houseofleft

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[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 hours ago

Ah that sucks! What kind of issues did she have?

I'm obviously one person, so not a good sample, but I've had F4 with stock android for about 3 uears and haven't seen any bugs yet, even with android auto.

As to the camera, I'd agree it's "fine" but if you ignore the repairability and ethical supply chain angle, you can definitely get a much better camera for the same price range.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair, it does have a big security emphasis. I don't know enough about either /E/OS or GOS to know how they compard but /E/OS does some cool things like sandboxing apps etc for security.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 6 points 14 hours ago

I'm writing from F4 as well. The longer I own it, the more I'm impressed. Fixability has saved me replacing the phone twice now (I dropped it on the screen, and got cement in the usb charger).

If you're just considering spec, its fairly pricey, but the repairability easily makes up for it. Have a pair of their bluetooth headphones too which I love.

Question for OP: how did you find installing /e/OS? I have android still but am thinking about trying to install.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 8 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Might not be the same, but they do partner with Murino to offer an /e/os degoogled alternative.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I'm not gonna try to convince you otherwise because I think our world views are too different for that to be worthwhile l, but I do want to understand, when you say "are the problem", what in your mind is the problem?

Is it that you think they're taking up state resources, what resources do you think they're using vs work that they do?

Is it because you have an idea if what the make up in America should be in terms of languages, birthplace or race?

Not trying to debate you, genuinely interested to understand why you feel like that.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 days ago

Tbf, all these headlines miss that indexes like the S&P 500 are still far down from pre-tariff-mania. Investors are more or less updating their views for how screwed the markets are, rather than betting that everything is fine.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

Yup, this 100%!

If anyones in doubt, I was pretty horrified to learn meat reared chickens are sometimes slaughtered as early as 35 days old.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/webContent/staticImages/BroilerCampaign/EatSitSufferRepeat.pdf

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 15 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This is a genuinely interesting article about global politics, but I sorta get the impression there's this underlying "Does Europe pick US or China as a trade partner?" question at the heart of it.

Seems like this pulls into very 1 dimensional view, and surely the answer is just, Europe should be sceptical of China and USA's motives, trade wherever it's beneficial, and push for the things it values (positive take would be workers rights, renewable energy etc).

Trump is trying push a whole pick sides narative on the world, that seems pretty ignorant to actual reality, and just ends up with everyone more fractured and weak.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah I can't help but think this. I'm in the UK and 5 years-ish ago I bought an ICE, I couldn't really afford an EV at the rime, but a big part of my thinking was that I didn't expect the conservative government to do much to support the transition.

EVs require new infrastructure, and people need to trust that's gonna be built.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago

Based on me reading wikipedia, in Hoover's fairness, Smoot-Hawley was mainly a congress led thing and he mainly rubber stamped it. He also introduced stimulus to help industries that he wanted to up their output.

Trump isn't doing anything stimulus-wise (if anything the opposite by introducing huge government cuts) to aid the new manufacturing processes he's assuming will spring up overnight, and he also seems to be the mastermind behind rebranding the US as tariff-land.

I don't know what my point is, that Trump's policies are a lot worse than Hoover's? I doubt anyone needed me to reach that conclusion to be fair.

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Trump crashes the US economy and deters consimer goods, especially oil. Alternative conspiracy that he's really an environmentalist? /s

[–] houseofleft@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

They have pretty high tariff rates in the EU tbf[0], obviously not anything like 104%, but still very high compared to normal rates.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly20n4d0g9o

 

I'm looking to purchase a bike (probably second hand) and I want to make sure that it'll be easily repairable in the future for at least standard maintenance stuff.

Thing is, I don't know anything about bikes- I've heard people say off hand that modern bikes might perform better but are less maintanable, is this a thing? What qualities/features in a bike tell me that it'll be easier to maintain in the long run?

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