Spotify Premium pays Joe Rogan.

The software development is outsourced to a few people, and Fairphone is not the only project those people work on.

Its a made up criticism to make it look like the author is thorough, but it doesn’t reflect a real use case. In two years using the FP4 in five countries, there has never been a single time where I wanted to swap SIM cards or eject a mounted SD card while the system is running. You do these things while the phone is powered down. It’s an argument being made by an idiot.

Criticizing bezel sizes when people put their phones in protective cases; criticizing having to remove batteries to get to components that you only swap when powered down anyway; bitching about price to performance ratio like this isnt a phone designed to last half a decade; this is what techbro marketing shills, AI output, and other brainless NPCs do. Not quite as bright screen, no LTPO, who the fuck cares, nobody is comparing two phones outside under the sun in any sort of real life situation. You generally carry one phone, two if you have a job where you’re on call, and you don’t really choose the iPhone they give you for that so why would you compare brightness for two devices outside and use that as a reason to tell people not buy a phone? That’s just not something real people do. You use one phone at a time. This review is not reflective of how people use phones. Its nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking. It’s a worthless marketing review.

I run to work , thanks.

Neither.

I tell them about the ethical supply chain that produces my Fairphone.

Not just Linux; gcc was very important as well.

Did he resign from the position, or from Red Hat entirely?

LINE is the worst for spam though.

Trillian was just a UI that put all your contacts in the same window. You couldn’t talk across protocols, or merge the same user contact across multiple protocols.

Think of Matrix as a unified protocol from which AIM, MSN, ICQ would have all been based. And so if someone is on AIM but you registered on MSN, you can still talk. And at the fundamental level, it looks like IRC. It is the opportunity to re-baseline everything on a standard that is open and supports end to end encryption.

So while bridges would be needed today, the idea is that some time in the future these services would re-baseline on the Matrix protocol, or be displaced for whatever market reason by a startup that chose to baseline on Matrix.

I am going to say the unspoken part out loud: it’s rooted in Hitler’s “Creators, Maintainers, Destroyers” view of race.

The fact that this article exists at all shows how deeply rooted the sentiment is, even if 95% of the people regurgitating it don’t see themselves as racist or know that this is what their society has conditioned them to believe.

Asians only get tech by copying and stealing from the West. So when the “free market” West gets bothered by a little bit of competition and enforces protectionist measures, Asians who aren’t willing to whore out their women to Westerners are supposed to come crawling back and accept sanctions as punishment for trying to be uppity. It’s a shock to the system that China was able to keep innovating independently in a different direction, that can’t easily be attributed to IP theft. It’s not about the 7nm process; it’s about the entire SoC.

There are a lot of dogwhistles and things left unspoken in these articles and TikTok videos (where I saw it first) and I’m sure the “well ackshually nobody ever said that” jackasses are ready to pounce on this comment so it’s probably best to just leave it at this:

Unilateral protectionism has been a fucking disaster for consumers. All we got out of it was increased prices. A maxed out iPhone in 2016 cost $949. A maxed out iPhone in 2023 costs seventeen hundred fucking dollars and Samsung has done the same increase over that period. Less choice meant less competition and the duopoly was able to further entrench in their positions. This phone would be competitive with flagships at half the price. Why is that a bad thing?

https://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_mate_60_pro-12530.php

I have a Fairphone 4 but it is my backup phone now. I got it over a year ago. Stock software sucked and it took forever to get Android 12, which came six months after everybody else had Android 13, and when it finally arrived it had broken bluetooth audio. So instead I ran with CalyxOS and that was fine and pretty much bleeding edge. The haptics suck and there are always ghost touches, which resulted in weird pocket dials of people on Signal and having to explain it away. The camera is not good at all, and no gCam mod makes it decent. The phone is repairable but only to a point; you can’t buy a new frame which sucks because mine bent and scratched the aluminum because there are no good cases for it. The plastic back cover tore where I took it off exactly four times in its life.

The screen is very good and the fingerprint reader works well every time.

For what I paid, it’s just not good hardware. The saving grace is that it’s a decent software experience because you have the option to install another OS and re-lock the bootloader.

Mine was daily used and abused for over a year and didn’t quite hold up to what I had previously gotten from iPhones in an Otterbox, and the selling point that I could repair it wasn’t really realistic because I can’t get the actual part that I need.

Fairphone really needs to partner with somebody to get a ruggedized case made.

My daily driver now is a OnePlus phone that I got for free, and OxygenOS is a better Android than stock, it has a good camera and meets my needs better. It also takes SD cards and has a 3.5mm jack and has a rugged case from Poetic.

Laptops: ThinkPad P-series. The repairability that the T-series used to have with slightly beefier specs and better heatsinks. Great for Linux.

Phones: FairPhone 4 (FP5 will likely be announced end of the month so wait for that) - user repairable, supports alternate operating systems, 7 years official OS support from FairPhone.

They also only fight for privacy as a marketing differentiator from Google in the US. Their privacy stance varies from country to country.

If Apple had the same capability to harvest and mine user data as Google, there’s no doubt in my mind they would already be doing so. Their inability to produce a viable cloud service and major security and update issues with iCloud imply it’s a lack of ability and not any pro-user/privacy-oriented sentiment in the company.

Yes, they are two separate things but both measured in Hertz.

Refresh rate is what manufacturers are hyping with 90Hz and 120Hz panels. That is how fast the elements on the screen are redrawn and is strictly a user interface issue.

PWM frequency is how fast the screen turns off and on, and is also measured in hertz.

It is possible to have a phone with a high refresh rate (120Hz) and also low frequency pwm (220Hz) that strains the eyes.

On mobile OLED displays, dimming is done by turning the entire display on and off very quickly (the individual pixels always stay at 100% brightness). This acts like a strobelight and can cause eye strain because your eyes are always adjusting to the change in brightness, even though your conscious brain doesn’t see or register the flickering, or registers it in a different way. Some people don’t notice it at all; others have trouble looking at the text because the words seem to wobble on the display.

Lots of things flicker, like LED lights, brake lights, the sun, but people don’t spend 6 hours a day staring into the bulb lighting their bedroom like they stare into their screens.

Flicker is not an issue on most LCD phones or laptops made in the past 7-8 years. It is also not an issue when the OLED pwm frequency is increased to where the flickering happens so fast that it is imperceptible to the eye (as in, 1000Hz or more). This is what many new OnePlus and Xiaomi phones are doing, as well as some of the phones in the article.

The Protonmail client is okay.

Sometimes, it hangs and never shows the Inbox or takes a very long time to show your Inbox (several minutes). You have to clear your app cache when this happens and sign in again. You also don’t get full access to settings. You cannot go in and add a new alias from the mobile app, or change payment options.

Fastmail is okay. My gripe is you can’t use biometric security on Android and when you set custom color schemes on the web client, the app disregards them.

I use both. I used Fastmail since college when they were the big thing and they support and develop FOSS software. I migrated to ProtonMail out of curiosity after more than a decade, but when they turned over the IP address of a fucking CLIMATE ACTIVIST to police, I decided to halt that process and later on I renewed my domain with Fastmail out of convenience (other things that irked me were were the Proton Mail bridge didn’t work on OpenBSD and I couldn’t use it with alpine or K9 mail at the time). I keep ProtonMail for occasional registration/verification email that doesn’t make it to Fastmail but I’m not under any illusion about protection under Swiss law.

I was so entrenched in Fastmail that I stayed with them because the annoyances with ProtonMail service didn’t outweigh the benefits or price increase. If you are starting from scratch, I would probably go ProtonMail.

• Asuna
• Lord of the Test
• 0 A.D.
• Xbill
• SuperTuxKart
• Sonic Robo Blast
• The various Doom mods
• Konquest
• SuperTux
• Endless Sky

This came out when I was still in elementary school. I remember at the time the computer guru people were like, “It’s not a real computer, it doesn’t even have a 3 1/2” floppy drive. How can it be a computer without a floppy disk?" And people bought into that sentiment because Apple of the 90s was a company with no new ideas that was almost dead.

From an LA Times article, “Wait, did I really say “no floppy”? I did. This is probably the biggest gamble. Third-party vendors will no doubt develop a floppy that will attach via one of the iMac’s universal serial bus ports for connecting peripheral devices. (USB is a successor to a range of ports used previously on PCs and Macs.) My guess is that Apple is wrong about home users–most will still want a floppy (or zip drive) and will have to buy an add-on.”

I thought it was kind of neat to not have a floppy because even in those days 1.44MB was pathetically small and there were competing standards for a floppy replacement around 100-120MB range.

I think the biggest influence, besides killing off floppy drive was that this also killed beige PCs. Everybody shit on Apple for their new design but then in a few years they were all putting different colors on their cases and nobody had beige computers anymore.

I never got to use one until almost a decade later, in undergrad, where they were still in use at the kiosks for free internet in the student center. That’s where I finally learned to despise the puck mouse.

Previous iterations of this phone have been supported by LineageOS, so hopefully in the future.

Officially, probably about the time Android 15 has already been out for a year, unless I go ahead and flash CalyxOS, which will likely be ready next month.