There’s a lot they could have done, locking down Linux isn’t that hard. Just look at Chrome OS, it’s based on Gentoo, yet it’s locked down completely. All they had.to do is lock the BIOS, enable secure boot and disable root access, and then it’s pretty much a locked system.

Nintendo was super competent with the Switch, their kernel is actually ridiculously secure. I’m pretty sure if Nvidia hadn’t messed up, we would still be scratching our heads with the Switch.

It’s not impossible or even hard to lock down Linux. Just look at Chrome OS, it’s Gentoo based, but with the bootloader locked and root access removed, it is pretty much immutable.

And Chromebooks just use off the shelf parts.

What’s the problem with the port? It’s considerably less prone to accumulate debris in my experience.

USB C cables are more fragile, but it’s designed that way so the ports are more durable. And I think having more durable ports is the right call.

This has made my Lemmy experience considerably better

Juan

Nah, not really. House has 2 episodes where the writers invented diseases (only 2 on the entire run is very respectable though), but more than that, it’s not realistic to have 4 docs working on one case all week. And the cases are very unrealistic in the sense that a lot are not mysteries. If you’re an MD/DO, you can see some of the diagnoses coming a mile away while House and his team pretend it’s a super rare thing. I particularly remember one of the Lyme disease episodes where I got the diagnosis almost immediately, and I was still on med school.

On the other hand, Scrubs gets the lifestyle of an intern right. Except there’s a lot less sex in real life lol.

Bad management mainly. The cofounders fought and one basically expelled the other. And then there’s the bad choices like removing .deb support by default. Also, it’s a bit buggy nowadays.

I still remember fondly when elementary was relevant. It’s been a while.

Unless you’re Nintendo, they have their cake and eat it too.

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It’s not FOSS either, that’s why the FOSS people don’t mention it.

It has a ton of features and polish, and the UX is very good. Mainly that, value is subjective, but I’m willing to pay the dev for a good app.

Also, Sync is one dev working full time by himself, not a big corp.

Isn’t Liftoff the clone, considering Sync is 10+ years old?

You can customize caching in data options, to use mobile data, WiFi only or never precache.

Settings shortcut: Settings > Data options

Toggle these 3 on. Settings shortcut: General > Transparent statusSettings shortcut: General > Autohide ToolbarSettings shortcut: General > Autohide bottom navigation

As for why I prefer Sync, I love the consistent Material You theming and animations, the advanced filters that allow you to filter posts per keywords, the QoL stuff like automatically removing AMP links and preloading posts and comments in case you lose your internet signal, the inline link previews in comments and posts, the endless customization, that yeah, can be overwhelmed but also very comprehensive, and the excellent support that the app recieves, constantly being updated with community requested features.

Free as in speech, not necessarily free as in no money exchanged. The GPLv3 explicitly allows commercial use to both the creator and third parties.