just a comment to try get this to the active tab. best of luck guys <3

not to come off overly negative- steve also does great work. i hope we hear from LMG soon <3

not to cast doubt on anything he says here, but steve has increasingly been making 'dunk' videos for the past year or two. i feel like his channel has been trying to find (or create) exposés, because those are the videos that pop off. starting from the video of that NZXT case that caused fires.

again, not to cast doubt on the experiences of billet labs, but i question steve's intentions in presenting this. i hope this discussion doesn't end up revolving around gamers nexus.

idk about the actual reason, but it's easier for me to recognise that someone is specifying pronouns when it's 'she/her' instead of just 'she'

just to add, inflammatory people aren't interested in 'debate' and that goes for both sides of an argument. chances are, you have no intention to change your position and neither do they. and that's fine. but a person should realise that at best, you're wasting your time. at worst, you're equipping them with more ways to argue with the next person who may not be as secure as you are. if you're debating, aim to change the perspectives of onlookers. don't do it without an audience unless the person you're talking to is truly discussing in good faith.

it's still good to learn these things so that you can recognise patterns when people discuss this stuff with you. if someone is discussing trans healthcare and brings up the 'dangers' of a medical transition, chances are they're uneducated and you should move on. or, if there's an audience you think you can reach, stage the discussion and cater it to them.

approaching these things from a winning/losing perspective can also be damaging to you, let's try to be healthy in our discussions :p

idk too much, if im being ignorant let me know coooooool

common gaywallet W

i dont know how you have so much emotional energy to share here as much as you do, especially in the face of so much intolerance. much love.

to answer your other questions, i do have a used pixel with grapheneOS now. much better phone, much better experience and much better piece of mind. i use a good all-covering case so nobody asks what phone i use, because i'd hate to be a billboard for google.

the biggest selling point of the fairphone for me was its' unique form factor. i was asked what phone i had A LOT. when i took the back off, people's mind broke. this created a segway for me to talk about right-to-repair with people who otherwise would have never cared. it's a great tool to open discussion into ethical hardware and software. i miss having those conversations as regularly as i was.

i wrote this comment on another post recently, i think you might find some value. the thread has some good discussion. note that i regret using a fairphone, but i dont regret supporting the company. in a 'lesser than two evils' sense, fairphone is MUCH less evil.

the fairphone company makes grand promises of 7 years support, despite historically really doing 2-4 years of support very badly. to the point where when the fairphone 4 released, it was going to take so long for it to make an android upgrade that a FOSS group CalyxOS ended up making the port for them. being this late for security and feature releases is insane, especially when they make claims outside of SoC OEM support periods despite knowing that they can't provide those updates. the fairphone 3 even launched on the same day as android 10 but instead of quickly porting over, they instead ported over their next line of phone (fairphone 3+)

the phone ~~removed expandable storaged~~ and a headphone jack, with obscene pricing for storage upgrades and at the same time as they released their unrepairable line of wireless products. this is just begging for e-waste.

the claims of being ethically sourced are not universal to the whole phone, the fair trade gold standard is limited to some parts that they source.

they have hardware for an extra SIM slot on the fairphone 4, but made it unusable to the user. clearly just an anti-consumer move.

there are other reeasons, and you'll also notice im not providing sources here. a lot of this is readily available info online and frankly im tired, i hope you can search these things up yourself if you want to confirm. i'm saying these things in good faith if that makes you feel more comfortable. there are reasons to consider the fairphone, but know that if you're doing this for a 'long-lasting' phone, then you're only getting that on the hardware side and even then you're vastly overpaying for the value of what you receive.

i still support fairphone in their journey to making mainstream fully modular phones with readily available replacement parts and open schematics. as a big 'fuck you' to smartphone producing companies, the fairphone does its' job magnificently and provides an excellent example of why samsung, apple, google etc are lying scum when they say these things aren't possible. if a small company like fairphone have been doing it since their infancy, we shouldn't believe that big tech can't.

EDIT: i was wrong about the expandable storage, please read replies to get see some further discussion.

love the clarity, love the honesty, love you. big W

shutting down the server early was best. the nature of open source software is what allows these incidents to be mitigated as quickly as they are. thanks a lot to you guys, and to all of the team at Lemmy who worked to resolve this.

heroes <3

i think you've been mislead somewhere along the line. the fediverse is not infallible-- no decentralised network is immune to any attack vectors. this has happened in the past with XMPP. google took a leaf from Microsoft's book and implemented the "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" strategy. some more details on that and specifically how it relates to the fediverse can be found at the link below.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

but aside from XMPP and the fediverse, even major decentralised networks like email have succumbed to this. you would be surprised how infected email has become. small independent mail servers often struggle to even get mail into the inboxes of people on major domains like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft etc.. some more details on that can be seen from the link below, but this issue on an email level is far more expansive than just this.

http://www.igregious.com/2023/03/gmail-is-breaking-email.html

Meta is no stranger to anti-consumer practices and is definitely no stranger to devouring smaller projects in order to expand its' own influence and userbase. all for the purpose of squeezing every bit of data they can from its' userbase to sell to advertisers. i encourage you to learn some more about the weaknesses of decentralised networks, and about Meta's history of disgusting business practices.

i don't know why you joined the fediverse, but for me, this is directly against the ethos of what this platform is for.

i'm half way through reading only but this is such a cool resource, thanks for sharing. strongly recommend actually reading it, for anyone lurking.