DiabolicalBird

As much as I love Linux I'll be the first to admit that it probably won't catch on with average users for a long time. Most people really don't want to have to troubleshoot anything and just want something that works out of the box, and Linux isn't really able to deliver that consistently.

I'm curious to try a Linux phone myself, but being in Canada importing new hardware is expensive and the other phone models that are compatible are ancient, and often without VoLTE support which is gonna be mandatory pretty soon here

They've been saying "maybe it's the year of the Linux desktop" for years, mobile Linux only reliably works on a handful of specific modern devices and some fairly old ones

I wouldn't hold my breath for it

Keep that shit out of government. How is this nonsense still relevant? The first criteria for faith is suspension of disbelief, I have a hard time trusting leaders that bring up anything regarding religion.

I knew I had a good old fashioned photoshop version lying around

Meanwhile in Canada, if something falls into a niche good luck finding it in person. It's getting beyond frustrating trying to buy in person to avoid Amazon, then finding out that nowhere carries it and having to order from Amazon anyway.

That's what we get when Canada is a handful of monopolies in a trenchcoat instead of a country.

Most people I meet here seem to be generally resentful of immigration and turn a blind eye to the UCP's blundering. It always comes back to "bUt ThE nDp" when pointing it out.

There is nothing too hard for people to ignore once they've picked their team, and frankly the cruelty is the point for a lot of them. Empathy is not a strong point for Albertans.

It specifies the European market, not sure how well it'll play with Canadian service providers. I'll have to wait and see before dropping $1000 (before shipping) on it. VoLTE is pretty much required here and last I heard that was tricky for Linux phones

For now I have GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8 Pro, but I'll keep an eye on this one to see if it'll be compatible in Canada

What a disgusting shit hole of a province I live in.

It's like no one remembers all the policy decisions that the conservatives have made that lead us here, then they scapegoat immigrants so that no one looks too closely at the UCP's decision making.

The comments keep mentioning Linux phones, have they managed to get Linux running on mobile hardware that I won't have to go on an archaeological dig for?

If we want the year of the Linux desktop to actually happen we need to have good GUI tools for almost everything. The second you say "command line" most people's eyes glaze over and they say they'll stick with Windows. Believe it or not guys, most people just want something that functions out of the box and they don't want to mess with it.

This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.

This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you'll likely need it later.

It's a region dependant luxury. Where I live, transit has tons of tweakers and unstable people. Especially during winter. The city doesn't bother cleaning blood off the walls for weeks after a stabbing.

I'd love some proper investment into transit and security on said transit, but I'm not holding my breath