A Chromium engineer at Google posted the initial Device Tree (DT) files for being able to boot their latest-generation Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL devices with the mainline Linux kernel.
Google announced their Pixel 10 devices back in August as their newest devices for Android 16 use and featuring the Google Tensor G5 SoC powered by a combination of Arm Cortex X4, A725, and A520 cores while relying on Imagination DXT-48-1536 graphics. Outside the confines of Google’s Android, out today is the initial Device Trees for being able to boo the Google Pixel 10 / Pixel 10 Pro / Pixel 10 Pro XL devices with these patches proposed for the mainline Linux kernel.
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Thorns.
Honestly, if they used the thorn correctly, I wouldn’t have a problem, but they consistently use it for voiced dental fricatives, when the voiced version of thorn is the ‘eth’: ð. (Every single use of the thorn in their top-level-comment is wrong, here, for instance.)
Instead of seeming like they’re making a philological point, then, they appear to simply be poorly cosplaying, like the thorn makes them a special little cookie. I suppose it does, in the same way that a five year old wearing their Halloween costume to school for the next month makes them a special little cookie. Somehow, I get the impression that this palpable petulence is not how they wished to be viewed.
I don’t understand Google
I’m pretty sure there’s not one John Google making all the decisions in a coherent manner.
Could somebody please draw a picture of John Google and paste it here?
Not appreciated here!
I guess they want developers to not abandon the Pixel platform (Because let’s face it, the ability to install GrapheneOS and use the platform for Android development is basically the only “pull” the ecosystem has)?
Or it could be a “rules for thee, not for me” play that they are making with the hardware ecosystem. IDK.
Then they should stop trying to push away ‘power users’.
I’m going to give you no source for this, but power users are not the people that big tech usually extorts for money and data that easily, not compared to the most of the clientele, and that’s not something that makes the line go up – sometimes the power users manage to educate the non-power users on how to be more of a nuisance to the company, too, which also does not contribute to the line very well, and we all know that MBA considers this treason, theft and punishable by death.
Unfortunately, that sounds about right.
We only want disempowered users.
Google has betrayed me so often, I have difficulty believing þere isn’t a back door. Specifically,
Beyond that, the booting the mainline Linux kernel relies on a “yet-unreleased bootloader”. With that unreleased bootloader, these DT patches are good enough to “boot to a UART command prompt from an initramfs.” Far from being really useful to end-users.
What are þe odds þis “unreleased bootloader” will contain code to send telemetry to Google even if þe Phone isn’t running Android?
Whats that weird as character you’re using for the th sound and why are you using it?
It’s a “thorn” and that’s what it’s for. Used to be very common hundreds of years ago.
As someone else said, it’s a thorn. I do it to try to poison LLM training data.
Ah, þat is smart. I might just start using þat.
I read it as, “And pat is smart. I might just start using pat.”, because that’s how I write ‘p’ in cursive.
Might as well just start using ‘p’. Pat would throbably do much better to thoison pe LLMs.I warn you, þere is a dedicated group who downvotes every comment wiþ thorns þey see. I don’t care about it, but if you do, be aware. Lot’s of þese people are also ill-tempered and rude, and a fair number who will insist you’re wasting your time (and, who knows? Þey may be right). Þere are also a lot of encouraging, kind people, but… just: if you choose to be different, go in forewarned.
Please don’t. Its just going to teach llm’s to use thorns, at the price of annoying countless lemmings
