TheGrandNagus @ TheGrandNagus @lemmy.world

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Qualcomm will have to change that, what with the EU now mandating a minimum of 5 years of updates after the phone is no longer sold.

So if Qualcomm expects their SoCs to be on the market for 2-4 years, like they do right now, they will have no choice but to provide updates for 7-9 years.

I wouldn't be surprised if, given this development, Fairphone turn to the more conventional chips other OEMs use, which would likely also be a win for battery life.

Would be a good feature if it works and is private.

I'm in multiple group chats and often open WhatsApp to see 800 unread messages in a single chat. I don't want to read through all of that, but I do want to know a high level overview, so I can see if it's something I actually want to scroll back to and have a proper read.

However, I've seen multiple AI summaries missing out important stuff, so that's almost certainly going to be an issue here too.

I also want it to be completely private. They say it is, but who knows? The fact it's not on-device is a bit of a red flag to me.

Note that this is just a proposal that the Fedora community wants feedback on.

Even if it does go ahead, this is minimum 1 year away from happening.

Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if this was meant as a "hurry up and move away from Steam still being a 32-bit app, Valve!" bit of brinkmanship.

So a "phone" without any ability to connect to mobile networks or to WiFi?

You don't have to buy a new fair phone just because you bought the last one.

It's doubtful that someone buying a new phone now would want to buy the fair phone from 2+ years ago.

Agreed. But this isn't a blanket ban on protestors.

This specific organisation operates in cells, has caused and advocates for violence.

At least you've owned up to being a liar.

But wanting to put the UK at risk is a big yikes. Guess you'd be ecstatic if people died.

The amount of tankies here is vile.

Yikes. Actually wanting to put everyone in the UK at greater risk.

You experience satisfaction seeing our defence sector being sabotaged? Particularly when we're in a proxy war with Russia and the world in general is becoming more hostile?

Why the fuck are you lying mate. They aren't intelligence gathering planes, what conspiracy theorist crap are you spouting?

They are refueling planes, which btw can't be used with Israeli jets as they use completely different refuelling systems.

How lying conspiracy theorist bullshit like this gets upvoted is beyond my comprehension.

I'm pretty surprised so many people are ok with UK defensive capabilities being sabotaged, especially when there are multiple countries right now threatening us.

Being against Israel's war crimes is one thing (and obviously IMO the correct response), but breaking into an RAF base and destroying the engines of multiple planes obviously isn't something that should be tolerated or encouraged.

The one silver lining here is that at least it was "only" some idiotic protesters that exposed this lax security precautions, rather than a hostile nation state.

I'm not surprised. So much more of the food we eat now is pre-prepared, highly-processed crap.

Not only is it heavily advertised to us, but it's also far less common for there to be households with two parents where at least one of them has time to do some proper meal-planning, shopping, and cooking. Easier to get a couple microwave meals, air fryer meals, frozen pizzas, and the occasional just eat delivery subsidised by below minimum wage labour carried out by people in the shadow economy.

Then on top of that, kids (and parents) are inside so much more than they used to be. In part because there's simply more to do indoors now. In the 90s you'd have been bored out of your mind if you were stuck in the house for too long. 5 channels on TV, two of them are crap, and the others don't always have what you want on, so you go out and do other things.

Nowadays kids want to stay inside because that's where their phones are, where their tablets are, where their switch, playstation, Xbox is. TVs have streaming services and so many more channels. You can stay inside for hours and never get bored.

Years ago, you knew your neighbours, so you play out with them. Now households feel far more isolated than before and there are far fewer kids on streets, so who would you play out with?

Not that you'd be allowed to play out very much anyway, because the 24-hour news cycle and scary stories on social media has parents convinced there's a paedophile hiding behind every bush.

This will be a very tough problem to solve, and there won't be one silver bullet solution.

This isn't something this minister can say. He can't just make up UK defence policy and foreign policy on his own, especially not in a random LBC interview with a right wing rage merchant.

This is just outrage bait.

All we know so far is that Iran has made verbal threats about UK bases (which prompted the armed forces to further beef up their defence), the US informed the UK that they were going to bomb a few sites in Iran (but did not ask the UK to join), and that the UK government paid cheap lip service to the US but seems reluctant on anything else so far.

I'd hope Iran aren't actually stupid enough to attack UK bases, but you never know. I think everyone is far more keen on continuing to focus on Russia-Ukraine, rather than this distraction.

And yeah I know Iran does manufacturing, particularly of drones, for Russia, so it's not like they're unlinked... but my hunch is that the monetary and political cost of going after Iran directly would be too much, and Labour would rather stay out of a war with Iran if they can.

So constant 360° surveillance?

Already widely used in the western world, glad we're catching up. This will save lives, hopefully lessen strain on the NHS, reduce waiting times, and reduce the misery of kids silently suffering without proper support.

Goes without saying, but this data should remain with the NHS, and the only time it should leave is when appropriately anonymised for medical research purposes (which already happens, the NHS helps a shit load of international researchers).

It's something Americans say.

In effect, yes.

5 years minimum software support after the device is no longer on the market.

Presumably this phone will be on the market for two years (in the EU at least).

Theoretically it could be less than 7 years if they only sold it for one year, of course, but even OEMs that release phones each year like clockwork tend to keep their previous model around for a while.

Haha, we can expect to see similar announcements from other manufacturers, because the EU now mandates software support for new devices.

Even if you're outside of the EU, you'll benefit from this. Since the OEMs have to do it anyway, they'll likely push the updates to all markets and market it as if they're being nice. Nope. They're just complying with the law to the bare minimum.

Starting on the 20th of June 2025 (just two days!), the EU is enforcing a minimum of 5 years of updates on all smartphone/tablets sold after they are withdrawn from the market.

I.e. if a model is sold for 2 years, it must receive software support for 7 years. Just like this Nothing Phone.

Source.

On the one hand, this is possibly dubious in that things that aren't generally considered to be part of defence will be used to inflate our defence spending numbers without actually spending more than previous (i.e. it's just a PR move)

But on the other hand, this could be immensely useful in telling the NIMBYs to fuck right off. What's that, you're opposing infrastructure improvements, new housing, or wind turbines? Aw, diddums, that's too bad. This is deemed critical for national security, and thus the government can give it approval regardless. Sorry Bernard, sorry Mary, your petition against any change in the area is going nowhere.

Ultrasonic fingerprint sensors aren't optical like the older under-screen ones. They don't need to go bright to get a reading.

This will not blind you.