The point is; he wants a Framework-like approach to modularity and feature set. That means a phone that’s good enough to actually holds its own without retreating to being “ethical” or “modular.”

Fairphone is just the worst deal you can get even if you consider the ethical side of it. This is because rescuing an old phone gives you a much better experience for less than half the cost and keeping tech from the landfill is a lot more ecologically friendly as the work and sourcing was already done regardless of you purchasing the device.

back-to-back lying to the public

What?

sexual harassment debacles

… that none of which ended up in the court let alone confirmed. That’s an allegation, not something proven.

They’ve been sleazy for years, taking money from companies they claim to review impartially, and twisting everything into a meme factory instead of putting the tiniest amount of effort into quality reviews and tech journalism.

Straight up one of the points GN made. Which they really did improve upon. They don’t pump out as much content now, as well as generally higher quality content again.

salvage his reputation after covering up toxic and predatory workplace behaviour

:D

coming out the other side a multimillionaire.

Guy created and ran a YouTube channel, expanded it to be a media company. Hosts a forum, sells high quality merchandise (you can look up the coverage of their bag or screwdrivers from places like project farm). Also runs a premium video hosting and live streaming service for creators. That’s what we call “earned it.”

This comment just reeks of toxicity, rather than criticism.

Not being open source ≠ not safe.

Microsoft ships hardened Chromium basically, with sandboxing turned up to eleven.

They also run their SmartScreen filtering on top of that.

Also, Firefox is more private, not secure. Either you run LibreFox or it’s less secure than Edge by default.

The last paragraph has a Mechanicus ring to it lmao

Venn diagram of people who understand this specific technicality and people who don’t want to deal with the shitty TV software is almost a circle though.

I’d rather get a Android box at the very least…, or just HTPC.

I do. It’s more secure than any other alternative. Not private, but really, really secure.

I doubt they care about such things.

I wonder why.

LOS heavily hinders feature set, though. I wouldn’t recommend to anyone that’s not a techie, especially with MicroG.

Samsung features that’ll get removed are:

• Camera. It’ll work in LOS but quality will be much lower without Samsung’s processing.

• Standby time. It’ll last a lot less as LOS doesn’t kill background apps like OneUI does.

• Any sort of audio video enhancement. Dolby Atmos will be completely gone. HDR enchantments won’t be there either.

• Samsung DeX.

• HBM won’t work automatically. On OneUI, if system detects you’re under direct sunlight and auto brightness on; it’ll boost the brightness above regular maximum. You can have this on LOS via LiveDisplay but it isn’t automatic afaik.

• Phone will get hotter when it’s used while charging. OneUI both lowers charging speed and lowers performance (unless you’re in a game) while charging. LOS doesn’t. It might get uncomfortably hot compared to OneUI.

• Noise reduction in voice calls barely work under LOS. This is especially true when calling on speaker, LOS is borderline unusable when there’s even a little bit background noise.

Switching to LOS for a techie is fine, but recommending it to someone who you don’t know how they use their device isn’t great. If OP watches a ton of movies, OneUI will have much better experience. If all OP does is social media, LOS is completely fine.

There are basically no ads if you buy Samsung S series without a carrier.

Absolutely! Using open source software is much cheaper, as well. Hiring developers to work on open source software/OSs would cost less than buying software annually. Governments pay stupid amounts of money for easily replaceable software.

It’s because Fediverse is very complicated right now. E-Mail wasn’t, that’s why everyone adopted it pretty quickly.

I honestly don’t see a future where Lemmy topling Reddit or Mastodon topling Twitter.

Federation’s greatest strength is also it’s weakness imo.