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.

For Linux there’s Notepadqq

https://notepadqq.com/s/

It’s not mentioned on the store page, but according to the accompanying form thread, the whole thing is based on a unspecified but “powerful” MediaTek SOC

I’m not from Australia and I knew that. But you are probably right, I’ve edited my post.

As have Spain and the Netherlands

You’ll also probably want to bookmark this: https://docs.chrultrabook.com/docs/installing/post-install.html#general-qol-fixes

The Chrultrabook project makes the distro run a bit smoother once it’s installed by providing fixes for the audio stack and custom keyboard layouts to make the top row of keys work properly among other things

https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/ provides custom coreboot firmware for a variety of ChromeOS devices. Once you’ve flashed it on your Chromebook, you should be able to just install Linux on it

No need to jump to conspiracy theories, the truth is bad enough.

There is no evidence that actively fraudulent votes where submitted for Israel in the last two years. All their votes where cast by real people, eligible to vote, without them having received any direct compensation. The scenario implied by you did not happen.

What did happen last year was a massive advertising campaign by the Israeli government, activating people sympathetic to Israels cause but did not watch the show. All of this was highly unethical on so many levels but did not violate the rules as they where then.

As for Morrocan Oil, there again is no evidence, that they as sponsor had any influence on the politics of participation at the contest.

Why must everything on the internet immediately be the worst version of the thing ever? Israel uses the contest to sportswash their numerous and various war crimes. Morrocan oil is accused of operating factories in illegally occupied territory (though last time I checked, I couldn’t find any proof of that claim. If someone can provide it, I would be genuinely interested). Isn’t that enough to disqualify the country?

Something something, republicans are spineless cowards, something something, the supremecourt has been captured?

Bundesrat fordert stabilere Spritpreise

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/bundesrat-tankstellen-treibstoffpreise-100.html

The new code of conduct is not online as of now. The old one can be accessed here: https://eurovision.tv/rules/codeofconduct

I assume they’ll replace it in the next couple of weeks with the new one

Whether or not Israel gets to compete gets decided at the next EBU general assembly in a couple of weeks. This is just the reference group updating the rules for the contest itself.

Partially. Servo is the engine that was to replace the one in Firefox. But then mozilla abandoned the project. Since both projects where developed under the same roof, some features where backported into gecko (the engine Firefox actually uses)

But most of the code in Servo doesn’t show up in FF

Compose multiplatform https://www.jetbrains.com/compose-multiplatform/

• ubuntu touch UI framework / suru: qt 5 based, so slightly outdated underpinnings, but still actively maintained https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/humanguide/index.html
• flutter: developed by google as a cross platform framework, tied to the dart programming language. https://flutter.dev/
• Canonical has created custom widgets for flutter, if you don’t like material design: https://pub.dev/packages?q=ubuntu
• uno.platform: C# framework for cross platform apps. https://platform.uno/

Pretty much