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GlockAF t1_ja56or9 wrote

Reply to Samsung may shift its next-gen foldable phone production to India - Times of India by Mahameghabahana

Samsung is taking the long view. Chinas working age population falls off the demographic cliff in just a few years, they are already suffering the effects now.

Too many old people, not enough young to support them. They’ll get ancient even faster than Japan did, but with the added dystopian malaise of a non-existent social safety net and a stock market that’s been fictional for decades.

Indias population, for better or worse (and generally it’s worse) is relentlessly growing.

The smart long-term manufacturing investment is NOT in China

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earthman34 t1_ja51c62 wrote

Reply to comment by E_K_Finnman in Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone - Nokia G22 has removable back and standard screws allowing battery swap in less than five minutes at home by speckz

I suppose that's possibly handy, the problem is these "repairable" phones are usually specced pretty low, making them unattractive to enthusiasts who would actually be likely to do any repairs. Replacing the battery isn't something normally done within the 3-year or so life of a phone, anyway. I'd frankly be much more interested in a phone that's easy to install alternative software on.

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nonagonsopen t1_ja4nwp4 wrote

Reply to comment by UtsavTiwari in Samsung may shift its next-gen foldable phone production to India - Times of India by Mahameghabahana

It's not negativity or that I don't like the country? lol It's just a fact that India is loaded with slaves and I'm simply shining a light on the fact. I don't want them to be exploited further by giant tech companies. Guess we shouldn't talk about it so it goes unoticed.. that seems like the ideal solution /s haha

I'm trying to help them.

https://www.antislavery.org/what-we-do/past-projects/india-debt-bondage/

Guess we can't call them slaves we have to call them "bonded laborers" which is cough cough a slave.

I love everyone in the world and I don't want anyone to have to be a slave or a bonded laborer or whatever word you want to call it.

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orangeibook t1_ja4nddh wrote

Reply to Linux Now Officially Supports Apple Silicon by Avieshek

“There is an ongoing news cycle about Linux 6.2 being the first kernel to support the M1, started by ZDNET. This article is misleading and borderline false.

You will not be able to run Ubuntu nor any other standard distro with 6.2 on any M1 Mac. Please don't get your hopes up.

We are continuously upstreaming kernel features, and 6.2 notably adds device trees and basic boot support for M1 Pro/Max/Ultra machines.

However, there is still a long road before upstream kernels are usable on laptops. There is no trackpad/keyboard support upstream yet.

While you can boot an upstream 6.2 kernel on desktops (M1 Mac Mini, M1 Max/Ultra Mac Studio) and do useful things with it, that is only the case for 16K page size kernel builds.

No generic ARM64 distro ships 16K kernels today, to our knowledge.

Our goal is to upstream everything, but that doesn't mean distros instantly get Apple Silicon support.

As with many other platforms, there is some integration work required. Distros need to package our userspace tooling and, at this time, offer 16K kernels.

In the future, once 4K kernel builds are somewhat usable, you can expect zero-integration distros to somewhat work on these machines (i.e. some hardware will work, but not all, or only partially).

This should be sufficient to add a third-party repo with the integration packages.

But for out-of-the-box hardware support, distros will need to work with us to get everything right.

We are already working with some, and we expect to announce official Apple Silicon support for a mainstream distro in the near future. Just not quite yet!”

https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/109931764533424795

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