That’s like eating exactly one potato chip.

The behavior is actively endorsed by the platform.

I’m glad you figured it out! Thank you for sharing your solution.

Maybe, in a perverse way, they aren’t all that different in the extreme. If I were a billionaire, I can take loans out against my securities basically forever. Governments can sustain a growing debt load forever if it grows more slowly than GDP.

Alas, I am not a billionaire.

Tbf, this post is a shower thought comparing governments to parents. Governments aren’t individuals.

Sounds good! Basically, the problem I had boiled down to a super old driver no kernel dev wants to touch with a ten foot pole and they’re just kinda hoping it’ll die a death to irrelevancy, but there are a few systems out there that do still use it.

The rest of the design moved on to more advanced architecture.

It’s detectors all the way down.

But of course, as a tortoise, you would know that.

Don’t forget debt. I have to have an emergency fund but you just print money and spend it like there’s no tomorrow for years on end?

I had this problem specifically dealing with the way that IOMMU maps devices conflicting with a really old USB root hub. I had to set something like intel_iommu=off for my case.

Would you be willing to share the output of your dmesg ?

I have a brilliant friend who works there. However, only projects that integrate AI are really getting approved.

Not if I use AI to hide my use of AI first!

Enforcing that ban is going to be difficult.

I just hope more open phones like the rumored Graphene phone with actually good high-end hardware are out by then so I can leave their ecosystem comfortably. As you wrote, Google has a history of abusive behavior and doing what they want anyway.

Interesting! I learned a new word. And yes, look to Google Chrome’s walking back of blocking ad-blockers to its eventually implementation anyway once people stopped screaming about it.

That’s the problem; handset makers don’t believe you own the phone. They think it’s their phone that you’re paying to use temporarily.

I have family members who can’t change their phone wallpaper through the GUI. Your standards are far too high!

Google has far too much power. We should not be subject to the whims of a company that does not and cannot have our best interests at heart. For this reason, my next phone will be a Fairphone or, I hope, the new Graphene phone when it comes out late next year.

Back in my day, we had this feature on Windows Vista called ReadyBoost that took advantage of the low-latency of flash media to supplement our slow HDDs. I’m not sure if there was a direct replacement for this in the Linux world. There are filesystems that take advantage of faster tiers of storage, but different latency tier exploitation isn’t something that I know to be readily available.

Today, 2GB of USB flash is next to useless, but I would consider a homebrew rescue system to restore your backups and fix problems without needing to prepare an external flash drive.

I aspire to one day be as knowledgeable and well-rounded in computing as he.

The day they come out with that phone they’re supposedly working on I intend to buy it.