Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)C

Cyberwolf

@ Pirate @feddit.org

Posts
0
Comments
144
Joined
9 mo. ago

  • Phone + linux distro with working VoLTE?

    Jump

  • Are their phones even any good? Serious question, I haven’t heard of Motorola in the last 10 or so years, I didn’t even know they still existed.

    It would be deliciously ironic if they launched GrapheneOS on their Thinkphone models though. They would totally match my thinkpad laptop which I already use.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

    Jump

  • Lenovo does not have a reputation of placing root kits in their Linux installs so there you go.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

    Jump

  • How can you trust other laptop manufacturers aren’t doing the same if we’re going with unfounded assumptions?

    Most Linux images offer checksums to verify integrity.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

    Jump

  • There’s this thing called uninstalling the factory OS and reinstalling with a clean image. If you go a step further you can even get rid of Windows altogether and install Linux.

  • Dutch Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees

    Jump

  • Many small companies have excellent customer support, in fact I’d argue most of them have the capacity to offer customer support that goes way beyond what massive corporations can. Clearly this is something FP doesn’t prioritize.

  • Dutch Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees

    Jump

  • What trillion dollar company did I compare them with ?

    IMO FP should keep doing what they are known for, which is repairability. Six gens in and they are already dropping the ball instead of getting better at their craft. I’m not a client so I don’t care, but it’s already not looking great.

    I hope we eventually go back to have amazing EU phone companies like we did with Nokia, but I don’t think this is it.

  • Dutch Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees

    Jump

  • You’re gonna get downvoted but frankly you’re correct. Everything FairPhone is incredibly unappealing to me, especially the fact they made it harder to change the battery. Next gen you’ll get glued battery and we’ve come full circle lol.

  • Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"

    Jump

  • Don’t forget the most important prerequisite: be a psychopath. Something something 12-15% of the world’s top CEOs are clinically psychopaths, so this is the world we get.

  • Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk

    Jump

  • Cool, you know who doesn’t have this issue? People who uninstalled the spyware called Windows from their device.

  • Most, if not all car companies collect and profile your data, how can I improve my privacy when buying a modern car?

    Jump

  • Lucky for them ethical hackers (CCC) found that and did not use the data.

    In other words “ethical hackers” wasted a great opportunity to give shithead politicians a taste of their own venom. Very frustrating.

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

    Jump

  • Hope Valve comes up with something eventually

    That could be interesting. I want to see how SteamOS goes, but the potential is grand.

    In terms of the iPhone being locked down, I’m not sure what you’re looking to do but I personally managed to get ad-free Reddit, YouTube and YouTube music ad-free (+sponsorblock) just using apps from the App Store. All of them free or one-time payment of 3 euros. It was actually easier to do than with Android where I had to “sideload” stuff from GitHub since Android is owned by google and all frontends to their programs are banned.

    As long as you get yourself an email that isn’t iCloud you can also take all your contacts and email with you wherever you want. Then you can install KDE Connect as you would on Android and can send files freely between you phone and Pc.

    This is all to say, I don’t feel more locked down on the iPhone than on Android, which was a surprise for me.

  • Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!

    Jump

  • If android goes the way it’s going, then iPhone is the obvious choice.

  • Many EU states want to allow the US access to biometric police data

    Jump

  • And this is why I get increasingly tired of the whole privacy-seeking endeavor. Jumping through hoops to get GrapheneOS+Linux working for me, with the sacrifices that come with it, only to have my government hand out my healthcare and biometric data to the US anyway. It’s all so tiresome.

  • FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

    Jump

  • Okay so, the same industry that is trying to kill video games is now worried that a game from 30 years ago nobody ever heard of has a bug?

    Google needs to go back to taking their meds.

  • Apple to Remove iPhone-Apple Watch Wi-Fi Sync in EU With iOS 26.2

    Jump

  • The dev time of blocking these features in the EU will be FAR higher than allowing apps to use the already existing and well implemented apis.

    No it won’t dude you’re just making stuff up.

    Also you seem to be under the persuasion that you’re forced to use Apple’s App Store. You’re not. Alternatives like Altstore PAL exist and are readily available if you wish. Whether you actually want to use those apps is another matter, but the choice is there.

    Why do you want to force iOS to open up so bad anyway? I get that software freedom is cool but for that you already have Android (for the time being anyway). I used Android for 15 years but now as I grow older I appreciate the minimalist and well integrated ecosystem that Apple offers. The world is better with both options. You’re demanding a world where you’re forced to have only one.

    And this is why Europe can’t create anything, everyone is so focused on changing what already exists instead of coming up with real local alternatives.

  • Apple to Remove iPhone-Apple Watch Wi-Fi Sync in EU With iOS 26.2

    Jump

  • And it is, which is why the Digital Markets Act exists. But unless you want to enslave Apple into doing your bidding then I don’t understand what else you expect Apple to do. They just thought it wasn’t worth their while to enable that feature if it meant extra dev time and resources. They are a business after all.

  • Apple to Remove iPhone-Apple Watch Wi-Fi Sync in EU With iOS 26.2

    Jump

  • Why would Apple spend potentially millions on creating an open API to allow other platforms to be compatible with their services, when they can just turn that service off? I get it’s cunty but it’s a smart business decision. Nobody should be surprised Apple is doing this.

  • Phone + OS review: Google Pixel 9a and GrapheneOS

    Jump

  • What compromise are you doing with GrapheneOS+Google services that you aren’t making with microG? In my experience the sandboxed version of Play Services works much better than MicroG, with the added security of using an android native service developed by Google themselves.

    You can argue “MicroG isn’t Google” but it actually is since it’s just a bunch of Google libraries with some FOSS costing on top. And again, you’re more likely to get your phone remotely hacked by a silly exploit that was patched months ago but still got you because instead of GrapheneOS you decided to use some other security-void like Calyx, LineageOS or /e/OS.

  • Phone + OS review: Google Pixel 9a and GrapheneOS

    Jump

  • What a weak line of argumentation. Hopes and dreams don’t matter on the face of reality.

    There is a reason why Journalists, activists and whistleblowers use GrapheneOS, and it is the only OS that is recommended for such use cases. It’s the only OS that has the receipts to prove their are resistant to remote penetration breaches lfrom the likes os Pegasus and common evil maidens like Celebrite.

    There are no high-risk personas using microG OSes. The ones who did are now dead.

    You’re free to use your insecure and outdated OS of choice that allows you to feel good about using the equally insecure MicroG. Just stop pretending it is a viable choice for the majority of consumers, who don’t want to have to throw away their phones because they got infected by a swarm spam bot that also drained their bank account.