ninthant

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[–] ninthant@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would have said the same thing until I saw this new meme format.

I’m not gonna pretend that the billions squandered and the environmental damage was worth the meme, but those are sunk costs so at least we get this out of it?

[–] ninthant@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I researched this phone a bit and found a few hands-on reviews including this one

https://youtu.be/BIQdthHMrK4

Seems quite promising!

[–] ninthant@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for sharing that

I looked at this previously but had some concerns with most of the devices being rather old (most recent options are 2021) and even so the camera support seems to be quite rough.

Does this match your experience as an early adopter or am I reading too much into it?

[–] ninthant@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

This looks extremely promising, thanks for sharing it.

It’s the first I’ve heard of it but it already goes in the bucket of top options for me to consider.

[–] ninthant@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

If possible yes, or if not possible I’m interested in seeing what is closest to providing an experience like that.

I’ve been daily driving desktop Linux for the last 5y and off and on for 25y plus a lot of professional sysadmin experience so I’m pretty familiar with fiddling and such.

So I don’t need a turnkey experience but I do want a pleasant and reliable experience once it’s all setup.

 

I’m looking for opinions from people about their personal preferences on the best Linux phones available today — both software and the phone hardware to accompany it.

My leading contenders right now are postmarketos running on a used Pixel or sailfishos running on jolla or Sony Xperia.

My priorities:

  • commitment to FOSS, no lock-in
  • Premium-tier phone hardware (camera, screen, battery)
  • performant Android emulation or performant web app integration
  • ongoing organization or community support
  • few/no dependencies on American companies or products

Subjective and biased opinions are welcome; I’m really trying to get a feel of how the earliest adopters are thinking.

[–] ninthant@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago

Vendors are not out there for fun, they sell goods for profit.

Price caps on groceries will result in either the companies hiding profits upstream; or food shortages. We don’t need feel good economics policies that do nothing at best and harm at worst.

This is irresponsibly dangerous policy. The socialist response to market failure should be providing a government alternative for food distribution if the market fails. To heavily fine and break up or disband the companies which cheat and steal.

We deserve better, do better

 

I’m looking to avoid American-made goods and American companies as much as possible and this relatively challenging when it comes to computers.

From my research so far it seems very difficult to find computer hardware that isn’t using American company microprocessors. CPUs available to non-industrial uses tend to be AMD, Intel, or recently some Qualcomm — all US companies. Even Raspberry Pi uses a Broadcom chip, and the other up-and-coming ARM chips I’ve researched seem to be American as well.

I’d appreciate any insights in this area, either companies with existing products or up and coming companies to watch. If I had a blind spot in my research and I’m missing something obvious please tell me.

[–] ninthant@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This was news to me, thanks for sharing this OP.

Stardew valley lied to me!