Mastodawn

Help shape the next Jolla Phone!

We’ve got access to a modern 5G smartphone platform, and we want to hear your take on what the next-gen Jolla Phone should be.

What screen size makes sense? How much memory is enough? What are your must-have features?

No strings attached, just cast your vote and help us explore the potential:
👉 https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/next-gen-jolla-phone/23882

Please spread the word so we get as many persons as possible to vote and share their views, and that we can make this happen! We intend to keep this initial questionnaire open for a couple of weeks.

#Jolla #SailfishOS

Randy Simons Jul 28

"EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google" https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1mau7yl/eu_age_verification_app_to_ban_any_android_system/

Who comes up with this kind of utter shit? This effectively kills any and all free alternatives, including #europe's own #sailfishos! As if the #appzwang situation isn't bad enough already.

Randy Simons Jul 14

Mastokarl 🇺🇦Jul 14

Europe must veto this!

https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/apple-will-seriously-consider-buying-mistral-report

#mistral #apple #EUSouveränität

Apple Will Seriously Consider Buying Mistral: Report | AIM

Are acquisitions the way forward for the company to resolve its AI issues?

Analytics India Magazine

Randy Simons Jul 13

Gisteren in #enschede deze knalgele #parkiet van letterlijk van straat gered. De dienerambulance komt straks langs, maar natuurlijk nog beter als hij/zij weer bij de wanhopige eigenaar terug komt!

#boost je mee?

Randy Simons Jul 2

@Jolla An update for the European alternative, brought to us via Zoom and Microsoft PowerPoint! 🤐

#sailfishos

Randy Simons Jun 11

Can you believe these screenshots are taken from an MSX2+? That its Yamaha V9958 videochip was capable of *this* in 1988? But yes, I've improved the MSX2+ AI Image Converter even further! Better AI model! Better scaling! Installable for offline use!

Convert your own pictures to SCREEN 12 format using https://randysimons.codeberg.page/msx-screen12-ai-image-converter/

More info and source: https://codeberg.org/randysimons/msx-screen12-ai-image-converter

(Also, the four balls are rendered with TracerBlender in GWBASIC! https://codeberg.org/randysimons/TracerBlender)

#msx #v9958 #retrocomputing

Randy Simons Jun 11

Ik ben die stomme "1+1 gratis"-aanbiedingen in de #jumbo wel beu. Het gevolg is dat ik me helemaal permanent genaaid voel als het níét in de "#aanbieding" is.

Ik grijp inmiddels veel meer naar B- en huismerken. Erg jammer dat de Lidl hier weg is.

Niet dat ik geen gebruik maak van die aanbiedingen. Ik reken ze nu wel apart af, zodat ze transacties hebben vuile profiteurs die alleen voor de aanbiedingen komen maar niks anders kopen!

Randy Simons Jun 6

Kevin Keijzer May 25

Ondertussen heb ik een eerste versie van https://appdwang.nl online gezet, gebaseerd op het werk van @appzwang.

De verschuiving van open standaarden zoals HTML5 naar "apps" die slechts op twee Amerikaanse platformen werken is dramatisch voor onze vrijheid, privacy en soevereiniteit.

Ik hoop er binnenkort nog meer adviezen, nieuws en voorbeeldbrieven aan toe te voegen. Alle hulp is welkom natuurlijk.

Bied weerstand tegen appdwang! | appdwang.nl

Bied weerstand tegen appdwang en laat je geen apps opdringen! Op appdwang.nl vind je praktijkvoorbeelden en argumenten om duidelijk te maken wat je van appdwang vindt.

Randy Simons May 31

So, I trained a neural network ("AI") to optimize conversion of plain RGB images to YJK for SCREEN 12 of MSX2+ and TurboR. That conversion is notoriously hard, because of the quirks and limitations of the 1988's Yamaha V9958 Video Display Processor.

You can use the tool yourself at https://randysimons.codeberg.page/msx-screen12-ai-image-converter/

The entire process runs in your own browser. Including the creation of .dsk image or .zip. *Nothing* is shared!

Examples of the output running in an emulator are attached.

#msx #v9958

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Randy Simons May 27

To clarify: it did not have the bootsector for MSX (although I didn't ask) but it did for MS-DOS. There are slight differences - MS-DOS disks are not bootable on MSX because of that - but it does have the knowledge on how to write a parser for a FAT12 disk, so that it uses correct information when adding files.