I bought Fairphone 6 and I will install postmarketOS on it in due time.

Because we need to start embracing it now, or we will never get it rolling.

that one game from that one HDG fanfic is closer to reality now

I thought Qobuz was cool

I'm curious what it'll mean for this one: https://openrepos.net/content/munkstolen/fiat-pons-native-qobuz-client

Says it's built on a qbz-qobuz rust library, so if that's from the same qbz developer and the library got pulled, it'll make things difficult moving forward for them.

Yup, cool that this can just exist https://github.com/vitiko98/qobuz-dl

I guess qbz got too many users and visibility that it started to show in some meeting.

That's what baffles me in this kind of situation. The dev basically did their job for them, and now they're leaving happy paying Linux subscribers out in the cold. Just hire the clearly passionate and talented developer and make the product offering that much better!

Now when I look for Qobuz apps for Linux, all I'm seeing are weird little download utilities to essentially steal music from the service. Gabe Newell sure had it right.

Aaaand that's another slopper blocked!

This is a bummer, I really like Qobuz but do not like using the web player, which doesn’t give me native controls or an easy workflow.

The Qobuz Mac client is kind of a hot mess, and Linux is missing. It would be nice if they’d hire passionate devs like this to work on improving the situation. I’m sure it would be a great synergy.

I've been using libredefender for a long time, it's fast, simple and light and it does its job but it only works from the command line and it's not updated since 2022. Currently I've discovered ClamUI which seems very well done but I still have to test it well

The comment above yours and people who use the same arguments are clearly uneducated on the matter.

Not everyone is spending untold thousands on Claude or GPT models. People still own hardware, that they can use to run frontier models. Most open source contributors don't have the kind of money these out of touch people think we do. I can't even justify a subscription to either of those companies and I know I'd make good use of it.

We donate our time to these projects, and with that, our knowledge and skill. The problem is, time is finite amd these moral crusaders don't even drop a cent to these projects, much less a weekend. The use of LLMs is purely to save time. Some things would never get done without the time compression on offer, but because they need life to be black and white, none of the good that could ever come can be justified.

The intent I read was “contribute as if someone couldn’t tell if it was LLM-assisted or not,” and that they don’t really want to be dictating the software tools contributors are using.

This is the full text:

Nobody in KDE should know if you use an LLM — not because you’re concealing it, but because your usage of it produces output indistinguishable from what you could produce yourself. Contributions with obvious and lazy LLM usage may be ignored or closed.

So yeah, I think the intent isn’t even about disclosure, rather saying “it doesn’t matter if you disclose it, and not an excuse for questionable code, as your code better be indistinguishable from purely human made anyway.”

Claude Code and other LLM coding frameworks have a habit of inserting themselves into git commits as contributors, so KDE wants to avoid that as well. They deserve as much attribution as your linter; precisely none. Their users also tend to leave unmaintainable “drive by” PRs, and use the AI as an excuse for the low quality. So part of that context you may be missing is “don’t use LLMs as an excuse; we don’t want to hear it.”

It’s kind of fair though. Devs could be hitting APIs that use less energy than our PCs, or they could be guzzling power with Claude. But dictating that is not enforceable; it’d be like telling them they can’t use a certain IDE or OS for moral reasons. Contributors would just use it and hide it.

At no point it warps the intent. It just reads between the lines from the actual text.

Maybe you should stop using AI.

Actually it does not say it's real or fake either way. Turns out that article was only referencing the apocalypse prediction, not how the text translation is fake. I just picked it because Smithsonian is a better source than Quora or reddit; surprised they didn't bother to mention the translation isn't authentic.

This article is a direct response to that Smithsonian one regarding the translation.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/22/world-end/?amp=1

But ya TLDR the translation is fake.

Damn. Gonna have to switch back to Gnome pretty soon of all things

I have an even worse feeling about the LLM code in the kernel...

Considering that the big AI vendors do deals in behind the scene, Google is going to ask for same favors to try and retroactively relicense LLM slop code.

Oh, spot on.

Google have been years seeing how far they can push linux GPL.

At this rate android will end up being closed source.

Google has done good things. Google has also done shitty things. To me the problem is the good things aren’t frequent enough and the bad things seem to be the default recently.

Reporting from el cheapo, Pixel 3a: calls work flawlessly, had a little tinkering to make cellular Internet connection work with my provider. Looking at PostmarketOS Wiki, plenty of phones now work perfectly well as, well, phones.

So this will also affect Murena? GrapheneOS is crystal clear as I use it.

If Murena is down the drain as well.. what was it With that Jolla Phone?

As a fellow postmarketOS user, it's not fully ready for prime time, though it surely works.

If you need banking apps (not just bank in your browser), native popular messenger apps (Waydroid is there, but it's way from perfect) and stuff like such, postmarketOS and mobile Linux in general are still not ready for you.

If you want to explore the alternative and ready to make some sacrifices in a quest for independence, you should absolutely give it a spin. Many well-supported devices (Pixel 3a, Pocophone F1 etc. etc.) are old and extremely cheap to buy on the secondhand market, and will offer you a decent experience.

Okay, as I'm sure you know, Android is built on Linux, so saying something like Linux wouldn't work on phones is quite an odd statement. And Linux on PC's wasn't always "it just work". It's taken a long time and hard work to get it to where it is. And it's "just" code, there's no reason whatsoever that with a lot of sweat and elbow grease it can be a good user experience (see Sailfish OS). The desire and need for a non-Android OS has been quite low until recently.

I do agree that moving AOSP stewardship to someone else would be for the best and the easiest option for everyone involved (except Google I guess).

Or go Linux phone altogether. For the most part, it all works now!

What are the apps? Chances are, you'll have plenty enough of savvy userbase even without this BS.