It’s easier to resell the phone later on if you have the original box. Why throw it away if it takes up practically no free space?

It was referring to not being able to call emergency services, which may realistically lead to your death. It’s a fairly unlikely scenario, but not a completely crazy one. It’s just a highlight in a sea of issues. Or at least that’s how it looks to me, as I’ve never used a Fairphone. Some people say they work flawlessly.

Based on most smartphones being very insecure. Of course, iPhones aren’t extremely secure, but the competition is practically nonexistent. Pretty much the only secure Android phones are Pixels. Samsung is considered one of the more secure manufacturers too, but according to GrapheneOS devs it’s still way behind Google.

Note that even police and government agencies sometimes have trouble getting into iPhones. They never have such troubles getting into Android smartphones, except Pixels.

This is by no means meant to advertise iPhones. It’s just a simple observation that security in smartphones is heavily lacking.

In terms of security alone, iPhones easily beat most Android phones. Which may be a fair argument in favor of iPhones. However, to ignore Apple’s policies and long history of delisting similar apps is delusional.

True, batteries are quite expensive and very much not environment-friendly when built on such a scale. Though it should be noted good solar panels last longer than 15 years. Even cheap panels can last 20 years.

This is an important point to consider. However, to me it seems somewhat separate from your previous comment.

Of course, no sane government should push for a country to rely solely on wind and solar. Ideally you have a mix of various energy sources, even potentially including some fossil fuels. Hitting that 20-30% sweetspot, as mentioned in the paper, looks to be fairly cheap and beneficial for everyone.

It’s nice, but I just really like the Windows’ design of this feature. Not really anything functionality-related. Honestly, I wish I could just have the file manager from Windows Vista or 7. I don’t even need tabs.

I’m sorry, but who is “everyone involved”?

Batteries are nice, but they’re insanely expensive at this scale and ruin the entire point of helping the environment. Carbon emissions from huge batteries are unbelievable.

Solar panels crom China made it a lot cheaper than it used to be. There are also other major advatnages, such as increased independence. You just buy a bunch of solar panels and now you can indenepdently generate energy for the next 30 years.

I actually like the Windows file explorer. Used to be my favorite, before Dolphin. Nowadays I’d say Dolphin is slightly better overall, but could still use a change inspired by Windows or two. For instance, I really like the drive view on the Windows file explorer’s home page.

The stress and trauma are just making it even more likely they reoffend.

As per design documents.

Nepotism is present in virtually every company, because it’s usually cheaper and more reliable than hiring a random person. Depending on the position, the candidate may not even need to be qualified at all. So you just get your partner’s cousin, who they are in constant contact with. They will do their best, because it’s in their own best interest + if they fuck up, it’ll be family drama for the next 3 years.

I’d say 90% of all job offers require either no specialized skills, or skills that can be easily learned in the first 3 months of the job. So it makes perfect sense to get a reliable family member, who then you can train and have an overall better employee, who is likely to stay at the company for longer. Furthermore, all the money you pay them stays in the family, so it’s kind of like you haven’t given anything away.

All you need to do is print it, forge the signatures and input it in the national registry. Should be doable.

So they just built a lof of universities and accepted women free of charge. So generous! We should follow their example.

Ah yes, let’s take absolute control over online discourse from one private, for-profit organization and give it to another. That’ll fix everything!

While Bluesky seems [mostly] fine right now, it’s not a long term solution. We need public online spaces that aren’t owned or governed by any single entity. Or more appropriately - we need to improve the ones we already have and do whatever we can to bring people here.

Also, Bluesky has terrible algorithms and gives almost no control over your main page. I kept seeing exclusively political content from one specific side in my country (including some very obvious bots). Pressing ‘Show less like this’ on a few dozen posts every day produced no results over a few weeks. This ultimately led me to delete my account, as it made no sense to browse a platform that is actively showing me only the things that I don’t want to see.

One of the most cozy setups I’ve ever seen. Except whatever it is surrounding the cable in the top right. Kinda disgsuting looking.

I don’t know why anyone would ever subject themselves to the torture of using Vivaldi. It’s made by developers of Opera - the most bloated, spyware-infested web browser on the planet. Sure, it may be slightly better, but we’ll never know for sure, since it’s closed source. Honestly this might be a downgrade, even compared to Chrome. Anything else here would be an improvement.

Other than that, I’d replace Bitwarden with KeePassDX and Bitwarden Auth with Aegis. There’s no shortage of decent password managers and 2fa apps.

obsidian’s cool but it’s not keep-like at all. don’t know what would be a good alternative off the top of my head but i bet there are tons.

I recommend Joplin. Doesn’t have Obsidian’s fancy UI or add-ons, but the core functionality is the same. Should be great for the vast majority of users.

your best bet is fdroid obviously but in terms of apps available it’s lackluster af and the UI looks like android gingerbread or something.

They recently overhauled it and it looks mostly modern. Still not perfect, but definitely a lot better than it used to be. There are also third-party front ends. Can’t really say anything about them as I haven’t used any.