This has been tired before, and ended no where
Anyone remember Openmoko and the hype around it in the Open Source community?
There were also Nokia's Maemo (before Nokia abandoned it and the underlying hand sets after that CEO took over) then the Linux Foundation's MeeGo.
I hope this effort succeeds though despite the odds.
Here is a non-paywalled article that even has a summary at the top:
Moto phones let you shake the phone to turn the flashlight on and off. It's simple, but it's one of my favorite features, and when people see me do it, they usually tell me they wish *their* phone did that.
I have a Motorola too, and love this feature.
You make a chop-chop gesture to turn on the flashlight.
Another gesture is shake left-right, and the camera turns on.
Love that feature too, and actually used it more.
Their guy should not have called the Georgia Secretary of State, telling him to "find 11,780 votes".
Their guy (through his subordinates) should not have tried to send fake electors to Congress for the meeting of the Electoral College.
Their guy should not have fomented an insurrection on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop the ratification of the election of Biden/Harris.
Their guy should not have stayed silent for hours as the Jan 6 crowd stormed the capitol, chanted "Hang Mike Pence", and made congressmembers and others fear for their lives.
I'm sure there's more they shouldn't have done.
The bigger picture is that the percentage of the electorate who voted for "that guy" grew from 2020 to 2024, despite all of the above and plenty more.
That is the bigger problem that brought us to where we are today, and whatever else the next 3 years bring
While we both excel in some areas, others we are just clueless on. Give me something technical and I'll figure it out, guaranteed. Put me in a room full of people in a social setting and I feel like a literal fish out of water. It can be sometimes be scary and lonely which truly sucks. I wish Autism was bull.
Exactly that same with me.
Suffered all my youth from being pushed to socialize, because I was a book worm, and 'normal' people have to socialize.
It was stressful for me, and still is.
But give me any nerdy challenge, and I will dive deep into it and it will be smooth sailing.
Be that biology, programming, electronics,
Rome died over 300+ years. They don't die instantly.
NOTE- most Americans won't realize until it's so bad they can't deny it and some will never get it even if he does Musk's Nazi Salute because they are still in denial over that.
Modern despotism has a fake democratic element so the lower third of the bell curve don't participate in any resistance or help defend the despotic "democracy."
Spot on
And even when Rome became a empire, with full autocratic rule, the motto SPQR (Senatus Populusque Romanus, "[For the] Senate and People of Rome") continued to be used.
For example, after the Republic's end by more than 2 centuries, in the Arch of Septimius Severus from 203 CE.
So even when democracy ends, and autocracy takes over, there is a fake semblance of what has ended.
That is exactly what the panspermia hypothesis postulates, though it proposes that live cells is what spreads, not just precursors (prebiotic molecules).
Once famous proponent was Nobel laureate Francis Crick of DNA spiral fame.
I've never seen a software distribution mechanism as careless and sloppy as NPM.
I've always been against running anything that requires NPM, because of exactly that.
Their repository governance is abysmal.
Compare that to, say, Debian/Ubuntu, and you see a huge difference.
Debian has been around for almost 3 decades, and we have not had the repositories being a vector for compromised software.
If it is NPM, I pass
That pretty much sums it up
I wish it was more widely used.
I am an XFCE users for many years (Xubuntu).
Gnome is a non starter for me
I wish people would try it out.
It is fast, small, and stays out of the way.
I studied organic chemistry, microbiology, and biochemistry.
But that was decades ago
I tend to agree with you.
How would they create an organism with the entire chain of biochemical pathways that are mirrored? Think about the Citric Acid Cycle, and how complex it is. All the enzymes and their precursors, and pathways that create them need to be mirrored.
But, it has been a while, so anyone with more current knowledge please correct me.
You are perfectly right, unfortunately
The observation that is known as Brandolini's Law rings true
Debunking misinformation takes a huge amount of time and effort, far more than the misinformation itself.
Misinformation has the advantage of spreading faster, being much simpler, and not needing any facts nor logic.
That is what we are up against
I am sorry to hear that, and deeply sympathize.
I am curious to know what kind of cancer (their are about 200 different types, with VERY different outcomes), and what stage it was when it was discovered.
The reason I ask is that with screening, certain types of cancer are survivable (e.g. prostate, colon, some type of skin cancers,
Other types are killers no matter what, and it is only a matter of time (bile duct, pancreas, glioblastoma,
One thing I did a while back on Xubuntu, is uninstall the Firefox snap.
Then uninstall snap itself.
Then use the Ubuntu Mozilla Team repository to install the ESR version of Firefox.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install firefox-esr
That is it!
You don't have updates that are too frequent, and you don't get the bleeding edge features like this AI crap.
The idea is not new
It was proposed first in 2016 by Breakthrough Starshot.
To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so.
