OnePlus 8 Pro. The hardware is good (except for overheating when recording long videos), the software has many small issues that makes it hard to recommend. Switching apps sometimes it'll freeze and you have to press the recent button (square) then back to the app to make it respond. The phone will become laggy after 1-2 weeks without restart. The screen turns yellow whenever an HDR video is played. It also doesn't have a one-handed mode, since it's a big phone, makes reaching the corners with 1 hand almost impossible. Also VPN app gets killed randomly, so you lose connection without notice.

This phone is 8/10 hardware, but 5/10 software. Maybe when there are stable third party ROM for it that solves these issues, then it'll be worth buying.

I'd like to think most people here are inherently good. In fact, I'd say people in general are inherently good regardless of their political beliefs or their anonymous online personas.

I was planning on getting a Pixel 4a running grapheneOS then i remember i still had my old burner taped to the ceiling in my closet so and my phone was becoming a time suck so i switched to the flip phone. the flip phone has a modern os/rom i could browse the wired but i don’t. i just use it for simple texts but mainly calls. i do miss having a good camera in my pocket though. so i wouldn’t be suprised if in a couple months i switch back to a dumb phone.

This is a phishing link. The real link is dark.win.

Never heard of it. Sounds interesting.

Dumb phone, same one for over five years.

Pixel 3a XL with CalyxOS, though maybe I'll get a flip phone when I won't have to rely on my phone so much (when I'll get a new laptop).

I want to watch fights for the throne of reddit-like sites between RAMBLE and lemmy, just for my fun! RAMBLE to be available for good people more and more.

Btw, did Raddle fight lemmy for their anarchism, communism or something? :D
http://c32zjeghcp5tj3kb72pltz56piei66drc63vkhn5yixiyk4cmerrjtid.onion/search?q=lemmy

Galaxy S10. Pretty standard. I replace my phone maybe once every 5 or 6 years, when using it becomes cumbersome. To put it in perspective, my first smart phone was a S3 which I got as a work phone, then I replaced it with a Huawei something or another (yeah yeah, China bad. I got it. ) and then this S10.

When it comes time to replace it it'll probably be with something I can harden a bit more. I don't use much of the 'smart' features of the phone anyhow, outside of browsing the web, Signal or the camera which I still think is fantastic for a phone.

Though I do sort of miss the simplicity of my old Nokia brick and Cingular (remember them, anyone?) flip phone. I've had a few random dumb pre-paid phones years ago too since I was always too poor to afford a proper phone on a plan. I know that they still make and produce flip phones too, my old job had shared flip-phones for the shift supervisors to carry around and used in some other cases for like emergency or if the phone system went out. I remember when the old ones with the broken buttons, cracked bodies and fucked up screens got replaced with brand new Verizon flip phones. I felt like was a teenager again.

Yes I agree and I've seen pretty bad stuff on other networks

Fair point. This could be truly free reign but then this site would just be flooded with cp and honeypots. Rambler will do what he has to do to not get in legal trouble. I think the level of freedom we have on this site surpasses a lot of other sites while still maintaining quality.

To be fair, Ramble also has some limitations, so neither platform has "anything goes"?

From Ramble's rules: "some things are just plain illegal and the owners of this community do not wish to be held legally liable to those who misinterpret this website's accessibility via 'the dark net' meaning that it's some sort of unmoderated free-for-all".

Legality differs from country to country and in my country we have very strict laws for example against any form of discrimination, incitements to violence or crime, selling stolen goods, etc. So this does restrict many then fully participating on a "free for all platform". So every user does need to make a judgement call based on their own values and what their country's Constitution or laws state.

"Any form of censorship" in my view then includes the removal of such attempts to sell illegal goods, to someone discriminating against another based on age, gender, sexual preference, religion, political beliefs, etc. Censorship is just a loaded term for moderation. They are exactly the same thing based on rules that exist on a site or within a country.

That's really useful to know, and wish Samsung promoted that more. That's certainly something I'd consider buying then.

That's actually a good idea, thanks!

Your children are property of Communism-19.

tuck the wire through your shirt

if it has any type of censorship it sucks. from what i understand lemmy does. so it sucks.

Lemmy censors words and instances, it's a literal shithole.

https://ramble.pw/f/whatever/3524/wireless-earbuds-are-stupid-change-my-mind

Can you please post a link to your rant. Thanks.

At the time of making this comment, Samsung's Galaxy Buds and Galaxy Buds+ are the most repairable true wireless earbuds I've seen. Their batteries do not require any soldering to replace.

iFixit has made a good guide on how to do this. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+Buds+Battery+Replacement/127556

Props to Samsung for their repair-friendly design.

what distinguishes ramble.pw from others is it’s run and operated by fascist sympathizers on principles of so-called “free speech”.

Based.

The article leaves the question of "who" open, but the latest gist comment puts it in perspective (emphasis mine):

In all cases, we can see the headers set-cookie, server, cf-ray and expect-ct with values set by Cloudflare, which would not be possible if TLS termination was done directly on matrix.org/vector.im servers.

Unfortunately the "Grid" project which claims to want to resolve the privacy issues in defaults and docs seems to want to re-architect the protocol, instead. From a year-old question on the project's status (emphasis mine):

Grid is definitely not stalled, but all the work is currently happening between people who are exchanging and trying new things on a test network. Once we have conclusive data and an API we are happy with, we will update this repository. It will happen at some point this year. It is simply not the only project we are working on, so it all looks slow/stalled from the outside, but it is actually not. At some point there will be an update. But the network and the protocol is in use at the moment, if that can reassure you.

BTW, that gist the article links to is apparently an old version, and the new ones are at https://gitlab.com/libremonde-org/papers/research/privacy-matrix.org/-/tree/master/. And that's a year old. Even chasing down updated docs from these people is tedious. No wonder their code is absent.

All I want is a doc that details how it is and isn't possible to secure a server and client, what you configure and what you patch. Give that a name to fork it, sure. Instead, these are just treatises and blog posts. Many such cases.

Interesting for us end users of course to know which is what etc, and to know Ramble is based on Postmill, with what looks like additional network protocol options as well as a transparent mod log.

Yes I see the older post dealt with free speech and censorship, but that is also relative to different countries. Many countries do have limitation on both physical and verbal acts in public, and whilst some don't want that, others actually do want that. So I suppose options are always a good thing to have. This is not the Facebook world where users only have one network to choose from. Both networks (and others) end up all flourishing.