Kraiden

I was taught and fully believed that it was the literal and inerrant word of God, guided by his hand and infallible… so yes, finding errors in it was a disturbing. The authors or it’s age shouldn’t matter if they’re being guided by an all knowing and all powerful being. It wasn’t until much later that I found out how much of it is suspected forgery. Probably could have saved a couple years of agony there

Not op, but for me it was the fact that the supposedly ineffable word of God turned out to be pretty effible

It wasn’t the first step towards losing faith, or even the last, but it was pretty troubling to a young me

What? So first of, it really doesn’t. You don’t understand evolution if you think that’s what it is, but that’s beside the point.

You believe that a supernatural sky being made a mud man and a rib woman, who were tricked by a talking snake into eating magic no no fruit. Then 4 thousand years later, a zombie came and made everyone drink it’s blood and eat it’s body in order to get into the good magic sky place.

It’s real easy to dumb down peoples beliefs and make them sound stupid, especially if you misrepresent them.

The question was why do you believe in YOUR beliefs. It was not an invitation to be a superior asshole.

I too ignored the warning, to my detriment. Turns out, a possible answer to the question “how bad could it be” is “kill it with fire, then kill me to cleanse the memory”

Lol, I’d still take it. All I can say is the people flying with me better keep close. Ditto the ones breathing under water

Manifest any superpower at will

I just quickly browsed the reviews directly off the page you linked

https://furilabs.com/reviews/

The GPS one was from August, and skimming them again now, the impression I get is that it’s a great experience for a Linux phone but that it still requires a fair bit of technical know how.

Android/iOS level performance

That doesn’t sound sarcastic, and it pains me to say it but yes, for the core OS and features, I am unlikely to fully commit until it’s at that level of stability.

I don’t need wide app support, and I’m more than happy to tinker and run compatibility layers and whatever else for 3rd party stuff, but the core features of the phone have to be rock solid. That means GPS, WiFi, mobile data, SMS, MMS, Bluetooth, camera etc etc. need to be absolutely flawless. It’s a safety thing in my mind.

Not to mention when the rest of my hacky, cobbled-together, bad diy home infrastructure inevitably falls over, it’s usually phone I reach for to fix it. If that starts acting up too, I’m in deep paddle without a creek to stand in

ETAsk: do you own one? How do you find it? I’ve just read the review you posted and that is really promising

Just reading the reviews and it sounds like it’s got problems. GPS doesn’t work, mobile data is sketchy. That’s what I’m talking about. I’m fine to tinker and massage most of my devices into a working state, but not my phone. I can’t be messing around with terminal commands trying to get my gps working when I’m out on a trail for example. Can you imagine if there were an emergency and I first had to try and figure out why telephony was suddenly down before I could call emergency services? My phone is the 1 device that HAS to work flawlessly every time.

No, the hardware needs to be completely functional. I’m not asking for a native Signal app or banking apps here, but if I purchase a phone with wifi Bluetoothand nfc, I expect it those things to function. That’s not maximalist, that’s minimum viable product.

omfg yes!

What I wouldn’t give (or pay) for a 1. sleek, modern smartphone 2. running a pure Linux distro 3. that’s feature complete enough to daily drive

All of the current options available fall down in one of the three areas. Usually 2. and 3… mostly 3.

So uh… if you’re like me and don’t know what this is: If you do decide to google it, don’t open the wikipedia page on your work laptop…

Weird this was right below this in my timeline

the actual fucking Pinkertons

Are they based on real people?

It’s becoming self aware

Sounds like what he’s speaking

Paralives

because the original was a parade of normality?

That’s why I posted it. So people can decide for themselves. Doesn’t seem that bad to me, but then I’m a dev, so it’s really hard to judge what a non dev would be comfortable with

Depends on your comfort with CLI tools. Here’s the process (assumes Windows):

1. Download and extract platform tools
2. Add that location to your PATH

• Win + R, type “cmd”, enter
• set PATH=%PATH%;C:\your\path\here\ <- Temporary, just for the current session
• setx /M path "%path%;C:\your\path\here\" <- Permanent

3. On your device, go to Settings -> About and look for Build Number it can sometimes be buried in Software Information

4. Tap Build Number repeatedly until a message appears You are now a developer

5. You should now have a new Developer options menu item somewhere in your settings. Sometimes it’s top level, sometimes it’s buried under Additional Settings or Advanced Settings or the like

6. Make sure USB Debugging is turned on

7. Connect the device over USB

8. Back on WIndows type:

• adb devices
• You might get a popup on the device asking if you want to allow USB debugging. Select Yes, and run adb devices again. You should see your device listed

8. Download the APK of the app you want to install (AAB files are a PITA, but can be installed too. Try to get APK files though)
9. Install with:

• adb install C:/path/to/app.apk <- if adb devices only returns one device
• adb -s <device_id> install C:/path/to/app.apk <- specific device

You can install updates the same way, just download the updated APK and add the -r flag adb install -r C:/path/to/app.apk

More useful adb commands