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- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 2 days ago:
They can simply say on their download pages that residents of Brazil and California are not allowed to use their OS.
- Comment on How possibly? 6 days ago:
Two things can be true at once.
So Eastern Europeans are privileged and discriminated against in Western Europe at the same time? Whoa!
- Comment on How possibly? 6 days ago:
I guess class divisions in my country are imaginary then.
- Comment on Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. If you’re already on it, you might want to move your account to a different Mastodon server. | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the F 1 week ago:
Mastodon.social is so much larger than other servers, that other servers have become afraid of defederating it.
Sounds like a way for users to protect themselves against random admins who might defederate a whole server on a whim.
The article’s author made an argument against the point he’s making.
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 2 weeks ago:
There will always be limitations unless massive changes occur such as Google open sourcing their Play Services as part of AOSP. MicroG has limited resources to implement compatibility.
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 2 weeks ago:
Then you are off-topic as well.
No. Pelespirit asked about Jolla which is mentioned in the article. I gave context for Jolla’s Android compatibility. It’s 100% on topic.
/e/OS is based on LineageOS.
And: “The Android compatibility layer of SailfishOS is based on AOSP, so the stack to get the most important 3rd party apps working relies as much on AOSP as any Android ROM.”
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see it really as a downside compared to Android, since no OEM is running clean AOSP.
This article is about Fairphone with /e/OS, not some other OEM with a proprietary Android variant.
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 2 weeks ago:
Are there any downsides to this? There has to be, right.
SailfishOS userland is proprietary software. AOSP is more open than SailfishOS. The Android compatibility layer of SailfishOS is based on AOSP, so the stack to get the most important 3rd party apps working relies as much on AOSP as any Android ROM.
Upside of SailfishOS: There is a decent chance that the upcoming Linux ARM version of Steam + Proton will run directly on that device.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 weeks ago:
No backups, no pity.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Could you give examples?
AMD, Intel. To a lesser degree Qualcomm. (I wrote platform designer, not notebook manufacturer.)
I don’t really understand which models to look at specifically.
As long as it’s without NVidia graphics and WiFi/Bluetooth not by Broadcom, it should be alright.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Relevant because Neo has it built in.
The difference in manufacturing cost compared to the iPad Air is pocket change, way less than a M4 CPU would cost. It’s just Apple ripping off its customers as usual.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
How about a travel bag to hold all this extra equipment?
Completely irrelevant to the topic that Apple the cost of the Neo is not reasonable.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Did you read the post?
You replied to my post and I compared Apple hardware to Apple hardware.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
How much for a 13" display to match the real estate of the Neo display?
Look up the costs of 11" and 13" HiDPI displays and subtract the costs yourself. I’m sure you can do it.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
A18 Pro? Intel? Neither CPU is used in the MacBook Neo nor the 599 iPad.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
you have to spend $270 on a keyboard/trackpad regardless
That’s Apple tax, not manufacturing cost. MacBook replacement keyboards sell for 10 dollars on Aliexpress.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
How about a keyboard that is similar to the Neo keyboard?
10 dollars and that’s retail, not manufacturing cost.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
How much does each USB port cost per device?
A 5-pack of USB C ports costs about one dollar on Aliexpress.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t it about 40% cheaper than the M4 CPU macbook ?
It’s 100% the same price as another portable M4 computer sold by Apple
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
How soon until Asahi will run on it
Years. Asahi fully relies on reverse engineering by the community and those community members tend to get hired by the competition. Get a device where the platform designer supports Linux development upstream if your priority is Linux.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Please enlighten me then, if you don’t mind. Are there some good benchmarks out there that show the Inadequacies of the A18 chip?
I found several after only 30 seconds of googling, including Apple fans’ favorite benchmark: Geekbench multicore where the A18 is about 40% slower.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
The MacBook doesn’t have a touchscreen. It cancels the keyboard cost out.
They don’t even put touch ID on the entry model.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Similar iPads also come with a lot less ports, no physical keyboard, no aluminum clamshell protection, and a shittier OS.
If you honestly think these justify the crap CPU, you’re absolutely out of touch with reality.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Apple’s is $270.
Typical Apple tax, completely unrelated to the few dollars a keyboard costs for real.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Yeah 8gb of ram is unusable for most things.
Most notably web browsing which one would think this thing is mostly for.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Except for them to be directly comparable you’d also have to get a keyboard cover for the iPad, making it more expensive than the MacBook
One has a keyboard (cheap components), the other has a touchscreen. The cost cancel each other out.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but a tablet isn’t a laptop.
So form factor, not hardware internals should be the deciding factor in cost?
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
Reasonably priced Mac.
Phone CPU. Similar priced iPads come with a much better CPU.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 weeks ago:
makes it really good value
An iPad Air costs the same but comes with a much better M4 processor. The main difference is a less crap operating system in macOS.
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