That would be a huge ask, figuring that out for the American political system would be amazing.

Change the electoral system from first past the post to one of the saner alternatives (preferably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote) and the rest will follow on its own.

Abolish the 2 party system while you’re at it.

Videos that stop at 1080p often have an increased bitrate option with Premium (no idea how YT decides when to offer it). 1440p and 4k are available to all without Premium.

Are there any real advantages?

1. No 5 seconds forced delay when using ad blockers

2. Higher bitrates available

3. Ad blockers don’t work on Chromecast, other solutions don’t offer easy casting from the phone app

4. Better value than audio only services like Spotify

Well, of course. All notification contents go through Apple’s servers (or Google’s in case of Android).

Certain people in Iran also can access the internet to hack Western infrastructure, etc.

By your logic Iran’s internet hasn’t been blacked out either because politicians there can still post announcements on Twitter.

A nationwide intranet isn’t internet.

Pretty sure North Korea does not have internet.

Oh good, now you can watch ads on your giant tv when your console or PC game ends because the TV will know.

You connect TVs to WiFi?

They already explained why they didn’t.

Having a sense of humor helps.

True and people without any shouldn’t attempt April Fool jokes

Easy fix: Don’t fork OnlyOffice. Start your own office suite and just happen to port over some parts of the code base that do not include any logos. Same, same but different.

They can simply say on their download pages that residents of Brazil and California are not allowed to use their OS.

Mastodon.social is so much larger than other servers, that other servers have become afraid of defederating it.

Sounds like a way for users to protect themselves against random admins who might defederate a whole server on a whim.

The article’s author made an argument against the point he’s making.

There will always be limitations unless massive changes occur such as Google open sourcing their Play Services as part of AOSP. MicroG has limited resources to implement compatibility.

Then you are off-topic as well.

No. Pelespirit asked about Jolla which is mentioned in the article posts’s text body. I gave context for Jolla’s Android compatibility. It’s 100% on topic.

/e/OS is based on LineageOS.

And: “The Android compatibility layer of SailfishOS is based on AOSP, so the stack to get the most important 3rd party apps working relies as much on AOSP as any Android ROM.”

I don’t see it really as a downside compared to Android, since no OEM is running clean AOSP.

This article is about Fairphone with /e/OS, not some other OEM with a proprietary Android variant.

Are there any downsides to this? There has to be, right.

SailfishOS userland is proprietary software. AOSP is more open than SailfishOS. The Android compatibility layer of SailfishOS is based on AOSP, so the stack to get the most important 3rd party apps working relies as much on AOSP as any Android ROM.

Upside of SailfishOS: There is a decent chance that the upcoming Linux ARM version of Steam + Proton will run directly on that device.

No backups, no pity.

Could you give examples?

AMD, Intel. To a lesser degree Qualcomm. (I wrote platform designer, not notebook manufacturer.)

I don’t really understand which models to look at specifically.

As long as it’s without NVidia graphics and WiFi/Bluetooth not by Broadcom, it should be alright.