It’s the morning light from the side, letting you see each speck of dust.

I put a rubber cap thingy on mine. This should be the least invasive fix.

Is this client only or a mod feature?

Yes, beacuse that would be distribution of copyrighted materials…

Meta’s legal defense was that they limited seeding to a minimal value as a precaution when they pirated terabytes of books. Of course, I don’t expect the same ruling would be granted to an individual… Shit is fucked.

There are many ethnicities in India and China. Your equivalence breaks down, because then both an uyghur, tibetian and han chinese would be the same.

I get it, if we are talking about outsider’s perspective, I for example can’t tell apart a typical chinese from a typical korean or japanese person. Due to the lack of exposure, my brain only registers them as “asian person”. Maybe the language can give a clue, but that’s debateable.

Still, the broader the brushes we paint with, the more erroneous generalization are.

Why is there an assumption of nationality = ethnicity?

People act the way they act as a reflection of their environment and society, not race.

Would you say you are behaving the same as a mainlander?

“Google would never do something like that” comments just one year ago. Oh my! Google dropped the “don’t be evil” motto a long time ago.

Relationship goals:

There’s new webcam, theres also an “empty” extension thing where you can put 2 nvme SSDs in place of the GPU.

Search engines been going relatively fine for decades now. But the crawlers from AI companies basically DDOS hosts in comparison, sending so many requests in such a short interval. Crawling dynamic links as well that are expensive to render compared to a static page, ignoring the robots.txt entirely, or even using it discover unlinked pages.

Servers have finite resources, especially self hosted sites, while AI companies have disproportinately more at their disposal, easily grinding other systems to a halt by overwhelming them with requests.

I know right! It’s all done to further Antarctica’s hegemony! Just look how huge it seems!

/uj If you want no distortions, get a globe.

“It’s [the Mercator projection] the world’s longest misinformation and disinformation campaign, and it just simply has to stop.”

No matter how we cut it though, all 2D projections will have some kind of distortion. They opted to preserve area, while the Mercator preserves angles. Arguably it is less important today to preserve angles, as we have automatic navigation systems. There are some alternatives that also preserve the area: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/The-Equal-Earth-compared-to-similar-equal-area-pseudocylindrical-projections.png

First and second gen Ryzen aren’t that powerful in single thread performance so they more often become a bottleneck. But luckily you are on AM4 platform, so a used 5000 series CPU and a BIOS update should do the trick.

In the meantime you could set a frame limit, that might help with stutters and CPU utilization.

The curse of knowledge; makes you lose the perspective of the average man in the field of your expertise.

What’s the difference of C and F type?

Money is a powerful motivator to do really crappy things, and Apple has done exactly that for decades now. Others are following suit in the lucrative accessory market.

But this is the smoking gun, pointed at the consumer.

Dongles are an admission that the phones they come with don’t work in the way the company knows its consumers need them to.

Almost as insidious as how the inkjet printer manufacturers vendor lock and upcharge for ink. Profitable? Indeed. Despicable and anti-consumer? Very much so.

They lose no customers by including it. They lose some by omitting it.

So it boils down to being too expensive to include? Hardly!

You evaluate prior decisions with posterior data. But you fail to take into account the counterfactuals. How do you know how much the FP4 would have sold with a jack?

Claiming that an increase in sales validates the goodness of the decision is not causal.

It is the same logic that would tell you that playing russian roulette is worthwile in case you win and get some reward. That’s backwards rationalization, fitting a narrative.

If market research universally showed that people don’t care about a jack then why do some phones still have it? Are these manufacturers going against the grain? Surely they wouldn’t leave money on the table if it worked like that.

The justification of “they do what sells units” is backwards. It would imply that no product would ever flop. But products regularly do. There is no telling in advance how it will perform, and saying otherwise is falling prey to the problem of induction, whether past observarions justify predictions.

The FP4 could have broke sales records for a multitude of reasons. How can you say which factor caused it when there is only one scenario that played out? We don’t have alternative universes to compare, where they released one with a jack, or another with some other altered specs.

Are we forgetting that companies also have their own bias to make the decisions that increase overall profits? They lost buyers (me included) by this change, but they made up the difference by selling higher margin accessories. Companies will only cater to users if it aligns with turning a bigger profit. If adding an anti-feature is better for the bottom line, then that’s how it goes. Enshittification doesn’t happen accidentally, but by pushing the boundaries of what the users tolerate.

I made the mistake of believing that Fairphone is an enthusiast company, like the Framework of phones maybe. There is some overlap, sure, with the repair-ability aspect and available parts and schematics, but that’s about it.

Other than that, FP wants to be a mainstream brand, the eco-friendly Samsung or Apple; the power users can get shafted with their audio jacks for all they care. While Framework has actual hardware modularity and release updated HW modules so you don’t buy the whole device again for an upgrade.

Looking at FP’s financial statements, I get the impression they aren’t doing too hot lately, so I get it if they need bigger margins to continue operating. Just don’t be a fucking hypocrite and lie about the reason of the jack removal ffs.