My hands are getting shaky when I consume caffeine in any form when hungry

No, unfortunately I don’t

I definitely need to try doing a factory reset before spending money, but the thought of having to backup all apps, especially the FOSS ones, where I need to manually make backup for each one, makes me procrastinate doing that.

Yes, I know, if I bought a new phone, I would have to do that too, but for now I’m just evaluating my options.

As for if these are software or hardware issues. One of the issues is that the compass/GPS is going haywire. It has trouble getting a fix, even when doing eights and for like 1 minute the arrow (my position) on the map is rotating and moving all over the place. For this issue, even restart doesn’t help, so it doesn’t look like the software issue.

The connectivity problems… some can be fixed with a restart, some cannot. Every few minutes the internet connection drops. Sometimes it starts working again after a while, sometimes I need to restart the phone.

Oh, and the worst one — recently it just started randomly turning off during the night, so the alarm doesn’t ring

That’s good to hear

I’ve heard that OnePlus are not as good as they used to be, but I don’t remember what the criticism was about. Pixel sounds good as I could finally try Graphene

Ugh… I’m in Poland, where the tax is always included so it’s hard to compare prices with the US. I would say 1500 PLN or less, so 420 USD with taxes

To me, Dutch has been the easiest language to learn so far. Pretty simple grammar, similar vocabulary to English. Word order is the hardest part for me (I’m still making mistakes), the second hardest thing is the pronunciation. Pronouncing ‘g’ without hurting your throat can be quite tricky.

Dutch has a very rigid word order and when I do exercises on Duolingo I often create rhymes by accident.

My favorite Dutch rhyme is Nieuwe wegdek, langere remweg. It’s very popular too, there are many signs with it. It means New road surface, longer breaking distance.

There are many alternative teaching methods that are usually not used in public schools e.g. democratic schools. I don’t know how it is in the US, but in Poland there was not a single lesson about how to tell truth from the lies. We were always told to blindly accept that what teacher said and what was in the book. The teachers had, more often than not, problems in their life and instead of talking them through on a psychotherapy, they were acting like fucking dictators, pushing theirs own traumas onto the kids.

Schools are so that parents can leave the kids somewhere when they go to work and to accept authority without question. No wonder far-right is so strong now

planned obsolescence ≠ subscription

This is cool! However, this comparison is unfair, as Getty-Dubay is the only one not using a variable thickness

I don’t see anything special on this screenshot. Most of the websites display this, at least when you have an European IP. This pop up is only exceptional in that it doesn’t lag on my phone, displays correctly and has a “Reject all” button

The return of PlayStation clusters?

Hopefully not

Maybe they wouldn’t be able to afford rent otherwise?

Which services? I haven’t stumbled upon a single one

I plan to self-host a music server with music ripped from CDs, torrented and bought from Bandcamp and go back to listening to radio. We have plenty of good radio stations here.

In Poland streaming costs next to nothing, at least on Tidal. I’m regularly using radios and generated playlists containing music I don’t have in my collection, so it’s definitely cheaper than buying every album

OUCH. I had Z1 and what I liked about that phone was how buttery smooth it was

I thought it meant that they started investigated porting GrapheneOS to Fairphone. That they meant a surgical knife and getting to work.

Yeah, I tend to over-interpret and am non-native too, how could you tell?