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monopoliessuck
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war.

It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals.

The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism.

They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.
monopoliessuck
·2 anni fa·discuss
This looks neat, but has a lot going on.

I really like how minimalist yet extensible lf [0] is and just use edir [1] to rename files in bulk. Gluing them both together is really easy too.

- [0] https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

- [1] https://github.com/bulletmark/edir
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
The body doesn't store protein in any real capacity. Fat is stored in adipose tissue and carbs in glycogen, but protein must be available in the bloodstream when needed for muscle maintenance and synthesis.

Even if you up your dietary protein during the feeding window, if you're fasting for lengthy periods of time where the protein has already been utilized for fuel, then the muscles are starved and catabolic. There's no passive protein depot built into our physiology muscles can pull from.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
Redundant? Smart watches exist and camera (phones) exist. They're both worse off today in the repair department _by design_, not coincidence or necessity. I still have both (non smart versions) I use specifically because of their repairability.

Planned obsolescence is baked into the marketing strategy. Fairphone realizes this but capitulated to sell peripherals, toeing Apple's talking points.

Companies taking a principled stance on repair is how repairs actually get done not the random customer finding an out-of-band way to increase the longevity of their hardware by trawling iFix it.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
You need the phone upside down in your pocket to plug it in and a new USB headset to boot. The Apple and Samsungs of the world in their ubiquity have changed the ecosystem.

It's not surprising that if you make using my old headset difficult, I and millions of others will move to buying a wireless alternative — they're counting on it. That's what happened and the sales numbers mirror that. People throw away way more audio equipment today than they ever have.

The fact that these Sony earbuds happen to be replaceable is quite a bit different than them being _designed_ as user-replicable. You found a community member that uploaded a video showing you how to do it, now show me the manufacturer's documentation explaining how it's done.

This exists for watches and cameras, but we have been lulled into throwing battery operated things away as a cultural migration pattern and Fairphone is aware and complicit in this indirectly and unnecessarily.

I get it, you either work for or just really dig Fairphone. Glad you found a company you like so much.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
An always plugged in port risks damage and a damaged USB port makes your phone a brick, not so for an analog port that is inarguably more resilient.

Every major vendor's earbuds and most of their headsets aren't battery-replacable. This complexity moves outside the phone and onto the user when all of this was handled reliably by "lesser" hardware of yore. None of this makes Bluetooth headsets an impossibility.

SD Card upsells are so obviously upsells, come on. Yes using shoddy peripherals can lead to a bad experience and they're replaceable for a reason. You seem to be going out of your way to bias the corporate position. Using low quality batteries risks far more, should Fairphone epoxy their batteries in to save the customer from that too?

Killing of the aux port was an Apple signature move. Whether or not the case looks like Samsung is not the true legacy of this courageous stance.

This just seems very evasive.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
Great, so your security situatuon is now determined by two contributors that haven't moved on back-porting userspace lineageos to your device.

I very much doubt anyone is making kernel or vendor updates to upstream neglected components.

See https://grapheneos.org/faq#legacy-devices
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
Apple's omission was the same garbage about complexity and space, yet no one in the real world had these problems. Apple is making a killing on Bluetooth accessories and adapters which have a much much higher markup than phones. Do you buy that SD cards or removable batteries were "too complicated" and bloaty for the end-user too?

If you're trying to differente yourself from Apple, it seems like a no brainer to include a jack especially since USB ports are needed for charging, battery case accessories, data transfer etc. all of which can't be done while listening to music.

On top of that, a "wobbly" USB port is like the top issue with phones outside of a cracked screen and an analog port is way more resilient to always being plugged in while in your pocket than any USB adapter ever will be.

My wired headset is going to outlive whatever bluetooth sealed-in battery garbage "works today until it doesn't" too so "environmentally friendly" needs an asterisk.

This is Fairphone playing copy apple. You can like Fairphone and their mission, but giving them a pass here is just playing into marketing bs.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
I agree with you practically except that the pixel 3a has not been getting security updates for over a year.

I wouldn't run it with anything personal on it.

- https://endoflife.date/pixel
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
If you want to read their flailing rationale, you can find it [here](https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/983618898804...)

Follow the leader never needs this many words and for a niche and ethical brand, this is quite embarrassing.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
Of course they _sell_ a headphone jack adapter. That's the point of removing it.

All the "weatherproofing" and "complexity" talk is just smoke.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
Other finds at this location.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahr-e_Sukhteh#Finds
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
This isn't necessarily true.

Regulations that create exceptions for key big players entrench them further and their poor business practices against competitors that wish to usurp their market dominance. New entrants have to play by the rules, but established ones get preferential treatment.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
I have the original Pinephone and haven't sprung for this yet so thanks for the heads up.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
Pinephone is saving the world here[0].

[0] https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-keyboard-...
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
Same. I didn't miss an email confirmation or anything. They're very aware of me in the "queue". Contacting support on a monthly basis gets the same answer. I have to wait for some arbitrary deadline on "current pre-orders" and they are unsure about when that'll happen, but are definitely sure it WILL happen... eventually.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
I ordered mine in 2017 and still haven't received it or a refund. I've been fighting with the company about it for years. See [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33645259) for more info.

I wouldn't spend a dollar on anything from Purism.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
I'd be in support of stopping at 15 and moving to a base 16 metric. Hexadecimal numbers being discrete from alpha glyphs would be a bonus.
monopoliessuck
·3 anni fa·discuss
> except for the site names not being encrypted

I just use ctmg authored by the same guy and a simple script to open and close both. If you want, you can then throw this anywhere.

https://git.zx2c4.com/ctmg/about/