PlayStations and god knows what is some closed BSD. Apple are not alone in eating the BSD free lunch and giving very little back for it. Kind of the point of the license. It’s why Linux took over in most places, you can’t just take because of the GPL.

Well that is always the risk from moving from stable anything. It is called Testing after all, and I have found and reported things a few times. I just had nothing I couldn’t fix and wasn’t fixed later. As I said, it’s about right for me. I put most people, and any servers, only on Stable.

I’ve found Testing works rather well as a compromise. It’s actually very stable, while most of the time, constantly updating. It’s only during freeze time it stops noticeably changing. At unfreeze, there is a load at once, but it’s yet to be a real problem for me in like 15y. SID is a bit too bleeding edge for my liking. The Arch and SID guys can be on the front line, that’s fine. I thank them for their service, but I don’t want it quite as interesting as that.

Roll with Debian Testing? Or even SID?

Both Darwin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

Oh you just know people has put NetBSD on a phone. Doubt it’s been done with a GUI though.

iOS is just a more UNIX, better designed, Windows. Closed OS of American big tech. If you are choosing between those two masters, go for it. But if you don’t want to be a serf to US big tech, or want to get the most out of old hardware, come find FOSS. It’s a far healthlier relationship.

Not all IP is self surviving. Even CopyRight isn’t always a bad thing, if you think of small artists, for example. My fear is about CopyLeft mainly as I feel it’s been incredible successful in pushing forwards openness. The megacorps hating it, tells you it is doing its job. Only of the things they love about LLM and code is it can license wash away CopyLeft.

It’s not just a tech issue. Funding tech dev is great, but there is a political problem.

We need to vote for politicians who get the need for competition and will fight vendor lockin. Who will ensure things that are needed to do stuff isn’t done only for the duopoly.

We need to support groups fighting bad politicians and getting into media to inform normal people. Who make legal fights. EFF, OpenRghtGroup, etc.

They did since it was online. It’s closed and online, the OS “owner” are the only true admin. If it’s closed and online, your “commands” are just “suggestions” compared to theirs.

To be clear, Microsoft ♥️ Money. Azure would be dead in the water if they didn’t support Linux. Web development is Linux development, so their platform would be dead for web development if they didn’t do WSL. They do only the Linux they have to.

Which phone works completely on postmarketos? Looks like only librem5, which are expensive, especially for the spec.

It’s pretty rubbish. I was under pressure from a few angles to compromise more with Google. GrapheneOS is were I am. But I want to be on a prober Linux. But it’s just not possible without competition law being enforced. It’s political problem not technical.

HSBC business. There is no fob. You have to get a code from their app to login online. That app refused to run on LineageOS with MicroG, regardless of the boxing and lying to it I tried. It does work under GrapheneOS with boxed Google services.

Not quite. I believe they are just splitting CUPS up. The core is just going to be deal with driverless printers. Other code goes into other projects to become adaptors for old printers to appear as driverless printers that CUPS connects to.

The fight was always going against these monopolies.

In the UK with have OpenRightGroup to some extent the Greens. In the US EFF, FSF, SFC. In the EU ESFe, Pirate Party, Greens.

There are many groups fighting the political cause. They have had victories over the years, but winning the odd battle doesn’t win a war. They all need support.

Until now, a lot of open source has tried to be nonpolitical, but that may be changing:

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fosdem_2026/

Fair enough. Doesn’t surprise me Telsa are more hot air and bluster then Waymo.

You got a link for those numbers? Very damning if true. 40x the humans and still worse stats?

We need to support political groups fighting for us, not just think in terms of technology. In the UK it is OpenRightsGroup, maybe the Greens party, in Europe there is the Pirate Party, Greens, Free Software Foundation Europe, and more. We should be trying to get politicians into this.

I’m basically am doing exactly this. But I’m only on GrapheneOS as I had to compromise on some closed apps that refused to run on LineageOS. GrapheneOS means I can compromise on Google a bit without being completely compromised by Google. The market and geopolitical problem remains.