It’s perfect for what my sister in law needs, but it’s not something I would generally recommend

She really just needs a real operating system for her phone for school

We will consider a used M1/M2 used, but I would expect Apple to stop supporting those sooner than the Neo

I’m not a lyricist, but this is at least closer…

Who works for a place that licks AI’s taint

Thanks, you typed more than I was going to :)

Only note is FEX and the Android compatibility layer were two separate goals Valve put a lot of work into, so I wouldn’t classify it as a side-effect.

One is to allow Windows games to work on the Frame, the other is to allow Android games to work on the Frame

FEX is to allow running x86 programs on ARM, but they’re only targeting the Steam Frame (SteamOS/Arch Linux) right now.

That VR headset uses a processor similar to phones, but they have not announced anything about moving to using these tools to allow you to play Windows games on Android

There are several moving pieces, so I understand the confusion

I would call it Android emulator for Linux.

The point is to be able to install and run an Android APK on SteamOS (which runs Arch Linux)

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No, other way around, Steam Frame runs Linux.

The Meta Quest VR headset runs Android, so Valve has worked on an emulation layer for Android games on Linux, ideally allowing developers to just release current Meta Quest games on their headset.

As bad as people are, something like a Tesla is much worse

https://electrek.co/2026/01/29/teslas-own-robotaxi-data-confirms-crash-rate-3x-worse-than-humans-even-with-monitor/

And something like a Waymo costs $250,000+ which is… Hard to swallow

https://sfist.com/2025/04/25/you-might-soon-be-able-to-buy-and-own-your-own-self-driving-waymo-car/

uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 or LineageOS flashed onto a LG Tribute with zero Google apps, and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?

Hey now, it’s a Pixel 8 and Raspbian.

Two google apps in a separate profile with a different pin

I’ve heard Windows ME bad, but I’ve almost never heard someone call Windows 2000 bad

You need an equivalent of ACPI in the x86 space to catch on in ARM/RISC-V if you want a general purpose OS to be viable on phones

There’s sort-of kind-of SystemReady in ARM but it’s a far cry from the standardization of ACPI on x86 desktops

UserDB does hold data connected to individual user accounts

I would argue, for now, this is malicious compliance from the open source community.

Adding an optional field in the UserDB to store an age covers the requirements of the law, without trying to help with the spirit of the law

But I do understand the boiling the frog side

A pull request to revert it was posted, but wasn’t merged

Edit: The revert patch being denied is when the drama started

They haven’t, whatever your opinion on it…

Pottering responded no and closed it, stating it’s just an optional field others can use how they please

You have to convince investors why your AI research won’t hit a wall like LLMs are now - they’ve poisoned the term “AI”

They’re a dead end, insofar as they do all they’ll ever be able to; if you can find use for them at their current level, great, but it does not look likely they will be able to do more than they currently can

You see it all the time in Disney animations, Pixar animations, you see it with sprites being the same for clouds and bushes in Mario…

I don’t really see an issue with asset reuse, as long as the actions make sense in the new context

LLMs are a dead end, and the massive amounts of money being wasted on them will make people too scared to invest in other forms of AI.

So we are currently at a local maxima that we won’t overcome in 10 years. It will take much longer before we try a different approach to create “AGI,” and the wasted money on LLMs will slow other forms of AI research, leaving us stagnating for >10 years

Qualcomm and most phone manufacturers try extremely hard to make sure you can’t run your own operating system on their hardware.

A bug in their security preventing you from installing your own operating system has been found on a specific Qualcomm chip - the Snapdragon 8 gen 5, which, at least for some Xiaomi phones, lets programmers load their own versions on the devices

The last time we tried using them, the computer came with Windows 98…

They were horrible back then, not really sure how they are still in business.

I hadn’t noticed how closely Altman resembles Phelps until the side by side in this thread