Does anyone know if there's plans for more? Is this project in very early stages, or is it going to be another Graphene OS with an extremely limited device support?
There's also Poco F1, we just haven't released it yet, and I am yet to add it to the docs (we'll have a single common image for both op6(t) and beryllium soon)
There's also a person working on a Fairphone 5 support and I think someone was going to work on a PinePhone port
Contributions are always welome, we need more devices!
Just out of curiosity (not knowing anything about the complexity of adding new devices) what makes the support of a Xiaomi pad 5 and pad 6 possible, while there is not support for the pad 7 and 8?
Are these devices so different that none of the testing and development work is transferable to the newer devices?
And, reversing the question, if one was to be the owner of a such a Xiaomi device, what can be done to help them being supported?
GrapheneOS has such low count of devices due to strict support for security features reasons.
These projects (Linux on mobile) are even more limited due to very poor support from the manufacturer for anything more than OEM and device specific build of Android, with lack of standards in mobile platforms.
Every device support is reverse engineering effort.
See https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices for the status of this effort.
TL;DR the author is afraid their programming skills will atrophy.
Fair enough, but it's a specific part of programming that will atrophy: the actual writing of the code, which as every experienced programmer will tell you, is only one of many parts to being a software developer.
Meanwhile, other skills will develop more strongly: architectural thinking, and also how do set up strong guardrails to ensure your code keeps working while the agent goes to town on it.
I've learned more about automated testing in the last few months than I did in the past decade and I finally see why TDD and especially e2e tests are such a big deal - something which I'm sure every person who has managed a project with lots of contributors would understand already, but I was never in that position before.
So yes, my skills at writing code probably are in decline, just as any skill I'm not actively using. But that's fine, my overall, collective level of skills is as high as it's ever been.
And whenever I send an agent of to do a big task that'll take 15 minutes or more, that's a great time to go and read the Playwright docs, or study some articles on code architecture. Or go and take a walk or do some stretching. Honestly, I find (mostly) not having to write the code itself liberating.
I agree that the payoff from prediction markets doesn't seem worth it for this kind of manipulation. Collectively they hold a lot of money but I'm not sure how much individuals or groups are making. That story of someone making half a million recently was an outlier rather than norm, as far as I know.
But, what if prediction markets are just used for information gathering, but the real money is made from market manipulation via prediction markets? I'm sure a lot of investment groups watch prediction markets very carefully, if they can manipulate the predictions, or be manipulated by them, the money to be made is big enough for any level of effort to be believable.
This ignores metabolism. If you are in a state of high caloric excess (i.e. you eat more than you need every day, like most modern humans) and then you reduce your calories a bit, you'll see some initial minor weight lots, but then your metabolism will simply compensate.
To see real weight loss over a period of months you need to push past the point of metabolic adaption and stay there. Dropping a slice of bread won't cut it. That's why weight loss is so hard.
That's why exercise is useful for weight loss even though it won't do much by itself. You'll need to use every tool at your disposal to burn those excess calories.
But it will cut it, assuming you're moving your body the same amount every day. It just may take a while if you only cut a single slice of bread and you're wanting to lose a lot of pounds.
Your body mass doesn't materialize out of nothing. Food in, body mass out. Less food in, less body mass out. Simple as that. Everything else is optimization that's not really required, just eating less, patience and consistency.
His point was when you eat more calories than you need, then the body can afford to be sloppy (inefficient) about absorbing all those calories.
When you cut down a little on food but are still above or at your daily calorie requirement, the body can adapt by increasing its conversion absorption efficiency and in that case one wouldn't lose weight, because metabolically it's still absorbing the same amount of calories.
Do you have a source I can read through to understand more? I couldn't find anything supporting that idea.
Before dieting, I would expect most people to be in energy equilibrium, where their weight matches their calorie intake and calorie expenditure. Changing one side of that equation will change the equilibrium, every thing else equal.
If you eat more, you will gain weight. If you eat less... you will lose it. If you want to keep losing it, you have to keep eating less. Every target weight has an associated calorie intake / expenditure.
No doubt there are metabolic levers to pull to optimize the timeframe and that psychology and lifestyle play a big part of caloric intake, but, again, thinking about all that isn't really necessary.
Just eat less that you used to and be consistent about it. And if you're feeling spry, move more than you use to too. Keep tapering down until you're at your goal weight. This is the diet that is probably the best fit for 99% of people who are overweight. Dumb simple. No way to fail. Literally nothing to think about except the spoon, and maybe which route you're going to take walking around the block.
Those are mostly just arguing that exercise isn't a good way to lose weight. No disagreement about that, although to be super nitpicky, "not good" doesn't mean "doesn't work", they just suggest that there is a cap on how much exercise you can do before your body stops burning more calories, so there's an effective limit on that side of the energy equation.
Also, from the second one:
Long-term maintenance of weight loss requires sustained energy balance at the reduced body weight. This could be attained by coupling low total daily energy intake (TDEI) with low total daily energy expenditure (TDEE; low energy flux), or by pairing high TDEI with high TDEE (high energy flux
Steve is basically an Instagram influencer for coders.
He'll say whatever he can to stay in the spotlight, try to make you feel bad, that you're doing things wrong, that he invented things like agent orchestration when in fact he's just a loudmouth.
Ignore him and his stupid gastown and get on with your life.
As an Irish person, in normal speech the word "scheme" has exactly the same shady connotations as it does for Americans. Calling someone a "schemer" is a common insult. I've always assumed the government started using the word in a rare moment of honesty and it stuck.
Right, but that's a short term moat. If they pause on their incredible levels of spending for even 6 months, someone else will take over having spent only a tiny fraction of what they did. They might get taken over anyway.
By reverse engineering, sheer stupidity from the competition, corporate espionage, ‘stealing’ engineers and sometimes a stroke of genius, the same as it’s always been
So it's basically useless then. Even with Claude Max I have to manage my usage when doing TDD, and using ccusage tool I've seen that I'd frequently hit $200 per day if I was on the API. At 6x cost you'll burn through $50 in about 20 minutes. I wish that was hyperbole.
Because we all prefer it over Gemini and Codex. Anthropic knows that and needs to get as much out of it as possible while they can. Not saying the others will catch up soon. But at some point other models will be as capable as Opus and Sonnet are now, and then it's easier to let price guide the choice of provider.
Xiaomi pad 5/6
Oneplus 6/6T
... That's it.
Does anyone know if there's plans for more? Is this project in very early stages, or is it going to be another Graphene OS with an extremely limited device support?
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