solrize

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[–] solrize 14 points 3 months ago (11 children)

There is basically no such thing as a working dumb mobile phone any more. All the old 2G and 3G ones are now bricked because the networks all cut over to 4G/5G. Otherwise what can I say, just avoid stuff with connectivity when you can help it. Also buy corded tools and appliances unless the convenience advantage of cordless is too great to do without. Otherwise you stuck trying to replace overpriced and sometimes hard to find batteries.

If something is completely FOSS then the software angle is less of a pain in my opinion. I'm still using a beat-up Thinkpad X220 that was made in 2011, but running Debian Bullseye on it. I'll update it to Bookworm or Trixie when I get around to it. Point is that I can do that, while any phone from 2011 is a hopeless dinosaur.

[–] solrize 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I thought it was cool that Jedi were supposed to build their own lightsabers. I've been wanting to build my own mobile phone as sort of a tribute. Reasonable point about Dudley's overconsumption.

Brooms were an example of consumerism in Harry Potter called out by that video that I linked. The whole thing about the Nimbus vs the Cleansweep vs the Firebolt.

I watched that particular video all the way through a few years and remember being surprised that I found it engaging. It had lots of interesting visuals and sound effects, while the Consumerist Dystopia one was afaict just somone talking in front of a camera.

I read the first few Potter books ages ago and lost interest after a while. More recently I have found myself reading a lot of Potter fanfiction, mostly because I'm too unfamiliar with the settings of most other fanfic these days. I have generally found the Potter fanfiction to be better than Rowling's originals.

[–] solrize 1 points 3 months ago (4 children)

One angle I found interesting was the diametrically opposite treatment of consumption between the books and the movies.

What was different? I didn't read or watch the whole series but didn't notice much difference? Here's a different vid that talks about consumerism in HP, and fit my recollection: https://youtu.be/-mxgSq1wiPk

[–] solrize 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

I watched a minute of this and it looks kind of interesting but I wasn't willing to kill half an hour watching the rest. It's about the amount of product tie-ins and other money grabs connected to the Potter empire. Seems like another long video that could have been distilled down to a tweet.

[–] solrize 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We have supercomputers in our phones. They can handle it.

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[–] solrize 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Contacts and dialer should maybe be merged. It's nice to be able to call someone and make notes in that person's contact page during the call.

[–] solrize 6 points 3 months ago

Save your mind. Just look at the newspaper the next day.

[–] solrize 7 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Is there some obstacle to writing them? Special SDK privileges or anything like that? Seems like a good thing to degoogle if possible.

[–] solrize 2 points 3 months ago

People still pay that much for 8-bit S-100 machines?

[–] solrize 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I've been fairly happy with K9 but if they are about to Mozillify it, I will check out FairEmail.

[–] solrize 62 points 3 months ago (8 children)

soap dispensers

Sounds like money laundering was going on.

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