Yes, but that shouldn’t generally explode the RAM usage by an order of magnitude. In terms of information amount, most of the data that computers handle is an internal binary representation of real-world phenomena (think: videos, pictures, audio, sensor data) and not encoded text.
I understand Unicode and its various encodings (UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32) fairly well. UTF-8 is backwards-compatible with ASCII and only takes up the extra bytes if you are using characters outside of the 0x00-0x7F range. E.g. this comment I’m writing is simultaneously valid UTF-8 and valid ASCII.
I’d like to see some good evidence for the claim that Unicode support increases memory usage so drastically. Especially given that most data in RAM is typically things other than encoded text (e.g. videos, photos, internal state of software).
Wait, really? How does Unicode of all things increase RAM usage that much?
I own a Librem5, and let me tell ya, it’s not a daily phone, hardware is just way too slow. Even with sxmo it lags a lot, opening a browser is a whole ordeal for it. Meanwhile when I tried my friend’s PinePhone Pro, it felt a lot better. Oh, and for context, I’m currently semi-dailying a OnePlus 6 with NixOS.
The one main remaining barrier (apart from thousands of paper cuts everywhere and lack of apps), is indeed process lifecycle management. It’s the most complicated one to do, because in order to work well it requires apps to cooperate in some way, either by completely and honestly shutting down when not doing any work, or by providing ways to check if there’s any work to be done without running the rest of the app, or both ideally. None of the apps currently do that, so the only options are (1) just let apps do whatever they want, draining the battery, or (2) send SIGSTP to apps that are not in the foreground, losing background notifications and such.
I’m sure you are already aware, but just in case, there’s a lot of prior work in getting a truly Linux mobile phone.
There are ready-made devices like PinePhone (the PinePhone Pro looks the most promising one of the bunch), Librem 5, and Liberux Nexx. I think at least some of those companies publish schematics for their boards, you should probably check those out if you want to design your own.
There is also another direction, taken by postmarketOS and the like, to install Linux on a phone that shipped with Android out of the box.
It should be easy enough to install postmarketOS on your device, since it seems to have support for raspberry pi. The benefit of postmarketOS here is that it makes it really easy to install mobile Linux UI shells, like phosh, gnome-mobile, plasma-mobile, or sxmo. This will let you try all of them out and maybe pick one as a starting point for your software stack.
How about this:
There may be some places where a protocol-level solution is not feasible. In that case yeah, require your anti-cheat, but only for competitive game modes. I wouldn’t even be pissed if they didn’t allow it to run on Linux, Linux makes it easy to do whatever the fuck you want with your computer and so a determined cheater will find a way to cheat. It sucks, but I feel like a lot of people don’t really care that much about sweaty competitive game modes anyway. Just give me a way to fool around with friends, it’s not that serious FFS.
I just see this as a possible boon for Linux ARM laptops, but then again I’m a glass half full kinda guy (not like this).
For anyone too lazy to follow two links, here’s the demo: https://joelseverin.github.io/linux-wasm/
The file that’s in use may not survive.
Yes, but at least the rest of the filesystem will
I’m not too versed in the intricacies of Windows, but I don’t think that’s the case on Linux at least.
There’s a difference between telling the processes to “fuck off” (by using umount -f) and actually yanking the drive.
umount -f will at least flush the caches to drive, including all filesystem metadata and journaling, while just yanking the drive off will definitely not, and if you’re unlucky you can ruin the FS (especially if it’s not a journaling one). I’ve lost data like that before, been using umount -f ever since.
I don’t fear for my career because of AI. I fear my career because of kids like this one.
Kudos to him! I definitely couldn’t maintain something so big and complex at 10. Heck, not sure I’d be able to pull it off now!
Apart from the other comment: rootless podman is easier to set up (there’s basically no set up needed).
Well, I still hear it a lot. Would be great to replace it with some other greeting that made more literal sense.
Personally I’m more partial to nom. Serde is quite verbose and complex for a parser.
I’ll be real with you. What you need to do is, whenever faced with a task that sounds like it needs CLI, go search stackoverflow for that task. It probably has something slightly relevant to what you need, you take the commands from that answer and read their manuals.
In the old days, your OS would come with a paper manual describing all the commands in great detail. Nowadays the OS is so complex that you can’t be expected (and don’t really need to) know all the commands that are there. But getting one of those old UNIX/early Linux manuals and reading through it would be a great start.
When I started working with English-speaking people it was genuinely a bit of a culture shock that everyone asks you “how are you doing” all the time. The first time it happened I spent like a minute quickly going over my week. The other person was surprised/annoyed and it all was kind of awkward. It took me like two weeks to finally start answering “goodthankswhataboutyou” instead of trying to think of a real answer.
I’m not coming to my parents for this new year’s because I might get arrested and/or sent to die in a war. But once Putin dies, yes, I am
I guess we have vastly different expectations from our phones, then. At a minimum, I need to:
And in my experience, Librem5 just doesn’t have enough processing power and RAM to do any of those quickly and reliably. It was not comfortable at all, e.g. the browser kept filling up RAM and locking up the device with constant swapping, and finally OOMing. GPS took 5-10 minutes to get a lock, even with AGPS, and after that wouldn’t reliably keep it. Both Nheko and NeoChat were slow and laggy. It also died after 4-5 hours of suspend with a modem on, unacceptable for a reliable daily.
OnePlus6 is a rocketship in comparison, and performs all those tasks with ease. The battery also lasts for an entire day with conservative suspend settings (but with the modem on), and for a couple days in airplane mode (e.g. while hiking in the mountains).