This is a broader problem with electronics as a whole. Past a certain point better processors didn’t result in better computers, devs just wrote worse code. So modern computers don’t feel that much faster in some cases.

You see they are a multibillion dollar corporation, so them doing it is good actually, it encourages iNnOvAtIoN.

Also they repack everything. I only learned about and played a game called The Weird Dream because there is a fitgirl repack of it. When I looked it up on Steam it had fifty or so reviews.

Windows and Linux are both free and MacOS coames pre-installed in custom made hardware, so I don’t know who would pirate an OS anymore. I’m with you on security software though.

Original method wasn’t FTP?

I give up on having that thing. I’m unemployed, I don’t have any income at all. When I have a well paying job though I’d rather just pay, there are a lot of people I would like to support.

Very unlikely, but I hope they go “Mario, this sucks actually, so you can’t have it anymore.”

Oh my word, I need to see if this work well with Western comics.

Everything would be so easy if we just had a good local comic reader for smartphones 😭

Or use a search engine to access it in general. Anna’s Archive itself is a search engine, it’s better to just bookmark it and search for stuff directly from there.

It took over twenty years just for Linux to enter the conversation at the enthusiast level, it took a lot, and I do mean a lot, of enshittification on Microsoft’s part and decades of campaigning by free software ideologues for us to get to this point, and if Windows still worked like Windows 7 we still wouldn’t be anywhere close.

OpenBSD is super niche relative to FreeBSD, which is super niche relative to Linux. I don’t even know if it was built for desktop use, or if it happens to be usable as one thanks to Linux DEs being compatible so long as they don’t heavily depend on Linux specific stuff. Though I guess it can be a desktop OS in the most conservative sense of that term even without all that stuff.

Ubuntu had issues with it’s snap store as well. I think there will be more security oriented distros in the future like Kodachi, but it’s best to be cautious in general these days.

Not for long, Linux will get targeted like this as it becomes more popular. It’s more of an argument for OpenBSD if anything, since OpenBSD will never be popular on desktop and it’s developers take security very seriously.

I really hope this project succeeds. Having an upgradable, mostly opes source phone would be amazing.

No, X7 Pro has a Mediatek chip so there are no official roms for it, and I didn’t want to risk buying an older phone just for custom rom support since it’s possible to brick your phone if you mess up the installation.

In theory yes, in practice there is also the matter of your currency’s buying power and import taxes. I would know, when PinePhone was first coming out I looked into it to see if I could get one. And yes I could, except it would come at the price of an iPhone. The tax and IMEI unlocking fee quadrupled the price.

It would be less bad with laptop or desktop since there is no IMEI fee, and there are some workarounds you can employ but it’s still a pain.

I don’t believe those will be accessible for people outside of Western markets.

Yes there are, 90% can’t run Linux. And PCs built to specificly run Linux will only be available to Western markets, everyone else will be stuck with whatever corpos put out because they will be excluded by the weak currencies they use and in some cases also by prohibitive import taxes.

Once ARM on PC takes off it’s over.

Snow Crash’s world is here…