WhyJiffie
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- Comment on Short summary of dumbphone market in 2025 17 hours ago:
And apparently the ability to watch YT
the ability to watch youtube on a 240x320 screen? at that level, video is heavily compressed. is any text in videos readable? is it possible to discern tools and screws? or is it just a low-level entertainment device effectively?
Though yeah, my post is more about feature phones, not real dumbphones as I originally wrote in the title.
I have to admit I did not recognize a difference between these two. I thought feature phones and dumb phones are the same category.
- Comment on Short summary of dumbphone market in 2025 19 hours ago:
The advantage here is that the underlying browser engine is ran and updated on the server. This helps avoid the KaiOS situation: KaiOS v2 (the last version in Europe) uses Firefox 48 (current version is 137).
there is no advantage there, only disadvantages. a dumb phone is not supposed to have internet features. but this is wholly running in the cloud? that’s a horrible privacy nightmare, and it must also be very inefficient as it places a relatively large load on the network and the company has to run powerful servers that use unnecessarily large amounts power, more than normal dumb phones of the same quantity would
There are some rumors on /r/dumbphones about a WhatsApp CloudFone app which would be big.
yeah it would be so big if I bought a dumb phone because I’m fed up with tech and then I’m forced into facebook services in yet another “innovative” way. pretty sure they would even market it with “end to end encryption” and “security” even though the server sees everything
I get that this approach is not acceptable to the freedom-oriented, tech-savvy demographic on Lemmy, but it looks like this is where the mainstreaim is heading right now.
I really dont get why if so. why does anyone want tiktok and such on a dumbphone? then buy the cheapest smartphone from alibaba or your local telecom company. the entire purpose of dumbphones is to be able to call and SMS, keep a simplistic contact book and that’s it
also, how does it even run a web browser when the whole device has just 128 MB RAM. will the device crash if I load up facebook. com?
- Comment on Synology restricts choice of hard disks for new Plus NAS 2 days ago:
that probably does not have redundancy
- Comment on Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules 5 days ago:
browsers are not protocols but applications. how do you make an open standard for an application? was that done before?
- Comment on Google has illegal advertising monopoly, judge rules 5 days ago:
you shouldn’t allow a web browser and an operating system be in one company
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
yeah, i too have set up a redirect for port 53 to my DNS server on the main router, for a long time didn’t do that though. but then, even this doesn’t matter if they just hardcode a list of IPs
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
that was a good one :) fixed the typo
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
that may not be enough. while I don’t know how common it is, it is not unknown that they use DoH, DoT, direct connections to hardcoded IP without DNS to evade such blocking measures. chinese IP cams often do the latter
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
if pihole says its blocked, that does not mean your device does not also query another DNS server
and once they should really hardcode the DNS or similar stuff here, the connection will be disabled
but how’ll you notice that? that ads return? different subsystems of the tv might work differently
Once they try to reach IPs directly (ECOVACS once did so) you may block those on a firewall-basis
and how do you know what IPs to block? and then, a server on an IP could hold multiple services such that blocking it breaks multiple things.
I’m not here to tease you, but I really think that this might not be enough even today
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
well that’s what I’m saying to the parent commenter
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
with a pihole they can easily work around, or proper network isolation?
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
this sounds terrible
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
such things should be brought back to the store as defective
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
a quick reminder that the 5G standard defined a peer to pear operating mode for smart devices
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
does not worth anything nowadays. they’ll just retry with 8.8.8.8, a DoH service or something else. pretty sure they can also do without DNS, like chinese cameras use connections that cannot be blocked with a hosts file because they are going directly to a preprogrammed IP
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 6 days ago:
what can it do if the TV uses DoH, DoT, or something else similar? I expect that it can do nothing. unless the TV is on a separate lan with very strictly only access to internal services
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 6 days ago:
Pretty lame them pretending to not have user names while doing it.
doesn’t this essentially make it an opt-in system to user names?
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 6 days ago:
well thing is, they might be searching for a new home
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 6 days ago:
that’s true, but op wanted to move threads, not communities, for the purpose of better search. for that it’s fine
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
sandboxed Google Play vs microG - no option AFAIK to disable it
you mean disabling microg?
if so you can refuse installation at profile setup. if you make a new profile, you can choose to install it there. then in microg settings there are some toggles for functionality
btw, which of your apps nead google services?
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
mac randomization is a defined thing in the BLE standard (afaik bluetooth classic does not have it, but maybe that changed in BT 5.1?). It’s not truly random, it involves cryptography so that paired devices can recognize each other in the end
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
could habe been this one?
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
It’s an additional […] point for water ingress.
the whole back panel is a big point of water ingress when that is not glued shut hard
It takes up space which could be utilised otherwise, like with a slightly larger battery or larger speakers or camera modules.
I never needed the additional camera modules, and there were phones with single camera module that made very nice images. the jack is also often at the top of the device where the battery doesn’t reach, but in my phone there’s also enough place for it between the bottom and the battery for a jack connector. in a fairphone
It’s an additional part which needs to be manufactured, stocked, installed and purchased. Extra cost which only benefits a few.
exact same opinion about multiple camera modules. nobody really needs them.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
not just that. with a jack, you can use your phone as a perfect mic for your PC. its also better in terms of privacy as you don’t blast “IM HERE” signals that every other shop has a tracking device for logging them. I would guess majority of bluetooth audio devices don’t even support mac address randomization
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
If I want backups, I can use something like Syncthing.
syncthing cant backup your device. that is a file transfer app. for backing up the device you need either appmanager and root, or good old dd and root (and a half shutdown system)
I don’t put anything critical on it, so why would I need to restore from a snapshot?
- because not everyone uses the device the same way as you
- snapshots are always complete. file based backups are not because of metadata changes. seedvault even less because it picks apps except this and that, and an unknown subset of the settings, and shared storage for the files that you have enabled
If you want those features, it’s not the ROM for you.
currently there’s no ROM on which you could execute a real backup, thanks to encrypted storage with keys stored in TPM. TPM sees a change, and now your backup is a useless blob of practically random data
I just want a simple device with a long support cycle and no spyware, and GrapheneOS delivers.
as does calyx os
I have Google Play Services on a sperate profile, and my main profile is completely free of that crap. I want a Linux phone, but every phone has serious limitations, like missing audio, sketchy calls, or completely broken camera.
with microg, this can be done on calyx too. there’s even a few options on how much you want google to know.
and if your point is that not all apps work with microg, then you would never actually move to a linux phone because that will never have google play services (hopefully, else something has gone way wrong), probably not even microg or apps that would depend on it
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
afaik their device-to-device mode should be able to workaround that. it can still be saved to storage
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
no other manufacturer ever will have graphnene os support. their requirements cannot be met unless you are a tech gian, and with exceptionally good connections to the hardware manufacturers
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
why does a poor stock os matter if you will replace it anyway? did the same thing on day one
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
You can do the same with aurora store. That’s available on just about every phone.
not if the app attempts to verify its license through the play store. you need microg for that, or patch it
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 1 week ago:
its done that way because at a reboot all memory is lost, and it can’t happen that something slips through because there is a bug or some miscalculation