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by qplex 9y ago
On the road it feels quite different driving a big truck and a small car, let alone a motorbike or a bicycle.
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by qplex 9y ago
I agree, but find it unlikely that a change will happen top-down either, as the politicians and corporations are even more corrupted than individuals. I ride a bicycle too and don't own a car. I buy stuff second hand etc. I do fly but
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by qplex 9y ago
- poor integration with the web browsers Flash would effectively steal keyboard focus and render all the browser keyboard shortcuts unusable until you clicked away with your mouse. I dunno if this is still the case: I've not used Flash
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by qplex 9y ago
Hey, me too. Sadly of late, I've felt a nihilistic indifference grow inside me. Trying to infulence people on how they should do things is socially amazingly straining. The outcome at best is usually that people agree with you, but adm
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by qplex 9y ago
Of course you can run Android without the Google services eg. with LineageOS.
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by qplex 9y ago
If you truly want control of your device you simply cannot buy anything that runs iOS. When Apple decides that the support for your iOS device ends, you have no choice but to upgrade, or risk running outdated vulnerable software. The laptop
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by qplex 9y ago
You nailed it. Clumsy cases absolutely destroy the elegance of these beautiful devices. I'm not as confident about dropping them though. However the Samsung Galaxy A3 I use has proved to be very durable. Among casual drops, it has sust
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by qplex 9y ago
Looking up the definitions of obscure words is one of the tasks where I hardly ever go any further than the very first page of the search engine results. That is I don't even click at the links: the condensated summaries usually contai
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by qplex 9y ago
Indeed. Epistemology aside, I'm definitely not arguing for religion or insanity.
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by qplex 9y ago
There would be no science without philosophy. The scientific method _is_ philosophy. I think it's very important to retain the ability to postulate above scientifically proven things.
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by qplex 9y ago
Thank you for the explanation. I'm curious though; what happens if someone takes over your phone number? Eg. If the operator re-assigns a prepaid number?
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by qplex 9y ago
In Finland there are small biodegradable plastic bags available in grocery stores. Free of charge. They're mainly for vegetables, fruit etc. Downside is that they are weak enough to break if mishandled. Bigger bags to hold all your pur
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by qplex 9y ago
The convenience of cheap disposable one-time-use containers is simply too great. The only real solution is to have this stuff made from biodegradable materials.
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by qplex 9y ago
Yes. We didn't have each others phone numbers in our contacts. Manually adding by phone number didn't work. At this point we just gave up. I use prepaids because I travel a lot so my mobile numbers are just throwaways. I'd ra
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by qplex 9y ago
Their Android app at least is way too difficult to use. I tried it with my friend some time ago and we just couldn't figure out in a reasonable amount of time how to add each other etc. I consider both of us tech savvy and we have abso
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by qplex 9y ago
Older iOS versions have multiple unfixed vulnerabilities. They will most likely never get fixed either. How exactly does that work for security, trustability?
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by qplex 9y ago
In terms of absolute physical harm, yes. If you live with other people you probably need to convince them to do things differently too. In my experience this can be very stressful and I wonder if the induced stress of even worse for ones h
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by qplex 9y ago
The point was that one person riding a bicycle will not solve environmental problems if everyone else drives a car and the infrastructure is built for cars.
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by qplex 9y ago
For the end user it's black and white - can you run that app on your device or not? Android continues to run everything also on a 32-bit CPU and iOS does not.
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by qplex 9y ago
Obviously it's impossible to provide such metrics since you can not run Firefox on older iPads. It does not run on Android < 4.1 either, but the devices remain useful since you can update Android even if the vendor support is long g
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by qplex 9y ago
So you are arguing that at a scale it makes no difference to ride a bicycle since everyone else drives a car. I'm not sure what to say to this. I really don't have any answers to big societal problems.
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by qplex 9y ago
Samsung Galaxy S3 will run LineageOS 14.1 just fine. Gapps work well also. It's even officially supported by the project. It will also run faster than stock roms since there is no vendor bloat.
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by qplex 9y ago
The option is there for everyone. If your mother can not install LineageOS then you or somebody else can do it for her.
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by qplex 9y ago
I agree. It's too difficult. Most users don't know how to update even if there are vendor supported updates available.
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by qplex 9y ago
A web browser with the latest security patches. Read my other comments in this thread for anecdotes.
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by qplex 9y ago
Let me quote the article I referred to: >"My attempt to install an alternative browser ended with this message: Firefox requires iOS 10.3 or later." A Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 2013 - same age as that iPad - has Android 7.1 with all
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by qplex 9y ago
If you are arguing for the environment it certainly does not make any sense that fully functional hardware becomes obsolete because of software. Android devices at least have the option for 3rd party software. No such luck with iDevices. Al
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by qplex 9y ago
The point is that after the support runs out you're out of luck - there are no alternatives in the Apple ecosystem.
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by qplex 9y ago
>The best way to do good for the environment is to create a reliable product with sustainable materials that serves it's purpose for as long as possible and then continues to deliver value through re-use. >That's exactly wha
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by qplex 9y ago
This has been mentioned a thousand times over: on Android devices one can usually install LineageOS when the vendor support runs out. No such option for iPhones. When the support runs out you will be left hanging.

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