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readyblueon Ornith-1.5: From Self-Scaffolding to Self-Improvement

Please check your download links, it get 400 Bad Request on https://huggingface.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-397B-GGUF/tree/m...

only mmproj can be downloaded right now

readyblueon Show HN: I gave Fable a robot body

thanks for sharing this. quite interesting and funny too.

readyblueon Real Linux for your smartphone: Ubuntu Touch release 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4

Volla company have team of people working on support. they even sold their devices with Ubuntu Touch pre-installed. (And it is a German company and Germans wants quality, so they cannot afford to sell crap). so all Volla phones is and will be supported probably the best.

some core developers also have Fairphone 5 (some even a Fairphone 4 somewhere) so that will be supported well too.

readyblueon Real Linux for your smartphone: Ubuntu Touch release 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4

it is more on Ubuntu side. Fedora is different branch (rpm package system), while Ubuntu is deb package style. Here Ubuntu Touch is using 'click' packages which is basically deb packages. so still more Ubuntu side than Fedora.

in regards of Android: yes it is using ADB as means to flash (like Lineage OS), but in order to change that, you will have to design such system from scratch and that is not easy for community based project like Ubuntu Touch is.

readyblueon Real Linux for your smartphone: Ubuntu Touch release 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4

Ubuntu Touch is community supported. so developers has to be found to port the device (assuming they had to own the device as well)

Canonical abandoned project years ago, yet they claim it to be their "most favorite child"

readyblueon Real Linux for your smartphone: Ubuntu Touch release 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4

Ubuntu Touch is the privacy and freedom-respecting mobile operating system by UBports. Today we are happy to announce the release of Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0, a feature update based on Ubuntu 24.04.

Supported devices: Asus Zenfone Max Pro M1; F(x)tec Pro1X; Fairphone 4; Fairphone 5; JingPad A1; Lenovo Tab M10 HD 2nd Gen WiFi / LTE; OnePlus Nord N10 5G; OnePlus Nord N100; Rabbit R1; Sony Xperia X; Volla Phone; Volla Phone X; Volla Phone 22; Volla Phone X23; Volla Phone Quintus; Volla Phone Plinius; Xiaomi Poco X3 / X3 NFC; Xiaomi Redmi 9 and 9 Prime; Xiaomi Redmi Note 9; Zinwa Q25 (new in this release);