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Big Tech Lay-offs, Winter 2023
Jan 20th, 2023 by miki

So, recession is here making local and global companies alike feel the heat. Changes in consumer behaviour affects especially the global tech companies very quickly because of the way they have almost completely gobbled up all marketing spending of every seller and reseller with any digital outlet presence.

As the digital advertising chain is decoupled from anything physical this ripples from consumer spending to impacting big tech revenue with immense speed. This, of course will affect how these companies use their resources, and the workforce needed to run their businesses.

To try to quantify what is happening to global tech companies’ workforce, I’ve collected some numbers and below is a chart illustrating the announced lay-offs in nine prominent big tech companies as of 2023-01-20. On this day, Google announced their reduction of 12’000 “roles” which triggered me to look into this.

Note some trends;

  • the lower headcounts, the higher relative lay-offs
    suggesting that bigger companies have equity and willingness to opt keeping more of the workforce/knowledge
  • Tesla and Cisco seems to have chosen a different strategy as their ratio a considerably lower than similar sized companies
    Tesla’s reluctance to lay-off hourly paid production workers (suggestion that production is regarded as a more severe bottleneck than development) is probably a factor in this

Download spread sheet in ODS format

Numbers and Sources

Lay-off Summaries

GitHub CLI on Ubuntu LTS (16.04 & 18.04)
Mar 4th, 2020 by miki

Inspired by a John Sullivan (of FSF) tweet asking about opinions on the new and shiny MS(TM) GitHub(TM) CLI(TM) tool named “gh”(TM) I wanted to try it out on one of my Ubuntu LTS systems (16.04).

I’ve always disliked the proprietary and centralised monoculture of github, especially after that thing with MS, so I’ve mostly avoided using the service for code I produce myself. If interested in independence and decentralisation maybe you should read up on that long fabled subject? Thus I’ve never even tried the predecessor “hub”(TM) tool (main page), and exactly how it differs from this new “CLI” thing is not obviously apparent from the communications.

Nevertheless, the “gh” tool, officially dubbed  GitHub CLI, being distributed under MIT license and written in go(lang) (afterwards, found out that this is indeed also applicable to the predecessing “hub” tool) made me curious enough to go see what they’re up to. Maybe its not that sinister a plot and they really just want to improve the independent and freely available mechanisms for source code storage, distribution and maintenance (I wish)?

TL:DR

A fairly recent (2019-09) version of go, >=1.13, is required so some gymnastics are needed to make stuff work on older distros like Ubuntu’s LTS (with 5 years support from Canonical). Anyway, this is what I did to build a useable “gh” ELF executable (20 MiB!, se below), this is from source, no precompiled stuff, no snaps. It was done on Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) but I’ve been somewhat careful to inspect that things ought to be good for 18.04 (bionic) too. Non-essential output from the commands is largely discarded here. See Gory Details section below for the full monty.

Add go PPA & install packages

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install golang
$ go version
go version go1.13.4 linux/amd64

Clone repo & build

$ cd
$ git clone https://github.com/cli/cli .githubcli
$ cd .githubcli
$ make

Setup PATH & test

$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.githubcli/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ bash --login
$ gh
Work seamlessly with GitHub from the command line.

GitHub CLI is in early stages of development, and we'd love to hear your
feedback at <https://forms.gle/umxd3h31c7aMQFKG7>

Usage:
  gh [command]

Available Commands:
  help        Help about any command
  issue       Create and view issues
  pr          Create, view, and checkout pull requests
  repo        Create, clone, fork, and view repositories

Flags:
      --help              Show help for command
  -R, --repo OWNER/REPO   Select another repository using the OWNER/REPO format
      --version           Show gh version

Use "gh [command] --help" for more information about a command.
subcommand is required
$

Trying it out

Randomly picked one of my few github repos, it contains some js experiments on parsing NMEA formatted coordinates, rather uninterestingly empty.

Clone

user@host:~$ gh repo clone mikini/coordinates 
Notice: authentication required
Press Enter to open github.com in your browser... 

<auth session in browser>

Authentication complete. Press Enter to continue...

Cloning into 'coordinates'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 10, done.
remote: Total 10 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 10
Unpacking objects: 100% (10/10), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
user@host:~$

An ordinary OAuth request was spawned for authentication on https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize. The javascript executed in the browser seemed to interact with the gh tool through a local TCP connection on localhost:45454 which was the redirection target on authorisation (URL parameter: “redirect_uri=http://localhost:45454/callback”). The socket was rightfully not bound after the authentication had succeeded but this is definitely an attack vector, albeit hopefully only for locally running processes.

Listing issues & prs

user@host:~$ cd coordinates/
user@host:~$:~/coordinates$ gh issue list

Issues for mikini/coordinates

There are no open issues
miki@vcas-miki2:~/coordinates$ gh pr view
no open pull requests found for branch "master"
miki@vcas-miki2:~/coordinates$

Creating issues

miki@vcas-miki2:~/coordinates$ gh issue create

Creating issue in mikini/coordinates

? Title Testing gh
? Body <Received>
? What's next? Preview in browser
Opening github.com/mikini/coordinates/issues/new/ in your browser.
miki@vcas-miki2:~/coordinates$

miki@vcas-miki2:~/coordinates$ gh issue create

Creating issue in mikini/coordinates

? Title Testing gh tool
? Body <Received>
? What's next? [Use arrows to move, type to filter]
> Preview in browser
Submit
Cancel

https://github.com/mikini/coordinates/issues/1
miki@vcas-miki2:~/coordinates$

On the first issue creation interaction I selected “preview in browser” which opened a draft issue in the browser, and dumped me back into the shell on the command line. The second interaction actually resulted in #1.

Gory Details

PPA options

The golang-backports PPA is maintained independently by Simon Eisenmann (credits: ~longsleep, @github, stdin.xyz) and carries packages up to:

There’s also an official PPA from the golang project (~gophers) which however only carries packages up to 1.11 for both.

Full (mostly) installation dump

Add go PPA, install packages

user@host:~$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:longsleep/golang-backports
Golang 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11, 1.12, 1.13 and 1.14 PPA for Ubuntu
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~longsleep/+archive/ubuntu/golang-backports
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpvnuym97a/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpvnuym97a/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 56A3D45E from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpvnuym97a/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 56A3D45E: public key "Launchpad PPA for Simon Eisenmann" imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK
user@host:~$

user@host:~$ sudo apt update
Hit:1 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://dk.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [109 kB] 
...
...
Get:37 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [194 kB]
Get:38 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [2.468 B]
Fetched 7.614 kB in 3s (2.346 kB/s) 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
419 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
user@host:~$

user@host:~$ apt list --upgradeable golang -a
Listing... Done
golang/xenial,xenial 2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial all [upgradable from: 2:1.6-1ubuntu4]
golang/xenial,xenial,now 2:1.6-1ubuntu4 all [installed,upgradable to: 2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial]

user@host:~$

user@host:~$ sudo apt install golang
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
golang-1.6 golang-1.6-doc golang-1.6-go golang-1.6-src
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
golang-1.13 golang-1.13-doc golang-1.13-go golang-1.13-src golang-doc golang-go golang-src
Recommended packages:
golang-1.13-race-detector-runtime
The following NEW packages will be installed
golang-1.13 golang-1.13-doc golang-1.13-go golang-1.13-src
The following packages will be upgraded:
golang golang-doc golang-go golang-src
4 to upgrade, 4 to newly install, 0 to remove and 413 not to upgrade.
Need to get 60,2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 322 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/longsleep/golang-backports/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 golang-1.13-src amd64 1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial [12,7 MB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/longsleep/golang-backports/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 golang-1.13-go amd64 1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial [44,9 MB]
Get:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/longsleep/golang-backports/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 golang-1.13-doc all 1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial [2.542 kB]
Get:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/longsleep/golang-backports/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 golang-1.13 all 1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial [25,2 kB]
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/longsleep/golang-backports/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 golang-src amd64 2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial [3.838 B]
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/longsleep/golang-backports/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 golang-go amd64 2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial [23,0 kB]
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/longsleep/golang-backports/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 golang-doc all 2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial [3.880 B]
Get:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/longsleep/golang-backports/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 golang all 2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial [3.826 B]
Fetched 60,2 MB in 5s (10,8 MB/s) 
Selecting previously unselected package golang-1.13-src.
(Reading database ... 460737 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../golang-1.13-src_1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking golang-1.13-src (1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial) ...
Selecting previously unselected package golang-1.13-go.
Preparing to unpack .../golang-1.13-go_1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking golang-1.13-go (1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial) ...
Selecting previously unselected package golang-1.13-doc.
Preparing to unpack .../golang-1.13-doc_1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial_all.deb ...
Unpacking golang-1.13-doc (1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial) ...
Selecting previously unselected package golang-1.13.
Preparing to unpack .../golang-1.13_1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial_all.deb ...
Unpacking golang-1.13 (1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial) ...
Preparing to unpack .../golang-src_2%3a1.13~1longsleep1+xenial_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking golang-src (2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial) over (2:1.6-1ubuntu4) ...
Preparing to unpack .../golang-go_2%3a1.13~1longsleep1+xenial_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking golang-go (2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial) over (2:1.6-1ubuntu4) ...
Preparing to unpack .../golang-doc_2%3a1.13~1longsleep1+xenial_all.deb ...
Unpacking golang-doc (2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial) over (2:1.6-1ubuntu4) ...
Preparing to unpack .../golang_2%3a1.13~1longsleep1+xenial_all.deb ...
Unpacking golang (2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial) over (2:1.6-1ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up golang-1.13-src (1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial) ...
Setting up golang-1.13-go (1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial) ...
Setting up golang-1.13-doc (1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial) ...
Setting up golang-1.13 (1.13.4-1longsleep1+xenial) ...
Setting up golang-src (2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial) ...
Setting up golang-go (2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial) ...
Setting up golang-doc (2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial) ...
Setting up golang (2:1.13~1longsleep1+xenial) ...
user@host:~$ 

user@host:~$ go version
go version go1.13.4 linux/amd64
user@host:~$ 

Clone repo & build

user@host:~$ git clone https://github.com/cli/cli .githubcli
Cloning into '.githubcli'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 168, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (168/168), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (100/100), done.
remote: Total 5577 (delta 93), reused 122 (delta 67), pack-reused 5409
Receiving objects: 100% (5577/5577), 7.53 MiB | 2.61 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3269/3269), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
user@host:~$ 

user@host:~$ cd .githubcli
user@host:~/.githubcli (master=)$ make
go: downloading github.com/google/shlex v0.0.0-20191202100458-e7afc7fbc510
go: downloading github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0
go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.6
go: downloading github.com/spf13/cobra v0.0.6
go: downloading gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200121175148-a6ecf24a6d71
go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.12
go: downloading golang.org/x/text v0.3.2
go: extracting github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0
go: extracting github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.6
go: extracting github.com/google/shlex v0.0.0-20191202100458-e7afc7fbc510
go: extracting github.com/spf13/cobra v0.0.6
go: extracting github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.12
go: downloading golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20200223170610-d5e6a3e2c0ae
go: downloading golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20200219234226-1ad67e1f0ef4
go: downloading github.com/mgutz/ansi v0.0.0-20170206155736-9520e82c474b
go: downloading github.com/briandowns/spinner v1.9.0
go: extracting gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200121175148-a6ecf24a6d71
go: downloading github.com/hashicorp/go-version v1.2.0
go: downloading github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
go: downloading github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2 v2.0.7
go: downloading github.com/kballard/go-shellquote v0.0.0-20180428030007-95032a82bc51
go: downloading github.com/charmbracelet/glamour v0.1.1-0.20200304134224-7e5c90143acc
go: extracting github.com/mgutz/ansi v0.0.0-20170206155736-9520e82c474b
go: extracting github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
go: extracting github.com/hashicorp/go-version v1.2.0
go: downloading gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.8
go: downloading github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.0
go: downloading github.com/henvic/httpretty v0.0.4
go: extracting github.com/kballard/go-shellquote v0.0.0-20180428030007-95032a82bc51
go: extracting github.com/briandowns/spinner v1.9.0
go: extracting github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2 v2.0.7
go: downloading github.com/fatih/color v1.7.0
go: extracting github.com/charmbracelet/glamour v0.1.1-0.20200304134224-7e5c90143acc
go: downloading github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.1.24
go: downloading github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday v1.0.2
go: extracting gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.8
go: extracting github.com/henvic/httpretty v0.0.4
go: downloading github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter v0.0.4
go: downloading github.com/muesli/reflow v0.1.0
go: extracting github.com/fatih/color v1.7.0
go: extracting github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday v1.0.2
go: extracting github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.0
go: extracting golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20200223170610-d5e6a3e2c0ae
go: extracting github.com/muesli/reflow v0.1.0
go: extracting github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter v0.0.4
go: downloading golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20200219183655-46282727080f
go: extracting github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.1.24
go: downloading github.com/alecthomas/chroma v0.7.2-0.20200304075647-34d9c7143bf5
go: downloading github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.8
go: downloading github.com/muesli/termenv v0.4.0
go: downloading github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.0.1
go: extracting golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20200219234226-1ad67e1f0ef4
go: extracting github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.8
go: extracting github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.0.1
go: downloading github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name v1.0.0
go: extracting github.com/alecthomas/chroma v0.7.2-0.20200304075647-34d9c7143bf5
go: extracting github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name v1.0.0
go: extracting github.com/muesli/termenv v0.4.0
go: downloading github.com/dlclark/regexp2 v1.2.0
go: downloading github.com/lucasb-eyer/go-colorful v1.0.3
go: downloading github.com/google/goterm v0.0.0-20190703233501-fc88cf888a3f
go: downloading github.com/danwakefield/fnmatch v0.0.0-20160403171240-cbb64ac3d964
go: extracting golang.org/x/text v0.3.2
go: extracting github.com/google/goterm v0.0.0-20190703233501-fc88cf888a3f
go: extracting github.com/danwakefield/fnmatch v0.0.0-20160403171240-cbb64ac3d964
go: extracting golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20200219183655-46282727080f
go: extracting github.com/lucasb-eyer/go-colorful v1.0.3
go: extracting github.com/dlclark/regexp2 v1.2.0
go: finding github.com/spf13/cobra v0.0.6
go: finding github.com/AlecAivazis/survey/v2 v2.0.7
go: finding github.com/henvic/httpretty v0.0.4
go: finding github.com/google/shlex v0.0.0-20191202100458-e7afc7fbc510
go: finding github.com/mgutz/ansi v0.0.0-20170206155736-9520e82c474b
go: finding gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.0-20200121175148-a6ecf24a6d71
go: finding github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
go: finding github.com/hashicorp/go-version v1.2.0
go: finding github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0
go: finding github.com/briandowns/spinner v1.9.0
go: finding golang.org/x/text v0.3.2
go: finding github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man/v2 v2.0.0
go: finding github.com/charmbracelet/glamour v0.1.1-0.20200304134224-7e5c90143acc
go: finding github.com/kballard/go-shellquote v0.0.0-20180428030007-95032a82bc51
go: finding github.com/mattn/go-colorable v0.1.6
go: finding gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.8
go: finding github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.0.1
go: finding github.com/mattn/go-isatty v0.0.12
go: finding github.com/fatih/color v1.7.0
go: finding golang.org/x/crypto v0.0.0-20200219234226-1ad67e1f0ef4
go: finding github.com/muesli/termenv v0.4.0
go: finding golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20200223170610-d5e6a3e2c0ae
go: finding github.com/shurcooL/sanitized_anchor_name v1.0.0
go: finding github.com/yuin/goldmark v1.1.24
go: finding github.com/alecthomas/chroma v0.7.2-0.20200304075647-34d9c7143bf5
go: finding github.com/google/goterm v0.0.0-20190703233501-fc88cf888a3f
go: finding github.com/dlclark/regexp2 v1.2.0
go: finding github.com/lucasb-eyer/go-colorful v1.0.3
go: finding github.com/muesli/reflow v0.1.0
go: finding github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday v1.0.2
go: finding github.com/danwakefield/fnmatch v0.0.0-20160403171240-cbb64ac3d964
go: finding github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter v0.0.4
go: finding github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.8
go: finding golang.org/x/net v0.0.0-20200219183655-46282727080f
user@host:~/.githubcli (master=)$ 

Cursory inspection of exec

user@host:~/.githubcli (master=)$ ls -l bin/gh
-rwxrwxr-x 1 user user 21097487 Mar  4 18:03 bin/gh
user@host:~/.githubcli (master=)$ 

user@host:~/.githubcli (master=)$ file bin/gh
bin/gh: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib64/l, not stripped
user@host:~/.githubcli (master=)$ 

user@host:~/.githubcli (master=)$ ldd bin/gh
	linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007ffdc4329000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fb1018c2000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fb1014f8000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fb101adf000)
user@host:~/.githubcli (master=)$ 

user@host:~/.githubcli (master=)$ nm -D bin/gh
                 U abort
00000000004fd140 T _cgo_panic
000000000045bf10 T _cgo_topofstack
00000000004fd190 T crosscall2
                 U __errno_location
                 U __fprintf_chk
                 U fputc
                 U free
                 U freeaddrinfo
                 U fwrite
                 U gai_strerror
                 U getaddrinfo
                 U getnameinfo
                 U malloc
                 U mmap
                 U munmap
                 U nanosleep
                 U pthread_attr_destroy
                 U pthread_attr_getstacksize
                 U pthread_attr_init
                 U pthread_cond_broadcast
                 U pthread_cond_wait
                 U pthread_create
                 U pthread_detach
                 U pthread_mutex_lock
                 U pthread_mutex_unlock
                 U pthread_sigmask
                 U setenv
                 U sigaction
                 U sigaddset
                 U sigemptyset
                 U sigfillset
                 U sigismember
                 U __stack_chk_fail
                 U stderr
                 U strerror
                 U unsetenv
                 U __vfprintf_chk
user@host:~/.githubcli (master=)$ 

Setup PATH & test

user@host:~/.githubcli (master=)$ cd
user@host:~$ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.githubcli/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
user@host:~$ bash --login
user@host:~$ gh
Work seamlessly with GitHub from the command line.

GitHub CLI is in early stages of development, and we'd love to hear your
feedback at <https://forms.gle/umxd3h31c7aMQFKG7>

Usage:
  gh [command]

Available Commands:
  help        Help about any command
  issue       Create and view issues
  pr          Create, view, and checkout pull requests
  repo        Create, clone, fork, and view repositories

Flags:
      --help              Show help for command
  -R, --repo OWNER/REPO   Select another repository using the OWNER/REPO format
      --version           Show gh version

Use "gh [command] --help" for more information about a command.
subcommand is required
user@host:~$
[Danish] S&S: Android-x86 og Chromebook
Jun 8th, 2019 by miki

Lidt flere dråber i Spørgsmål&Svar-kategorien fra Facebook.

Når jeg endelig forvilder mig derind, og går på opdagelse i de tekniske grupper, ender det ofte med at får jeg skrevet en fristil i forsøget på at hjælpe.

Denne gang en snak om Android på “PC”, og basale digitale processeringsbehov for den almindelige dansker.

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Stillet i gruppen “Danske Android Brugere “:

Er der nogen som ved, om man kan få en pc med Android system?

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Som andre omtaler, kan der fås en uofficiel variant af det frie styresystem Android til x86-arkitekturen (den gængse Intel/AMD-baserede computer kendt som “personlig computer”).

Det projekt lever på https://www.android-x86.org/. Installationsvejledning på engelsk er på https://www.android-x86.org/installhowto.html. Man kan både installere som multiboot på samme disk som et eksisterende operativsystem, starte fra en ekstern disk (USB-medie, cd/dvdrom e.l.) eller evt. køre i en virtuel maskine på et eksisterende operativsystem (VirtualBox,QEMU/KVM, VMware Player/Workstation).

Jeg har kun erfaring med livedisk boot fra USB og VM, og der synes jeg ikke altid tingene spiller perfekt, så forvent ikke en helt problemfri oplevelse.

“Android på PC” er på kanten af noget understøttet, hvor man ofte er på egen hånd. Nogle af folkene bag Andoid-x86 forsøgte at lave en kommerciel forretning på det, hvor det var tanken at sælge det som færdige hardwareenheder, RemixOS – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix_OS, men det gik ikke så godt og er lukket ned igen.

Hvis behovet bare er “en bærbar computer uden for meget vrøvl”, så er en færdig Chromebook med Chrome OS (der ligesom Android også er bygget på GNU/Linux) eller noget af det der dyre Frugt-udstyr nok det mest tilgængelige (men jeg fornemmer at pris også kunne være en faktor?). Til forskel fra traditionelle operativsystemer til computere, er Chrome OS dog møntet specifikt på at få dig til at bruge Googles webbaserede tjenester (mere om softwaren bag på https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os), så hverken software eller hardware er beregnet til at lagre data på selve enheden, og der er sjældent meget diskplads tilgængelig til f.eks. billeder.

Et hurtigt kig på markedet identificerer Acer Chromebook 15 (https://www.edbpriser.dk/produkt/acer-chromebook-15-cb515-1h-c7kg/) og Lenovo S330 (https://www.edbpriser.dk/produkt/lenovo-chromebook-s330-81jw-3292492/) som populære Chromebook i 2k kr.-klassen, men kender ikke maskinerne specifikt.

God jagt :).

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