I think you may be right.

Who knows, in a year or 2, when tech has moved forward, they FP may release a camera module with better specs. Because of the phone’s modular assembly, that camera could be swapped. I think this is a beutiful concept.

Never too late to dicover a classic.

By sheer chace I came across Alpha Centauri (wikipedia) a sequel to the original Civilization on gog.com. Best purchase ever. Exceptional gameplay. The best 5$ I remember spending.

Subjectivity was implied, stating the obvious does not add new insights.

You could have, e.g. by pointing to some of the things you don’t like. This way other readers could decide if they care about the thing. For example, FP6 is does not have a folding screen, which would have been nice. On the other hand, that would have added anothe couple 100s of €s to the price and would have ruined servicebility. So I’m glad they decided to focus on an affordable phone that gives the owner the option to replace parts that they legit sell via their site.

Seems an accurate summary to me

What makes you think they do? If need be there is staff for that.

Wel that is subjective, but I’m happy with my FP6. ymmv

Based on the limited experience with a few devices (LG), the SoC in TVs are not new pieces of tech. At all. They seem old and underpowered crap. Similar to DVB-T sticks available for the price of 2 pizzas and a pack of gum on AliExpress.

😊😁😂🤣

I can recommend the Fairphone for those who appreciate actually owning the device they paid for

I tried to make clear that I’m talking about tech with potentially significant impact, case in point: blockchain. Are you suggesting that a quirqy twowheeler is somehow on the same level?

Unless trolling is all you’re about, I can recommend refraining from such offhand dismissive remarks. Sarcasm has its use, but rin an anonymous online discussion it is easy to misunderstand. It does not contribute to a meaningful exchange of ideas.

Ship shipping ship shipping ships.

This. Have played with similar devices in the past and I was surprised how many of these devices are running standard Linux kernel with some custom engineered distros. Projects like Buildroot, OpenWRT, Busybox and a few others are what the vendors use to roll their own builds.

A few of them agressively lock down the bootloaders in an attempt to (try to) prevent people from owning the device they’ve paid retail price for. Many don’t really bother. The good news is, that such measures are relatively easy for experts to circumvent and break down. This, of course, is not cheap, but needs to happen only once, often for more than a single model. Some kind of bounty-based system could provide incentive and financing for such efforts.

The silver lining is that after the obligatory exploitation by grifters, every new technology of this caliber finally gets a more positive use in our lifes. Maybe somewhat naive, but I think we (ie. our societies) have payed ~50% of the tuition fee as far as crypto is concerned. So hopefully we’ll be able to absorb the tech in our collective lives soon.

Ps: Different topic, but using the same metaphor for AI, I’m afraid we’re just at the begin of its initial fallout.

As with everything crypto this was a huge scam. Besides the obvious profiting from gullable idiots, the other use case is to illegally funnel money.

Or, the PiHole can spoof whatever hardcoded IP. Sooo… Things change with DNSSec, but chances are they are not bothering with that in embedded devices.

Anyway, learned something new today; note to self: fron now on, always make sure that a TV works off-line before buying.

I’m long past the point of even considering paying Google a dime for other people’s content.

I’m getting sick of titles like these “… this changes everything…”, “scientists are mystified”, “…nobody knew…”, or some ridicoulus question as title. Majority of creators are hinting lately that yt “suggests” how to title and organize the topic for maximum visibility and monetization. In effect mandating their enshittification features.

Nvm, the moment NewPipe stops being able to play a video in a normay way is the end of yt for me. Just like I left reddit for lemmy.

Sounds like a last desperate attempt of a loosing autocrat. He’s really scraping the bottom of the barrel here trying to provoke any reaction that he could use in his doomed campaign.

Anyone calling for external intervention is basically towing his line. With a bit of luck this garbage will take itself out in a few weeks.

No, not dying. Evolving, adapting to new developments. It is our job to oppose the ones that are not in our interest. The only way we can do is reject these. Unfortunately YT is a lost battle b/c they do not allow downvoting or blocking. In the search results or related videos they are peddling the same AI shit, without people being able to block channels.

If anything, it is YouTube that is dying. No worries though, the Internet will provide something else in its place.

It occurred to me that what the US and even UK call capitalism is a lie, ie. their system is not capitalism. IIRC “market forces” and “equal chances” somehow play a central role in the economic definition of it. In reality these forces are distorted by tariffs, subsidies, nepotism, legalized extortion and the general repression of equal chances.

Edit: forgot to mention subsidies