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MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@lemmy.world•Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable partsEnglish2·13 days agoThis is what I do and have had vastly better experiences than with Bluetooth.
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@lemmy.world•Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable partsEnglish108·13 days agoFairphone has been a really disappointing experiment in so-called sustainable tech over the years. They keep making new phones instead of continuing to support the old ones, which might be greenwashing. (Whereas if you got a legacy Framework 13, it’s still user-repairable and upgradable.) If they wanted to make a non-upgradable device, maybe it would have been wise to make it high-end to futureproof to work until 4G gets phased out. Fairphone still is not making their products available in the U.S., and Murena is a borderline scam company and I am genuinely shocked Fairphone works with them.
And I’ve heard their logic with the headphone jack, but I do think AUX is the lesser of two evils as removing it will just lead to more e-waste with broken bluetooth headphones that rarely last as long as good wired ones. Fairphone’s own bluetooth accessories have gotten negative reviews for their lower build quality, so Fairbuds are likely not the solution to the headphone jack problem.
For the simple fact that non-Europeans can buy them directly off the website, I would sooner recommend feature phones from Sunbeam as it also has user-replaceable batteries and you can send it in for repairs. Or just any phone used.
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto Technology@lemmy.world•Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable partsEnglish5·13 days agoI would not recommend Murena for U.S. customers. I attempted buying a FP4 from them, and they put $6000 in charges to my credit card. Their message-only customer service was terrible and tried to blame me. Had to get my bank involved.
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•Sad 😔English19·17 days agoI mean, looking on the bright side: Even the Federation universe had to go through two civil wars, World War III, and the eugenics war to get to where they ended up.
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto memes@lemmy.world•Live long enough to see yourself become the villainEnglish1·28 days agoBack then, I actually said he was one of the most dangerous people alive due to the work his company was doing on computer chips in pig brains.
Turns out I was right. The man’s a real-life Gendo Ikari.
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•GOP lawmaker left speechless when asked if he's trans during a hearingEnglish3·1 month agoeven if you could theoretically tell a story that sounds somehow “unfair” depending on your storytelling skills.
Yeah, they sure do love pulling the Riley Gaines card even though she came in fifth, making it a total nonsequitur.
And I totally agree that this debate is too big considering it only targets a tiny handful of athletes. I say it’s complicated because some arguments used feel, circumstantial? As in, “Trans women should play with women because there’s only a couple of them anyway?” Would acceptance of that argument lead to tokenism? BWhat if, for whatever reason, a sports team happened to take on a lot of trans woman? I think that would be okay, but I worry it would dredge the debate up all over again.
Or, people often say, “Trans women should be allowed to play with women because they rarely win anyway.” But what if a trans woman ends up on a winning streak and then another controversy erupts? I feel uncomfortable that our condition for entry is framed as our failure to win, and that if we win, then by implication we get othered as opposed to just being a woman who won a sports game one time. This recently happened, actually. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/ca-school-sports-authority-panders
This is to say, I’m just thinking aboug how we come to a supporting argument that ages with grace? And what argument should that be? Not that I think any pro-trans argument would satisfy some people, with it being the wedge issue that makes TERFS out of people originally left of center. I guess I don’t know the answer at this point.
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•GOP lawmaker left speechless when asked if he's trans during a hearingEnglish1·1 month agodeleted by creator
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•GOP lawmaker left speechless when asked if he's trans during a hearingEnglish584·1 month agoIt’s a complex issue for sure, but I’m really proud of this thread for consistently using the term “trans women” when talking about the differences between trans women compared to cis women and cis men in sports.
On Reddit, most people on this debate just say “biological males,” “males,” or “men” in situations where they’re clearly talking about trans women, which is a clear tell that it was never about fairness in sports for them.
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneto politics @lemmy.world•SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic PrimaryEnglish3·3 months agodeleted by creator
There was a few years where I pretty much only used Flatpaks because I was scared of the terminal. But now that I’ve learned how to use the terminal, it’s so much more convenient because I can quickly update all my applications all in one place without having to open a separate app. Plus, some Flatpaks can fall really behind on software updates.
There might be a Linux userbase someday where no one other than developers actually knows how to use the terminal, because users can run everything they want without a command line, but maybe that’s actually a good thing because it’ll drive up how many people use a Linux distro.
With Windows and Mac, there’s a shareholder incentive to enshittify. With Linux, if a distro goes bad and gets commercialized, there’s always another distro people can move to, not to mention there’s no financial incentive. The more people get on Linux, the less power these tech companies have. Personally, that and privacy are what drew me to Linux much more so than being able to tinker or fine-tune my experience.