Price looks competitive, but we’ll need to see the specs. Considering the price of ram and storage nowadays, I don’t have high hopes.

I’ve heard Google use Debian as gLinux and I feel many other giants also use it and sponsor it and I’m not comfortable choosing it as my distro.

They use Debian for the same reason all heavy industry is built using steel and not whatever flashy new composite is in the news today. It works. Debian is slightly harder than Ubuntu / Mint to install and set-up, but probably the easiest to maintain since it is extremely stable and forgiving. It will also work on just about any hardware.

And don’t worry about the sponsorships. Debian is run by the community; the sponsers don’t get to decide anything.

Sorry, my bad. So these people are software funding agencies?

While this is great, aren’t wealth funds required to get a return on investment? How does that work here?

Try disabling / uninstalling the system apps in question (make sure you’ve installed an alternative first!).

Dumb phones mostly run java or a lightweight OS like Firefox OS. Android is bloated.

From my experience with Radxa boards, I don’t think they’re aimed at business users. They’re well-made and powerful for their size, and I 100% love the “let’s see how much stuff we can squeeze into an SBC” energy, but you do need time and some tech knowledge to set them up and iron out the bugs. They’re great dev boards, and of course a company with a good IT team can make good use of them, but a business buying these over better-supported platforms would be being penny wise and pound foolish.

Rock Pis can have up to 32 GB RAM, and a much more powerful processor (RK3588). You might need active cooling, though.

As non_burglar said, RISC-V is so far mostly used for small chips for embedded systems. This could change in the future, of course, but you might not have a good RISC-V laptop by 2027-28. There is also a concern that the chips themselves need not be open-source, but there have been open-source designs such as XiangShan, which is comparable to A76.

Currently, your options are DeepComputing’s DC-ROMA, which uses a SpacemiT SoC K1, and Framework’s Laptop 13, which has a StarFive JH7110. Neither CPU is fully open.

On the software side, there is better news. Debian has accepted RISC-V as one of its main architectures.

There’s a lot to criticise Samsung for, but A and M 10/20/30 series phones still have SD card slots.

Great success!

You’ll have to write one yourself, then.

Motorola is notorious for not providing updates. Which is sad, because their phones have decent hardware, almost-vanilla Android and allow bootloader unlocking.

Also many models still have headphone port and expandeable storage.

Good. Now make it replaceable.

Sir this is a-lemmy. We all hate Microslop, rich people and cars here.

Yes. A group of US companies have bought Tiktok US. Tiktok elsewhere is still owned by the Singaporean / Chinese company.

Don’t spend $50 on boots that will only last a year. Spend $100 on the boots that will last 5 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

True, but it would only work in the US, no? Tiktok itself is still Singaporean, and they don’t care about Israel’s crimes being revealed.

How does the sale of Tiktok’s US operation to a US consortium affect a Palestinian?

… an account that appeared to have the same username was still visible on TikTok in Australia – but not in the Middle East, when Al Jazeera checked in different geographies.

Either she got banned on the real Tiktok - and this has nothing to do with the sale of Tiktok US - or she and Al Jazeera are using US Tiktok in the Middle East (but why?).

I’m a huge fan of Xiaomi’s phones (for the hardware and pricing) but let’s be honest their software isn’t exactly their strength. To be fair, it has improved in recent years.