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New comment by throwaway74354 in "Clicks Communicator"

throwaway74354 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:04:26 +0000

Palm Treo/Pre and BlackBerry users! And probably Clicks users too. It's not a matter of "Does Russian language use the Latin script?" (it doesn't), but rather "What is the least annoying method to input Cyrillic on a BB-style keyboard, which doesn't have enough buttons for the йцукен layout?". Phonetic layouts such as яверты or яшерты were very popular for such devices back in the day.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "How To Build A Smartwatch: Software"

throwaway74354 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:35:28 +0000

Pebble 2 Duo were reusing the existing stock of Pebble 2 housings and displays. This model was intended as a limited run from the beginning.

Pebble Time 2 are designed from scratch and expected to be still available after the pre-order batches have been shipped out.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "How To Build A Smartwatch: Software"

throwaway74354 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:48:59 +0000

Pebble watches can use Bluetooth LE and Bluetooth Classic connection profiles simultaneously. It's possible to pair two phones this way, but that's considered an undocumented hack. Also there's no ready-made desktop OS support, I'd look into forwarding your laptop notifications to a phone via KDE Connect or something like that instead.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS"

throwaway74354 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:47:45 +0000

Wikipedia quotes https://www.bbc.com/russian/articles/cdjwm9eew0xo , which uses this article as a source: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/6920516

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS"

throwaway74354 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:31:04 +0000

Nikolai Durov lives in Saint Petersburg and works for the Russian Academy of Sciences. Pavel Durov had visited Russia multiple time since his "exile".

The public-facing story around Telegram is performative PR, which could be explained by the exact reasons listed in the parent comments: association with the Russian state had hindered VK growth besides the CIS region.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS"

throwaway74354 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:19:41 +0000

Their possible DB-related single points of failure are located in on-prem DCs in the Netherlands.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU"

throwaway74354 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:56:26 +0000

X1 Carbon is part of the Intel Evo Platform. These are co-developed with Intel and therefore this line is exclusive to them.

X13s was confirmed to be sunset, another T14s is the most likely candidate among the ThinkPads.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "FLX1s phone is launched"

throwaway74354 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 19:26:17 +0000

Phone UI paradigm isn't as easy as "Let's just scale down the Desktop/Tablet applications". In case of Sailfish OS development history, migration from clunky, but closer to Desktop, Hildon framework of Maemo 5 to purpose-built Qt applications of Maemo/MeeGo Harmattan was obvious quality boost. Same with webOS and UBports: app ecosystem starting from scratch within their corresponding "DE"s. If convergence-style cross-device applications were somewhat easily achievable, that would've happened in the early 2010s (Windows Phone / Windows RT? Ubuntu Touch getting more attention from investors?). It's the same story why Android Tablets suck and iPadOS doesn't, but in other direction.

And/or, it's a simple matter of time/money being spent on streamlining the experience. It's not like Sailfish OS is perfect (Qt6 migration is way overdue), but Jolla has already figured out lots of integration details which will become teething problems for Droidian and such. Including, but not limited to VoLTE support.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "FLX1s phone is launched"

throwaway74354 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:03:17 +0000

>I want a Linux phone that works

That's Jolla C2 or some Sailfish-compatible Xperia 10.

Both GNOME Shell in the phone context and Plasma Mobile are evolutionary dead ends.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can"

throwaway74354 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:55:59 +0000

Containers with systemd as an init process are considered first-class citizen by the Podman ecosystem (the base images are named accordingly: e.g, ubi10-init vs ubi10)

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Omarchy, a Linux Distribution by DHH"

throwaway74354 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:33:53 +0000

Chromium choice is easy to explain due to PWA-shortcuts integration. That's less clunky than shipping Firefox with an extension or adding an external GUI PWA-manager.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Lyon Is Replacing Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and OnlyOffice"

throwaway74354 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:02:39 +0000

>The article doesn't mention which Linux distribution was chosen

Given they've chosen OnlyOffice?.. Astra Linux?

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Whistleblower: Huawei cloned Qwen and DeepSeek models, claimed as own"

throwaway74354 — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 18:36:48 +0000

It's important part of the culture and is not considered cheating. IP protection laws legal precedents are not the universal truth.

This article on the topic is a good explainer, https://aeon.co/essays/why-in-china-and-japan-a-copy-is-just... , but it's a thoroughly studied phenomenon.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Cops in [Spain] think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer"

throwaway74354 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 17:08:32 +0000

There's an opinion that it's part of coordinated campaign, not just slow news day.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114784469162979608 thread lists same activity in Swedish-speaking parts of the internet.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "The Fairphone (Gen. 6)"

throwaway74354 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:37:13 +0000

Security is a policy-driven spectrum of considerations and solutions. GrapheneOS targets very specific threat models, which is not possible with Fairphone hardware/BSP. Whether it makes it not secure for your own use cases, it's up to you to decide.

Case in point: re-lockable bootloader requirement. Not everyone is a target for an evil maid types of physical attacks or possible state actor pressure. But when you actually need it, it's not negotiable.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Medieval Fogge: In Defence of the Middle Ages"

throwaway74354 — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:52:08 +0000

https://clearthis.page/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapp.historytoday.com...

seems to be the whole article.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "[dead]"

throwaway74354 — Thu, 15 May 2025 09:37:06 +0000

Em dash as an AI detection trick doesn't work for text in Russian. The author just seems to like that way of composing sentences.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire"

throwaway74354 — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:44:02 +0000

If we can extrapolate the PhotoSir/himirage[1] example to the whole slice of creative industry software, there's no such top-down plan currently. OTOH, CapCut is fairly popular, while not being overly serious kind of "professional", but a TikTok influencer kind.

[1] YeeHeart Inc sells the Windows and macOS builds, but Linux versions are only available on the Chinese version of their site. Kylin package can be installed on Wayland-enabled Ubuntu. The UI seems to be Chinese-only. On-topic: they have a HarmonyOS Next port as well.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Huawei unveils laptop running self-developed HarmonyOS as Windows licence expire"

throwaway74354 — Thu, 08 May 2025 17:11:21 +0000

Eclipse Oniro is an interesting proposal to build on top of OpenHarmony. Kind of "Palm/HP webOS and Firefox OS were right conceptually, but too early", minus Linux kernel and middleware.

New comment by throwaway74354 in "Microsoft Announces Xbox Console Price Hike, Xbox Games to Cost $80"

throwaway74354 — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:33:21 +0000

It's a quote from «The Secret of Monkey Island». Works as a law of nature unless proven otherwise.