It’s perfect for what my sister in law needs, but it’s not something I would generally recommend

She really just needs a real operating system for her phone for school

We will consider a used M1/M2 used, but I would expect Apple to stop supporting those sooner than the Neo

I’m not a lyricist, but this is at least closer…

Who works for a place that licks AI’s taint

As bad as people are, something like a Tesla is much worse

https://electrek.co/2026/01/29/teslas-own-robotaxi-data-confirms-crash-rate-3x-worse-than-humans-even-with-monitor/

And something like a Waymo costs $250,000+ which is… Hard to swallow

https://sfist.com/2025/04/25/you-might-soon-be-able-to-buy-and-own-your-own-self-driving-waymo-car/

I’ve heard Windows ME bad, but I’ve almost never heard someone call Windows 2000 bad

You need an equivalent of ACPI in the x86 space to catch on in ARM/RISC-V if you want a general purpose OS to be viable on phones

There’s sort-of kind-of SystemReady in ARM but it’s a far cry from the standardization of ACPI on x86 desktops

You have to convince investors why your AI research won’t hit a wall like LLMs are now - they’ve poisoned the term “AI”

They’re a dead end, insofar as they do all they’ll ever be able to; if you can find use for them at their current level, great, but it does not look likely they will be able to do more than they currently can

LLMs are a dead end, and the massive amounts of money being wasted on them will make people too scared to invest in other forms of AI.

So we are currently at a local maxima that we won’t overcome in 10 years. It will take much longer before we try a different approach to create “AGI,” and the wasted money on LLMs will slow other forms of AI research, leaving us stagnating for >10 years

Qualcomm and most phone manufacturers try extremely hard to make sure you can’t run your own operating system on their hardware.

A bug in their security preventing you from installing your own operating system has been found on a specific Qualcomm chip - the Snapdragon 8 gen 5, which, at least for some Xiaomi phones, lets programmers load their own versions on the devices

The last time we tried using them, the computer came with Windows 98…

They were horrible back then, not really sure how they are still in business.

I hadn’t noticed how closely Altman resembles Phelps until the side by side in this thread

Sonata Arctica.

Lead singer has amazing crowd presence, and every time I’ve seen them they’ve been amazing

2009 would be back when it was a native application, rather than just a web browser

Glasses with an IR emitter to blind their cameras?

It’s mostly an advertisement, but the issue being discussed doesn’t require you to have an account or visit X/TikTok

Graphene modifies AOSP for much more security.

E.g.

• you can disable USB data at a hardware level
• Receives Kernel updates even faster than Google’s phones
• uses a different memory allocator, hardened_malloc
• changes the way zygote launches apps, so ASLR actually works
• doesn’t allow apps to ptrace themselves
• disables JIT per-app
• disable network access per-app

I dont think e/OS is as security oriented, more privacy oriented

The only way they can do this is by removing most features, or simply not connecting to the internet.

Even “American” SoC suppliers have a majority of their programmers in China

You can’t send group texts over SMS

I’d guess the group chat is stuck sending messages to RCS (basically Google Proprietary) rather than MMS

This is the same problem iPhone users have dealt with for a long time when switching to Android and their number is stuck in Apple’s iMessage system

The fourth largest bank in America, Wells Fargo, has cases insensitive passwords

It seems like a waste of space on the taskbar, to me

In the Start Menu/Finder/KRunner/wofi I want it to search, but I don’t need the text input box visible at all times taking space

Especially since it says 11 production lines…

11 lines = 57.8 million

57.8/~10 means their lines are down 38.5% of the time?!?!?

Edit: Maybe the nearly 40% downtime is retooling for different models?