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  • The FairPhone 4 had a screen brightness bug that made the phone (mostly) unusable outside in the sun that lasted from Feb 2023 to Oct 2023.
    Since the Android 12 update, the FP4 has a cooling feature that reduces the maximum brightness even when the slider is all the way to the right.
    This occurs when the phone heats up to ~40 degrees at the CPU, which is not a lot at all.

    https://forum.fairphone.com/t/random-screen-dimming-while-brightness-slider-stays-at-100-after-a12-update/93195

    They will have to work very hard to make me consider buying my next phone from them.
    They do seem to listen to their users and learn from their mistakes though - FP4 was often criticized for the short firmware support offered from Qualcomm. FP5 will have Qualcomm's extended firmware support for its SoC.
    https://www.fairphone.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Press_release_Fairphone_5.pdf

  • The simplest, most effective thing you can do for privacy is change the dns server of your devices.

    This can be the reason to switch router, my ISP delivered router doesn't allow me to change DNS delivered by DHCP or DNS used by the router. If I must setup my own DHCP server I might as well setup an opnsense and add crowdsec/suricata or zenarmor.

  • True, I could use VM+Docker as you say. I've been thinking of making a dedicated "Docker VM" before when I've looked at interesting projects that has no other offerings.
    I've felt that using docker in a vm robs docker of it's advantages so why use it at all if I'm planning on having a vm? I guess one answer is "because the software you want is delivered as a docker image".

  • Easier for me to add a vm in my current system to handle backup, rollbacks and system updates. I'm much more confident that I can quickly restore a vm to new hardware f.e. Which feels important for a password vault.

    Thanks a lot for the passbolt recommendation. Gonna look into it now!

  • The problem with the KeePass apps is that it works by syncing database files which means that there can be sync conflicts. Okay for me to handle, but not for the rest of my household.
    I really want a server-client system where everyone works in the same database.

    Bitwarden is Docker, but also very well-liked. Might have to give up on the .deb / .rpm wish.
    Thanks for the suggestion!

  • Both Sveriges Television (Public TV) and Sveriges Radio (Public Radio Broadcaster) has seen their budgets cut hard, as mentioned inthe Guardians article. 180 jobs are gone from our public radio broadcaster.
    Other things disappearing is a popular gardening radio show where they talk with lots of different experts. It's replaced with a cheaper to produce podcast.

  • Sorry, that sounds a lot harsher reading it than I meant for it to sound. In the context of the news article linked I found your less than likely funny. :)
    If we're speaking of personal feelings in how the words should be used then mine is that the possibility of an occurrence would be called a chance if I want it to occur, a risk if I don't, unless the possibility reaches 100% or 0% as then it is no longer a chance nor a risk but a certainty.