Waitwaitwaitwaitwait, haha Intel did us dirty again. There is no performance improvement whatsoever, they just lowered the internal resolution. The 10% "performance improvement" is simply the difference between 2.0x and 2.3x upscaling. Malicious fuckers.
There may be a quality improvement but that cannot be determined by anyone affiliated with Intel as they're clearly using every opportunity to lie about this. WTF?
By the fact that none of the apps I use day-to-day on my Android phone have viable alternatives on non-Android Linux.
I'd have to run Android inside a container on the mobile Linux which isn't the best experience and if I need to have Android running anyways, might aswell use regular android.
While it'd be cool to have, I don't really need a proper freedesktop userspace on my phone if I'm honest.
Android is also simply leagues ahead in mobile UI things.
No, they've got the same information as us. That's why they explicitly say:
when Covid pandemic lockdowns and social distancing appeared to have halted circulation
It is still speculation, not data.
I'd tend to agree with the speculation but it's still speculation.
I consider those measures to be included in "lockdown" but it's besides the point: The paper contains no evidence that those measures made it disappear, just that it disappeared.
Sorta.
You still need to trust a full Linux kernel and x86 hardware system.
Exodus shows all permissions the app could use or request. You have denied all of those.
That article is interesting and important but it does not show any causal links between lockdowns and the disappearance.
It is, for example, also possible that it was merely displaced by SARS-CoV2.
Non-android mobile Linux is not mature enough yet.
Note that the web clients are all GPLv3: https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients
It's only the mobile apps of the auxillary services (drive, pass etc.) that are proprietary. And I don't get why either because it wouldn't hurt them one bit.
The only important instance I know of would be your audio server (pipewire, pulse) which could also explain why audio continues to work.
how do I disable rtkit? It seems to just start up regardless of what I do.
Masking the service should do it.
Just a hunch but I'd look into rtkit. A bad process with realtime priority could starve out others.
Temporarily disable rtkit and log out.
That whole situation was such an overblown idiotic mess. Kagi has always used indices from companies that do far more unethical things than committing the extreme crime of having a CEO who has stupid opinions on human rights.
I 100% agree with Vlad's response to this whole thing and anyone who thinks otherwise should question what exactly it is they're criticising.
I don't like Brave (super shady IMHO) and certainly not their CEO but I didn't sign up for a 100% ethically correct search engine, I signed up for a search engine with innovative features and good search results. The only viable alternatives are to use 100% not ethically correct search indices with meh (Google) to bad (Bing, DDG) search results. If you're going to tell me how Google and M$ are somehow ethical, I'm going to have to laugh at you.
The whole argument amounts to whining about the status quo and bashing the one company that tries anything to change it. The only way to get away from the Google monopoly is alternative indices. Yes those alternatives may not be much more ethical than friggin Google. So what.