jabjoe
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- 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:
Ok, I accept all that, but the maps just are better to me. I grew up with the UK Ordnance Survey maps, and that’s kind of what I want from my maps.
I’ll amend.
- 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 quite the same. The big thing with GrapheneOS is it can run the actual Google services, but sandboxed. Organic Maps is better than Google Maps in everyway, but it’s routes are so much worse because it has no traffic into to go on. It’s an anticompetitive network effect, but it’s hard to fight without law makers.
- Comment on Apple turns off iCloud encryption feature in UK following reported government legal order. 1 month ago:
You could swap out the Pixel+Graphene for say a FairPhone+LineageOS. I ran misc-secondhand-phone+LineageOS for over a decade. Still selfhost everything I need. My family have all their photos upload to my nextcloud instance instead of Google.
My switch to Pixel+Graphene is because ultimately the problem is political not technical. A banking app I needed for work refused to run without the real Google services. It also refused Custom ROMs. I tried a lot of tricks. Also GoogleMaps is the only satnav with traffic information in the route planning. There is other things, but Graphene allows you a compromise of running the Google services, but sandboxed.
The problem is not technical, it’s political. Most people don’t understand the difference between a standard and a monopoly. The law makers are asleep to monopolies and the need for competition in the tech world, so have allow this tech dystopia to happen. Some that are more awake know big monopolies are easier to get things like this story from. Multinational corporation are money machines, they won’t really fight for their users. But they miss the bigger picture.
If you care about all this stuff, there is groups like:
Maybe also openuk.uk , though they more work with big tech.
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 2 months ago:
Confirmed. No boom : www.worldometers.info/…/uk-population/
- Comment on Misogyny identified as breeding ground for extremism in UK, says leaked report 2 months ago:
Pretty sure there are professional right wing trolls flooding and popular social media. MAGA backed, Russian backed, etc
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 2 months ago:
Amazon? They probably want Waterstone to. Competition
- Comment on Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood 3 months ago:
There wealth is going to end up with a lot of “stranded assets”.
- Comment on Starmer must protect elections from foreign interference, says watchdog | Party funding 4 months ago:
He should also get rid of FPTP now. If he doesn’t, the sane vote will be split Lab, Green, Lib and maybe Plaid, SNP and maybe Con. While the nutty vote all goes to Reform and they get in with like less than a third of the vote.
- Comment on TRA recommends new duty of up to 83.5% on Chinese excavators 4 months ago:
I only light skimmed : …amazonaws.com/AD0047 - Statement of Essential Fa…
But this looks it could be argued the Chinese excavators are cheaper because they are electric. That all the combustion engine vs electric is the normal anti EV FUD. JCB don’t do electric as they say it can’t work. They back hydrogen or the status quo. If JCB is right, they shouldn’t need tarrifs.
But maybe is some evidence is real market dumping I didn’t see.
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 5 months ago:
No. He needs to be trialed for treason, then jailed when found guilty.
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 5 months ago:
Things that reduce consumption are frequently successful in capitalism. Generally, using less, costs less. There are always those selling a thing who are trying to increase the consumption of that thing, but often at expensive of those selling a competing thing. One successful way of doing that is to be cheaper to buy or run or both, by doing more with less.
However, sometimes we want something to be made with more a bit more to last longer and be repairable.
Raw capitalist won’t do all this on its own. The invisible hand isn’t very good at planning long term. Governments need to structure markets for outcomes they want, and keep measuring and correcting.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 5 months ago:
It should surprise me, but not as anymore. It must be economies of scale making lithium batteries the cheapest thing to do now.
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 5 months ago:
Yer, I totally trust the Telegraph on what Starmer says on the lines in a class war. Completely trustable source on the subject. Not at all trying to put that line with as many people on its side not Starmers…
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 5 months ago:
Good. The batteries alone being disposable is insane. …nub.news/…/staffordshire-university-graduate-use…