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New comment by ttkari in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

ttkari — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:53:09 +0000

Oh but isn't that great. This is just the kind of digital sovereignty these times call for.

Sometimes I wish the Germans had an island of their own somewhere up north near the american continent.

New comment by ttkari in "Tracy Kidder has died"

ttkari — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:08:00 +0000

Me and a couple of friends read “The Soul of a New Machine” in our teens and it was a very influential book for us. In the late 90's I found a brand new hardcover copy of the local translation in a discount bookstore and bought it with the intention of giving it as a present to one of those friends sometime later in life.

I ended up keeping the book for ~25 years and only at the time of his 50th birthday a few years ago I reckoned we're old enough now. I read the book once more and shipped it to him, literally halfway across the world. Great memories. Thank you for your work, Mr. Kidder.

New comment by ttkari in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

ttkari — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:11:17 +0000

No final word as of yet, but in their most recent forum update [1] less than 2 weeks ago they said this is "unlikely for now".

[1] https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phone-update-lights-on-...

New comment by ttkari in "Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative"

ttkari — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:58:11 +0000

The firm with partly russian ownership went bankrupt a couple of years ago. The russian fork of the software lives on as AuroraOS in their local market but the current Jolla has no ties to russia.

New comment by ttkari in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

ttkari — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:09:53 +0000

There's a new Jolla Phone in pre-marketing phase right now (almost 9000 phones have been pre-ordered so far). First device deliveries are scheduled for this summer and this should easily be the new benchmark for officially supported SailfishOS devices.

The situation with Sony Xperia devices is not great, the best experience is still on the X10III (from 2021 I think) and there are significant issues with the support of 10 IV and V generation devices (a free beta release is available for those as well).

It seems that recently there has been quite a lot of buzz in the Sailfish community compared to the past few years. In the public repos there are some interesting contributions like xdg-shell support for Lipstick, which looks set to enable compiling many previously unavailable Linux apps natively if that will actually be integrated in an upcoming OS version.

New comment by ttkari in "Booting from a vinyl record (2020)"

ttkari — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:16:30 +0000

Back in 1980's the Finnish public broadcaster YLE used to broadcast Commodore 64 software in their radio show Silikoni. They actually have a recording the first such episode available online at https://yle.fi/a/20-108142 - of course, this is in Finnish.

It was not a very reliable method but it did work if you had good FM reception and a high quality tape deck. I guess it helps that the data rate is only 300 bits per second or so.

New comment by ttkari in "The Jolla Phone Proved We've Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along"

ttkari — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:41:19 +0000

Exactly. And on that list, running Android apps on SFOS is very much a software feature, imo quite unlikely to be disabled purely in hardware.

New comment by ttkari in "The Jolla Phone Proved We've Been Using Smartphones Wrong All Along"

ttkari — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:14:40 +0000

I'm not sure if this article is factually correct in claiming the privacy switch to be a physical disconnect for microphone, camera and bluetooth. IIRC Jolla advertised that the user would be able to configure the exact function of the privacy switch, which would mean that there's some system software involved.

New comment by ttkari in "Meta announces nuclear energy projects"

ttkari — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:58:40 +0000

> Google has a DC in Scandanavia that they shut down a few days a year when it gets too hot, otherwise it's just cooled by ocean water.

They do? Which facility is this? I'm quite surprised to hear this would happen, in Scandinavia of all places.

New comment by ttkari in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

ttkari — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:46:58 +0000

Although the SFOS community did express some interest in the 3.5 mm jack in the polls earlier, there's no headphone jack. The expected device sales volume probably would not cover the added engineering cost from such modifications to the mainboard reference design at the announced price point.

New comment by ttkari in "Jolla Phone Pre-Order"

ttkari — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:32:25 +0000

Hardware specs look pretty nice, SailfishOS should work nicely on this device. The design language remains faithful to the original Jolla Phone from more than a decade ago. :)

New comment by ttkari in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"

ttkari — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 23:38:02 +0000

Being based in Switzerland, which is not a member state, PC Engines is not an EU company.

New comment by ttkari in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

ttkari — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:54:13 +0000

I'm not sure I understand how an American company would be able to provide any service that could be "sovereign European".

New comment by ttkari in "iPhone Pocket"

ttkari — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:39:17 +0000

Oh my... I'm just left wondering if Apple releasing a giant sock for your phone equals to the proverbial moment of your taxi driver giving you advice on stocks to buy.

New comment by ttkari in "Linux phones are more important now than ever"

ttkari — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:41:39 +0000

I have a Sony Xperia 10 III with SailfishOS and it easily does 48 hours on a charge when I'm not doing a lot of screen time. Also on days when I use it for tracking / navigation on 6-8 hour bicycle rides it easily lasts for the entire day and then some. I think this is not bad for a device that has been in daily use for almost three years and still has the original battery.

I'm running a couple of messenger clients and a web browser (Fennec under Android App Support as the native one is sadly a bit behind the times currently) all the time. The only thing I've noticed to eat a ton of battery is having wifi enabled when outside the range of my own networks, it seems the scanning the phone does in the background to look for known wifi networks is not energy efficient at all.

New comment by ttkari in "Tesla sales drop for fifth month in a row in Europe"

ttkari — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 22:26:38 +0000

Yeah but you know, there's gonna be a million robotaxis driving around in 2 months time, pinky promise.

New comment by ttkari in "Root shell on a credit card terminal"

ttkari — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:15:41 +0000

Reading about all the tamper detection on the device makes me wonder what would be the easiest way to trigger the tamper mode. After all, being able to do that on just a handful of devices would be an efficient denial of service attack on a retail location when the majority - and sometimes all - of payments go through these things.

New comment by ttkari in "Faulty 120W charger analysis (Anker GAN Prime) [video]"

ttkari — Sat, 24 May 2025 09:44:31 +0000

That PCB transformer design is interesting.

New comment by ttkari in "Microsoft’s original source code"

ttkari — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 22:38:29 +0000

It was stored on a punched paper tape.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC#Origin_and_develo...

New comment by ttkari in "Waydroid – Android in a Linux container"

ttkari — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:00:27 +0000

Your project certainly looks very interesting! Any chance of another device with a smaller form factor sometime in the future? This one is huge :)