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it’s almost as if global markets should see the US markets as rogue and cut off their value. treating all US stocks as void.

would solve the problem overnight.

?? I’m not following. sure you can run arm based CPUs as a mobile device, but performance of large applications or x86 applications is poor.

there is also the addressable memory space issue that exists due to most arm core designs targeting phones… the bus is super limited, despite the architecture technically supporting much much more.

current RiscV cores suffer this same flaw as well.

the reason arm cores have better battery life is they are designed with phones in mind… not a desktop cpu. x86 mobile CPUs are cut down desktop CPUs with tdp restrictions. there is a massive difference as a result.

we are talking completely different design philosophies. it’s like comparing a ebike to a sports car… sure the ebike gets great energy economy when you scale the batteries. it’s half petal powered and has tiny draws on lightweight frame. it’s apples to oranges.

motorcycles would be more apt, but for arm, none really exist outside of obscenely priced workstations.

Unix dates back to the 1960s. you have to count back to the BELL/AT&T days as it was available to educational institutions.

apple was still using BASIC on Thier first machines long after netbsd

by the first device intended to run full applications from external developers and interact with a active web.

this even puts palm, blackberry and early windows mobile devices barely outside of the cutoff sadly. they simply weren’t designed for the “extensions” people used to make them bridge into becoming a “smart phone”.

most of that list also is post-iphone/iPod too, which makes it kinda moot.

it’s kinda why windows phone, iOS and Android are treated as the “first” of their kind. as that was Thier intent from the start.

lol yes, that’s the point. narcassism only ever has one winner.

what year do you think it is?

I am using my VR headset playing half-life alyx, while using my premium Logitech mouse, Elgato stream deck and streaming to YouTube.

nothing has any issues. all of my messaging services have apps and just work “out of the box”. setup took me maybe 20 minutes. most of it was just going to my phone for 2fa.

only time this is ever a issue is obscure, windows only applications that use special hardware authentication like some old CAD software. or some silly editing software like Adobe cloud who intentionally block Linux. (also older adobe software is better anyways and works. Linux alternatives exist and work equally as good.)

I remember how it was 5 & 10 years ago. struggling at each step. but it’s not the case today. on the rare occasion I need to spend time diagnosing something, it’s usually because the company behind it did something disgusting, that makes me want to stop using their services anyways.

it’s rarely ever hardware or software that doesn’t use online services.

infeasible for whom? I mean we’re only talking like 10 years of survival max on another planet, then complete extinction of the species lol

but no one took their money!

PDAs are not “SmartPhones”. if we want to go that route, we can trace the first “Smart Phone” to the Berkley Unix “Mobile Phone Device”.

iPhone was the first to market, but to get there required them pushing vendors into exclusivity agreements and Steve Jobs threatening to “flatten Thier companies, in court” if they backed out and refused.

Steve was very biligerent to his friends and allies. shrewd, like a dictator, not like a general. if he didn’t like your descent he would steamroll over you. he would make promises all the time to his staff, to get them to work harder on projects, just to peacemeal them and shoehorn them into weaker projects that would make customers dependent and demand more.

what Steve jobs did best, is know how to make a cult and exploit the desire for “if only it could do ‘X’ it would be perfect”.

don’t take my word for It. his business partners said the same thing… they begged him to come back as he sabotaged them externally when they tried to improve…

apple went through a period where they genuinely were improving. they sold Thier software and hardware to third parties to make Thier own versions…

but then Steve jobs went and sabotaged them, got a massive amount of bad press for apple to make them appear weak, and put the 2 final nails in the coffin.

he pushed software vendors to support m$ and next step more.

then he went to apples suppliers and made it for it was even more difficult for them to develop in-house hardware to compete with third parties…

all of this, so they would start to go bankrupt so Steve could ride in on his white horse going “See, you should of stuck with my vision”. then Steve goes and pushes for restrictive hardware with a architecture change so third party models would be obsolete, clones pc-clones from asia (mostly JVC/nec) which were exploring with transparent plastics and still tried to shovel next step to everyone…

hardly. Aero seen it’s development start before aqua was a published design.

Aero appeared in MSDN builds a full 4 years before…

if anything its a ripoff of a old gnome 2/3 theme. I think it was called ice?

alot of that era was ripping off gnome and KDE ui designs… there was Portable Media Players using Linux kernels on arm hardware that predated the iPod and Zune by a full 3 years…

advertising and paid reviews on tv and magazines got you sales and buried everything back then…

you could steal the US president and hide it with a single fox news broadcast in 2009…

I wouldn’t feed it to strays. it’s like poisoned sausages that animal control uses. it looks and smells good, so the desperate fools think they can fill their starving bellies… only to get locked into a death spiral.

apple, google and Microsoft are all perfect examples of what happens when you mix a lack of ethics with people desperate for anything that isn’t junk.

and yet it will still listen, just not trigger. check wireguard…

easy to find the bots in this thread.

ever heard of Linux and Framework? arm is great for phones, doesn’t belong In a laptop…

M1(and successors) are amazing processors. but, being stuck into a ecosystem for one is not worth it. I for one cannot wait for full size RISCV CPU cores… honestly, the market desperately needs a shakeup from all of this “I didn’t have a choice, so I chose the most expensive thing that met my minimum specs” copium.

what are you talking about.

Ux/UI has slipped over the last decade.

build quality generation after generation got worse.

os efficiency, my iPad is TERRIBLE…

They actively sabotage old devices to make their performance and battery life /worse/ so it makes new devices feel better…

then you say “best value”. that’s some major copium. what value is there in a $2000 device with $180 worth of components, a locked down ecosystem that tracks everything you do, scans all your data and sabotages your applications…

I remember first gen iPhones. I had one. I still have lots of classic apple hardware. you are literally sounding like a apple care technician.

I honestly spent like a week, outlining what I would need to build a FOSS phone, on RISCV.

current revision could do it. it would be a bit slow, but it’s possible…

all was good till I hit two hardware bottlenecks.

1. GPU: unlike ARM which several manufacturers have 2d/3d accelerators. RiscV really doesn’t have that. all current implementations are primitive… (I have a Spacemit K1 SOC, I have been prototyping with and it’s entirely Vulkan based and stuck in mid stages of MESA development. so *Gl in Vulkan wrappers are broken… GUIs perform like a m68k machine from 1988…)

2. this is the big one, Modems. there is only two suppliers and both are vendor locked. they won’t provide hardware to ANYONE without a contract. — this is why 5g USB/PCI-E modems don’t exist. there is a monopoly no one is talking about…

until these two points are addressed a foss phone is not possible. not even close. ~ even if you damage control on software (aosp) and some how convince amd/Intel to sell you chips for GPU on a PCIe lane sharing ram…

your still stuck on the modem. some one needs to get the ball rolling on a monopoly suit against the big two.

with Linux, you invest your time once. with apple, android and M$ you invest your time, and your money after every patch and change.

every new subscription fee, every added bug that’s actually a “feature”, every forced “upsell” for a “feature” they once offered but removed to put it behind a paywall, shove AI into it and host it from a “cloud” server 2000km away.

"I know everyone warned me walking in lava was a bad idea. but my wife, who is addicted to tiktok and lives beyond her means constantly, Insisted it’s amazing. the best new trend. now I’m locked in…

litterally, I’m locked in, the hospital won’t let me leave as I have no legs. I’m stuck… I don’t know what to do. ~ Sent from a iPhone"

yes, please shame. shame is effective tool. it’s the same tool that got people into using apple ecosystems in the first place.

build up enough frustration, they will download their data to file, sell their devices and jump ship. while telling their wife to “please think beyond a check mark, or will I have to bail you out of jail when your smashing TVs in the shops because of a tiktok trend telling you to”.

it’s hard to switch and go against the flow. the longer you wait, the harder it gets. till one day, you cannot leave at all.

(most of this is a joke)

and forced to charge app fees and subscriptions to update the app, every time apple decides to add some unnecessary control or UI change. all for apple can collect a portion on all those tasty fees.

BSD was the OG windows haters. Apple was the OG ,“Let’s license hardware/software and call it our own”.

remember where Darwin comes from.

billionaires already have. why do you think they are all determined to get to mars…

they destroy earth for the rest of us and live the rest of their days in luxury on a planet no one but them can be on. if this doesn’t sound like peak sociopath and probable, no one is paying attention…

practically have to have self destructing images, when specific passwords are used…