caseyweederman

Depression is like a goldfish. It expands to fit the space it has.

25.10 isn’t on the main upgrade path. Serious users migrate to the new LTS every two years, and very serious users pay for the twelve-year support plan.

Furthermore, 25.10 is a short-term release that exists as a preview for 26.04. 25.10 will receive security patches for nine months. 26.04, as an LTS, will receive security patches for up to 12 years (most of which are paid). Nobody should be seriously migrating to 25.10.
If coreutils-rs does get into the official release of 25.10 and totally tanks it, well, that’s what short-term releases are for.

The parts are on backorder

Came here to post that. More context: Short story by Cory Doctorow about apartments having mandatory proprietary toasters that only toast bread baked by the company , which then goes out of business, which makes the authorization handshake fail, which makes all the toasters useless, and then plot and stuff happens. It’s a good read.

Company pays a kickback to condo building
Condo building puts one of these in every unit
Your lease is nullified if you interfere with the ad loads

3-5 weren’t made by Cyan, just published by them. They only got the rights back relatively recently.

“Cute little thing like that, yeah, I’ll grab 20, one for each keyboard in the house, a few at work, a few left over for harmless pranks SEVENTY NINE DOLLARS clooose tab”
I’m sure the quality is nice but I’m just gonna scribble Tux in with sharpie.

Nom nomtana

Vnc is tried and true

Yeah. And if nobody’s done your specific model, you’re all the way out of luck.

Technically most things we call “Linux” aren’t even Linux, they’re distributions that use Linux as a base. Android forks their own Linux kernel and then shovels on a whole bunch of non-Linuxy stuff on top of it and then locks it all down so that you can’t make any changes.
So what people mean when they say they want a true Linux phone is that they want an OS on their phone that behaves more like most Linux distributions (where you are in control, and can even install a different kernel if you wanted).
As for the forking question, being downstream of Android means A) undoing everything they did it lock it down and B) constantly having to do that moving forward as they do everything they can to stymie you at every turn.

Not easily anyway. Probably if you could do it at a hardware level, but manufacturers have been making it harder and harder to even get the dang thing open, and every model and revision would require intense research just to prove it out.

Hope that all the tiny little people had the sense to get out of the way because I sure can’t see them from all the way up here

Obligatory Mandy Patinkin was making the opposite point than is suggested by the OP’s excerpt

That is the exact plot to The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society C.M. Waggoner

I’d have upvoted a poorly-lit photo of some scribbles on a napkin

I also choose this guy’s dead wife

You won’t like Silksong then

About the same really