But is Android not already Linux on mobile?
We could answer this question. However, it would not be printable on the public Interwebs, so you won’t find the answer in this post.
Penguindroid.
Avokoalado.
Might be harder to tell based purely on colour & smell... for avocados we'd need some sort of a squeeze-o-meter. Like, maybe... AVOKOALADO! A koala who gently hugs your avocado, and when it's perfectly ripe they sing a little avocado song and wiggle their ears. Yeah. That'd work.
Bananalarma.
OK, so here's an idea: BANANALARMA. A plastic llama about 15cm high, with a camera, chemical sensor, &c built in. You put it next to your fruit bowl where your bananas are ripening. When it detects one perfectly ripe banana, it sounds an alarm, et voila! No more overripe bananas!
Ca(r)ton.
Kartonkatzen können Leben retten.
Sabrina Burtscher: Was hat die Kartonkatze mit Informatik zu tun? (Science Slam Metropol 2017)
Less HOT, more ACDC.
Let's pause and summarize: our culture wants heroes and this leads us to expect maintainers to be superhackers and superactive hotlines. This is the HOT mindset of maintenance, where the maintainer is the Headmaster Of Tweaks and soon becomes the Headmaster Of Troubles.
To resist this HOT mindset, let's redefine maintenance as ACDC: Asynchronous Collective Distributed Care:
- Asynchronous because time management is a private matter and we are all volunteers.
- Collective because, well, no man is an island.
- Distributed: the more power to the "edges", the more resilient the project is.
- Care because this is all about care: with each other as users or as contributors, with the project's infrastructure (servers, websites, bug trackers, etc.) and care about having a useful product.