@purism I appreciate that Librem Social is half discontinued and I have migrated my primary #Mastodon account somewhere else. However, I still check in here now and then, and I notice that it is still used by #Purism.
So: I wonder if you have any plans at all to upgrade the instance, if nothing else to version 3.5.11? There have been major security fixes, and running anything lower than 3.5.8 is neither recommended nor a good look for a company concerned with #privacy.
@z3ntu I guess it makes sense that the Fairphone 5 will be announced soon, but I kind of wish they would release new phones more rarely and focus on modular upgrades instead. If an even better camera module was released for the Fairphone 3 I would buy it in a heartbeat. :)
@PINE64 The beta website is looking great!
While the YouTube preview works great and is appreciated, have you considered embedding videos uploaded to PeerTube instead? I'm sure I'm not the first to raise the point (sorry!), but it would be nice to be able to avoid YouTube altogether. https://tilvids.com might be a suitable host. :)
@omglinux I just returned to Thunderbird for the first time in over a decade. The new design looks great, and I cannot believe how easy it was to set up with an Office365 account.
I wish it was equally easy to set up contacts and calendar to synchronize with Nextcloud.
@Ciaraioch I think some people just have a very strong belief that we'll build a better world on the ashes of the old, combined with a lack of comprehension of how it affects people when the old world burns.
I'm quite likely guilty of both, but I try not to be a jerk about it, so at least there's that.
@tartley If they manage to add features and trick people into joining their instances before locking them in, wouldn't it be easier to just launch services with said features and trick people into using their services right away? At which point it's just the status quo?
For me, email seems a better comparison (even though everybody's tired of it). Gmail might be monopolistic and awful, but nothing done by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, or anyone else managed to destroy it.
@sab As far as I'm concerned I'm just happy they don't opt for Bluesky.
@mlabowicz People keep saying this whenever there's mention of a major implementation of activitypub, but I really fail to see what the extinguish part is supposed to look like.
People on the rest of the fediverse won't go anywhere if this takes off - if anything, they'll have increased incentives to stay where they are as there are more people to follow. If this service became popular and then dropped support, at worst it would just leave the fediverse exactly as it was.
@Blort Not on a Fairphone 4, but in my experience the Ubuntu Touch camera produces very good quality pictures and is very fast and responsive, with the main drawback being in terms of complexity rather than quality. There's not exactly an overload of extra functionality, which could be a blessing or a curse.
Then again, better to hear from someone with hands on experience with the device - I'm curious myself!
@murena @e_mydata
Ever since upgrading my Fairphone 3 to /e/OS v1.11, the "System storage" app is draining the battery of my phone. The phone is not in use, and the app drains more than 30% of the battery, making the phone last less than a day. The device is also frequently getting warm.
Potentially related:
- "/e/ Drive" lists the same time of usage as "System storage"
- For some reason the "Account administrator" app uses a lot of background data
@omgubuntu I love how this mirrors the Firefox logo - it took me a while to realize how the bird wrapped around the envelope creates a speech bubble.
Although it's going to take a lot to drag me away from @geary , I'm excited to follow the development of Thunderbird - it's amazing to see the project revitalized!
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“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”
Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.
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Amazon spent $14.2 million on anti-union consultants last year alone. If that's not a clear sign that corporations are terrified of worker power, I don't know what is.
@Ingo_FP_Angel @abishek_muthian I guess what it boils down to is choice, so that's probably the word I was after at least.
I agree competition is not the correct term - of all the things potentially holding Fairphone back, a lack of competition is not one of them.
That said, they're all companies who need to chase profits - in the end they have no choice but to compete. The best we can do (short of revolting against capitalism) is to try to make ethical businesses competitive.
@Ingo_FP_Angel @abishek_muthian I think the fact that self-repair doesn't void warranty is also a pretty major improvement here. I guess it's not so much in the design of the phone, but still a significant step in the right direction.
I'm not planning on retiring my fairphone 3 any time soon, but it's good to see some competition is popping up. At this point I wouldn't even consider a phone that isn't repairable if I were to buy one.
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Apparently Nokia has released a repair friendly phone (G22) in tie-up with iFixit for original replacement parts!
Hugh Jeffreys does a tear down and verifies the claims - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZGM-SgfyU4
This means we can finally get a repairable smartphone in India, Since #fairphone & #pine64 devices are never coming here.
With un-lockable bootloader, It seems viable for #LineageOS & #postmarketOS hacking; Unisoc T606 chipset is bit concerning though. Any thoughts @joelselvaraj ?
A word of advice for e/OS/ users:
After a few months with @murena #eOS on my #Fairphone3 I have had only one problem: The default camera has good quality, but is slow to take pictures to the point of sometimes failing completely.
I was close to giving up and going back to default Android when I found the solution by @Ingo_FP_Angel in this thread:
https://community.e.foundation/t/how-is-the-camera-camera-app-in-fairphone-3/18232
A step backwards in terms of #degoogling, but my #Fairphone is now better than ever. :)
APK I use:
https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/dev-bsg/f/dl116
@eris it amazes me how free people can insist on being in countries where they don't even have the freedom to sleep in a fucking tent in the forest.
@thibaultamartin And not only for desktop, but also iOS and Android. It's a fantastic mobile browser.
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