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by poetaster 9d ago
In Germany both Shift and Gigaset have had user replaceable batteries for over a decade. The rebrands like Volla and rePhone, obviously. The Finish Jolla has a new phone with battery, camera lenses, etc. Typing on a GS5 with Sailfish. Repai
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by poetaster 9d ago
The exact 2 points I was itching to make. The political dice rolled some time ago ...
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by poetaster 20d ago
Is it just dark on the NA side if the pond? I still see it just fine...
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by poetaster 28d ago
Nice write-up! I was also a Suzuki fan (1980s) and always liked the stylized S logo. Now to go find a vinyl cutter.....
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by poetaster 29d ago
Bravo!
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by poetaster 1mo ago
Ditto. It is practical and I am stubborn. Though I no longer run sendmail :-)
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by poetaster 1mo ago
I'll agree as a 90% typist dev. There is a certain class of problems I've sovled for a dozen times. And as often forgotten. Mostly parsing. Recently, I had a local qwen just build data (from html) because I wanted to concentrate o
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by poetaster 1mo ago
Well, sometimes it's not a choice you have. I am arguably still a hobby programmer, but was forced by circumstance to go pro. I could not earn enough in graphic design to fix my teeth. Still managed to retain my love for the underlying
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by poetaster 1mo ago
I'm running SailfishOs on Gigasets assembled in Germany and they have G5. It's a port and I don't have android support at all. I maintain a number if apps and it feels like ownership. Also have a spare Jolla with droid stuff,
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by poetaster 1mo ago
The safety contacts issue is legislated in Europe. Removing them is breaking the law, I believe. Can be done if you really want to hack.
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by poetaster 1mo ago
Bluetooth support is for Jolla's android support. 5.2 for ports and waydroid is awayz out. My guess,18 months.
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by poetaster 1mo ago
The Deutsche Wetter dienst is just as 50/50 as any meteorological service. May/June were atypically warm, but rainfall sufficient in the north east. July has been mixed extremes from Saxony to the Baltic with sufficient rain that
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by poetaster 2mo ago
If by 101 you mean the decades long debate between Dennet and everyone else, I think you'll find the 101 gloss throws up more questions than answers. Presuming that language is necessary for consciousness is not a settled question, fo
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by poetaster 2mo ago
I'll go so far as to propose that many brains, dog or cat, certainly display 'signs' of consciousness. They are nothing like LLMs either. Confusing some stream of language with consciousness is missing the a priori.
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by poetaster 2mo ago
Thanks! That was a nice read.
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by poetaster 2mo ago
https://jolla.com/
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by poetaster 3mo ago
Well, there is something remarkable in human intelligence. We have yet to find anything like it in the known universe. As for the rest, the wise mathematicians are leaning, sorry, hard to lean. TT and co.
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by poetaster 3mo ago
I fondly remember writing, mostly poetry, with wordstar on my first portable, the kaypro. I still have all the files. I believe it was CPM under the hood...
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by poetaster 3mo ago
2FA is not an issue. Many, but not all banking apps work fine. I have an android phone for 3 apps which I need about once a month. Daily driving a linux phone since 2016.
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by poetaster 3mo ago
I'm also a bit dissapointed by that, but the community sponsored me a phone and I've been testing usb dongles. They're actually surprisingly good for no money. I think if I was a daily phones user I would probably be using bt
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by poetaster 3mo ago
I still have my first Jolla from 2016. Still works and got updates till 2 years ago. The android stuff I used was minimal but worked fine except for bluetooth and nfc. I build my own mostly.
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by poetaster 3mo ago
Mal, from Jolla has ports to from the 2 till the 5, I believe. I used an FP2 for about a year. Big difference is andoid app support, not present on the fp ohones.
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by poetaster 3mo ago
A museum country like Germany manages to have a larger automitive manufacturer than Ford.
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by poetaster 3mo ago
Exactly! Jeffrey Martin https://jeffreymartinportland.bandcamp.com/album/alive-july-... double LP on vinyl is a pleasure.
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by poetaster 5mo ago
Strongly agree. I have a number of projects (RP2040/RP2350) where I stick to using the piggy back mcu because it's actually cheaper than doing the whole design with small quantities (<50). Not to mention, much less complex.
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by poetaster 5mo ago
I do workshops with kids occasionally. Last week, 4 13 year old boys. In this case I did breadboarding with them first and then showed them the transfer to fritzing -> breadboard -> schematic -> pcb. https://fritzing.org
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by poetaster 10mo ago
Yipee! Ok, I can't afford more hardware, but it's my favourite mobile os and I develop/maintain apps for it, so I'm happy to see the amount of effort Jolla has put in in the last 2 years to stay relevant and up their gam
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by poetaster 11mo ago
Exactly! SDL2 apps run well on SFOS :)
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by poetaster 11mo ago
Not true. Gradual but slow progress. https://github.com/sailfishos They also recently split the automobile UI part off from the Phone bits. That joint work was part of the problem for FOSSing everything, since they have dea
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by poetaster 11mo ago
The main distinguishing feature is that you generally lack a keyboar / mouse /pointer thing. Hence, the window manager and interaction in general are tuned for touch interactions, single handed use and the like. It's for this

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