phantomwise @ phantomwise @lemmy.ml

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Well not actually lost... I just haven't found under which furniture it rolled yet 😅

What statistics? People buying thin phones over thicker phones doesn't mean much when that's almost all that's being sold nowadays and every phone is trying to be as thin as possible. It seemed to me that 90% of what we're told people want is actually just what companies want to push on us because it's cheaper and more profitable.

All the people I know who are average users couldn't care less about how thin the phone is, two mm more or less doesn't make any difference. They care about screen size and being able to use it without too much hassle. If they get a phone without an audio jack half of them will just assume that they can't plug earphones at all. And they are not the ones who will complain. But then, Fairphone isn't marketed towards average users, so maybe their users have different priorities? Idk

• They are expensive. You can get wired earphones for 2 euros that actually work and are reasonably durable. It's not a great loss if they fall in a puddle or if I step on them.
• They are a lot more failure prone. Half of those I tried didn't work or only half worked, and those that did work didn't last very long.
• They have shitty range. I can use a 10 meters extension cord with wired earphones if I want to.
• They require charging. And it's a law of physics that everything that requires charging always run out at the most inconvenient time.
• Also THEY ALWAYS GET LOST. Wireless earphones, mouse, controllers... it doesn't matter, if it's not attached with a cable they'll just disappear.

Why does The Fairphone (Gen. 6) not have an audio jack?

After some of the criticism that we received about removing the headphone jack from Fairphone 4, we did consider bringing it back for The Fairphone (Gen. 6). However, we realized it would be at the expense of increasing the phone’s dimensions. We also looked into the consumer data and Fairphone 4’s weight and thickness were more of an issue than the lack of a minijack, so we decided to keep the same approach, although it was a difficult decision. We didn’t want to invest in OLED technology for the display and then not have improved the phone’s dimensions and weight. But just like with Fairphone 4 and Fairphone 5, we will still offer an adapter, which has had overall positive user reviews.

"We heard the criticism but decided that no, you would still need an adapter to use headphones, plus a USB-C hub to be able to charge the damn thing while listening to music or watching videos"

Funny how that's the same excuses that we get for modern laptops terrible design. "We HAVE to make it thinner so there's no space! You wouldn't want a laptop that's not complete shit if it meant it'd also be less thin and breakable, now would you?"

Was going to comment the same thing 😅

When I was still on Windows I used TinyWall and I would just refresh and stare dreamily at the page showing all those blocked connections from Microsoft services to who the hell knows. It was very therapeutic 🥲

Especially considering that absolutely everyone was telling me to use Windows Defender because "it's good now I swear" but it wouldn't allow me to block most Microsoft stuff...

Suicide Linux

That's so neat

alias nmtui="NEWT_COLORS='root=black,black;window=black,black;border=white,black;listbox=white,black;label=blue,black;checkbox=red,black;title=green,black;button=white,red;actsellistbox=white,red;actlistbox=white,gray;compactbutton=white,gray;actcheckbox=white,blue;entry=lightgray,black;textbox=blue,black' nmtui"

It's nmtui but pretty!

It even has "ReTruths" instead of "Retweet" so you know the information you're re-sharing can't be false

Oooh shiny!

I swear it's gonna load any second now and I'll be able to do something productive!

Still better than ads, though 😄

My S-tier abitity to hyperfocus on learning useless things to the detriment of everything else.

Wait really? 😂

I'm not sure why you wouldn't want the ASCII-Draw flatpak, but that's not the only way to get it:

• there's a Snap
• it can be installed from source
• there's also an AUR package

But maybe you're not on Arch, don't like Snaps (can't blame anyone for that) and don't want to install from source (same)? What type of package are you looking for? Only native package? For which distro?

Not gonna lie, that vertical alignment is making my brain purr like a kitten

I was going to watch a tuto on how to be more efficient but YouTube is still buffering

Firefox because I just installed Nix and can't figure out how to make anything else work 😂

Usually I go with a firefox fork. Waterfox previously, almost since it first came out. But I've been hearing a lot about Floorp for a while now and I think sometime soon my brain might stop screaming "you CAN'T install that! it's called FLOORP!" and let me try it. I've tried Librewolf but it's a hassle to configure so it doesn't break every website (not a criticism, I like that it does that by default, but it's a hassle)

Whaaat? I can't believe someone thought this was a good idea 😂

I was laughing my ass off at the "two 250GB hard drives" until I saw that the video was 16 years old 😮