It says "100 series" in the summary but I was curious and followed the trail on Phoronix.
The mention of a specific model is the Powerbook 190, produced several years later - whose specs on wikipedia have a 68LC040 (no FPU) and up to a whopping 40GB of RAM.
Whether that's backward compatible with other models is anyone's guess.
I spent 3 months of vacation in Canada and the USA once. Is that long enough for my DNA to have infused?
But seriously... I've heard that everyone who's an Anglo-Saxon pretty much is up to 10% Scandi (Viking raping and pillaging), 3% 'Jewish' and 2% Neatherthal. Beyond that it's possibly a waste of money.
It means if you load a google apps package you'll have to register your device with Google. Something about a 100 activation limit though, if you do a clean wipe of the system partition - not typical if just doing a weekly ROM update over the top of the old one.
The Chinese branded phones I'd consider buying on price are Motorola or Xiaomi. Both have models featuring more or less standard off the shelf Snapdragon parts, as found in mainstream brands such as Pixel, LG or Samsung.
Don't use the Chinese ROM but flash your own LineageOS image and look maybe there's something lurking in the bootloader but more than likely they're just another OEM doing minimal customization of whatever Google and Qualcomm throw over the wall. (Yes, I *am* completely naive about cyberhacking... )
My government is part of the 5-eyes but if we were all really angry about this rather than complacent we'd put on our tinfoil hats and donate money to RMS-endorsed initiatives such as the Replicant project or purchase the Purism phone.
They are releasing the code they do own, meaning the code in userspace which, I am not a lawyer, does not constitute a derivative work.
It's a few buildscripts that cobble together a raspberry pi image from upstream Linux sources, of which you'd hope any modifications to the actual raspberry pi Linux kernel source are zero to none.
It is cross platform, has a decent list of features and has a GUI - I forgot all those vi keyboard sequences 25 years ago. An instructor on Coursera taught his students the dexterous dance of emacs shortcuts but I had forgotten those within 2 weeks.
Well yeah the problem would be that Ubuntu has an identity crisis. Whatever innovation they did with Unity Mir and phone/tablet has been tossed. Now just a poor man's Fedora for dpkg. Ubuntu is ancient African word for can't install Debian.
The guy writing the FOSS graphics driver for the VideoCore 4 has been updating his work for as yet unreleased hardware. When this new VideoCore 5 will show up in a Pi is anyone's guess.
Manufacturers' warranties typically only last up to 2 years. Yes, you can purchase a warranty extension but it should be possible to replace a $15 battery without paying $50-100 to somebody utilizing a sonic screwdriver to open the case (or engaging battery-regulating software without informing the user.)
But clickbait aside, I'm not sure why the rage is directed solely at Apple. Being a market leader, Android manufacturers tend to follow suit with every user-hostile feature removal. To buy something else implies other OEMs aren't doing the same.
My Windows 10 machine (bought from a pawn-shop with a recently flashed Win7 license - hopefully no spyware!) dates from 2008 and is perfectly *adequate*; a quieter fan and a more powerful GPU would be the main reasons to upgrade but I'd have to upgrade my dual monitor setup too!
Is there anything a 2018 smartphone with an octa-core 64bit chip and 6GB RAM won't accomplish in 5 years? 5G and Vulkan 2.0 will be on the horizon but unless you really need 8K video recording, we'll have reached peak smartphone soon enough.
There must be some environmental impact on destroying old phones for scrap or landfilling them.
Is there a re-sale market for iPhones? There must be millions of perfectly usable phones off a 24 month contract slowed only by Apple's policies on battery degradation.
I just 'upgraded' my mother to a second hand, mint condition, Galaxy S4 off ebay - running LineageOS 14.1 it's still better than any nasty $AU80 phone sold by retailers and a $10 battery every 18 months will see her hold out until the 5G era. (The S5 and Note 4 still seem to extract a premium as Samsung's ultimate flagships with user-removable batteries if anyone is interested in making $AU150-200 for something gathering dust in a desk drawer)
Google wants to commence re-implementing their browser in Rust, a thread-safe functional language. By using LLVM, they can cherrypick any code from the Servo project for incorporation into Chromium. And they save on R&D costs by letting Mozilla employees do most of the work.
Xiaomi ought to be smart enough to circumvent any accusations of backdoors by only exporting Android One models, where requested by security agencies. i.e. Stock AOSP vetted by Google, using the same of the shelf parts (e.g. Qualcomm) as the mainstream Korean or Taiwanese brands.
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One of the goals of the project is to make an OS that can run on real hardware. Hardware produced this decade might not run XP.
That's not to say they should abandon existing support but be 'forward compatible', I think I read.
It isn't a full 040. The 'LC', low cost, in the model number refers specifically to a variation where they left out the FPU.
It says "100 series" in the summary but I was curious and followed the trail on Phoronix.
The mention of a specific model is the Powerbook 190, produced several years later - whose specs on wikipedia have a 68LC040 (no FPU) and up to a whopping 40GB of RAM.
Whether that's backward compatible with other models is anyone's guess.
...when she threw out my music collection.
Red Hot Chili Peppers do rot your brain!
Might Google become a major utility company?
They've intervened in markets with Project Fi and Google Fiber. With economies of scale, why not become an energy retailer?
You're in the wrong timezone. It's Monday.
Too late, it's already April 2 here.
Kodi's official homepage is returned as the first search result.
Cheers, MS!
I spent 3 months of vacation in Canada and the USA once. Is that long enough for my DNA to have infused?
But seriously... I've heard that everyone who's an Anglo-Saxon pretty much is up to 10% Scandi (Viking raping and pillaging), 3% 'Jewish' and 2% Neatherthal. Beyond that it's possibly a waste of money.
It means if you load a google apps package you'll have to register your device with Google. Something about a 100 activation limit though, if you do a clean wipe of the system partition - not typical if just doing a weekly ROM update over the top of the old one.
The Chinese branded phones I'd consider buying on price are Motorola or Xiaomi. Both have models featuring more or less standard off the shelf Snapdragon parts, as found in mainstream brands such as Pixel, LG or Samsung.
Don't use the Chinese ROM but flash your own LineageOS image and look maybe there's something lurking in the bootloader but more than likely they're just another OEM doing minimal customization of whatever Google and Qualcomm throw over the wall. (Yes, I *am* completely naive about cyberhacking... )
My government is part of the 5-eyes but if we were all really angry about this rather than complacent we'd put on our tinfoil hats and donate money to RMS-endorsed initiatives such as the Replicant project or purchase the Purism phone.
They are releasing the code they do own, meaning the code in userspace which, I am not a lawyer, does not constitute a derivative work.
It's a few buildscripts that cobble together a raspberry pi image from upstream Linux sources, of which you'd hope any modifications to the actual raspberry pi Linux kernel source are zero to none.
Which is why I use Geany.
It is cross platform, has a decent list of features and has a GUI - I forgot all those vi keyboard sequences 25 years ago. An instructor on Coursera taught his students the dexterous dance of emacs shortcuts but I had forgotten those within 2 weeks.
Well yeah the problem would be that Ubuntu has an identity crisis.
Whatever innovation they did with Unity Mir and phone/tablet has been tossed. Now just a poor man's Fedora for dpkg.
Ubuntu is ancient African word for can't install Debian.
You joke but Indonesia has had its fair share of natural disasters, being a collection of islands.
Bali itself currently faces imminent danger thanks to an active volcano, Mt Agung.
The guy writing the FOSS graphics driver for the VideoCore 4 has been updating his work for as yet unreleased hardware. When this new VideoCore 5 will show up in a Pi is anyone's guess.
Manufacturers' warranties typically only last up to 2 years. Yes, you can purchase a warranty extension but it should be possible to replace a $15 battery without paying $50-100 to somebody utilizing a sonic screwdriver to open the case (or engaging battery-regulating software without informing the user.)
But clickbait aside, I'm not sure why the rage is directed solely at Apple. Being a market leader, Android manufacturers tend to follow suit with every user-hostile feature removal. To buy something else implies other OEMs aren't doing the same.
My Windows 10 machine (bought from a pawn-shop with a recently flashed Win7 license - hopefully no spyware!) dates from 2008 and is perfectly *adequate*; a quieter fan and a more powerful GPU would be the main reasons to upgrade but I'd have to upgrade my dual monitor setup too!
Is there anything a 2018 smartphone with an octa-core 64bit chip and 6GB RAM won't accomplish in 5 years? 5G and Vulkan 2.0 will be on the horizon but unless you really need 8K video recording, we'll have reached peak smartphone soon enough.
There must be some environmental impact on destroying old phones for scrap or landfilling them.
Is there a re-sale market for iPhones? There must be millions of perfectly usable phones off a 24 month contract slowed only by Apple's policies on battery degradation.
I just 'upgraded' my mother to a second hand, mint condition, Galaxy S4 off ebay - running LineageOS 14.1 it's still better than any nasty $AU80 phone sold by retailers and a $10 battery every 18 months will see her hold out until the 5G era. (The S5 and Note 4 still seem to extract a premium as Samsung's ultimate flagships with user-removable batteries if anyone is interested in making $AU150-200 for something gathering dust in a desk drawer)
The walrus ate it.
Coo Coo Ca Choo.
If you want to librefy/mangle your phone so that it de-blobs LineageOS to not rely on proprietary firmware, the Replicant project is it.
Of course half the hardware mightn't work but RMS will be impressed. :)
Then of course there's the Librem 5 phone which aims to use libre hardware as far as practicable.
It's not about Clang, it's about LLVM.
Google wants to commence re-implementing their browser in Rust, a thread-safe functional language. By using LLVM, they can cherrypick any code from the Servo project for incorporation into Chromium. And they save on R&D costs by letting Mozilla employees do most of the work.
C'mon, it's in the name.
Xiaomi ought to be smart enough to circumvent any accusations of backdoors by only exporting Android One models, where requested by security agencies. i.e. Stock AOSP vetted by Google, using the same of the shelf parts (e.g. Qualcomm) as the mainstream Korean or Taiwanese brands.
But I'm still on a 3G smartphone.
Being thrifty with an obsolete handset has its merits!