As a data point, the Orion Alpha is a Flatpak. Not sure about the telemetry status with that.

> The sticking point like always will be media playback (read: DRM/widevine). That is the graveyard where Linux browsers go to die.

The Orion Alpha is happily playing back Youtube video's at 4k for me out of the box.

Confirmed it just now with this one to make sure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFG3Ah-zf18

Youtube with 4k has always worked. Renting commercial videos on Youtube uses DRM.

By GPL, they're only obligated to release an offer that allows costumers to request the source code. They can still keep the source "closed" by default.

No they have to actually fulfill that request too. Once someone has the source they are then free to distribute it.

I don't remember if this is in the original text, but is there a time constraints on distributing the source on request?

If a user asks for the source, and the distributor says "sure" and then delivers it 12 months later, have they violated the license?

It has to be the source of the distribution the user currently has a copy of. So they can't just say "sure" and then wait until the next public release. I'm not sure about timeliness, though.

This is why most of Android outside of linux kernel is not GPL.

From other discussions, it sounds like they are shipping the copyleft source on time, only the permissive/pushover licensed stuff gets delayed source releases.

Apple don't give people the tools/keys/etc to load new OS (etc) onto a device once it's no longer supported.

So, at best the device can just be used with the latest version of the software Apple allows until it's a security nightmare and better off no longer used.

Instead, if Apple gave people the ability to load something (prob a Linux) onto those old devices, then those old devices could be used usefully for quite a few more years.

> Control over the oil industry doesn't require control over land.

That may be the case, but the US clearly does have control over the land, as they're literally telling Venezuela what to do with it.

That the US skipped a few steps of deploying troops on the same land first doesn't really seem to be here or there.

Yeah, sounds like the drive was still physically detected but that the expected boot loader wasn't present any more.

"room temperature" has a whole lot of variation without even thinking about the extremes of population location. :(

They gave it as a defined term with a pdf copy of https://www.goodrx.com/drugs/medication-basics/which-is-the-... describing the ranges - I just neglected to include all of that detail in my comment :). Another example of why it's great to discuss with your doctor instead of advice from forum comments! Googling around, apparently these values are standardized for pharmacology in the US by the USP, other areas may have other standards.

Hope that helps!

Heh, yeah the "68°F to 77°F" range which that PDF quotes as room temperature (20°C to 25.6°C in proper units) is very much NOT room temperature anywhere near me either. ;)

The last step in the receipt of my first beer batch stated: "now store it at a warm place around 21ºC".

No way I could find a place this cold during Rio de Janeiro summer.

Please don't go down the path of making personal attacks.

The hardware seems good, but with it being tied to the Apple ecosystem there's just no way.

I'd buy one if I could use it with my Linux (KDE) workstation, but there's no chance I'm going to be using it via a mac.

I'm hoping the new Valve headset will be like, 60% of what the Apple vision is. My boss got the Apple vision on launch day and it is really premier hardware, visuals that are almost exactly like seeing the thing you're looking at in real life, and the hand sensing / interactivity was the best I have experienced, even though it still had flaws.

But being tied to Apple's ecosystem, not being really useful for PC connection, and the fact that at least at the time developers were not making any groundbreaking apps for it all makes it a failure in my book.

If Valve can get 60% of that and be wirelessly PC tied for VR gaming then even if they charge $1800 for their headset it will likely be worth it.