Two years after the Fairphone 4 and following the release of some audio products like the Fairbuds XL, the Dutch company is back with a new repairable phone: the Fairphone 5. It looks and feels a lot like the Fairphone 4, but it adds choice upgrades across the board, making it the most modular and also most modern-looking...
I am looking forward to them eventually release a modular smartphone, like the framework. Since most component in a phone last way more than 5 years, yet the chipset is unlikely to be snappy after that amount of time.
I’ve been using a reusable 36oz/1L plastic “flip lid” bottle from Bezos’s market - this is my third one (sadly replaced almost on a yearly basis) since I keep accidentally breaking the lids....
I will lose every water bottle that I brought out of my home, so I just reuse the bottles of bottled waters. If I dont lose it, I will replace it every 3-5 months depends on the usage and weather.
I have couple durable, metal, and dishwasher-safe stanley and hydroflask bottles at home. They should be couple years old, but I am not keeping count.
But I would imagine it is much easier to live a happy life if we simply move to Amsterdam? instead of dealing with unreasonable, old, and stubborn populations in the city hall?
At least I can learn dutch in 5 years, but I dont imagine I can convince our semi-suburbian city hall to remove even the minimal parking requirement during that time.
I am not quite aware of the living cost in amsterdam, but given a studio (single room apartment, bedroom, livingroom, study, and kitchen all in one) in a somewhat walkable major city in the U.S. cost around 400k, and a 2 bedroom apartment can easily cost 700k. And none of above includes luxury apartment, which can add another 50% to the cost.
I would be really keen to see how netherlands can top that.
Frist, these looks nothing like the original character. Second, Although Marx, Engels are definitely admirable characters (probably also Ho and Lenin, but I don’t know them well enough), worshiping mass murder like Mao and Starlin is just not cool.
Please, go to China, talk to some Chinese. If you like China so much, you need to go visit and learn if it is really that good.
Countless people died from culture revolution, great leap forward, and the great Chinese famine. Go to China and ask people on the street about them, please.
If you are too busy to go to China, read about it on Chinese social media, Chinese books:
I was taught about culture revolution, the land reform movement, the great leap forward, and the great Chinese famine in Chinese classrooms and by my parents and grandparents who experienced most of them in person.
Nope, they are not, neither landlord nor even activist. They are victims, normal people struggling to live their lives. Like millions of others that we see in class.
They are not even the biggest victim, since I am still here. Like I said, countless people died during these time, including successful scientists, journalists, researchers, writers, musicians, athletes, intellectuals, doctors, politicians, generals, people with extraordinary contributions to the country and its people. These are even taught in Chinese classrooms.
10k just for not paying for stuff? I can still watch youtube, play free games. But can I buy board games or books though? Or go out to restaurants? Buy groceries?
I actually never realized this, but car are much more dangerous than any other threat to human life.
My parents are always worry about my safety whenever I go to less-populated areas or big cities in the U.S. Yet in 2021 there are total 26k homocide death in the U.S. [1] and there are 31k traffic death in the U.S. [2], you are almost 20% more in danger to be killed by a car than by a person, even in the U.S., a country with one of the highest homicide rate in the “developed” world [4].
We always convey something is “safe” by arguing that it is “safer than cars”, plane, buses, or even guns. But we never realized that cars are probably the MOST dangerous killing machine besides diseases [3]. Staying away from cars is actually one of the best strategy to survival for people in the U.S.
Can confirm, my NTFS hardrive broke every week on my server. Unfortunately that is my only hard drive so I cannot format it without loosing all the data.
Yes, I have to use NTFSfix or plug it into a windows laptop, it is very annoying.
But my setup is fairly janky though. I use a external drive on my homeserver as storage drive, and because of torrenting it is almost constantly on read/write. And I use a ubuntu LTS server, so it might not be the most friendly os to use with a NTFS drive. But there is no going back now.
It is not as much of a risk as some westerners think. Unless you are actually activists planning change, it is unlikely for CCP to disappear everyone that speaks against it; especially on non-Chinese platforms. On Chinese social media, on the other hand, dissents will be de-platformed quite quickly; I think some might receive couple warnings and/or threats before they are in physical danger.
However, it is not uncommon to hear about larger platforms being threatened by CCP with their own safetys or their families.
In the end, for many people, it is a large enough risk with barely any reward. Everyone knows CCP is oppressive: maybe not every western media report about China was fully truthful; but with these many reports, some have to be true. On the other hand, tankies aren’t going to change their mind because one anonymous “Chinese” on the internet speaks up against CCP. Speaking up against CCP really will not bring that much change, especially given the potential of putting themselves and their family at risk.
I am not a Chinese person in China, if that is what you are asking.
But I have been in China and communicate with Chinese for a good amount of my life, and I still regularly communicate with Chinese in and out of China (I hang out with more people out of China than inside China, since I am not in China).
Electric cars are here to save the car industry, not the environment.
The most environmentally friendly car is the car you already have, and the most environmentally friendly (also safest, healthiest, quietest, just in general the most considerate) way to get from point A to point B is by walking, biking, bus, or train.
The only time EV saves the environment is when all of the following are met:
your old car is completely gone,
there is zero way to get to where you need to be without a car,
and you have been fighting for good transport and safe bike lane all along.
The ocean has an incredible amount of power potential. China’s brand new Wave Energy Converters has been making a lot of news recently. While this ocean power device isn’t the first of its kind, its sheer size represents a breakthrough for this underutilized but potent branch of the renewable energy family tree. What is wave...
ehhh, this, to my ignorant eyes, seems like a disturbance for the marin ecosystem.
Unlike evosystem in air and on land, many marian life travel purely by the flow of water. Harvesting these energy from water flow (on a large scale) can potentially change how these creatures flow, hence influence their preditors, which might change the local ecosystems.
On the other hand, this is not the first time we fuck with the ocean, and likely wont be the last. At least this is for a “good?” cause.
Dude, I am asian, and I cannot tell kpop band apart to save my life. Some of them really look very similar; racial bias might make it worse, but I dont think it is completely racial.
I think the best way is just to keep watching more and more. Eventually you should be able to tell.
In Chinese, there is a saying: "发图不发种，菊花万人捅“, which translates to “posting a pic without its torrent (as there is no pornhub over there), your ass will be f*cked by ten thousand people”.
Most people, yes, they might not know it is torrenting, but many would interact with it from day to day.
Since the UX is basically the same as downloading from a server: you click on a link, and a software pop up with a progress bar and everything.
In fact, I think most Chinese downloaders (thunder, and some tencent crap) can both torrent and download from a centralized server, and sometimes they will use torrent to accelerate the download when applicable.
This is for security concerns, because all the firmware and driver are maintained by first party, so once the first party stopped maintaining firmware, there is no way for graphene to make the device as secure as a phone that is still in its support period.
At that point, you can try to switch to lineage to increase the life of your device.
That being said, graphene do offer extended support for some devices like pixel 4(XL) is still supported right now, but it made it very clear that it is “extended support”, and it exist only to help user transition to their next device.
It is okay for privacy, especially if you dont have google app installed, but it is not security and privacy focused.
If you have google app installed I imagine it is probably as private as stock os on a pixel, but less secure. Graphene/calyx will definitely have better security and privacy than lineage with or without gapps.
But I understand there is other tradeoffs besides just security and privacy, like minimizng ewaste, cost, availability, etc.
K-9 seems promising, it is acquired by thunderbird and planning to become thunderbird bird mobile. It has office 365 support, but IIRC it is pretty convoluted to add a office 365 account. www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.fsck.k9/
Anyone else want to just want to abandon society and go live in a commune?
A commune or a cult would be better than this circus lol
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Two years after the Fairphone 4 and following the release of some audio products like the Fairbuds XL, the Dutch company is back with a new repairable phone: the Fairphone 5. It looks and feels a lot like the Fairphone 4, but it adds choice upgrades across the board, making it the most modular and also most modern-looking...
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