But this whole audio jack debacle has made it clear that despite very wide pushback (that they themselves admit), they don’t care about what users want and will prioritize profits.

Where are you getting this “prioritise profits” line from? They have reported losses for the last three financial years, and in 2022 (the last year they were profitable) Fairphone had a profit margin of 0.07%.

Lemmy is disproportionately made up of Linux users and I think many of us appreciate how much simpler and easier Steam (or the work of Steam) has made gaming for us or people we know. Also, I think it’s a bit of a misconception on your part that because we have some level of interest in piracy we must therefore be stoutly against anything which appears to conflict with that. I pirate because it’s a way to save money and, sometimes, a better service too, but I’m not an activist or evangelical in my support for it. Piracy is never going to be the solution for everyone and having some simpler and less intimidating alternatives out there is a good thing, even if they are far from perfect and could deteriorate at some point in the future.

Yes, you can relock it. There is quite a bit of misinformation in this thread, I’m not sure why. As you can see from this chart, bootloader locking is available with iodéOS across multiple devices (including Fairphones), not just Pixels.

I haven’t finished it, but I thought Xeonjia: Ice Adventures was pretty good. It’s a combination of sokoban and adventure games where you navigate the world by solving block puzzles.

Yes, in my experience it is almost impossible to get normal people to move away from big tech. The only person I’ve successfully managed to convince is my partner, and that’s because she’s so lazy/disinterested when it comes to technology that she’s very willing to let me setup and manage everything for her. Of course, just like me, she is still stuck with big tech when it comes to communicating with everyone else.

This implies they have switched their main domain. It is now ext2.to.

killedbygoogle.com

I live in Australia.

I agree. Micro-blogging was always bad, even in the early Twitter days. The people that used it back then and yearn for an equivalent now are the most opinionated, self-absorbed wankers online.

This poses an active danger. We are visual creatures. It will cause distraction.

We are way past that point. Cars have had massive, phone shaped touch screens in them for years. Every year, more and more of the cabin controls are moved from physical buttons and knobs, that you can operate and adjust without taking your eyes off the road, to settings hidden behind multiple layers of menus on the gigantic touch screen. In some cars you can’t even change the direction of the air conditioning without accessing the touch screen.

The Aurora Store does have the same issue, in the sense that it has the same apps and reviews, but you’re right that it is much cleaner and more functional. The εxodus reports being built into the store is also one of my favourite features.

I don’t care about the cofounders personal politics.

Good for you, but the discussion in this comment thread has always been about his politics - that is literally what the first reply to your comment in this chain was about. The only one attempting to shift the goalposts in this conversation is you. Don’t engage in the first place if you are so unwilling to discuss it.

Are you lost? Go back and reach the comment chain, I haven’t “mOvEd tHe gOaLpOsTs” at all. The original reply to your first comment (from another person) was:

Until you remember their co-founder funds fascism

We were always talking about the co-founder in this comment chain, all of my replies to you have been about him.

because you disagree on one person’s political viewpoints on immigration

That’s a very mild way of saying that the political party he donates to supports ethnic cleansing. These are direct quotes from its leader:

In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: “why won’t the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?” and in the same debate said that “Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense.”

In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that "They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish.

aRe yOu a vEgEtAriAn/vEgAn???

It’s not a hot take. It’s a fact that has been acknowledged via public statements from the individual in question and the company.

Don’t search using the Play Store. This is a rule that applies generally to everything: start your search online, find the right app for you and then go to the Play Store (or the Aurora Store, or F-Droid, or elsewhere) to download it. The Play Store is filled with terrible, data harvesting apps and you can easily get overwhelmed by the endless choice and misleading reviews and descriptions if you try to search within it.

Okay self hosting means you use an old laptop or raspberry Pi to run a server with all the movies and TV series and stuff right?

You don’t have to have a second PC, although that is the most common method. My Raspberry Pi 4 is not powerful enough for the quality I watch at so I use it as a Navidrome server for music and have Jellyfin running on my main PC instead. Ideally, I would have another mini PC for Jellyfin but my setup still works fine currently. It’s just a bit clumsier and uses more power.

My question is, how do you get these movies and TV series and stuff if you self host?

Through P2P file sharing like torrenting.

that don’t require learning hours of self hosting stuff like Jellyfin?

Jellyfin doesn’t require “hours of learning”. It takes minutes to setup, you can literally just copy/paste commands if you use Linux and if you use Windows then you just run a .exe file.

I have no idea, they’ve survived longer than I expected. I’m still yet to encounter one being used in the real world.