Fair enough. I was in that camp for a decade or more myself. I hope you find a solution!

It’s not necessarily a solution, but my Garmin watch can still hold some of my cards, so I don’t need the NFC payment on my phone to duplicate that functionality. Do you wear or carry any other devices that can stand-in?

I’ve replaced the battery on my laptop twice. Didn’t recognize the brand (might have been Dentsing or something like that) but it outperformed the stock battery in it’s flattening state and maybe even when it was new! I watched it pretty closely for a while though and I’d NEVER buy a battery off temu.

Yeah, I don’t care if they invent a paywall that jumps out of the screen and gives me a top notch scalp massage. I don’t do paywalls.

I use Linux on desktop and I’ve been excitedly watching the various projects to bring FOSS Linux to mobile, but for me personally, it can’t be a daily driver yet. Hopefully by the time I’m done degoogling and severing other app dependencies mobile Linux devices will be more evolved and have a better cost/feature ratio more on par with mainstream devices.

I’m mostly disappointed because the way Ubuntu teased a phone that docks to become a PC hasn’t really come into full fruition yet. I’m not a Ubuntu user, but I do have a strong preference for working on a full sized screen. Being able to dock my phone to a display and get a non-phone UI means I could just carry a folding keyboard instead of a tablet.

If the EU sponsored an open source OS to reduce dependency on US tech, that could be a saving grace.

I’m considering a pixel tablet so I can put Graphene on it, but with the change in how google handles sources, I’m no longer sure.

If there is a donation button and its a project, media item, service, etc that I use enough that I would buy it, I often donate. The amount depends on how badly they need the help. If I they try to steer me to recurring donations I don’t donate at all (having the option as an opt-in is okay).

If we’re gonna let them on the road, I say that software should get points just like a driver, but when it gets suspended all the cars running that software get shut down.

I don’t have an answer for you, but I, and probably a lot of the other silent up-voters, will be watching closely for an answer. Tablets haven’t gotten as much attention as phones. My own is still on a stock OS, even as I’ve removed more and more google stuff elsewhere. I’m not sure when/if the leap will come.

I hate how VPN access is the scaffolding holding the building up making things look normal. You can visit all your normal web sites, you can bypass georestrictions, you can be a little less tracked than you might otherwise be. But what happens when they decide to do away with that scaffolding and we all find out they tore down the house behind it while we were enjoying “normalcy”. Too much of making the web functional depends on vpns and adblocking. We shouldn’t have to do this stuff and Chromes adblocking scandle should impact millions of users all around the world unilaterally removing adblocking from the web. I fear for the day we have a US only internet and a global internet, not just on paper, but in actual practice.

I agree. Not having access on my terms is absolutely a deal breaker for me and could cause me to stop doing business with a company.

They’re loud as hell too. Makes me want to put a shishkabob skewer through either my eardrum or the speaker. That my be an exaggeration, but I’m not exaggerating when I say that I actively the avoid gas stations in my city that have this “feature”.

Right. This shouldn’t be about restricting children; but rather, this should be about restricting corporation’s bad behaviors. It’s also not just children that are impacted. Mining online dopamine-junkies for data by placing money extractors right on their weak spots is unethical, like selling someone crack, or phone scamming the elderly.

Can we do this in the same bill as the popup spikes that take out your tires if you stop across the crosswalk? The guided RPGs replacing red light cams can wait a little longer.

I managed to get KOReader on my Grandpa’s old Kindle. One device has now entertained two people for what is likely a decade or two of combined service.

I work with enough foreigners that I almost HAVE to do this since I rarely see them face to face and have no real indicators aside from their name. If your name is 20 characters long and 18 of them are consonants, I’m gonna use “they” at work, just to avoid any undue offense. So far, if someone had a problem with me it was because of my employer, not my own words or behavior.

I saw that one. Wasn’t it a newer Android version too instead of an ancient one like most of Boox’s stuff?

I wish popular cell phones would offer an eink option. I know there are 1-2 phones out there, but they always seem to be on some ancient version of Android.

In my opinion, which is based on the OPX, OP6T, OP9, OP10 and many many devices I’ve used from other manufacturers, Oneplus does hardware very well. My latest phone was a Pixel 8 Pro so I could run Graphene and while I do not regret my choice, I do miss the Oneplus hardware, and most of all the 3-position slider switch. My OP6T is old as dirt now, but still exudes a higher quality feel than my Pixel when you hold it. To the point of the discussion: One Plus has amazing battery life and hardware versus competitors at the same price point.

I’d like to think as a group, we are a healthier addiction than Reddit. :)