m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@RL_Dane
Nah, older than that. I'm also deemed unsuitable for the army — it was popular in my time to bribe them to get this status just to feel safer. And I stayed under the radar for quite some time for the state to forget about me — no property, no bank accounts in my name.
I think I'm safe, but the war is bad as it is, the perspective is still pretty dire even if you stay alive 😩
@gordoooo_z @benjaminhollon

@gordoooo_z Mine has ATI/AMD GPU, but the issues are the same. Yes, this was the last drop for me, Apple messing with UI design was bad, but failing hardware was it. There was a brief period of me trying to use Windows (hence the Lumia), but now I'm back to using mostly FOSS stuff like I used to.
It's still a nice laptop: quad core i7, 16 gigs of RAM and a nice 1920x1200 display. Linux makes it easy to disable the dGPU and use the built-in one, it runs just fine.

@RL_Dane
Not much of a choice in Russia right now because of war. I'm afraid I have to flee the country to get that Librem 5 😅
But of course I'm too paranoid to use a Chinese phone for Russian market with OS from surveillance company like Google, I never used it with stock ROM, I waited for a week to unlock bootloader (Xiaomi thing) and installed Arrow OS without Google Play Services.
@gordoooo_z @benjaminhollon

@gordoooo_z Yeah, reballing is how these phones get fixed basically. But you never know if that fix would be permanent so most get rid of their phones after that if it happens. I'm using MacBookPro late '11 with a dead discrete GPU now, same issue. I even used this laptop for gaming when it worked and never had any issues, it worked perfectly for 5 years, then 🍏 anounced a free replacement program, but after the program ended it decided to die on me. Now I'm being wary about this😅

@RL_Dane
https://m.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_poco_x3_pro-10802.php
Very decent hardware dirt cheap! Bonus points for having community ports of SailfishOS, UT and Droidian.
It has issues though. Looks like soldering isn't good and sometimes these phones die 😩
Mine is about a year old and no hardware issues, but you can find many reports of such cases online.
Mine seldomly runs hot, I need all this computing power like… never. Maybe it'll last longer.
@gordoooo_z @benjaminhollon

@benjaminhollon
It's not some fancy flagship phone, yes an overpowered device like that is a Chinese smartphone that costs less than €300 🤯
It can use external kb/mouse like Lumia could, but not the display. It can do so wirelessly, but I don't like that. And Android is just meh.
Having normal Linux would be great, but I think only Librem 5 and Pinephone can run mainline kernel with all hardware properly supported.
@gordoooo_z @RL_Dane

@gordoooo_z
I don't know why this still didn't happen, the phone I use now looks too powerful to me, it has an eight-core CPU, the performance core being clocked at 3.0 GHz, it has 8 gigs of RAM and 256 Gb of fast UFS 3.1 storage. I have a 200 Gb SD card in it on top of that. I think it's more powerful than the laptops I use. And device like that is used for answering phone calls and some lightweight web browsing? 🤷
@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane

@gordoooo_z
I've been using my Lumia phone like that until recently. The battery got too old and the phone started to shut down randomly and as getting new one is extremely hard, I had to put the old thing in the drawer. I got it in 2015 and I thing it wasn't to bad of an age to retire this device at last.
Purism tries to do that with Linux phones, but AFAIK there are lots of issues with Librem 5.
@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane

@gordoooo_z
MS got it right with Continuum. Unfortunately the whole Windows 10 Mobile thing didn't take of and they've scrapped it. Then the community made it possible to install desktop Windows 10 on ARM and later 11 on Lumia phones. It worked nicely, even though the UI wasn't optimized, you could use it as a phone, but when you plug it into dock with external display and periferals, it's a normal Windows PC.
@benjaminhollon @RL_Dane

@benjaminhollon Yes! The interoperability was stellar at the time. So when I iPhone came out I thought it would be more of the same, but even better, but no… To my disappointment it wasn't — instead of using old and tried iSync they moved that functionality to iTunes, most probably because they didn't have iSync for Windows, but they did have iTunes and they wanted to market it to PC folk too.
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z

@RL_Dane
It does — it's real Firefox, but last time I checked the underlying version of Ubuntu used by mobile OS was so dated that Firefox was pretty old too, so it was very clunky on a small screen. It was possible to use it, but no multitouch support — I wasn't comfortable doing it.
Stock browser was better, but didn't open some websites.
It was a year ago, maybe things improved since then, they had plans to migrate to newer Ubuntu, but I didn't revisit it.
@benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z

@RL_Dane Back in 2005 or 2006 I could connect to my Siemens phone (it wasn't even a smartphone!) via Bluetooth and use Address Book.app on my Mac to send SMS-messages 😁
Then, for some reason, mobile phones made a giant leap backward in terms of being able to be used together with desktop computers.
@benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z

@benjaminhollon It would be perfect for me to have a device with SXMO/SWMO capable to run a simple dialer, email client and normal desktop Firefox with decent performance and proper multitouch support. I'm fine with using things like Matrix and Fedi as web apps — I have a phone capable of running desktop Windows 11 (what? yes!) so I know what it is like. Element and Mastodon/Pleroma work nicely scaled to small screen. Proper onscreen keyboard is a must too!
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z

@benjaminhollon I have a phone that, in addition to Android can run Sailfish and Ubuntu Touch. Both systems aren't quite there in terms of making them your daily drivers, main problem being the browser not being on par with what you can have on Android. You can work that around with Waydroid (running Android in a container under host os), but that kinda defeats the purpose because using Android as host OS you can always have better battery life —mine lasts for 5 days 🤷
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z

@enduser@berserker.town Maybe they see Fedi as *asocial* media 😅

@amerika
> Like an AI ruling us? Seems like an attempt at monarchy.
Except AI doesn't have any personal interests like a monarch would, which makes it more trustworthy.
And in most fictional dystopias "the AI" turns out just a good old meatbag pretending to be one 😂
But that is what is the problem would be with it in reality. If AI is ungovernable, it's really scary, if it's possible to influence it, various groups might do it pursuing their personal interests.
@greyknight33 @PawelK @julianna@101010.pl

@RL_Dane
I think it can also use X11 — dwm is used in this case, or it can use Sway and Wayland, I think this is what either X or W in SXMO/SWMO stand for.
@Haijo7 @benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z

@RL_Dane
Instead of clunky DEs, try Sway — that's what SWMO is based on I think. It's lightweight and blazingly fast, scrolling is butter-smooth on Wayland. If your hardware is well supported, it's perfect. I use it on two different laptops running Void and I'm very happy with it. Both use integrated Intel graphics though, I'm not sure how things are with discrete GPUs.
@Haijo7 @benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z

@PawelK @useless_idiot The collapse is imminent, but the question is how many more have to die before it happens and what happens next.

@PawelK @useless_idiot 🇨🇳 quickly showed Putin the door so he had to go for 🇺🇦. I think he was reluctant to do that from the very beginning, but the resistance he got even surpassed his expectations. And of course he didn't expect oil and gas sanctions to be that serious. He got the justification for economic hardships he wanted, but he miscalculated and the war only accelerated the economy spiraling down.