oh yeah, i don't plan on folding. i drank heavily for like 20 years, and decided i'd had enough. saw it coming and new it would be tough. ive picked up reading, and im gaming more. also knocking out more computer projects.
also i work in a social environment (a bar lol) so im not feeling isolated or anything. the bar has been great about stocking NA beers for me, and i found "fake shots" that i like quite a bit called pathfinder. they are also very supportive so i would feel like a failure if i folded and drank around them. i honestly havent even been enjoying smoking weed as much. i kinda like just being sober.
so the transition has been very smooth so far. but i just have so much more time in my day between not staying at the bar all night, and not being hungover most mornings.
i appreciate your kind words. i was mostly just venting. also being bored and uncomfortable is probably just part of the process of adjusting to my new life, and being less dependant on dopamine and alcohol.
ah yeah that's fair. but also i kinda agree with that person's response. getting frustrated with linux doesnt mean linux sucks, it means you are learning. ive been using linux for over 20 years, and i still find plenty of things that take me out of my element. and that's a good thing.
is aosp planning on requiring the bootloader to not be unlockable? because otherwise i still disagree.
if more people are interested in custom roms, theres a motivation for the manufacturers to continuing to allow it. not to mention arm gaming handhelds and the like where people are going to want to install "steamos" once the steam frame drops and people see apple level arm>x86 compatibility. these devices typically currently ship with android
add the growing maturity of mobile linux to the mix... i just dont see why manufacturers will lock it down without being forced to. sure maybe "big tech" companies (samsung etc) will to keep users locked in, but a lot of the phone manufacturers wont have a big incentive. they are not beholdent to google. pc motherboard manufacturers never locked down the bios to keep people from installing linux, even though most people only ever used windows.
if custom roms see real growth, i could see smaller manufacturers shipping with aosp to avoid paying licensing to google, and expecting the user to flash it themselves. think vanilla waydroid install. no app store, just a browser to find apks. it just makes business sense to cut the costs if it isnt going to scare away the customers.
i mean where we stand today its really just the mobile providers that lock the phones down to lock the device to their service. the manufacturers themselves usually sell unlockable bootloaders. even my pixel devices were very easy to unlock because i bought them direct from google. (sidenote: i was shocked when the wife and i went to europe. i used saily and recomended it to her, and she was unable to use it because she has an att apple.)
it seems like we largely agree about most of all of this stuff. i'm just optimistic that google is properly shooting itself in the foot right now, not pulling some draconian move. hell even the hoops you have to jump throught to install random apks on stock android are more annoying than anything. follow a guide, click a bunch of buttons in the settings, wait a day. not much more tough than gaining developer mode already is except for the time delay. i think this will wake more people up to how shitty google is, and funnel them to alternatives. this makes a positive feedback loop and encourages manufacturers to cater to flashing.
i competely disagree. android roms will see a boost. people actually have a tangible reason to use them now. im using one for the first fime because of all this.
if you already have a phone with an unlockable bootloader, why would you be less likely to install one now?
this will still be good for linux too because the more people who become comfortable with flashing their device the more likely they are to distrohop to mobile linux. and mobile linux is very close to being daily drivable for the patient techy types.
i think people will still be drawn to aosp builds for the polish, the same way you see more people using ubuntu and mint.
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i do think 6+ is more of an incremental upgrade and i dont need it. my phone works great, pretty much the only games i play on my phone are via steamlink or retroarch.
i had the fp5 imported into the US, but when my usb started wearing out and i tried to get a new one it was a huge pain to get here. decided to get the 6 bc they actually sell parts here.
im slightly worried theyll do something like partner with postmarketos and make the 7 work flawlessly under linux at launch. it would be a great thing, but damn guys give me a reason to not buy the next model! lol
my manjaro has been running the same install for 6 years on ext4 no separate home partition...
what are yall doing to brick your machines?
must be because no one pushed the button and DESTROYED 30 seconds of your life.
um the original meme says "linux is the stupidest thing ever" on the pendulum.
sorry youre in a bad mood. and sorry i contributed to it.
oh yeah, i don't plan on folding. i drank heavily for like 20 years, and decided i'd had enough. saw it coming and new it would be tough. ive picked up reading, and im gaming more. also knocking out more computer projects.
also i work in a social environment (a bar lol) so im not feeling isolated or anything. the bar has been great about stocking NA beers for me, and i found "fake shots" that i like quite a bit called pathfinder. they are also very supportive so i would feel like a failure if i folded and drank around them. i honestly havent even been enjoying smoking weed as much. i kinda like just being sober.
so the transition has been very smooth so far. but i just have so much more time in my day between not staying at the bar all night, and not being hungover most mornings.
i appreciate your kind words. i was mostly just venting. also being bored and uncomfortable is probably just part of the process of adjusting to my new life, and being less dependant on dopamine and alcohol.
ah yeah that's fair. but also i kinda agree with that person's response. getting frustrated with linux doesnt mean linux sucks, it means you are learning. ive been using linux for over 20 years, and i still find plenty of things that take me out of my element. and that's a good thing.
without looking it up:
chown -R
cp -r
ls -r
rsync. (idk, i always google this one)
scp -r
zip -r
but why not look it up? you either use a tool and arguments often enough to memorize it, or you don't.
3 months sober. im so bored.
is speech (or speach i guess) ever a verb? its a noun describing the talking. you don't speech, you speak.
"slow speech" "give a speech" "her speech" "speech writer" "speech class"
vs
"speak with an accent" "speaking of the mandella effect" "i love to listen to you speak"
i feel like youre getting ”speech” and ”speak" confused here...
i worked a bunch of places where the door just says that and has no alarm
yeah im always hesitant to use these services because of this. it literally doubles the cost of your meal.
that said, when youre stuck at work* or somewhere without the ability to cook, it is nice to have such a variety in delivery.
*(i work nights and typically eat before i go in, so i dont bring a "lunch to work" and will order occasionally when im too busy before work)
you could reasonably assume there was a couple beers on the tab too
is aosp planning on requiring the bootloader to not be unlockable? because otherwise i still disagree.
if more people are interested in custom roms, theres a motivation for the manufacturers to continuing to allow it. not to mention arm gaming handhelds and the like where people are going to want to install "steamos" once the steam frame drops and people see apple level arm>x86 compatibility. these devices typically currently ship with android
add the growing maturity of mobile linux to the mix... i just dont see why manufacturers will lock it down without being forced to. sure maybe "big tech" companies (samsung etc) will to keep users locked in, but a lot of the phone manufacturers wont have a big incentive. they are not beholdent to google. pc motherboard manufacturers never locked down the bios to keep people from installing linux, even though most people only ever used windows.
if custom roms see real growth, i could see smaller manufacturers shipping with aosp to avoid paying licensing to google, and expecting the user to flash it themselves. think vanilla waydroid install. no app store, just a browser to find apks. it just makes business sense to cut the costs if it isnt going to scare away the customers.
i mean where we stand today its really just the mobile providers that lock the phones down to lock the device to their service. the manufacturers themselves usually sell unlockable bootloaders. even my pixel devices were very easy to unlock because i bought them direct from google. (sidenote: i was shocked when the wife and i went to europe. i used saily and recomended it to her, and she was unable to use it because she has an att apple.)
it seems like we largely agree about most of all of this stuff. i'm just optimistic that google is properly shooting itself in the foot right now, not pulling some draconian move. hell even the hoops you have to jump throught to install random apks on stock android are more annoying than anything. follow a guide, click a bunch of buttons in the settings, wait a day. not much more tough than gaining developer mode already is except for the time delay. i think this will wake more people up to how shitty google is, and funnel them to alternatives. this makes a positive feedback loop and encourages manufacturers to cater to flashing.
i competely disagree. android roms will see a boost. people actually have a tangible reason to use them now. im using one for the first fime because of all this.
if you already have a phone with an unlockable bootloader, why would you be less likely to install one now?
this will still be good for linux too because the more people who become comfortable with flashing their device the more likely they are to distrohop to mobile linux. and mobile linux is very close to being daily drivable for the patient techy types.
i think people will still be drawn to aosp builds for the polish, the same way you see more people using ubuntu and mint.
cw: black ppl
(probably actually the mentions of sa and violence in the title)
edit: oops meant to edit, not reply...
cw: black ppl
what do you mean? what would you have the community do?
source
obviously thats just graphene. i use e/os on my phone. not sure how many other distros there are...
w3m -dump
the point of gentoo is spending all your time watching packages compile.
not talking shit, i love it.
i do think 6+ is more of an incremental upgrade and i dont need it. my phone works great, pretty much the only games i play on my phone are via steamlink or retroarch.
i had the fp5 imported into the US, but when my usb started wearing out and i tried to get a new one it was a huge pain to get here. decided to get the 6 bc they actually sell parts here.
im slightly worried theyll do something like partner with postmarketos and make the 7 work flawlessly under linux at launch. it would be a great thing, but damn guys give me a reason to not buy the next model! lol