We can hope. 🍷🍷🍷🍾

That’s part of the plan. 😏

I’m getting $40 worth of joy looking at that, so fair. 😃

Yeah, it’s not hard to rehab a cast iron skillet after messing it up. 🙂 I still got a cheap stainless skillet after some sauces experiences though.

I do this too, and it doesn’t seem to be a problem most of the time. 🙂

I also regularly cook fatty meat or fry things in it, so it gets some nice work inbetween, which probably helps.

Acidic stuff will eat into the seasoning on cast iron, so that be careful with those.

The old cast iron skillets might have lead.

This is why god made humans. He gave us free will as an experiment in chaos. We are the millions of monkeys typing on typewriters.

That sounds like a milestone. Pop some champagne and go on a date. 😄

Companies are rolling vacation time and sick time into one block called “Paid Time Off” make themselves look better.

Was it a conversation or a knowledge dump without a lot of interaction?

I like the other person to show a little bit of interest in me, but that’s just me. I could be wrong.

Qualcomm is pretty dumb. Even if this were true, they’d still be leaving Linux support to the community.

That’s fair. This seems like desktop Linux 25 years ago. Only special hardware works, and there are lots of hacks to get around the Windows only hardware.

It can work, but there are limits.

Pretty much. Google does a lot of heavy lifting, and they have a lot more pull with companies, which is why Android works now.

It really is too bad that Google didn’t have to move Android to the Linux Foundation and make it a true community project.

Hardware wise, I’m not sure. Google Pixels seem to be the most likely hardware target in the short term.

Software wise… Probably GrapheneOS and LinageOS forking Android to create a community OS around it, and PostmarketOS as the full Linux phone distro.

There’s bigger problem is going to be replication of the backend services Google provides. Push services for instance. That’s going to be a project in itself.

Indeed. Wood chippers roll out!

The universe is just being restored from backups. It took 7 days to fond a backup which would boot, and the Time to Restore was wildly inaccurate.

Oh, so it’s written in Lisp.

The primary ways in which the Mozilla Foundation earns money is through search partnerships, donations and grants.

Yes. It’s the same thing with the Linux kernel and other large FOSS projects. There isn’t a perfect fit for Android, but it would be better than the way ASOP is run now.

As for Red Hat, this comes down to subscriptions or enterprise offerings, neither which really apply to a consumer OS unless you’re willing to pay a subscription fee out of pocket.

Consumer devices ship with proprietary software which is licensed all the time. It could be a library or an entire OS. Consumers are not the target market, like consumers aren’t the target market for RHEL.

The prime example is Windows. It’s licensed to Dell or whomever and ships with the hardware. The license is baked in.

Some people might be willing to pay if the price is reasonable enough. Android has support for major vendors, so using it as a base would be a boon to people doing things like media boxes and signage.

I doubt there will be much to be earned from offering consulting or training, either, unless they make Android exceedingly confusing to use.

It’s the opposite. Make it easy to use. Companies pay for tools which reduces developer time.

The only companies that would pay for Android are OEMs who are already making thin margins, and effectively it’d drive the price of non-iPhones up.

The smaller OEMs would pay for licenses, PS hours, and backend services. They don’t have the expertise or budget.

Samsung? They’re going to keep doing what they’re doing because they have the expertise and budget to fork from upstream. It’s possible they would rally around Android, like companies have rallied around the Linux kernel.

OEMs do this with Linux already, so it would bring Android more inline with the norms.

It could be profitable the way RHEL or the Mozilla Foundation is profitable.

Companies will pay for OS support, and companies will pay for access. Android as a foundation with a company selling OS support and services which could be rebranded would be profitable.

I’m thinking about the wider IoT space here beyond only mobile.