sab @ sab @kbin.social

Quite possibly a luddite.

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Saving the bats from dog infestation.

Of course you can search for just "eos" alone, but when trying to troubleshoot specific issues it gets much more complicated. Believe me, I've been there.

Such as this issue, which I eventually found a solution to on the e/OS/ forums:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eos+camera+quality+%22fairphone+3%22&t=ffab&ia=web
The results have very little to do with /e/.

It's by far the worst part of the project. Any time you have a problem - however minimal - you have to search specifically in the community forum because there's just no way in hell including /e/OS in the search terms is going to help you find anything useful at all.

You can install your own launcher - I prefer the KISS launcher, which is great at getting out of your way and just do exactly what you want it to do as efficiently as possible.

Similar experiences on the Fairphone 3. MicroG is fantastic - everything you unfortunately need from Google services, but in a way that maintains your privacy.

At least on the Fairphone 3, downloading an apk for the Google camera app turned out to be a lifesaver though - the open source camera applications were unfortunately not capable of producing as good pictures, which is very important to me. :)

In the city I live in 4G/3G is actually a little spotty already, while 5G is working great. But I think that's just Italian infrastructure rather than the old networks being phased out already...

And you can also overwrite it and install stock Fairphone Android, it's pretty easy.

I'm loving my Fairphone 3! Upgraded the camera modules to the 3+ camera, and changed the charging port once after water damage. Also used /e/ for a while, but back to stock now.

The improved camera of the Fairphone 5 looks tempting (also OLED), but can't justify upgrading when my Fairphone 3 ia still perfectly fine. I guess it'll have to wait until 5G becomes an absolute necessity and I'm left with no choice. :)

To borrow a couple of lines written for the UK in the 60s:

Think the time is right for palace revolution
But where I live the game to play is compromise solution

Biden is a well meaning old man whittling away at the problems the best he can within the rules of the system. The problem is that the system has been rigged against working people for at least 40 years now; some people feel the problems go deeper than what you can solve by being by the book and doing politics as usual.

The only news here is that it's in the news.

The last thing I want is an option for this. My gosh, imagine the amount of options you would end up with if every single design choice was turned into an option. Who in the world would like that many options.

I'm happy to just have a design team work on whatever they think looks better and works best for the user experience, and implement it after some rounds of public review and testing. This looks neat enough to me - slightly less cluttered than what my current Nautilus window looks like while maintaining the same functionality.

Oh dangit - you're right. It seems not being able to follow users is a feature, not a bug in Lemmy, with the advice of the developer being to use Mastodon or kbin instead if you wish to do so. There's a new issue open about it though, so hopefully they'll give in to popular demand.

Sorry for my misinformation! Since I don't have an account over there I just assumed the follow button would appear once signed in. :/

I didn't realize the @-link redirects you to the external site from Lemmy. The correct URL for you guys over there should be /u/username@server.io, which means that /u/LemmyWorld@mastodon.world should be the correct path for Lemmy users. :)

I'm afraid a lot of people don't even care if it's working - they just think being "though on crime" makes society masculine and cool (and preferably white). They'd vote for it even if they knew it's bad policy.

Yes. Some polyester products are better than others when it comes to shedding microplastic, but I guess at the end of the day it'll end up in a landfill anyway. The cotton will decompose, and I think I am also more likely to repair my cotton clothing.

I'm struggling a lot to find clothes where I'm satisfied with the quality. I try to avoid fast fashion and cheap products, but I also prefer buying clothes in stores rather than online. It's a market that's extremely hard to navigate, more often than not I'm underwhelmed by the quality, and just finding something that you can be reasonably sure wasn't produced in a sweatshop is challenging as hell.

My god do I hate this industry.

It's complicated to calculate precisely, but cotton is widely considered to be almost as awful as polyester. Production takes up huge areas of land and a bunch of water, and the carbon footprint (depending on production type and how it's calculated) can end up being roughly the same as polyester. Here's a Guardian piece for more info.

There are some efforts to push for more sustainable cotton production, and it is making a change. So buying organic/sustainably sourced cotton could possibly half the climate footprint without any visible change to the material - it's not necessarily just a green washing marketing trick.

As with everything else, the best you can do is to make sure you don't buy more than you need, that you make sure to keep things as long as they can last, and repair them whenever possible. The lowest climate footprint you're going to get is obviously from the clothes already in your wardrobe; the follow-up is buying second hand. It's beyond obvious, but it bears repeating.

For some weird reason he's not that really replaceable. Following the republican primaries now is a good indication of what the party will be after trump - they're all trying to rip a page from his book on populism, and as far as I can tell they're all failing.

The good news is that building your personality cult around an obese man in his late 70s is not very sustainable in the long run.

...because Nixon resigned and was pardoned, dodging the entire legal process?

What's your point here?

I guess the important thing is that one should do other things in addition to voting for the bland somewhat shitty candidate that's at least better than the other guy.

Unionising and getting involved on the local level are two good starting points. Encouraging others to unionise and to get involved locally is also good.

Oh, and reading up on alternative election systems and teaching people about it would be good, but maybe too ambitious. Who wants to listen to anyone ramble on about ranked choice or whatever.