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by maheart 7mo ago
They use a custom-made Firejail-based solution called SailJail: https://github.com/sailfishos/sailjail
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by maheart 1y ago
Yes, both (official) SailfishOS and FLX1 offer decent/good Android app support. Not every app will work, but when I have needed Android (rarely, for basic stuff), the applications have worked.
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by maheart 1y ago
I'm not familiar with postmarket, but I imagine it shares a lot of the same phosh+GNOME app ecosystem, in which case, the apps aren't in a better state. In terms of polish and app/dev ecosystem, I feel SailfishOS still rules,
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by maheart 1y ago
Yes, I used SailfishOS as a daily driver since ~2014 until last year when I moved to the Furi FLX1. The FLX1 has been my daily driver since. SailfishOS is much more polished, but it's not fully FOSS, and it follows upstream much less c
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by maheart 1y ago
>Is there a single Linux phone/tablet that can last an 8 hour day of actual use? What's "actual use"? Furi FLX1 has the best battery life I've seen on a Linux phone. Idling, it last 3+ days. I'm sure it coul
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by maheart 1y ago
>I found it very noticeable how similar the text of actions was between MUDs and EverQuest This was discussed in the recently posted Everquest article: https://www.filfre.net/2025/07/everquest/ From Wikipe
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by maheart 1y ago
How do you expect W4 games (or any other porter) to release FOSS exporters to proprietary consoles, when they rely on SDKs that are covered by an NDA?
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by maheart 1y ago
Here's a list of other 3rd party porters: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/platform/co... Stop spreading FUD. It's FOSS. It's like saying contributing to systemd lines the
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by maheart 2y ago
IMO, yes it is complete enough (note: I only went as far as the assembler challenges, I'd done enough assembler beforehand). But I did build a general purpose computer from NAND gates up. Development still appears to be ongoing on Disc
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by maheart 2y ago
There's a gamified version of nand2tetris available on Steam called "Turing Complete" ( https://turingcomplete.game ). I completed it up until the assembler challenges, and I felt the same way as the author. Granted
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by maheart 2y ago
A huge number of developers started in HTMl/CSS/JS because it was a super-low barrier to entry. I also know a huge number of professional developers that started off as teenagers tinkering with Linux. They started with Linux beca
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by maheart 3y ago
>The real problem are mobile operating system There's SailfishOS. It still uses Android kernel+drivers, but above that it's a "real" GNU/Linux system (glibc, systemd, bash, Qt, connman+ofono, zypp/packagekit
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by maheart 3y ago
>There is still no real Linux (or any kind of FOSS) mobile-oriented userapplication scene. Disagree. openrepos.net has existed for (more than?) 10 years. It's not huge, but it does exist, it is active, and they make cool stuff.
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by maheart 3y ago
Another couple of recommendations: * Fumbling the Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, the First Personal Computer * Steve Jobs & the Next Big Thing (covers NeXT, and a little bit of Sun history)
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by maheart 3y ago
>Spectrum is garbage and ZX81 is even more garbage... especially when considering that Commodore 64 was only slightly more expensive. Jack Tramiel (owner of Commodore) was hugely influenced by what Sinclair was doing (really cheap comput
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by maheart 4y ago
I've wanted something like this but for "screen" for a long time. Does anyone have such a solution?
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by maheart 5y ago
Appreciate the effort the article author put in, but I'll be contrarian here (in the hopes of saving people time) and say that I think this is the wrong approach to take to getting hired (the effort:hire ratio is terrible). I don'
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by maheart 5y ago
SailfishOS is officially supported on a number of different Sony mobiles (e.g. X, XA2 range, 10 and 10 II ranges). All these devices continue to receive updates. SailfishOS is not completely FLOSS, but it's real Linux, and it's p
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by maheart 6y ago
Wow, very sad. I remember listening to Accordion[1] for the first time and thinking it sounded like no hiphop I'd heard before (no chorus, really unconventional song structure, dense lyrics, an accordion providing the hook). That was t
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by maheart 6y ago
In my opinion the shift from desktop to mobile across the wider industry took the wind out of Gnome's sails (and desktops in general, no matter the platform). It feels like there's been very little (visible) progress made on any d
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by maheart 6y ago
A simple one, that perhaps doesn't scale (unless you open multiple gyms) is to provide a boxing/MMA/BJJ gym with good coaches. It's so cliche, but giving teens a physical outlet, where they can begin to understand that c
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by maheart 6y ago
I use the Xperia X. Newer phones are supported (e.g. XA2), and I'm speculating here, but I imagine even newer phones are in the pipeline (e.g. Xperia 10 II). I don't recommend SailfishOS to anyone who is looking for the fastest&#x
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by maheart 6y ago
This is why I use SailfishOS. Modern Android and iOS are so insanely complex, it seems impossible to do the simplest things with code. Yes you can root your phone, and you have access to (Android) source code including 3rd party FOSS apps a
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by maheart 6y ago
That's only part of the solution. Energy generation makes up ~25% of emissions, agriculture, manufacturing, transport, etc. make up the other 75%. All of these will increase as the 3rd world industrialises.
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by maheart 6y ago
Very cool, well done. Two questions: 1. Do you plan to monetize it to aid in the sustainability of this product? 2. Any thoughts on implementing this functionality for playlists?
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by maheart 6y ago
I was originally interested in this, but I recently found a seemingly good alternative in the Color Maximite 2 ( http://geoffg.net/maximite.html ) which sits somewhere between 8bit (feel) and 16bit (graphics).
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by maheart 6y ago
I'll add my two cents. I use emacs for email (mu4e+mbsync) and having used Thunderbird, Claws, Gmail, Roundcube (probably many others), emacs is, without a doubt (for me) the fastest way to launch/read/search/reply email
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by maheart 6y ago
I recently watched the documentary "Planet of the Humans". For context, the writer of the documentary is an environmentalist. One of the stated points was that solar and wind cannot be relied upon 24/7 -- to account for the l
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by maheart 6y ago
You're exposed to more viruses.
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by maheart 6y ago
I'm not EU/US based. Work finished 4 hours ago. I don't have social media. I don't watch TV. I've walked the dog, I made dinner and ate. I took literally 10 mins to see what was on HN and this was the first link. I&

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