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Qobuz at least has adopted a clear stance on AI use this month: https://community.qobuz.com/ai-charter

We are strongly committed to fighting fraud and apply a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to AI-generated content and AI-driven streaming activities. Our measures include:

• Detection and monitoring systems for AI-generated content (in development) and fraudulent streaming patterns (effective)
• Right to remove fraudulent catalogs when issues are identified

So maybe give them a couple of months to roll out their promised tech. If this charter turns out to be all talk then fuck'em but right now it's (in my opinion) to early to tell

If all you care about is installing and launching your games, then an GTK client already exists:

https://sharkwouter.github.io/minigalaxy/

Doesn't have galaxy's social features though

No it's not. The title of the article is "Israel Quietly Backs New Gaza Militias Fighting Hamas" (emphasis by me). You might say that that's a distinction without difference, but I think it matters on multiple counts:

1. The term "Zionist" refers to people holding a certain set of beliefs. The group therefore contains more members than the government. Which Zionists are backing the group? The original headline answered the question, the new one does not.
2. Using the term "Zionist" instead of "Israel" implies a motivation for the actions of the government not present in the original title. The new headline misrepresents the reporting it links to. We are talking about the Wall Street Journal here. Do you really think the would argue that the Israeli government funds Arab militias because of Zionism?

That's not the headline of the article.

Going by the unverified numbers on https://www.stopkillinggames.online/ more than 1% of the total Finnish population signed. Five thousand signatures didn't make the cut so now it's probably less than 1% but still impressive

The Jolla and the Volla phone both don't run Android. Or more precisely, Volla sells an version of their phones that uses Ubuntu Touch instead of Android.

His floats can be seen every Rose Monday at the carnival parade in Düsseldorf. The parade is also broadcast the same day on the tv channel WDR

yes it can. Official Saifish devices include an Android runtime called AppSupport. But be aware that not all apps will work. Especially banking apps can cause problems, because they frequently require google play services integrity. It's basically the anti cheat thing from Linux gaming all over again.

They've added a signup form for people not in Europe at the bottom of the page. (Pretty sure it's new, maybe I just missed it before) You can use it to register your interest.

In February 2022 Jolla announced that it has discontinued its business in Russia during 2021 and is seeking a shareholder structure without Russian ownership.

In November 2023 Jolla announced that Pirkanmaa District Court had approved a corporate restructuring plan which would see Jolla's business and staff acquired by a new company owned by the Jolla management team.

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

SailfishOS has been around since 2013. It's based on an even older Nokia project (from before they got bought and sold by Microsoft). Since then there has been a number of devices running it. In recent years that's mostly been the Jolla C2, a rebranded low spec device by Turkish manufacturer Reeder, and certain Sony phones, such as the Xperia V III. The latter doesn't ship with SFOS but you can purchase a €50 license and install it yourself.

There are also community ports that are unofficial and don't have all the features (Android app support is missing for example) but run on some other devices. The problem in ARM world is that OS's need to be tailored to the device (for the most part). It's not like on intel or amd PCs. So if you want to run it on your Samsung or whatever, then you can do that. It's just a lot of work.

It's somewhere inbetween. For the most part you have a standard Linux userland. The packaging format for example is just RPM. But the shells compositor can currently only properly display Android and qt apps. There has been some discussion at the last community meeting (where the devs answer questions) about improved Wayland support to change that, but that's where we are.

Furtermore, for drivers and the like some Android blobs are used. There are therefore some Sailfish specific apis that you need to target for some of the functionality.