are "so many good options". Unless it's because I've tended to look for C# GUI libraries and you get WPF, MAUI, Avalonia, and Eto. All of which I struggled to make anything that I felt I liked... though I'm not beyond believing the problem is also me

Re: Memories...

As somebody who thinks modern desktop GUI frameworks are absolutely awful, I might also have another look at Lazarus. I did previously, but it was a good 10-15 years ago

FuriPhone FLX1: A Debian-powered brick that puts GNOME in your back pocket

Re: so totally unusable then

Would be interesting to see how you think Plasma and Lomiri play out on the device.

I don't even remember how you configured them on the PinePhone. Almost want to say they were different OS builds then you flashed onto the phone.

Maybe if Waydroid becomes a thing on these Linux phones and Android apps run nicely, it might be.a nice.compromise.

Re: so totally unusable then

KDE Plasma Mobile is actually really good. I had it on my Pine Phone, whilst I played around.

Phosh was terrible at the time, not sure what it's like now, doesn't sound much better though.

The Ubuntu Mobile Os (Lomiri?) was pretty nice too, certainly felt "right" on the phone, but supported little of the hardware (at the time).

Unfortunately, the lack of WhatsApp and banking apps really put paid to switching fulltime. Whilst there are other messaging options, you sometimes just have to go where the family and friends are. So my Linux phone saga ended, not even sure if it boots now

Microsoft builds open source document database on PostgreSQL, suggests FerretDB as front end

MS SQL Server?

So, is Microsoft's own SQL server now abandonware?

Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

Re: Stop the AI Marketing spin

"Or about BSOD on the basis that only living things die?"

Then where do all the calculators go?

Apple sued for using dangerous 'forever chemicals' in Watch bands

"For those unfamiliar with PFAS chemicals, they are widely used in consumer products such as clothing..."

"Wearing them next to the skin for prolonged periods - like on a watch band – creates many more chances for your body to absorb them."

Urm, am I missing something then? Why do clothes get a pass when they're next to your skin all day too?