the company has been pushing forward with its flagship phones for the betterment of the entire Android ecosystem, rather than just its own benefit

Pretty sure making it harder to install a custom ROM (potentially without GApps) on Pixel phones is mostly driven by its own benefit.

I hope F-Droid comes to EGS. Tim Sweeny is a crusader for openness after all…

I have a Chromebook with a Ryzen APU (Ryzen 3250 or smth). And while it handles all web tasks really well, it completely struggles with Android Apps. Even apps like “YouTube Kids” or “Prime Video” run far worse than their web couterparts.

That’s why future ChromeOS won’t be a dedicated OS with an Android running in a VM. They’ll be actual Android.

Works every time for me.

Then you use different applications than I. For me X alone only works sometimes. It’s not like I made the shortcut up. It’s literally what Valve is documenting:

Huh? The default desktop shortcut for it is just X.

X alone doesn’t work in many text boxes of desktop apps.

can you rebuild swype

It’s a skin for Qt Virtual Keyboard.

It does but not automatic. You have to press STEAM-X all the time. It’s really not a smooth experience at all.

This will be great for Steam Deck.

Won’t help Steam Deck if Valve ends up stripping out this keyboard the same way they disabled Maliit.

It’s just a Plasma skin for Qt Virtual Keyboard. Not that this is bad but KDE developers are co-maintainers of Maliit and ended up contributing very little.

A fall back of “kwin_x11 not found, let’s boot into kwin_wayland instead” is an upstream thing.

users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login

You’d think Plamsa would just offer a fallback to log into a Wayland session instead of completely failing.

Politicians enact tougher trade rules on China:

China steps up their game and fills the voids of remaining western products.

Western companies meanwhile bitch moan how reversing some outsourcing to China is impossible.

DeX is pretty cool. Google should have gone that route from the beginning instead of that split strategy with ChromeOS. More Android apps would support big screens were it not for ChromeBooks running a different, web based OS.

Are the desktop components now finally fully localized?

CLA and copyright assignment are different things. In some jurisdictions copyright assignment is impossible. That was among the clashes European FOSS contributors had with the Free Software Foundation and Richard Stallmann in the 1990s and 2000s.

MIT license already allows this, with or without CLA.

That’s why you can also take Microsoft’s MIT code and make proprietary software out of it.

No, Windows has various subsystems. This one is for Linux.

When Windows NT 3.5 launched, it came with subsystems for POSIX, OS/2, and Win32 because in the WinNT world even the Windows frameworks are a subsystem. Disclaimer: I didn’t check if in Win11 this is still the case but I guess so.

At least they disable the monetization features of Brave but making stupid Google Meet such a hard requirement to compromise of all ethics? WTF?

The submission’s topic is the Android version, though.

Osmand is slow

Yeah, rendering speed is atrocious. Organic Map renders much smoother.