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  • I’m very open to being an early adopter of mobile Linux phones. I’ve been unable to because of a couple of factors. I last seriously checked about half a year ago so take this with a pinch of salt.

    • Limited support for specific models. This means that the phone will work as a computer but won’t have the correct drivers for gyro, sim and whatnot.
    • Lack of extensive driver support. Phones turn off components to save power, this was not supported the last time I checked and halves the battery life compared to stock android.
    • Waydroid support incomplete. Many apps will work but some apps will bug out. Waydroid also has performance issues so it’s not as good as WINE for example.
    • Not big enough community. A lot of models are maintained by a single dev that checks in every blue moon.

    To get a Linux phone to be competitive on performance we’ll need to get driver APIs and component lists open sourced so it’ll be easier to gather the appropriate info and make drivers.

    There has been tons of progress though, Gnome and KDE have really strong touch support now and the apps scale decently.

    It’s coming but now fairphone is the only phone that openly supports Linux mobile distros and is open sourced.












  • It’s because a lot of the way humans go about their life is based on traditions. Getting everybody to switch from a system that already works pretty well is just a hassle.

    Examples:

    • English spelling is faaar from phonetic and children take longer to learn how to spell than in Spanish for example. (though, cough, enough, plough instead of something like thouğ, koff, enaf and the US plow)
    • Metric system adopted globally would streamline a lot of global industries that have no cater to each system.
    • Driving right side everywhere. Sweden switched but asking India to switch makes way less sense.
    • Date formats. Arguably the best if everyone uses ISO 8601 but nobody does.


  • The numbers are pretty funky depending on who you ask. City nerd on YouTube has a nice video on it how people view themselves as rural/urban and what city planners think of it.

    City nerd video

    You have a lot of people that identify as rural even though they live in exurbs (town adjacent to city) and a lot of people that live in remote areas identify as urban people.

    I’d personally say that people that live in a urban/metro area are not rural. People who live on a farm 50km from the next population center of 1000 people is definitely rural. Everything between depends on a lot of factors like how big is the village, what is the village close to etc.






  • I can maybe chime in since I’ve used both. Basic operations like if statements, arithmetic and loops are a lot closer to what you’d expect on PS. The barrier to programming in bash vs PS is IMO a bit higher because bash heavily uses symbols for everything. This does make PS way more verbose but more easy to wrap your head around it when unfamiliar with the syntax.

    I prefer bash but for anything bigger than 5 lines I prefer proper scripting language like python or js and making an alias for “node path/to/js/script.js” and using execSync(“program param1 param2”) to run shell commands.

    Long story short, I prefer bash because it’s built in and I know it better than PS, I expect PS guys to feel the same way.