These companies might want their platforms to be free from google’s control, but that’s only because they want to have that control for themselves.

Every android skin is an “OS” these days. I wonder how much “it’s own” it would be.

Celery Man takes place in Pierce Brosnan’s basement.

An app store for linux.

All all the way

Some people just are like that.

WINE is an emulator.

ಠ_ಠ

Why would it be illegal, or unethical? I don’t really see any reason.

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UserBenchmark is a joke. They aren’t just biased in a normal way, but rather they have an obsession on AMD and throw lots of weird insults like this.

Most of HMD’s efforts, like that “repairable” phone are a joke. I’m not particularly impressed with this either, but it seems that the pogo pins provide standard USB, which could enable some fun hacks.

https://assets.ctfassets.net/wcfotm6rrl7u/3KBmYBnMpossUdxFxZOC7Z/6414fafda9add20684dba2f957627eda/HMD_Fusion_Development_Toolkit_-_V1_-_February_2024.pdf

The thought was that it’d be closer to that, than the 12 times larger suggestion.

And yeah, I was definitely only taking hosting costs into account, because every instance is maintained by volunteers. I was also only thinking about large instances that benefit from economies scale and smarter management.

I took a quick glance at that thread, will have a more thorough pass later.

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Well, I guess it’s priorities. Destroying Big Tech would be pretty nice, but I’m really just here for the community.

Per user? There are instances running on like $10/mo virtual servers with maybe the same amount spent on storage.

I actually kind of enjoy the “scrappy diy effort niche” thing.

I think a dollar or two per year would suffice if all users paid it.

Guess I should give it a proper look, then.

It is actually useful?

In my experience it just looked like SEO farm that polluted my search results with irrelvant machine-generated content.