Continue using a custom ROM.

If more brands start locking down their devices I’ll have a conundrum, and it’ll start being about antique hunting. More apps requiring an “approved” OS would also do it, but geopolitics will stop that from going too far in the near future.

I’m using AOSP, which is kind of Google-derivative, but I’ve gotten off of everything else. Geopolitics seems like it will get in the way of overbearing US monopolies pretty soon here, too.

Maybe, maybe not. Periods of hardware and software lockdown have ended before.

A hard fork off of Android seems like the easier path to me if it doesn’t. Sure, they can break compatibility, but it will take a while for that to catch up with us, and in the meanwhile we can use apps and infrastructure that already exists. And Fairphone, at the very least, seems likely to continue being receptive to whatever ROM you want.

No? Even if you forget about AOSP, which exists and is great, F-Droid could register as a dev. It seems to be a principled stance they’re taking not to.

If you’re on AOSP, Google can’t affect you this way. You just need a portal to find APKs.

Okay, but can you reprogram it to run Doom, before a creeper blows it up?

Well, I’m already running a custom ROM.

Non-Android Linux has a mobile software ecosystem problem as of last I checked.

So what app store should one move to, in that case?

Big projects like Tor actually use GitLab, as well, which is a vote of confidence. Some of these other ones don’t have the same obvious maturity.

I mean, I like a browsable GUI where I can look at a project in more or less detail, and without actually spending disk space.

And then the lowest rung of all has to deal directly with meatspace in it’s smelly, sticky, 360 8K glory.

It bugs me that so many people far richer then me aren’t competent or confident enough to roll their eyes that that.

Yup.

Unfortunately, is still runs slower than Piefed on Python (IIRC) because the database code is godawful. Hopefully there will be a fix eventually.

Are smaller companies not falling into the FOMO mentality as much?

It’s interesting. On the other major PH community, a good laugh was had at everyone’s own expense. On this one, people are butthurt.

New technologies, when introduced, are typically given names that overstate their capabilities, usually by equating them with existing familiar systems or technological artefacts

It’s worse than that, really. When they named quantum computers, it was an analogy of a theoretical piece of lab equipment with an existing piece of lab equipment. Since then, computers have become a bit of a thing, and now people expect quantum computers to help with their gaming.

Interesting to see just how far these quantum computing groups have gone for an impressive-sounding press release.

Also, lol:

We use the UK form “factorise” here in place of the US variants “factorize” or “factor” in order to avoid the 40% tariff on the US term.

Maybe you could vapour-smooth it.

Ah yes, the old Scunthorp problem.

I’m picturing something like Slenderman arriving and dragging me off to the land of model failures forever.

Because if not, I feel like this could get the team in legal or at least financial hot water with investors.

Which doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, just that it’s not normal and okay.

I’m pretty sure this is set in the future.