@gravitylord Tesla is not ... great company. But removing features from someone else's hardware should not be legal. Laws should be fixed here for better customer protection. Nor should be bricking or adding advertising after sale, for that matter :-(.

Ano, jsme v cesku. Tak proc nechavame japonce, aby tu rozdmychaval nacionalismus? Proc neodsoudime Okamuru? Aha, on se pred soudem schovava v parlamentu :-(.

https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/domaci-politika-tady-jsme-v-cesku-ne-na-ukrajine-okamura-odsoudil-jeji-vlajku-na-karlove-moste-297291

@mcepl @briankrebs That page has steps for "don't have a smartphone". But yes, still a shame and reason to avoid ryanair.

@briankrebs Forced to use mobile phone app? Like... mobile phone is now a requirement to enter US? Mobile phone capable of running that app? Not good. Asking for personal data of other people? That should not be legal. Nor should be the other stuff :-(.

@Natanox @Nicro @kura I'm afraid that any kind of skyrocketing in phone area is hard.

I'd like free software to skyrocket on phones, but simply free software does not seem to be enough in that area.

Mozna jste si vsimli zjevnych podvodu na FB. Je videt ze na reklame se da vydelavat... i kdyz si reklamu zada podvnodnik. Dalsi dobry trik je, podvodnikum proste jen dat vyssi sazbu. Jo. A kdyz kliknete na jednu, tak jste asi na podvody nachylny, tak proc to nezkusit vickrat. Jak to rikaj "adblock je antimalware"?

Ja jsem na social.kernel.org/pavel .

https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/ekonomika-meta-vydelava-miliardy-dolaru-na-podvodnych-reklamach-odhaluji-interni-spisy-293541

@Nicro @Natanox @kura Not really. Sailfish is as bad as Android -- they tend to run downstream kernels AFAICT. That makes working with them hard.

Porting required patched from downstream to upstream is significant work... (And you can probably get better price/performance with an Android phone).

Take a look at Fairphone -- they are doing right thing and actually working to support their phones upstream.

@Nicro @Natanox @kura Yes, SailfishOS could run on more devices with some effort. But they are tying to make money...

@Natanox @kura Yeah, so... More competition in phone space is good and Sailfish OS is closer to normal distribution than Android. But not being less open source then Android is show stopper for me. (Plus, they work with downstream kernels, similar to Android).

@dos I believe so. Capturing 5 seconds of raw bayer data in high resolution would be very nice when trying to take a photo of fast-moving event... like horse jumping.

We'll eventually want that capability, and someone has to be first.

Turns out #opencv is nice and easy to use. I now have fairly complete ISP (image signal processor, thing that turns raw bayer picture into nice looking jpeg) in Python in 212 lines of code.

@davidgerard Actually, yes, you should buy #OnePlus 6. It is very well supported phone by mainline kernel, and they are getting real cheap now. You may want to avoid anything newer than that :-).

@Natanox Should be OLED, yes. But no, I did not notice any burn-in.

Sailfish is non-free, so it is not on my lists.

OnePlus 6's biggest problem is that it is ... too big :-).

Gentle charging should be possible on #oneplus6. Currently experimenting with code at gitlab.com:tui/tui.git ofone/charger.py.

@Natanox Actually, yes, you should buy #OnePlus 6. It is very well supported phone by mainline kernel, and they are getting real cheap now. You may want to avoid anything newer than that :-).

@xChaos @unterwasser Tech mozkovych bunek mu ubyva. Pred 6ti lety bych souhlasil.

Ale on si _opravdu_ mysli ze je stabilni genius, fakt mu udelala radost cena od FIFA, nepochopil test demence a nedokaze mluvit 5 minut k tematu, a ztratil se v mistnosti.

Napr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7BnukerWs8

I had many phones. Some were good, some were bad, and some were meh. Siemens sl45i looked like good phone, but it was not, partly because they forgot to debug it. Ericsson t68i was nice (70? grams), bluetooth was improvement. Nokia 6230 was very nice phone (99 grams), Nokia 6230i was downgrade, and Ericsson K700i was not a good phone. UI was not great and it would not hold in one piece.

I had HTC Dream (aka T-Mobile G1). Having Linux inside was "cool" but it definitely was not good, and was not a phone. Nokia N900 was better, Linux worked a bit better, but still not a phone. And than it got ... worse? Motorola Droid 4 is better version of N900, but bigger again. Pine Phone, Librem 5, OnePlus 6 ... yes, each one is better computer, but neither is really a good phone.

And then I got Geeksphone Keon (Firefox OS). It runs Linux (kernel 3.4 or something), but rather old one, and is certainly not a good computer, but it started feeling as a phone, again. Reasonably battery life (few days), and it would actually fit into pockets I had available when riding horses. I liked that one. 120grams.

And now I have a new toy (actually few "new" toys, thanks!) that starts to feel like phone. Samsung S4 mini VE (110 grams) is really nice phone. Small enough and can last few days (with LineageOS), and with #postmarketos it seems to be pretty good computer, too. It runs mainline kernel, and most of the stuff mostly works (except cameras). Wow! Once again, I have phone I like (or four).

Samsung was not even too evil when creating the phone, so you can just hold buttons and enter bootloader. Certainly improvement from OnePlus 6, where I will likely never get rid of red errors during boot. There is a bit of evil in the details, that "VE" or "value edition" is important. That is i9195i, which is very, very different from "S4 mini" or i9195. Mainline support is very limited for i9195 -- you will not get touchscreen, for example.

Any help would be welcome. And if you have S4 mini you do not need, I may be able to use it.

#i9195 #i9195i

@unterwasser To je vazne myslena predpoved, nebo... neco jineho? Jestli ano, jakou pravdepodobnost byste ji navrhnul?

USA neanektuji Gronsko, a vi to i ten "stabilni genius". Prezident USA ma hodne pravomoci, ale tohle sam udelat nemuze. A podporu nema. (A mozkove bunky uz skoro take ne).

Earlier today I learned that pip includes a bunch of telemetry data in the HTTP User-Agent header for every request it makes, and has for >10 years (with increasing amounts of info): https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/545eda389c41478e2f99d23212254d757d8c2cef/src/pip/_internal/network/session.py#L109
Not only is this not opt-in (as any telemetry should be), but there isn’t even an opt-out. I’m still shocked and not sure what conclusions to draw from this, except: This is not okay!

I remember there was quite an uproar when Go tried to add opt-out telemetry a while back, and rightly so. How did I never hear about Python doing this before? Sure, less details, but still sending telemetry without ever asking for consent.

I like #Python, I want to keep using it, but can I if core tooling ignores user consent like this? And what other key development tools (Python or otherwise) have things like that and I just haven’t noticed yet?

@etchedpixels @quixoticgeek I guess first step with Androids is to unlock your bootloader while your phone can still talk to required servers.

And next steps should be "bricking someone else's hardware is a crime" and "selling devices that depend on remote services for advertised functionality is not allowed".