- Manufacturers (e.g., Qualcomm, Samsung) won't return your call unless you buy in huge quantities, hundreds of thousands or millions of units.
- Lack of documentation.
- Information restricted by NDA.
- Non-free binaries required for lots of hardware.
- Generally lording over the market and exploiting their position, to the degree of anti-competitiveness, and as a consequence artificially extending the rein of non-free software in the mobile domain.
- Astonishingly poor quality of engineering.
open blob SoC
What do you mean?
There are no good phones due to the way the SoC and modem manufacturers work. The best phones, like the PinePhone or PinePhone Pro, are simply the least bad.
what do recommend to do?
Port lineageOS to it.
Qualcomm QCM6490
No good for free software OSes then :-(
Russia is strongly associated with communism in many people's minds. Including many Russians'.
Not sure I agree with that assessment.
Martin Butler - Corporeal Fantasy 115 (Business managers and intelligence)
For those who can't watch the video, what's its reasoning for why managers exist?
with New PipeWire Audio Backend
facepalm
I thought PipeWire was supposed to be an implementation of the PulseAudio and JACK APIs, requiring no new public API. Disappointing.
I live in the UK and nothing you've said here is congruent with my experience. I don't recall ever being in any building whatsoever that had no indoor toilet, including pubs.
there was
In the past. A long way in the past.
as we moved to the later half of the 20th century
The move to the later half of the 20th century was 70 years ago.
your work sees all your browser history
Possibly, if they've bothered to configure their machines that way. And only on the browsers they've configured that way and only on their machines.
Also, please don't assume that your work operates the same way as everyone else's work.
Which binaries do you mean?