I chose the Fairphone for the repairability and increased openness, but it’s also 2 to 3 times the price of a more common brand cellphone

Only outside of Europe or their free-trade partners, in Europe I can get a Gen 5 for 400€ and Gen 6 for about 550€. It’s extremely annoying for most countries, but regarding the US it’s 100% their regime’s fault for not having any comparable company (they get immediately smushed by Google, Apple & Co by any means necessary) or at least low / no tariffs with the EU zone (Trump literally killed a done deal in this regard one week before ratification with his threats of invading Greenland).

For instance, my laptop is a MNT Reform: it’s a very good laptop, but it’s literally 6 times the price of a comparatively-specced laptop from a big-box store.

Now that’s really special. :D There are a lot of “normal” (x86) devices on the market that are way more affordable as well. For a while Slimbook offered a modern native Linux laptop for <500€, and there are also companies like System76 (US), NovaCustom (NL) or Star Labs (UK) with laptops running on open firmware that come with less restrictions and powerful hardware.

For people who aren’t (yet) poor it’s mostly a problem of discoverability and lack of knowledge not to go with the more sane products. We get bombarded with ads promising the best experience on the usual platforms (that are as manipulative as possible). BambuLab also plays this game perfectly, their influencer marketing paired with VC-funded undercutting prices are top notch in getting people locked into their garbage.

People who can’t imagine that should try buying a non-smart TV. It’s fucking impossible, unless 24-32 inch are enough for you (PC monitor size).

At this point it might not be the worst idea to bet against Nvidia or OpenAI, if you can do it at the perfect moment.

need no say more, english broken. Sheep cute.

On a positive note: You become the person to ask if anything problematic happens. Like, the moment someone feels sick it’s always me who got the travel-amount of medicine ready (Ibuprofen, Talcid, Vomex and such).

I put a bag of holding inside another bag of holding, and I’m not responsible for the resulting black hole eating through the kitchen.

…in the backpack?

Nee, das heißt ganz offensichtlich Haltbare Berg und Alpen Milch.

Way more even. Just look at emulation on Android, you can play good damn Sekiro on it by now.

Even if they manage to take away our desktops, Smartphones become beautifully powerful and can be docked to TVs and all via USB-C easily.

I had a good connection back then (FTTH 100mbit, <5ms latency) and it worked like shit. There are WAY too many variables that can screw up this cloud gaming stuff, the whole concept is messed up.

Nitrokey’s devices are also worth a look, they’re a European company based in Germany and really know their stuff. Their NitroWall routers run on Coreboot and come with either OPNsense or OpenWrt.

This works in some physics engines. Might be a game guide.

Sending it to Recyclingfabrik in Germany. Unfortunately access to high-quality filament recycling companies is very much dependent on your location.

Show me a country where this isn’t true.

Imagine having both.

I think some rice cookers popular in Asia do have features to keep it warm, activate at a certain time etc. Perhaps you want cooked rice for breakfast (perhaps already cooled down but still moist and fluffy), or have it prepared so you can make Sushi later while taking a nap. Can definitely see the usecase in a food culture with lots of rice.

Don’t they want to monetize those as well?

“I know pol memes aren’t allowed, I know this is one and everyone else already disliked it. I will post it anyway.”

Dude, what? 😂

Perhaps Spacebar is a thing (the client of choice would be Fermi I think). Didn’t try it myself yet though, I do not know about how well its security protocol works. I’d assume it uses just a standard TURNS server for audio and video though.

Then of course there’s Matrix with Jitsi plugin, which will give you persistent headaches and a new appreciation of touching grass. It’s a mess, but hypothetically offers E2EE (if it works).

it’s been flawless for me

What kind of deal-with-the-devil black magic fuckery have you done to be able to write that? I’m happy if Matrix actually sends damn pictures and gave up completely on verifying my sessions.