BenchpressMuyDebil

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[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 22 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

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Heroic Launcher (frontend for Epic Games Launcher) also worked for me on arch linux

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would prefer if they would ease the creation of temporary Mails instead of hiding it in the settings. Yeah me too. I wish they'd integrate with Bitwarden's e-mail address generator. If you e.g. use anonaddy you just paste a anonaddy apikey into Bitwarden and it creates e-mail aliases in anonaddy for you.

Though it would be nice to just use the e-mail alias service from your existing e-mail provider (as you describe with mailbox) rather than buying another 3rd party service.

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Closest I found is this at 188 EUR (!). The electronics are probably non-European and they're just assembled in France.

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They also have regular one time password two factor authentication (6 digit code every 30s) for a while now, in case you tried them while it was still the weird "PIN + OTP" thing

 

The web UI actually looks decent now.

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 7 points 2 months ago

For linux games see jc141. For the most part if the game has a native port it will be marked as native in the title. If not, it'll be emulated

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 3 points 2 months ago

The keypad lock feature is really bad. You know the feature in smartphones where even on the lockscreen there is an "emergency call" button, so anyone can call? In the HMD candybar phones, you can just press "9" and it bypasses the keyboard lock. So if you put the phone in a bag and the buttons get pressed randomly, eventually it will reach "999". Then it's a matter of the green call button being randomly pressed and it calls the ambulance.

The emergency team even called me back asking why do I keep calling and do I need help, as they wanted to block my number from calling them.

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

HMD used to manufacture (I don't think they'll release any new Nokia phone till the end ofthe year) phones using the Nokia brand, because Nokia licensed it to them. The license ends with the end of this year. From that point on HMD will make devices under their own brand.

 

The specs are wild, this is likely going to be very expensive

It has a secure element so it could run Graphene no? The only problem is that it's not a mainstream device so I don't think it's going to be supported.


A similar device that's currently released is Nokia XR21, but the only pro is that it's manufactured in Hungary


Don't bother with HMD's candybar dumbphones if you wanna escape Android, mine calls 999 (ambulance) if I put it in the backpack and it did it two times on its own (HMD 110 4G 2024), flip phones shouldn't have this problem though.

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Misleading title.

By the way, if you still want to use google's search engine but want to avoid the AI stuff, see https://udm14.com/ or just add &udm=14 to your search query

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 3 points 2 months ago

On a journey like this what I found most difficult is not to go insane. With search engines sucking (though you can narrow down google to look only in EU) it's sometimes really annoying to find every little item from an EU company. I still buy used non-EU clothes on Vinted, because who cares, they're already there. Patagonia is cool despite being an US company, so they get a pass.

Finally it’s obviously a bit more expensive to buy European. But then again workers in Portugal, Bulgaria or Austria have completely different working conditions than their peers in Bangladesh.

Things have a base price. The fact that you can buy a t-shirt for 5 euro doesn't mean that this is how much it "should" cost. It means that the company cut every corner possible to nuke the price to an absurdly low level, where it's downright unhealthy to the ecosystem/industry at that price. It's not that the made in EU clothes are expensive, it's just that the price is just right if European manufacturing and natural/recycled materials are important to you.

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Wonder if this problem will be "solved" with Qi2 (magnetic charging) in the future. Pixel 10 is supposed to have it if we're talking Android. Otherwise with 2 USB-C ports you have Lenovo Legion 2 Pro and Lenovo Legion Y90 but that's not mainstream

[–] BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 8 points 3 months ago (11 children)

You have been visited by the USB-C port. This post is now protected against headphone jack jihadists

 

What worries me about this is that it takes people who have those right-wing views and connect them in the real world. Like, in an Internet time where community is more rare, this actually takes those people and creates a real-world community. In what ways are non-right wing people organizing?

 

I'll post it just once because I assume not many people know it exists.

 

I post this knowing the article naively hopeful but it's also food for thought. With the recent drama where Google stopped publishing device-specific AOSP code - thus making maintaining custom ROMs more difficult - what will more tech-knowledgeable people do if Android is enshittified further?

Will "phone ludditism" - switching to dumbphone with a simple OS like Mocor RTOS, S30+, ThreadX etc. be the answer for some of them? They're deGoogled out of the factory. I switched to a dumbphone as my main phone, but I still keep an Android smartphone at home for online banking. I also take the smartphone with me if I know I'll need a hotspot or a map. I use the smartphone like a PDA, or a terminal to the Android ecosystem.

It's also questionable whether "Europe is leading in the dumbphone sector". Sure we have HMD, Doro, Crosscall, Gigaset (sold to South Koreans), MaxKom or myPhone but there are so many other potentially bigger companies like TCL or Itel. One thing is for sure - in the dumbphone sector and considering how simple those devices are, Europe at least stands a fighting chance. Whether somebody will become a dumbphone martyr in order to exist in this Europe-friendly sector is another thing.

 

[...] Norway's competition authority fined Coop, Rema 1000, and NorgesGruppen a combined €420 million [...]

[..] the companies had been using "price hunters" to scan and monitor prices in one another's shops. Instead of competing, they adjusted their prices to match, keeping them high and predictable.

Together, these three chains control 95% of the grocery market in Norway,

One of the few comparable examples is Poland, where Biedronka and Lidl together hold around 73% of the market.

Coop, Rema 1000, and NorgesGruppen have all appealed their respective fines, meaning they remain unpaid. The authorities have asked the companies to cease their use of price hunters, but as stated by the head of NorgesGruppen, they have no plans to do so.

Primary sources are at the bottom of the article.

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Primary sources are on the bottom of the linked article and throughout the links in the article itself.

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