The power dynamic is still 1000000:1 they can do whatever they want and you will have to follow. If they defederate you, there is no value in your self hosted instance.

The biggest thing is that you need to be manually authorized by them for federation. They will only ever federate with servers that arent serious enough competition to lead to democratization of the overall network.

Yeah the price drop of new FP5s brought down the secondhand price a looot. The FP4 has only been out for 4 years but mine and the ones in my family are working perfectly for now. I dont expect the 5 to be any different in that regard.

You can replace every single part (battery, usbc port, camera, screen, frame, mainboard) but the screen isnt cheap so get yourself a case and a screen protecter. If you treat your device with respect, it will last you for 7+ years easily with 1-2 battery swaps depending on your battery life expectations and usage.

Also these bois are a bit thicc and heavy, they are function over form devices not fashion statements.

The reselling strategy is not cool imo, because it enables the phone industry to treat these devices as disposable.

Just sit next to the airport with a telescope on days you know he will be there. He would have to change IDs every flight to avoid this.

I would never recommend buying a used pixel for this purpose. They are very closed and unrepairable in terms of hardware so you will run into battery life issues. I have been degoogling phones for people for years and the pixels always get hardware issues.

If you are okay with secondhand, get an FP4 or FP5 depending on your budget. Then you can just replace the battery if it starts getting bad. The FP4 is gonna stop getting security updates in 2 years tho. So if you want something more long term get an FP5, those will get updates until 2031. You can get them for like 400€ if you bid on them.

My Google Pixel 8a Android phone is going to be swapped out with a Franco-Dutch Murena Fairphone 5 running the “deGoogled” /e/OS

CalyxOS is great on pixel devices, what waste of hardware.

Good to know ty

I remember looking for news about their treatment of refugees at the border and was surprised how open they were about the human rights violations. Not to say you can trust them, but i just expected more censorship. Maybe this is just seen as a plus for Orban…

It says “GrapheneOS developers do not wish to use reddit as a platform to discuss their products”. What do you not understand about this?

Yeah this is a based af reason for comment removal

I mean yeah, the UK is already doing that by itself, they dont need help with being a police state.

Oooh okay it shows up only on comments of the tagged person. I was looking at posts and their profile. Thanks for the quick guide.

I never realized that Thunder has something for it, because there is zero UI for it as far as i can see. There is just the list in the settings that you can manually add people to. This doesnt do anything however… I expected the label to show up next to the username or something but it just doesnt.

This is not about still images, its specifically about video where you use a fixed pixelation grid on a moving object. Using that level of pixelation works perfectly fine on a screenshot. But yes, better just black it out anyways.

Ah, i admit i didnt read it, because the headline and the implication of AI being an issue in academia wasnt exactly news to me.

Its the immediate takeaway i made from the headline, so i dont feel like its buried deep

They are the definition of move fast and break things. And they just keep breaking things while not even being that fast. But still there is nothing to replace it and the work they are doing is valuable.

Pretty sure this is what they scrape from your device if you install their app. I dont know how else they would get access to contacts and location and stuff. So yeah you can just run it on a virtual android device and feed it garbage data, but i assume the app or their backend will detect that and throw out your data.

Sounds like fun hobbies :) Money is worthless after you die so might aswell spend it on something you enjoy i guess.

Damn, 26% is not too shabby. Thats just a lot of money for most people, but i guess other people buy figurines that they never do anything with at all, so it could be worse i guess. Well i hope you enjoy playing them :)

If you somehow dont have Metro 2033 yet, you can still add it to your library for free today.