At least with the vendors I’m referring to (2/3 that make all Android phones), they just took the open source code, hacked it up as quickly as possible to get some basic drivers working, and moved on.

There wasn’t any “special sauce” in the source, they just didn’t want to spend the effort to upstream it

Edit: Just because you said “hardware open source” I wasn’t advocating for open hardware, just for hardware vendors to, ya know, support the hardware

Linux phones try to build from upstream Linux, and the major phone SoC vendors HATE upstreaming their code.

They believe every character in their source code is absolutely top secret.

A middle ground I wish was considered more is taking Google’s kernel and the vendors DLKM partition/DTB/DTBO for hardware support, and putting a GNU userspace on top.

This has had problems in the past, because vendors would modify syscall tables such that they don’t match userspace anymore, but with GKI, I think we’re closer to that being a possibility

Just gotta go back to tri-channel

The corporate images for our company come with Firefox ESR, and you can file an automated request for Chrome if you want it added 🤷‍♂️

We got one for my sister in law, and she likes it for college.

She wanted to just use an iPad, but she had to have macOS for the proprietary test tool spyware. It runs on the neo

Edit: to be clear, this advice is specific to Ubuntu. If you come across this and need advice for a different distro, message me or reply to this

Yes.

Ubuntu doesn’t follow upstream kernels, so they will have to make a custom backport for 6.17 to fix the kernel

It’s very unlikely you need the module that has the bug, so the mitigation should work for you

Just double check lsmod | grep aead

As long as that module is not loaded, and you have the kmod update that adds /etc/modprobe.d/disable-algif.conf you’re protected

The kmod change makes it so the affected module cannot be loaded, it was their initial workaround

They explicitly state the top input module has to be changed to support the new battery in the video here

https://frame.work/ca/en/laptop13pro?tab=upgrade-to-pro

Unless you can put the old battery in the new bottom panel, you have to upgrade all 4 at once if you upgrade the bottom

They also said you need the new touchpad and top plate to have enough clearance for the battery

Bottom panel, input panel, battery, and speakers have to be all pro together

You can put the new input panel on the old bottom panel, though

Wait. So the flaw was in uutils, and this article reported it as a systemd bug…?

Debian on my personal computers and servers.

Ubuntu on my work desktop, RHEL on work’s servers

I wouldn’t consider Debian “Canonical”-y, it’s just what they happened to pick as their upstream.

I tried some of the atomic distros, but ran into too many problems. When I buy a new computer, I sometimes have to run Opensuse Tumbleweed or Arch to get new enough hardware support… Too lazy to rebuild my kernel and mesa at home

The software manager they’re using already looks like GNOME 3+

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/

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

Why do people keep referencing this like it was merged…

It was specifically rejected

Maybe to help, you can see where you’ve enabled “repositories” that APT can download from in /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d

As long as you haven’t manually installed a .dpkg package, or manually modified it, they should be something like

deb.debian.org security.debian.org

Some things like Slack may try to add their own repositories down there

When you type “sudo apt install” it is allowed to install from any configured repos down there

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

At least for a long time, you had to set up RPMFusion to be able to play media, and having the additional repos tended to break on major upgrades for a bit after release

So, for beginners, it was a bit painful to suggest