@psud ohhh gotcha yeah, that’s something i noticed too reading the comments

i was hoping that it would be a good hook to get people to read the article, but seems to have caused a knee jerk reaction instead. i wouldve posted the entire article here, but unfortunately on mastodon im limited to 500 chars :(

i might have to rethink how i present my hooks in the future. regardless, thanks again for reading and giving ur thoughts! :)

@psud @psud thanks for reading! :)

there are aspects of ai that definitely needs to be systematically addressed (eg from the blog: warfare). im unsure how & why it came across as “not a problem now”

@Franconian_Nomad thanks for reading! :)

@Franconian_Nomad hehe lol thanks

most people aren’t even going to read the post in its entirety and comment on a knee jerk reaction (already getting some which is always amusing). those comments aren’t worth addressing tbh

but overall i think this is a useful article as it tries to tow a pragmatic line. plus im fine with challenging my thinking, and if anyone has a useful comment worth considering, im open to it

there are other humans in other countries that are looking for a better life

the problem is that countries with declining birth rates dont see them as humans

@thingsiplay exactly! that was my point to writing this article: that it should soon be relevant enough :)

np! i dont see this as confrontational at all! on the other hand im glad to be getting constructive criticism (which i cant really say for the other comments)

and all valid points u are making. most important thing is we will have to wait and see, but im very excited to see linux’s growth :)

@AmbitiousProcess the usa gov graph shows a daily stat. if u have any other websites that show linux stats lmk

there are also reasonings listed in the dropdown at the top of the article

@DiarrheaSommelier hm? what’s wrong with the article?

@Pfeffy im from mastodon 😅

click the :fedi: icon on the original post

that’s the power of shared protocols like activitypub! people cross talking from different platforms is possible 🙂

unfortunately seems like my replies arent propagating properly (edit: nvm)

a little funny to see someone say the same exact thing as me, but conclude the opposite thing

https://fosstodon.org/@Logical/_Error/115674824627182408

that 1% gain translates to a lot of people. app devs will hopefully target linux now as there are finally a sizable amt of people on the platform. its breaking the chicken and egg cycle

no need to worry about the software fragmentation. it gives OEMs a choice on how they would like to sell a system. we dont want to be like android now do we. i see it as a plus

yup it is very active. u can follow the account here: @postmarketOS

as for why the devices seem old: it takes a lot of work trying to get the old android kernel working with the mainline kernel. its much harder than lineageos as we dont reuse the old android kernel and a lot of work needs to be done on both the kernel and userspace

basically one person is doing an entire engineering departments work

if ud like the newest phone, u can get a fairphone 5

@Grass @juergen https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices look at community devices and see which u like

there is one in testing which is almost complete: fairphone 5

we might try to make that a main device with a couple of other orgs

@eldavi @1XEVW3Y07 https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

@toastal Yeah, I wanna be able to support them too. I still have the Pinephone Pro just sitting there because of the abysmal battery life

Waydroid has most apps covered. Would you perhaps know of any that aren’t? Drains battery extremely fast though. You can always dual booting into Android (Not sure how that works) at least on the OnePlus 6

A bit unfortunate that devices have varying levels of functionality, but it’s still amazing what people have done so far

@Sarcasmo220 Yeah, I’m a bit surprised people aren’t recommending it and other Linux distros, especially when there are few rough edges left. Any rough edges that truly bother you, and you can switch back to LineageOS while keeping an eye on Linux for when it’s solved

Andrew Tanenbaum stated that for every 1,000 lines of properly written C code, there is a bug. AOSP is ~500 GB! I don’t trust other ROMs besides LineageOS because how do developers of other ROMs audit this?

@hector If you want to tinker with both Linux and Android for your phone, look at this list: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

There are some devices that can dual boot Android and Linux (the one I know of is OnePlus 6)

Since mainline Linux works on the OnePlus 6, I think there were some efforts to get the latest Android running on it. Ask in the postmarketOS Matrix chat to make sure though

Also surprised people recommending GrapheneOS: https://youtu.be/4To-F6W1NT0

If only this picture had the next paragraph…

“There are some who gloomily expect a society run by a small elected elite, presiding over a mindless multitude kept happy by drugs and circuses, much as in Huxley’s Brave New World. But most futurists believe that work will still be the only way to gain responsibility and power.”

https://time.com/vault/issue/1966-02-25/page/35/