• melfie@lemy.lol
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    7 hours ago

    Who wants Android on a PC? If anything, let’s get some better options for Linux on phones, tablets, and TVs.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 hours ago

    Everyone else is asking why and here I am wondering why an American company would use the English spelling of aluminium instead of the American spelling “aluminum” (Americans drop the last I).

    Or maybe the author just wrote it in English out of habit and the word looks like the American version at a glance. But it’s something I notice.

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      Fun fact: “Aluminium” is the international / official spelling. But where Brits have to take the L, or rather the F, is with “Sulphur”, because the international / official spelling of that is “Sulfur”. The others aren’t wrong, but they’re not the standard.

      Anyway, I wonder if the international spelling has anything to do with it. Or maybe it just follows better from Chromium.

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    11 hours ago

    Yeah, hard pass. Don’t let an OS which has a walled-garden by default for apps get a toe in the door. Android is based in Linux, use that instead.

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      Because it will give Google full control over your device and it’s software. Same reason they try to close the app landscape on Android.

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    Okay. Are they going to do the same thing they’re doing in Android now? Are we going to need to use ADB to install software without their consent?

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    11 hours ago

    Honestly, anything is better than windows. Even if it is horrible, its still some competition to microsoft.