Anthropic or not, the recent streak of supply chain and also targeted attacks got me packing into VM.

Now I run all devtools and install packages only inside the VM and either connect Zed / VSCode via ssh or run terminal ide inside the VM.

No host mounts whatsoever, all communication Host to Guest strictly through git.

I have a few examples of people replaced by AI.

Photoshop slop cheap ads on the streets and TV are mostly AI slop now.

Content creators, publishers, media, music industries are all heavily affected.

The company I know paid $2K for wireframe UX design instead of standard $10K UX + UI. UI part was done by AI ($8K in human labor was replaced by AI)

I know a few companies stuck with ancient software that have been paying salaries to generations of programmers, this software is being replaced by AI, quite fast too.

I know positions which are in essence “receive a fax and type it into the system” right now being replaced by AI.

This is neither pro- nor anti- AI stance. Saying that a chatbot will ultimately replace humans is lying — they need to justify trillions in valuations.

Saying that AI is not severely changing our society is ignorance and head in the sand tactics.

The majority of Internet traffic are bots. I’m terrified of the upcoming elections with all the deepfakes and bot campaigns.

People should not reinvent the wheel. FOSS Android has already solved many problems which Linux always will have, by design.

Non-preemtive scheduler which doesn’t take app usage into account will drain battery fast. Non-managed app platform is always a security risk.

The absence of a single app framework will always lead to a zoo. Any average Gnome installation bring all KDE and vise versa because different apps use different GUI and Desktop convenience libraries.

Google is trying to kill Android by moving more and more core functionality from OSS into proprietary services.

We need to fight back through forks and legislations. Android has started as a Linux phone 15 years ago? And has already solved a ton of inherent problems.

It is illegal to keep deleted profiles

No, this is have enough canned food scenario.

If the money would wipe out from the economy, that is less money for everyone. First round of bankruptcies will also wipe out contractors and debt issuers of the bancrupted companies, and so on. Mass layoffs. People cannot afford restaurants, or car washes, more businesses out, more mass layoffs.

In 2001 tech bubble the money haven’t been lost. Virtual valuation dropped sharply. But the economy recovered in a year.

This is like 2008, money have been poured into concrete and silicon chips. They were spend, gone for good. It will take a few good years to recover if the bubble would burst.

Mainstream phone as in “I don’t need to debug it via terminal”

The issue I’m pointing at: safe, long battery life, snappy maps while driving is what took AOSP more than 5 years.

It would be very unfortunate to discard all that work and start from scratch.

From the pure technical standpoint, AOSP is better in every way. Fully managed runtime gives better control over resources scheduling, better app sandboxing. Battery life. Uniform hardware support.

All obstacles for it to be open were artificially made by lawyers.

Like Jolla runs Android emulation layer. Same Android but without its benefits.

I made a full comment in this thread. The bottomline is

1. Sandboxing of resources both hardware (gyroscope, network devices) and data (photos, music) takes a lot of trial and error.
2. There is a need for an ecosystem: i.e. apps sould be able to create calendar events, or access shared mediaplayer — also with permissions
3. Developers need to adapt to the software ecosystem
4. Hardware companies e.g. smart watch, projectors, TV need to adapt

It all takes years.

Linux phones are around for enthusiasts since Nokia N900 (which was/is a masterpiece) — yet nothing is remotely close to a mainstream phone.

Flatpack is only a piece of the puzzle. I remember in early Android version, an app could increas gyroscope query frequency (i.e. a racing game demanding precise phone tilt), then crash and the gyroscope would drain battery within hours. And again — this is only one example.

The ecosystem must grow — to this day, I cannot set Immich as my default gallery app on LineageOS. So I take a photo, and can’t immediatelly look at it. And Android is already mature. There must be a standard and secure way of exchanging calendar events, notes, photos. Developers must adopt this new ecosystem — it takes years.

The best option we have right now is to pressure Google to allow alternative to Play Services and also sponsor AOSP development outside of Google. There are numerous Linux distros, including commercial ones, I don’t see why we can’t have numerous Android flavors.

It took 6-10 years for Android to take shape.

On Linux, every app has full access to your browsing history, clipboard (passwords), photos with geo-tags, music, list of other installed apps, contacts. Unrestricted battery and network access – it’s a tracking paradise. And all it takes is one supply chain attack on npm install with typical 4000K dependency packages