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  • Apple says EU law will mean more features are delayed, maybe even new hardware

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  • How is it?

    I have FP4, and while I really love it, and I'd buy another one in a heartbeat, there are compromises with respect to the competition.

    On the other hand, I could clearly see that it was a massive step forward with respect to FP3, and that the gap compared to regular phones was shrinking fast.

    So, again, how is it? How much of a compromise is it compared to a similar priced less ethical phone?

  • How This Iceland Wedding Proved Love Can Be Carbon-Neutral, Vegan, and Totally Gorgeous

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  • You don't seem to want to understand what I write.

    I'll try to be shorter:

    • I didn't criticize the veganism, or the wedding itself. I criticized the article about it.
    • I dislike the glamorous articles about someone's cool wedding. From a regular couple all the way to the royal weddings.
    • Carbon offsets are largely a lie. If I told you that I eat carbon neutral beef wouldn't you tell me that I'm full of it? (I would be)
    • I definitely don't set standards for anyone. Fly as much as you need. Just maybe don't lie to yourself about it.

  • How This Iceland Wedding Proved Love Can Be Carbon-Neutral, Vegan, and Totally Gorgeous

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  • No sometimes you can't make do without flying over the Atlantic, whether you avoid meat or not. Everyone has a scale of values, and sometimes the price of avoiding flights entirely is just too high. I dare say often. And, depending on the reasons, not all flights are the same.

    Also, avoiding meat may or may not be related to global warming, everyone has their reasons.

    A Buddhist immigrant that completely avoids meat, may still want to visit their family of origin once a year, whether they worry about the climate or not. To make an obvious example, but I could quote academic exchanges or many others.

  • Ladybird Browser Gains Cloudflare Support to Challenge the Status Quo

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  • Let's not forget that Drew is the one that wants to burn Stallman at the stake.

  • Fairphone’s new cables and chargers are LONGTIME®-certified. Here’s what that means.

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  • They definitely don't have the sane capabilities, but I think I've be using the USB-Bs in my Ikea power strips for >8years now so at least longevity is pretty decent.

  • How This Iceland Wedding Proved Love Can Be Carbon-Neutral, Vegan, and Totally Gorgeous

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  • People want their marriage ceremonies to be special. America for them is an every day occurrence.

    I am married. I did not, for a second, want my wedding to be "special". I wanted it to be sweet, pleasant, and a moment of sharing with people I love. So I kept theatricality to a strict minimum, invested the budget on good food, and tried to minimize everyone's travel distance (within reason, people came over from 4 countries, luckily all within Europe).

    I mean I asked about Sailboats from North America to Europe earlier and people scoffed at me for suggesting that idea. Greta Thunberg uses that mode of transport, but it’s not the most accessible for everyone.

    Are people supposed to stay within their own continents and never traverse beyond that?

    Traveling by sailboat is indeed not realistic. Right now there is no realistically sustainable way to travel between continents. We will need to decarbonize air travel, and that's not going to be cheap. At the moment, you'll just have to decide when it's worth it for you, without deluding yourself with carbon offsets. This year I am doing two, both for work, and there is no way to avoid them without having to do unacceptable compromises on the quality of the work I do.

    I’m sure you decided to write this criticism because you saw the “bad” vegan word.

    I have nothing against vegans, I have a lot of vegan friends :-P

    Jokes aside, the vegan food looks really quite good, and it probably was also very good. And local products too. I'd say there's a good reason why Scandinavian cuisine is so hot right now.

    There simply were a few things that rubbed me the wrong way.

    • It seems out of scope for the community.
    • I don't really care for seeing the wedding pictures of strangers on the Internet, as cool as they may look (they do look cool).
    • Carbon offsets are mostly greenwashing. The article title is screaming "you can have you cake, eat it too, and not get fat". No you can't.

  • Do you truly believe that this is a human being?

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  • Indeed. That's really (chef's kiss)

  • How This Iceland Wedding Proved Love Can Be Carbon-Neutral, Vegan, and Totally Gorgeous

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  • It's hard to take seriously someone who talks about carbon neutrality while traveling to Iceland for tourism. Ah, but you offset your transoceanic flights? Oh, that's fine then, it's not like offsets are all too often a distraction without substance.

    And let's not even get started on the amount of overtourism in Iceland. It's a country of 400k people with >2.2M tourists, mostly concentrated in July.

    I mean, I'm happy they had a good time, the part that annoys me is the attempt to pass it as some kind of revolutionary green-economy solution. It seems to me simply a greenwashed version of your usual overspendy, high-waste, prestige Californian wedding.

  • Seagate invests $135 million in its European photonic center to deliver 100TB hard drives by 2030

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  • That's only because the normal user doesn't store his own data anymore.

    Whether that's a good thing is a whole different discussion.

  • Chat Control is back & we've got one month to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans.

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  • There is fundamentally no less criminally insane way to combat the circulation of CSAM? Then the council may have a point after all...

  • Chat Control is back & we've got one month to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans.

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  • What you see is also in part how the EU legislative process operates. There are very very long backs and forwards within the commission and with the committees, with proposals that sometimes improve and sometimes worsen (this particular one is an absolute disaster), until some form of consensus is reached.

    There simply is an agreement that something should be done about the online distribution of CSAM, and so they'll keep coming up with new ideas until something gives, or someone manages to spread the idea that simply nothing should be done about it.

    The most effective way to fight this might be to build consensus around a less criminally insane way to do this.

  • What is smart to use as messenger? Briar, SimpleX or XMPP?

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  • Realistically, the best option is still to try and fight it.

  • Encountered a linux user in Grindr

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  • I think that's language options, not geographic range.

    He says he lives in Graz, in Austria (where people speak German and there are no kangaroos BTW).

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • I use /e/OS, my office mate uses Graphene. All our banking apps (I have like 3, lol) work flawlessly. However, once you go down this road, there is always a chance that they stop working in the future, as Google introduces more bullshit like this or Play Integrity.

  • Alpha Release 2

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  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • Yeah, except Spotify isn't just a music company. They've been trying for years to get you to use their App for other stuff that's costs them less royalties.

    So now Spotify includes all manners of audiobooks and shitty podcasts.

    And while we all agree that age verification is bad... If anything ever deserves age verification, it may be Joe Rogan.

  • Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

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  • Let me add myself to the chorus of "Fuck yes please".

    Any chance that this could be used in combination with existing streaming servers like Jellyfin or Navidrome? It would be most convenient to have generated playlists that I can download before leaving home.

    Also, I have all my music already tagged with acousticbrainz metadata. Are those good for anything?

  • Can't we do anything as google is killing AOSP and custom ROMS

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  • There's many navigation apps that have traffic, like Magic Earth which 100% runs without GMS.

    For review you can use gmaps wv or TripAdvisor.

    Here We Go has traffic and TripAdvisor integration, but I'm not sure whether it runs without GMS.

  • Can't we do anything as google is killing AOSP and custom ROMS

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  • True, but the pictures are useful though. I can tell a decent pizza from a shite one from a picture.