My thought (from before smartphones) was a computer you could mount on your belt or in a backpack, connected to a pocket sized screen that could unfold or unroll to become reasonable sized

At home you could plug it into your monitor, mouse, and keyboard

I think I imagined a touch UI

It would have run Linux, but it wasn’t intended to be a phone

My PC has water cooling and 64 GB ram, and 32 GB vram. The video card has a half kilogram heat sink and two 10cm fans

Phones, even laptops, can’t compete, especially if they are running on batteries

I think Bambu have their own solution and since they don’t want their users using other brand filament they would be nuts to support an open standard

You obviously need to ID the spools and store values for all, the different hub weights aren’t a big issue if the printer knows the length of its filament path, how much filament the spool started with, and how much filament has been consumed it can work out the hub weight

Regularly changing filament fixes the problem of the load cell drifting, by allowing it to zero occasionally

You could warn on low filament, or not enough for this print, but load cells aren’t accurate enough to be certain about the last few metres, along with errors from cosmetic trimmed before feeding, or some is damaged and cut off, so I would still use the normal no filament sensors for stopping

Not saying it’s worth it compared to a software solution in the slicer

https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Sony_Ericsson_Android_Phone

I think they misread “our biggest launch” (the last line in the post) as “our biggest lunch”

That doesn’t sound easy enough for a new player

genocidal parent-company

What genocide did Microsoft commit? I somehow missed it

I feel like I’m an average person, and making the OS look nice is very high on my wish list. My day 1 task on a new system is to copy over my backgrounds, set up themes and colours, set up the right level of transparency.

I’m only half annoyed that I did all that on bazzite before I discovered I couldn’t stand an immutable system

I have only had problems from dist upgrade when I have been running server software (specifically email and mailing lists). Games, productivity stuff, pictures and so will be fine.

They’re not saying they went to Zorin, they’re saying they went from windows to Linux recently.

They are right to be happy about it

You can buy nearly any budget machine and load Linux off a USB stick, but most people just take whatever they have and their last windows action is to download a boot image and write it to a USB stick, then boot off the stick and tell it to use the whole disk

Then use your backup system to restore your documents, pictures, web and mail configuration, and game settings and saves to your Linux machine

Because 100k people found it when they tried to find a Linux

If I want my GPU supported without having to use level not parameters to boot and without manually installed drivers, Mint isn’t going to work

(I know because I couldn’t tolerate the restrictions of bazzite which was the default for my machine, so I installed Mint 22.1, it wouldn’t boot successfully. I added the nomodeset (noModeSet) kernel parameter at the boot menu to get the computer booted, then had to download and install the drivers)

People on new high performance hardware might find that all difficult

This is what you wrote:

This is only affecting roms that are Google approved and have Google play services installed…

What I’m saying is your connect would have been less confusing of you flagged that you were using an acronym oddly:

This is only affecting roms that are Google approved and have Google play services (GPS) installed…

GPS is usually decoded to global positioning system, which all phones use. Your usage of the acronym for something else is needlessly confusing. You could avoid the confusion by decoding the acronym yourself: … Google Play services (GPS)…

My different printer does that when it takes a break from printing to disconnect any stringy plastic, for example when it moves to check the print adhered correctly. Mine behaves better when I cancel. I can prevent that behaviour by turning off “AI check file”

Mint is pretty popular and that’s not much other than reskinned Ubuntu

Google don’t restrict unlocking the boot loader. I just checked on my Pixel 9 Pro Fold and the OEM unlocking toggle is still there. The only barrier is enabling developer options by repeatedly tapping the build number in settings/about phone, just like it always has been

You can only relock the bootloader with a signed OS image loaded

Red hat (in '99). I chose it because it was included on the disc that came with an IT magazine I bought at the time

I moved to Linux From Scratch a few years later, then to Debian. I have been on Debian based OSes since then, I like Mint at the moment

Knoppix was my favourite recovery and rescue live CD