What you’re talking about is “source-available.” I.e. being able to read source code but not having licensing rights to redistribute or make changes.

“Open-source” means that being able to modify and distribute changes is built into the license of the code.

For example, Minecraft Java is source-available in that decompiling Java bytecode is trivial - enough so that tools exist which can easily generate a source code dump. However, actually distributing that source code dump is technically illegal and falls under piracy, so it isn’t open source.

Edit: I didn’t see your edit, this comment is kind of pointless, oh well

I mean I don’t see any reason why a Wayland compositor couldn’t support it, it’s pretty cursed either way though.

There’s a screenshot in one of the other comments in this thread (from owenfromcanda, I think the other screenshots are fake)

X11 already supports this lol

I think they’re talking about the image

I’m comparing hardware to hardware, not artificial Apple software restrictions.

That’s great but hardware doesn’t exist in a vacuum. With an ecosystem as locked-down as an iPad’s you can’t just ignore the software. It’s not like you’ll ever be able to uninstall it because it’s intentionally locked down, unlike a macbook which allows installing apps and even modifying the bootloader to boot into a different OS.

Edit: Forgot to mention the fact even for people that might not care about that, iOS will automatically kill any app that uses more than a certain amount of RAM (I think it was 4GB? I don’t remember the exact number) so in a lot of scenarios you can’t even take advantage of the hardware in an iPad because of the locked down software

Ok but if you want to do actual work on it then these things absolutely do not cancel each other out because you have to spend $270 on a keyboard/trackpad regardless, and now have to use a clunky touchscreen on your 13 inch tablet half the time.

Yes, the M4 is much faster and it is probably only stupid product segmentation keeping it on the iPad. But the reality is, iOS/iPadOS puts OS-level limits on how much you can even take advantage of that hardware even if there is an iOS app for the thing you want to do

TLDR: If you really want a MacBook just get a refurbished M1/M2 MacBook and call it a day, bonus points for putting Asahi on it

That’s fair, I assume most people probably aren’t following ladybird that closely so it’s easy to miss. It just bothers me because shrugging off small individual problems and ignoring a bigger trend is arguably what let people like DHH get a platform in the first place.

How many times do I have to give him the benefit of the doubt though?

First it was the “using they in documentation is political ideology” Github issue, then he publicly defended DHH when people called him out for being a white supremacist, he implied tech companies are discriminating against white people with diversity policies, and he tweeted that he hopes young people will carry on Charlie Kirk’s legacy.

If one or two of these things happened in isolation, I could maybe understand giving him the benefit of the doubt as a non-American (for that last one) non-native English speaker. But all of these things taken together? I personally don’t think I can look past that.

All things considered the way they’re approaching the migration is fine enough - they’re only moving specific portions at a time, they’re not stopping C++ development, and they’re making sure it doesn’t introduce regressions. Adopting a memory-safe language for something like a browser makes sense because it completely eliminates that class of vulnerabilities.

The problem is the way they’re approaching the code itself. From their wording, it sounds like they’re relying on AI heavily for both writing and reviewing the code. Rust has a steeper learning curve than most languages and is very different from C++. They even mention in the blog that their current Rust code looks like C++ code ported over. If they don’t take the time to actually learn Rust before adopting it, it’ll just lead to security logic issues that their AI couldn’t catch because C++ and Rust don’t always behave the same way. And that’s completely ignoring all of the other ethical/technical issues with AI

Presumably just for transparency in case humans down the line went looking through closed PRs and missed the fact that it’s AI.

Worth noting that Linux Mint Debian Edition exists and is based directly on Debian instead of Ubuntu. They starting publishing it specifically because the Linux Mint team doesn’t like the direction Ubuntu is heading in with snaps. Not sure how good it is as I haven’t tried it in a while (and don’t really use regular mint either).

Honestly I’d consider using this in combination with NixOS just for the flatpak support

Not just designed, lawnchair is a fork of the AOSP launcher which is why they look so similar. It’s also partially why they have a comparatively slow development cycle, because they spend a lot of effort rebasing whenever AOSP’s launcher has significant changes.

Lawnchair doesn’t have a paid version, it’s open source

They can also use live location data in an emergency situation,also using a court ordered subpoena.

What qualifies as an “emergency situation”? I imagine that definition could be stretched pretty thinly

If you want to be technical about it, there could (and probably are given OnePlus’s security history) still be unpatched firmware bugs that will never get patched because OnePlus and Qualcomm have stopped supporting their CPUs which are that old.

Not saying anyone should turn their working phones into e-waste, only that you probably shouldn’t treat it like it’s perfectly secure either just because it’s flashed with the newest Android. Be careful with any super sensitive logins like bank accounts and government sites.

VR is a niche market with fundamental accessibility flaws (motion sickness, spatial requirements, etc.). As for the controller, what discussion is needed? The steam deck already exists and from that it’s pretty easy to get a decent idea of what the controller will cost and feel like. It’ll probably end up being a solid controller for people that want it, but uncomfortable for people with smaller hands.

That isn’t to say that the steam frame/controller won’t impressive pieces of technology, but should be pretty easy to see why discussions would mostly be around the steam machine and specifically its pricing. Its success (or failure) will likely be what carries the reputation of both the steam frame and the steam controller alongside it.

If you want to be technical about it, you pretty much just described any modern video game console. The OS is the only thing actually differentiating modern consoles from PCs (or tablets in Nintendo’s case).

Really begs the question of what language even means

Then it really is authentic Boston Pizza!

(No seriously I found maybe 3 good pizza places while I lived in Boston and I’m pretty sure 2 of them technically weren’t even in Boston. The pizza there is mid at best)