in the case of Android, it comes down to the proprietary driver modules that are compiled for certain kernel versions. As newer versions of android are released with newer kernels, the closed source modules fall out of step. If the drivers for these components were open source anyone could recompile them for any Linux kernel. It’s usually up to the device manufacturer working with the likes of the chip makers to release newer module versions for their hardware. OEMs dont want to support their hardware beyond few years, so you’ll hopefully buy a new phone.

The postmarketOS community (and some of the android community) works pretty hard trying to bring mainline kernel support to devices, which enables them to run generic Linux kernels, or conceivably newer versions of android than the OEM has released. But this involves reverse engineering support for this hardware.

take it up with software patents I guess

its only an issue if people dont use the codecs out of rpmfusion, the fedora adjacent nonfree repos

before this one, I had a Windows 2000 Professional one with the local education department’s VL key

I still rip blurays, so reading them is go

Every now and then I have a reason to archive something at work, its probably like once a year tho

If you run it in a rootless container, expose it through a reverse proxy and keep it updated there’s very little risk

I mean, you asked us to tell you that you’re wrong

I generally don’t agree that we’re culturally much like the US, but between AUKUS and Pine Gap, we’re definitely beholden to them

(sorry Aussies, but tell me I’m wrong)

You’re wrong

Good News Everyone!

I bought solid explorer at the dawn of android and still use it to this day

what’s your plan on teaching these people to maintain their selfhosted instances? Are you selling support? I mean you could script pulling and recreating containers, but without eyeballs on it, that stuff will die eventually.

if humanity died out, our social media bots would keep arguing until the power ran out

I copy the URL and paste it into the readme.md in the root of my nextcloud account. I’ll find it again in 6 months or more and finally read it

is there a plugin to pull data on the video into a library? Or are you just playing media files?

on the roof doesn’t make much sense. What I did see the CSIRO testing was a portable solar array that you could roll up and store in the boot. IIRC they drove a Tesla across a large swath of Australia stopping and only charing on the portable array as needed

I got a 2022 Hyundai Kona EV. It does have a touch screen, but most functions can be done with buttons, except for navigation. It does have Android auto, but you don’t have to use it. It has an aux port or Bluetooth audio as an option

Recently realised the rash my hands continually break out with and treated constantly with steroid creams was caused by dairy.

I miss cheese so much

Where do you live that power is so cheap that you can spin that much rust and also can you run extension lead to my place?

fucking noobs and their shitty planet

but it kind of smells like a B, you know?

Software comes from a repository, even on Windows these days, who is bothering to download exes when there is winget