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I don't think it's that easy, you'd have to design said phone (and its camera sensor) with those lenses in mind. Almost every iphone generation uses a different lens, too, which makes this even harder. And I doubt Apple is eager to share their designs and specs with a third party.
 
Again, you'd have to rethink the whole production process with a greater focus on durability, repairability and reusability for these changes to work.

Apple is far from being alone in doing this. To some extent, demanding all iphones turned in to Apple be refurbished and resold no matter how outdated they are is probably unreasonable - however proper and environmentally friendly (when possible) disposal should be legally mandated.
 
There's also the fact that these devices (not just from Apple) are designed to be hard to repair and to be obsolete within a few years, which worsens the ewaste problem at the root. A lot of people should probably be more mindful of their devices and try to make them last, but there's only so much you can do when, by design, they aren't built to last.

Apple is far from being alone in doing this. To some extent, demanding all iphones turned in to Apple be refurbished and resold no matter how outdated they are is probably unreasonable - however proper and environmentally friendly (when possible) disposal should be legally mandated.
 
There's also the fact that these devices (not just from Apple) are designed to be hard to repair and to be obsolete within a few years, which worsens the ewaste problem at the root. A lot of people should probably be more mindful of their devices and try to make them last, but there's only so much you can do when, by design, they aren't built to last.

Apple is far from being alone in doing this. To some extent, demanding all iphones turned in to Apple be refurbished and resold no matter how outdated they are is probably unreasonable - however proper and environmentally friendly (when possible) disposal should be legally mandated.
 
There's also the fact that these devices (not just from Apple) are designed to be hard to repair and to be obsolete within a few years, which worsens the ewaste problem at the root. A lot of people should probably be more mindful of their devices and try to make them last, but there's only so much you can do when, by design, they aren't built to last.

Just because it is the default doesn't necessarily mean there isn't another codec source available. Already lots of videos are VP9 and H264 and which is played is picked via device hardware support.
 
Devices that don't have AV1 won't necessarily be playing AV1 source and software decoding.

It's not just phones and tablets, PCs don't have hardware AV1 decoding before Nvidia 30 series, AMD Navi 2X (RX 6000 series) and Intel 11th gen. Desktops wouldn't be bothered much but laptops will face the same problem.

Likely because it expects your system to have old packages. This, by the way, is the reason Arch Linux officially discourages partial upgrades or downgrades.
 
What are you even trying to do that requires an old unsupported kernel? Will 4.19 LTS do? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-lts419 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-lts419-headers
 
If you MUST have 4.20 I would recommend taking the 4.19 PKGBUILD from the aur package and changing it to pull 4.20 instead, the required steps are likely the same.
It's worth noting that your system may have packages installed that OP's does not. Also you may have different versions of various packages.

The kernel itself is likely to be problematic on Arch current if it works at all.
If anything you might be able to pull the current PKGBUILD and reversion it, but I would still expect problems.

In terms of running an old version of Arch, the problem is Arch itself isn't versioned, there is no set release. If you wanted to run an old version of Arch you would need to grab an old archiso and manually pull in packages based on versioning.
 
As far as other distros, I know ubuntu keeps a archive of old releases and archives packages similar to Arch. If I recall you can even replace the mirrorlist urls with the the archive mirrors to use apt as you would normally, they would just be out of date packages based around that release.

https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/
https://askubuntu.com/questions/91815/how-to-install-software-or-upgrade-from-an-old-unsupported-release/91821#91821
 

I recently had overheating issues on Linux and thus booted into Windows when trying to play any games. Until that also didn't work anymore. Having Turbo and Ultimate Profiles on for CPU and GPU in Armoury Crate apparently wasn't enough to set the fans at the proper speed (I had also taken the laptop to service and the issue still wasn't resolved) so Ii decided to look into different solutions on Linux, since it's my main OS.
 
This has nothing to do with the thermal issues I was having (asusctl resolved all of these since I can graphically set the fans to be at 100% on high temps) but as I was researching Linux distros to use I suddenly came to the realization that the diversity of the Linux ecosystem is so useful to so many people.
 
Want something that just works? Linux Mint and BazziteOS are your best friends. Want something that has the latest and greatest? Arch and Arch-based is your friend. Want to use your new PC to the max of its capabilities? CachyOS with its v3 and v4 compiled packages for newer CPUs literally leaves any other OS (Linux or Windows) behind. Want something as secure as possible? Silverblue, Bazzite and MicroOS are there to have your back. Went something reproducible you can install easily to as many machines as possible? NixOS and BlendOS are outstanding choices.  
Many people think that this diversity is problematic but I think people need to think outside of the box. A PC is a holistic system from hardware to software. If people went to the shop and could choose something for their use case EXACTLY then the world would be a much better place functioning much better.
 
For example, a student PC could come with lower specs and Linux Mint preinstalled. A gaming PC, would have high specs and CahcyOS to make the best of its capabilities. A work PC, would use something like Silverblue for Security.  
It's this abundance of choice that makes Linux so great as well and I think a lot of people oversee that.

Summary
Nearly 20 years after the debut of LiMux, the project where the city of Munich, as well as Lower Saxony, migrated the majority of their computer systems from Microsoft Windows to a custom Linux distribution before being cancelled in 2017, someone else is now ready to take on the challenge. This time, it's the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Citing the goals of independence, sustainability, and security, the state is planning on migrating its 30,000 computers to Linux and other open source software.
 
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I hope them the best. Chipping away at Microsoft's business monopoly is always a good thing.
 
Sources
https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/Presse/PI/2024/CdS/240403_cds_it-arbeitsplatz.html
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/04/germanys_northernmost_state_ditches_windows/

What do you expect me to give you? A full list of every service that comes preinstalled in Ubuntu and what they do?
systemctl list-units --type=service just compare the two and look up what the extra services do. And it's certainly not the google account integration that is slowing down your boot, if it really is slow. I haven't used Ubuntu in a while but I don't remember it ever being particularly slow.
i3 is a window manager, not a desktop environment. It doesn't ship with applets, icon sets, animations, themes, settings menus, a login screen, launchers or anything of the sort, plus some preinstalled utilities and variety programs. DEs come with all of those and some extras for user choice, because they have to account for most users. Try pulling down the entire plasma metapackage and see if your system doesn't become just as "heavy" as manjaro.

let me translate that for you:
 
apple has stopped binding components to devices by serial number, using some false pretense about calibration profiles to avoid facing regulatory backlash for actively blocking any sort of repairability of their devices.
 
you cannot get legitimate parts to repair apple devices without agreeing to horrendous agreements designed to put repair shops out of business.
 
on top of that, the stolen phones argument is complete BS here. no one is stealing phones to harvest their battery and display.

Boo only for iphone…

There's no such thing as a "higher level distro", what you're referring to are derivatives. The point of them varies but generally they spawn when a group of people like a given distribution, but want to change a few things. For example manjaro is for people who generally like using Arch, but prefer a less involved installation process and having some sensible defaults out of the box. Artix is mostly Arch but without systemd. And so on.
Ubuntu has almost nothing to do with Debian anymore, it's not just Debian with a nice installer. Mint is an effort to have either of those distros with an out of the box light and convenient desktop... maybe it's not to your taste but saying it has no reason to exist seems a little much.
Linus was trying to run non-native software through a compatibility layer, using a distribution that is not that widely used (mainly because it's designed by a manufacturers specifically for their hardware) and expecting it to magically work without a hitch. He said at the time that this just indicates Linux wasn't ready for mainstream gaming, and you know what? I agree - if you want to run windows games without issues then just use windows, duh. But I wouldn't blame that on Linux or pop_os... it's just an unrealistic expectation.
 
Personally I wouldn't recommend pop_os over Ubuntu if you don't have a system76 system for a variety of reasons, but it doesn't mean pop_os has no reason to exist. On system76 hardware it's probably a very smooth experience.
Perception isn't objective so it's never really right or wrong... but I will say you tend to have strong opinions about things you don't necessarily understand very well.
You also have to add the extra repository, and either way if the driver isn't present in the installer you might be stuck with a black screen before you even get started. That's increasingly rare because the foss drivers have gotten better, but it does happen at times.
Yeah, there's more to these distributions than just taking debian or arch and adding a graphical installer... lots of preinstalled services that are enabled by default, for example. If you use arch, try counting how many systemd services you have enabled since first installation just to get a usable desktop...

There's no such thing as a "higher level distro", what you're referring to are derivatives. The point of them varies but generally they spawn when a group of people like a given distribution, but want to change a few things. For example manjaro is for people who generally like using Arch, but prefer a less involved installation process and having some sensible defaults out of the box. Artix is mostly Arch but without systemd. And so on.
Ubuntu has almost nothing to do with Debian anymore, it's not just Debian with a nice installer. Mint is an effort to have either of those distros with an out of the box light and convenient desktop... maybe it's not to your taste but saying it has no reason to exist seems a little much.
Linus was trying to run non-native software through a compatibility layer, using a distribution that is not that widely used (mainly because it's designed by a manufacturers specifically for their hardware) and expecting it to magically work without a hitch. He said at the time that this just indicates Linux wasn't ready for mainstream gaming, and you know what? I agree - if you want to run windows games without issues then just use windows, duh. But I wouldn't blame that on Linux or pop_os... it's just an unrealistic expectation.
 
Personally I wouldn't recommend pop_os over Ubuntu if you don't have a system76 system for a variety of reasons, but it doesn't mean pop_os has no reason to exist. On system76 hardware it's probably a very smooth experience.
Perception isn't objective so it's never really right or wrong... but I will say you tend to have strong opinions about things you don't necessarily understand very well.
You also have to add the extra repository, and either way if the driver isn't present in the installer you might be stuck with a black screen before you even get started. That's increasingly rare because the foss drivers have gotten better, but it does happen at times.
Yeah, there's more to these distributions than just taking debian or arch and adding a graphical installer... lots of preinstalled services that are enabled by default, for example. If you use arch, try counting how many systemd services you have enabled since first installation just to get a usable desktop...

There's no such thing as a "higher level distro", what you're referring to are derivatives. The point of them varies but generally they spawn when a group of people like a given distribution, but want to change a few things. For example manjaro is for people who generally like using Arch, but prefer a less involved installation process and having some sensible defaults out of the box. Artix is mostly Arch but without systemd. And so on.
Ubuntu has almost nothing to do with Debian anymore, it's not just Debian with a nice installer. Mint is an effort to have either of those distros with an out of the box light and convenient desktop... maybe it's not to your taste but saying it has no reason to exist seems a little much.
Linus was trying to run non-native software through a compatibility layer, using a distribution that is not that widely used (mainly because it's designed by a manufacturers specifically for their hardware) and expecting it to magically work without a hitch. He said at the time that this just indicates Linux wasn't ready for mainstream gaming, and you know what? I agree - if you want to run windows games without issues then just use windows, duh. But I wouldn't blame that on Linux or pop_os... it's just an unrealistic expectation.
 
Personally I wouldn't recommend pop_os over Ubuntu if you don't have a system76 system for a variety of reasons, but it doesn't mean pop_os has no reason to exist. On system76 hardware it's probably a very smooth experience.
Perception isn't objective so it's never really right or wrong... but I will say you tend to have strong opinions about things you don't necessarily understand very well.
You also have to add the extra repository, and either way if the driver isn't present in the installer you might be stuck with a black screen before you even get started. That's increasingly rare because the foss drivers have gotten better, but it does happen at times.
Yeah, there's more to these distributions than just taking debian or arch and adding a graphical installer... lots of preinstalled services that are enabled by default, for example. If you use arch, try counting how many systemd services you have enabled since first installation just to get a usable desktop...

There's no such thing as a "higher level distro", what you're referring to are derivatives. The point of them varies but generally they spawn when a group of people like a given distribution, but want to change a few things. For example manjaro is for people who generally like using Arch, but prefer a less involved installation process and having some sensible defaults out of the box. Artix is mostly Arch but without systemd. And so on.
Ubuntu has almost nothing to do with Debian anymore, it's not just Debian with a nice installer. Mint is an effort to have either of those distros with an out of the box light and convenient desktop... maybe it's not to your taste but saying it has no reason to exist seems a little much.
Linus was trying to run non-native software through a compatibility layer, using a distribution that is not that widely used (mainly because it's designed by a manufacturers specifically for their hardware) and expecting it to magically work without a hitch. He said at the time that this just indicates Linux wasn't ready for mainstream gaming, and you know what? I agree - if you want to run windows games without issues then just use windows, duh. But I wouldn't blame that on Linux or pop_os... it's just an unrealistic expectation.
 
Personally I wouldn't recommend pop_os over Ubuntu if you don't have a system76 system for a variety of reasons, but it doesn't mean pop_os has no reason to exist. On system76 hardware it's probably a very smooth experience.
Perception isn't objective so it's never really right or wrong... but I will say you tend to have strong opinions about things you don't necessarily understand very well.
You also have to add the extra repository, and either way if the driver isn't present in the installer you might be stuck with a black screen before you even get started. That's increasingly rare because the foss drivers have gotten better, but it does happen at times.
Yeah, there's more to these distributions than just taking debian or arch and adding a graphical installer... lots of preinstalled services that are enabled by default, for example. If you use arch, try counting how many systemd services you have enabled since first installation just to get a usable desktop...

My last experience with NVIDIA on Linux is like 4-6y ago so I can't really comment on that. But I remember it was a pain back then.
And the biggest issue is to actually get to the desktop without the driver rather than install it. If you are already versed in Linux it may not be a hurdle but if you're a new user you'll be left clueless.

Run a systemd analyze critical-chain. As you'd expect the distros like Ubuntu that take longer to boot just launch services for "just about everything a random user could want/need" by default. 
That's the price to pay for an OS to have most things anyone would want on a desktop OS there ready for them without needing manual install/configuration, because no random user wants to have to manually install/configure something. So if a distro aims for general adoption it just has to do that. Conversely the average user doesn't give 2 hoots about 20 second longer boot times.
 
That said it's often the stuff the user installs that slows down boot times. When I did a fresh Ubuntu install on my laptop it started in <5secs, insane. Now it's more like 10-15 once I have my stuff on.
 
No different from Windows.

Alternative headline:
US lawmaker proposes to backup the Internet
 
If we assume that the likes of ChatGPT have crawled large parts of the Internet, then that's effectively what would be required. Simply providing links is nonsense, since these will either become stale or the content behind them might change over time.

Sounds like it's waiting for something on the network, or maybe polling removable drives (like a card reader).
 
Do you have any network shared drives mounted to drive letters?

That's correct.
 
Also correct, however keep in mind that the NPUs use significantly less power. So probably not much of an increase in battery usage (but it would be a measurable consumption).

The LMM of Siri would be small and complex enough to perform local tasks within the phone. Think of Siri being the same, but with common sense.

It's probably trained so that if it can't answer your question appropriately based on the locality of data, it will just forward it to the cloud to a much larger GPT. To the user, it will seem like one seamless operation regardless of the bifurcation between local and cloud based LLMs.  

This is likely still not desirable since you'd still be working with a limited battery life. It would certainly save a lot of money for the service provider though.
 

...which leads into the point that there's generally a reason these things are they way they are. As you said, off-the-shelf components are intended to work with a variety of other parts and manufacturers would (understandably) rather stick to safe defaults than deal with a flood of "incompetent" customers complaining that their device didn't work out of the box, despite being advertised as compatible with the rest of their setup. I would wager most of these users also prefer this arrangement.
 
It's a bit like cars - most people use their car to commute and don't care that they could theoretically get 10% more hp by tweaking the fuel injector settings, with a slight chance of being left with a non functioning car in the process...

I mean, getting it to show up at boot time wouldn't be too difficult, MSI boards have already done something like that where they'll yell at you on start up if you put the memory sticks in the wrong slots. It shouldn't be that much more effort to convert a system like that into saying "hey, enable XMP pls"
 
Whether or not that's a good thing is up for debate. XMP isn't 100% reliable, and since a lot of the "Average Joes" that OP is talking about aren't going to want or even know how to troubleshoot a non-functional XMP and wondering why their system is just randomly blue screening, not having a message like that will likely save them quite a bit of customer service requests.