I used to think so too, but my pi-hole just died the other week after four years of uptime. Couldn’t work it out, finally pulled the SD card out to reinstall the OS and found my laptop wouldn’t recognise it.

Made me glad I don’t run my mailserver on a Pi anymore!

No, AuroraOS is the Russian fork of Sailfish.

Sailfish was in kahoots with the developers of Aurora, but they split ties when Putin spat the dummy at Ukraine.

Personally I wouldn’t buy a Jolla C2, but if you can get your hands on an Xperia 10 (working features vary by version, my 10 IV is not too bad but the 10 III is more polished) or a device supported by one of the better community ports, it’s worth a go.

Replying from Sailfish.

It’s a mixed bag. VoLTE is required in Australia (no 2G or 3G anymore) and SFOS does support it so that’s good, but for some reason calls are stuck on speakerphone as the earpiece speaker doesn’t work. The GPS lock is quite slow. I also don’t have working cameras, and every time I unplug the charger the phone reboots.

On the plus side, the Android app support is really good (though I still use native SFOS apps wherever possible, but for banking etc. its handy). I have no stability problems, its pretty rock solid bar for the charger issue. I’ve daily driven it since about October last year, and honestly if I could make private phone calls it would be perfectly fine for me.

I will note that community developed ports are available for other devices with potentially better hardware compatibility, but the Android app support is not included as it’s proprietary (though Waydroid exists as an alternative) and VoLTE support is touch and go on other devices.

DS games were $50+ AUD fifteen years ago.

Quick search reveals some of the cheaper Switch 2 games are ~$65 and the more expensive ones are ~$90.

Given how much the buying power of $50 has decreased in the last 15 years, this seems reasonable to me…

Not here it’s not!

I model all of my UI choices off of old(er) school windows

Same lol. The casual observer wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between Windows XP and my Debian install, bar for the fact that I have a search bar in the start menu.

At least in Russia if he sued he’d fall out a window.

so America are still the good guys, right?

Knew exactly what scene this was before I’d even taken a good look, let alone read the text. One of my favourites, along with “I will not carry a gun, Frank”.

To be fair, POST could mean a number of things. Are we talking in a webserver context? BIOS context? The POST Office?

I got a fevah!

And the only cure…

is more pickle!

People still have 2G?

We haven’t had 2G for nearly 8 years. 3G was killed late last year.

It’s such a pain, so many devices don’t support 4G, let alone VoLTE.

Surely 2G isn’t that hard to keep running? It has far better range than 4G, meaning fewer towers are needed. Just keep one or two bands around to make voice calls easier.

Just email the author and ask for a copy

In other words, IEEE > Harvard

My life’s a mess, because under that dress she has a P - E - N - I - S

Yes!

I never thought I’d say this, but looks like we need more pandemics!

My uni also provided MATLAB, but I just used Octave instead for all assignments that required it and was never asked about it or told I couldn’t.

The rooster came before the egg?

I’ve been running one with a dozen or more users on bare metal at home for the last two years. A little bit of spam but otherwise fine. No deliverability issues or anything.

Oh won’t you please take me localhost??

Sadly no, because while Android is based on Linux, it is so far removed that the kernel is wildly different. Some teams such as mobian, SFOS, postmarketOS, etc. have got fair dinkum Linux running on android devices though.