I came from a ~10 year old phone so FF5 was a big upgrade. Battery lasts the work day (may go from 80% to ~50% or ~30% mostly playing bluetooth audio for like 4 hours on and off). Fairphone uses some industrial chip instead of a mobile one - so it uses more power but they say it can get much longer updates than other phones. I usually have the screen set to 60Hz to save power, but a cheeky 120Hz session feels great. One bug is I can’t charge it in power save mode.

I got standard Android but replaced the proprietary store/apps (updates still requires Google Pain Store). I planned to try out an Android fork later but that’s was not as easy as I had naively thought. [Requires an SDK binary that come with non-free license and 3rd party guides to build it myself were rather dead].

I not aware it could run non-android OS - do you have exp installing a Linux phone OS? How did you find that? I’ll have to look into FF5 compatibility.

Have you considered Fairphone 5? Might not compare to modern phones but it’s very repairable.

Why look to a (oversized) stick to deal with behavior by some people that may be brought on by lack of responsibility? Consider carrots: rewards for good behavior.

The internet is probably not worth losing privacy, which protects your freedom, anyway.

Wikipedia says “direct messages are offered though a central service”. If that’s was/still is correct then you’re correct, it’s centralized.

Nuance is the friend of truth - pedantic.

It’s posting your images to the world by default?

Immich was alright once I had manually set every account to be “Partners” with every other account. I plan to set it up again once I get hardware for the server so I can easily backup images/video from my phone (while at home anyway).

Never used Instagram. Could selfhosting Pixelfed be useful for sharing pictures between family members?

Learning is difficult but I have to believe it is still part of the solution.

It’s not always obvious or easy to make what non-techies will find easy. Changes could unintentionally make the experience worse for long-time users.

I know people don’t want to hear it but can we expect non-techies to meet techies half way by leveling their tech skill tree a bit?

Techy people are a lot more likely to jump through hoops because that knowledge/experience makes it easier for them, they understand it’s worthwhile or because it’s fun. If software can be made easier for non-techy people and there’s no downsides then of course that aught to be done.

Nice try, dad.

Was it more than a printer (that’s what I read about)?

Mafia boss found not guilty. Made an offfer the individual couldn’t refuse, finds judge.

What are the major advancements outlined in the wallpaper?

I’ve seen a wallpaper of linux commands before but this is ridiculous.

BLTG - bisexual language translation group

I have not seen the acronym written as GLBT in quite a long time.

Like a dedicated ’Controversy’ section on Wikipedia but for the modern consumer/end user protection. This gonna’ be good.

I’ve only heard he streams the entirety other people’s work for a living, what are the journalists saying?

That’s good to hear. I assume people saying “ZFS” are usually referring to this OpenZFS (and usually not Oracle ZFS)?

How does it work before this release?