I was also bored one day and made this image in response to someone sending the same thing but about Lidl

Ukrainian here, smaller town. Most stuff is purchased on a street market a.k.a. bazaar. But there are also two competing grocery chains, Tavria V and ATB. It’s like RED and BLU. Left twix / right twix situation. They are everywhere. Anything that isn’t no-name (and is food) is probably cheaper there than at a bazaar. Though I once saw them sell tiny ass stollen loafs for 12 whole bucks because “it’s a slightly niche foreign recipe so it must be expensive” (and same with pretty much everything else in there). Might not sound like a lot but this is a week worth of (other) food, idk how much stollen costs for neighboring countries but went on amazon.de and scrolled for a little bit to find a similar thing for 2 euro.

Bigger cities have one or two really large (3+ story) buildings, which are renting spaces for the two competiting grocery chains, arcade halls, casinos, pizza/burger stuff and small stores selling random foods by weight. When one enters, all sense of time is lost.

Plot twist: it’s using 2 gigs worth of frameworks and won’t even begin rendering the page before login.

Intel graphics support, or the absence of it

That’s like one of the best platforms.

Decent touchscreen support

Pretty much everything on Wayland LGTM. If something doesn’t look quite right (like, hover tooltips), it’s probably the fault of the widget toolkit and will also be broken on Windows.

Windows Ink

As in stylus/pen/drawing tablet? kwin has awesome support, other compositors have some basics.

WSL which I use with NixOS

??? you want a container? distrobox can do that, or something like this

Adobe apps

true… slightly outdated repacks work fine in Wine tho

PowerPoint Libre Impress (…) it’s not even close

Wine.

idk works on my machine

Most apps print stuff in the same loop as everything else, so stuff like alacritty might help it a little bit. It’s not really that significant most of the time, however.

A little bit more about the sponsor on HackerNews.

If you are a lazy bastard not wanting to click this, basically there a quite a few issues with the main goal of Hack Club (not the fiscal sponsorship sidequest), such as not using a privacy policy for kids for 11 years, many leaks of said data and misclassifying workers in at least 2024.

I did that before just getting Arch.

Also, I wonder if KDE on Ubuntu stuff still includes that FUCKASS FONTCONFIG FILE THAT MAKES EVERYTHING LOOK SHIT I SPENT 4 HOURS LOOKING FOR

Gotta love promoting Electron slop like Element right next to stuff claiming sustainability

Despite sleep (the “wake up on every network event” kind of sleep) not being implemented in most PostMarketOS devices, I fucked around with my Redmi and found that the battery lasts much much longer on standby (if I don’t forget to close the apps because they won’t unload themselves)

If you have a whole ass Android container like Waydroid (instead of stuff like android-translation-layer being developed), you can just put MicroG there. Or whole ass Google services, if for some reason you decided it’s a good idea. It’s just Android.

But yeah, hardware support suckzzzz

Unless I an seriously misunderstanding, a 5$ wrench would be used instead of that “torture nexus” and then someone has to pay for giving shitty equipment.

If your user is in the input group (set up in pretty much every distro), you can use uinput over netcat for forwarding devices (display server agnostic) without extra privileges. Same with the video group. No idea if anyone used this in an actual remote desktop piece of software tho.

All problems eventually lead to slowly solving overpopulation

Hmmm, don’t Libreoffice devs test it with actual MS Office instead of guesstimating the format?

Another thing that helps is baking in the fonts or using metric compatibles to MS ones.

display drivers

describes an issue that would be the job of your compositor & window manager

ODF support is in MS Office as well, but if you want to be extra sure you can export as .doc from any office suite (Libreoffice should also tell you if a feature you are using can’t be exported).

“to code”

All foam does, you need a unique property for the name

Oh, see, unlike on x86 where you have the ACPI to detect hardware with minimal device quirks (still a lot of them), everything else doesn’t have that. Well, except some Qualcomm chips, but their implementation sucks and basically only works reasonably with Windows and Windows Phone. So you need a device tree blob (DTB) to tell the kernel where everything is. But enabling all of the drivers in a single kernel build makes it not fit (the partition for that is traditionally quite tight), so you make different kernels per device.

AND, on Android in particular, lots of features need device specific configuration for all of the small stuff like the proximity sensor and the cameras (a LOT more complex than webcams). This + the need for OEMs to insert their own spyware and the already existing tradition at the time to make device specific images made the decision stick around. There’s GSI, which basically forces the OEM to write drivers and all of that with a stable-ish API to make universal images possible, but it results in a system with lots of tiny inexplicable problems that slowly make you loose your sanity in my experience.

How postmarketOS handles it is that there are basically meta packages per device that depend on the kernel package appropriate to the device (sometimes for a whole platform or SoC, having multiple DTBs inside for each device) that flashes itself to the appropriate partition via a post installation hook, as well as all of the config files for apps that need device specific stuff and don’t already have it upstream (like camera apps).