[jonathrg]

Very happy to see PostmarketOS take an uncompromising stance and also providing justification for it.

[fartfeatures]

Feels pretty Luddite to me.

I remember when people were crying about how much power a google search uses. This is the same thing all over again and it is as pointless now as it was back then.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-says-it-dropped-th...

> Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year. The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV.

[kruffalon]

The audacity to call an organisation that works on making mobile phones and other small PCs work with free software Luddite is impressive.

That's like calling a person going for seconds a conservative (in the USA political sense).

[idiotsecant]

No, it's entirely justified when quality of code matters. They don't want a thousand gallons of unreviewable slop. They want a reasonable amount of code that can be sensibility reviewed.

[randusername]

Agreed. I would have chosen differently, but I appreciate the policy is unambiguous and explained succinctly with references.

Some people enjoy the outcome, others enjoy the process.

I find the criticism interesting. It's like one restaurant saying they'll use only electric stoves for the climate, then chefs all over the world calling them stupid naive for it.

It's like ethical arguments rationalizing local behavior are automatically interpreted as a global attack that has to be rejected.

[LaSombra]

I wish more projects would take the same stance.

[GaryBluto]

You say "uncompromising stance" with "justification", I say stubborn prejudice. They simply state the same weak, nonsensical complaints that apply to many other technologies that they undoubtedly don't have issues with and are happy with the use of.