• BarqsHasBite
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    9410 months ago

    It’s Chromebooks, phones, and tablets that you don’t ever have exposure to actual files. Chromebooks especially now that they’re so common in schools because they’re cheap.

    • @AnUnusualRelic
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      10 months ago

      I so wish Linux phones were actually a usable thing so that we could have functional pocket computers.
      The attempts made so far weren’t very convincing.

        • @AnUnusualRelic
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          410 months ago

          Those were pretty great. I would have expected them to live in as a niche product, but no such luck.

        • @practisevoodoo
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          29 months ago

          One of those alternative universe split points. What if Nokia had just put a damn modem in the n700/800/810 and invented the iPhone before the iPhone…

      • @Chobbes
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        129 months ago

        Hey, you appreciate your monkey’s paw wish and enjoy your android.

      • Ziixe
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        710 months ago

        Honestly we probably can just somehow shove Linux components like flatpak and other stuff like the terminal into android, make them apks somehow so they can work whenever

        Of course this would be hard AF to do but I just want to run tik tok in a sealed off VM using flatseal goddamnit (I don’t trust it with my phone but I want to access the videos on it)

          • Ziixe
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            29 months ago

            Yeah, and then run a android emulator inside that and then use tik tok, reminds me of that attempt to run old Mac os on a Wii since they’re but PowerPC based, but it ended in a ton of conversions and it taking like 20 mins to click something, but it won’t be that bad probably

            Gonna mess with it once I get a new phone tho, can’t now since it’s filled with crap

        • @KrapKake
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          510 months ago

          You can do many Linuxy-terminaly things with Termux. I use it quite often. Write shell scripts in vim, run Python scripts, SSH, use ADB tools to manage other android devices, install and update things with pkg/apt, traverse your phones filesystem as you would in Linux, if you have root on your phone you can even do root stuff! Heck, you can even run neofetch! All that and more on your tiny little phone screen!

        • @[email protected]
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          510 months ago

          Unfortunately it’s not

          Phones also have the added benefit of needing the OS tweaked for every device

          • Corroded
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            410 months ago

            Even mainstream Linux phones like the Pinephone aren’t perfect

            • @[email protected]
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              410 months ago

              My point was more that the small community is fragmented further

              If Voila, Libre, Pine, etc were able to pass fixes upstream that all worked for the other then things would be in a better state

    • @blazeknave
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      1310 months ago

      Good point… they’re welcomed to tech with the same consumer goods and social media brain melting content as boomers. There’s no reason they would be more technical, if even on par.