They did, several times

On the roadmap as well:

Fluxer will add end-to-end encryption to personal notes, DMs and group DMs. It will be required, with no setting to turn it off. We’re building it on MLS (Messaging Layer Security), an IETF Standards Track protocol published as RFC 9420 in July 2023.

Communities, the large public spaces with moderation and search, are not part of this plan.

polyproto, the family of specifications behind our federation plans in #4, includes polyproto-mls… We will most likely build our encryption in line with it and help finish it.

The timeline is the same as for federation. An experimental draft that you can try arrives in 2026, and the stable release follows in 2027.

https://fluxer.app/blog/roadmap-2026#5-end-to-end-encryption-for-notes-dms-and-group-dms

They both have existed for a very long time, and yet people flock to Discord by the millions. Why do you suppose that is?

https://colibri.social/ is a very similar project that uses ATProto

It’s not a new standard. They didn’t invent it. Different protocols often work better for different usecases.

Right, because they only make money on apps purchased from The App Store.

installing an app Apple hasn’t signed requires the command line, for example

Yeah this is the reason I’ve avoided Macs for so long. I get giving the user a warning but not providing any sort of prompt to override the warning, and hiding it in a terminal command is ridiculous .

There was also one time I tried to simply turn off Bluetooth and it was just like “I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that”. And I was like WTF, absolutely not .

Just read this which says they are bootloader unlockable

https://www.androidauthority.com/googlebook-bootloader-unlock-magisk-root-3718930/

One doesn’t have anything to do with the other. Fast chargers ARE for road trips. And we can improve them irrespective of L2 chargers. Where are you seeing “messaging” that suggests otherwise?

Its just a different type of suck than other desktop OSs.

When you add to that that Google has tried repeatedly to make an android like experience for tablets and laptops and failed

I mean I haven’t used it but it looks like they’ve done it this time.

I mean ChromeOS is just such an incapable OS in and of itself that anyone who needs to do any serious work wouldn’t be able to use it anyway, and thus wouldn’t spend a bunch of money on one. $500 is still very entry level, and a laptop at that? For gaming? Yeah good luck with that.

The hardware is nothing special. But the only desktop OS that currently works on ARM is MacOS, and good luck getting that to work. Windows on ARM, from my understanding, is trash. Linux doesn’t seem to work on X Elite chips. So you’re probably stuck with Android.

I think I spent probably 20+ hours playing Control Resonant this weekend. Crazy good game.

I mean theoretically it could lead to a sort of LineageOS for laptops/desktops, which would be cool. Linux is cool and all but it drives me crazy a lot of times. And to date there doesn’t seem to be much support for serious ARM processors like the ones mentioned in the article. Android is far easier and simpler to use and has a lot more targeted development.

what other OSs I’ll be able to run on it because fuck Google.

Who cares? If you don’t want GoogleBookOS just buy something else.

Because Chromebooks are cheap, nobody spends money on them, so they’re perenially underpowered.

You’ve got that backwards. Chromebooks are supposed to be cheap, which means they’re low power, which means they need a lightweight OS. That’s what ChromeOS is for.

Makes sense to make a clear delineation for the market with different branding, hardware and OS.

This isn’t branching into a different market. It’s a replacement for ChromeOS.. Which means the ChromeOS market segment is just being abandoned entirely.

You already know its more than that. You’re just arguing in bad faith. Gbye.

I run Ghost along with a dozen other services on a N100 Mini PC without issue. All files are stored as .md. And you can disable monetization, as I have.

My only gripe is that they implemented email authentication, which honestly infuriates me maybe more than it should.

And also their half-assed implementation of ActivityPub.

But can you be more specific about what you don’t like so that we can recommend a suitable alternative? Are you just looking for something as lightweight as humanly possible?

I said it would suffer because it’s a waste of resources.

…you’re kidding right? I just told you that.