What now?

Some options:

• Gadget Bridge allows connecting most devices fully locally
• PineTime simple, but cheap and free of corporate nonsense
• RePebble (coming later this year) - I just learned and it in this thread, but it looks promising.

Ooh. Thanks. Today I learned about RePebble. If it doesn’t deliver, there’s still also Gadget Bridge (connect most devices fully locally) and PineTime (another spiritual successor to the Pebble).

The idea with story points is you assign them consistently, so the team’s velocity is meaningful.

Yep. But then we got some data and it turned out that story point estimates reliably create a lower quality velocity then simply counting tickets, ignoring their obvious massive size differences.

Any time spent estimating story points, creates negative value.

Sources:

• Story Points Don’t Work
• No Estimates - An Introduction

It’s actually not a crime to mercy kill and dispose of the body of anyone who says “Well, it’s a simple task. Are you having difficulty?”.

It’s an obscure and weirdly specific law.

(This is a joke, of course.)

I’m just learning this is an option, but Matrix Signal Bridge.

Best I can tell from the documentation, we add the Matrix server bot to a signal account, and it relates messages between the two platforms.

they’re mad that Linux devs regularly stop creating P&CI features, instead opting for CLI with no P&CI equivalent action.

I’ve never seen this?

It’s typically a completely different developer who creates the CLI first, and then one of us adds a P&C after.

So if something is brand new, sure there might be no P&C, yet.

I promise There’s no conspiracy to not have nice things. Haha.

Installing software on the command line is often a nightmare

In my experience, installers are often a nightmare.

For me, GUI vs CLI have about the same failure rate (for their operating system).

But I appreciate that the CLI version gives me a message I can search for instead of a “fuck you buddy” pop up box with an “ok” button.

Edit: There’s one case where I have a much harder time with CLI installs - when there’s only a CLI “installer” available. I don’t blame the CLI for that, I blame the person who shares seven CLI commands instead of writing an installer.

You may want to check out Ghost Commander and it’s many cross platform clones. They include a nice mix of graphical and batch command tools.

Shit. I wish we had that option (dragging files between folders) on Linux. Maybe someday.

(This is a joke, about how it feels like a lot of folks with strong opinions about Linux haven’t tried Linux in a long while.)

Linux has a UI now.

The amount of command line is grossly exaggerated.

Welcome!

Let’s see, what useful welcomes advice can I share…?

1. You’ll find lots of Linux users here, but we’re harmless.
2. I’m not sure our interpretation of Star Trek’s Gowron has any remaining relationship with the original character, but I guess he’s one of our mascots, now.
3. If one of us starts to go on about how federation works, it’s okay to nod and back away slowly. Federation works just fine without understanding it.

Is there a way on lemmy to have small communities new post always come up on the top of your feed?

Choosing “all/new” gets the job done.

And many Lemmy clients have more options with additional cleverness to get a feed with a mix of fresh and familiar.

It’s worth pointing out (to communities thinking about moving) that there’s nothing algorithmically suppressing new content here.

Getting (and staying) noticed is way easier, here.

Would you settle for a meme about a character from Star Trek installing Linux on something?

I kid. We’re growing. But I agree, we could spend less energy on then.

They mostly ban our accounts when we do, but I don’t mind. I like to tell people when the party has moved, if they seem cool.

Don’t worry, I’ll fix it all with my unchecked political influence once I earn my first billion.

(This is sarcasm.)

Ah…ah…ah…ach-<no one should be allowed to bomb hospitals>-choo!

Welcome!

In case you’re very new, I should mention something about this place…

We have the best Star Trek memes, here…

Well, the most anyway…

Okay not the most…

But our devotion to Star Trek memes is both adorable and worrying.

Flippers because we’re penguins because we love Linux?

We’re not going to live down that time we held a guy at gunpoint in Grand Theft Auto to help him consider switching to Linux, are we?

Welcome to the party!

What happens? (If, because again, that’s not what has happened, so far.)

• GrapheneOS would continue, but probably not manage compatibility with the next Pixel phone.
• Various forks of Android Open Source get created, with mixed success. Existing phones will keep working, new phones with proprietary servers drivers are much less likely to work.
• We create something like ndiswrapper to help us extract weird new phone hardware drivers and make them work with open operating systems.
• The fully open phone hardware projects suddenly get a bunch of new customers.

The last point is the only thing I’m confident is preventing Google from taking their fork of AOSP fully closed. (Yes, I know it wouldn’t be legal. But I’m not sure their lawyers think they would be held accountable. Most people don’t understand the existing laws Google already breaks daily since purchasing YouTube.)