https://www.quora.com/Will-there-ever-be-an-ergonomic-laptop/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

My new phone charges at 5W from my old phone’s 20W charger without the suddenly required “PD”.

Because things too, on average, lose value over time when materials degrade and better models come out. Inflation saves the trouble of reducing the old price.

I just wish the new models were better than the old ones.

Minulla se toimii. /e/OS 3.1.4-a14 community edition. HSL 6.11.1 , tällä hetkellä - en tiedä onko päivittynyt edellisen käytön jälkeen.

But they do: https://murena.com/america

How about Murena Fairphone/Shiftphone with non-rooted /e/OS and locked bootloader?

Let’s not confuse rooted with bootloader unlocked. My /e/OS is not rooted and four bank apps work, including Curve Pay for leaving the wallet at home. Probably thanks to microG contacting Google when needed.

This might break if the comment over there is right: https://lemmy.world/post/36621884/19652276

The hypersane smart get called crazy by conformists.

It may be U.S. plutocrat strategy to weaken political enemies by killing their companies.

Consider Microsoft destroying Nokia and their Linux phones to benefit fellow American companies Apple and Google.

Consider the Destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base.

There are many custom ROMs based on AOSP: GrapheneOS (for security against hacking and confiscation), LineageOS and its descendants /e/OS, iodéOS, and crDroid, etc. CalyxOS is not doing well right now, but it should be back in a few months.

Make sure you can relock the bootloader after installing to protect against attacks through the USB connector.

Murena ships /e/OS preinstalled on the European Fairphone and Shiftphone. Iodé similarly.

Then there’s Volla phone which can have Linux (Ubuntu Touch) and and VollaOS (AOSP-based) on the same phone. There are other Linux phones, but nobody recommends them for normal consumers.

Stop exaggerating. The OpenAI speech-to-text service is a paid extra you don’t accidentally switch on, and telemetry is off by default and hidden in the developer options menu.

(But yeah, OpenAI was a disgusting choice. The default should have been local, even if it’s worse.)

Not CalyxOS right now.
https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/

I went with /e/OS, and it works well, even bank apps.

/e/OS:ssä toimivat minulla pankkisovellukset S-Pankki, Nordnet ja Curve Pay. Hajoileva MobilePay toipuu asentamalla uudelleen.
https://community.e.foundation/t/list-banking-apps-on-e-os/33091

Ehkä johtuu siitä, että olen kirjautuneena Googleen microG:n kautta, joka hoitaa suurimman osan vaadituista yhteyksistä.
https://community.e.foundation/t/list-apps-that-work-or-do-not-work-with-microg/21151

I fixed mine too. Copy-pasting from email broke it.

https://lemmy.world/post/27344091

Hardware-level components like Titan M can execute processes that users cannot audit or disable, raising concerns about opaque data collection.

Among 1,000 other little cuts per user, via a couple of hundred million phones and computers.

You won’t see ads of things that AI predicts would improve your life and strengthen Europe.

When European key people are deep asleep, their phones and laptops will try to overheat the battery to maximise the odds of it bursting on fire. Fast charging at maximum voltage combined with installing updates and mining cryptocurrency.

https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/

If they’d choose to do dysgenics, sure. Why though? Making a slave race?

Eugenics could be used ethically to improve humanity

Improving humans via new eugenics by transhumanists is compatible with human rights.

We allow natural mutation to produce illness and other problems. Why not design babies?

Gene editing will be cheap and widespread. What laws produce ethical results? Should personal eugenics be a human right? How about parental eugenics? Which baby designs are ethical? Don’t say the current natural ones, because many of them are unhappy, ill, or die young.

Misplacing the blame

Genocidal people having used eugenics as an excuse for mass murder doesn’t make eugenics itself bad. Blaming eugenics does nothing to prevent further genocide with excuses. Hate does genocide, the various excuses do not.

(Similarly, over-optimistic fools slamming one version of communism on a whole country without prototyping different versions in villages first, crashing the whole country, doesn’t make communism itself bad. Blaming communism does nothing to prevent foolhardy mistakes in societal change. Development should be nimble, prototypes should be cheap.)

We don’t ban money because it’s used to hurt people - we regulate dangerous stuff to protect human rights. Or, should regulate.

Eugenics works on animals:

Dogs have better social skills than wolves = eugenics.
Some dogs have trouble breathing = dysgenics.
Stray dogs in the wilderness are worse hunters than wolves = dysgenics in that environment.

Humans could be better:

Humans could be designed to work well in their lives:

• No disease, no ailment, unless asked for by patient candidate.
• Happy childhood in a family where everyone’s personality is compatible with each other, DNA-matched.
  (can even be done by trading babies, without gene editing)
• Happy working career, DNA-matched.
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Humanity could be better:

Humanity could be designed to work well in its evolution:

• Better thinkers for avoiding disasters.
• Fewer born sociopaths, less risk of human extinction on purpose with future weapons.
  (If a time comes when anyone can make humanity-ending technology, we may have to ban undesigned babies on a whole planet. Separate free-range planets for dangerous organic humans.)
• Fast adaptation to environmental changes, such as Mars colony in unhealthy 1/3 gravity.
• Better disaster survivability through diversification.

Separate the human kinds from incompatibles

Echo chambers (countries, languages, professions) are cultures protecting their own environment from incompatible cultures. When a group of people demands seemingly absurd laws, they should be allowed to apply those laws to all volunteers, babies being non-volunteers with universal rights. At least personal eugenics should be legal, like body modification is now. Ear piercing is a modification some abhor.

Transhumans and conservatives need to stay away from each other, and current technology could help: phones could navigate people, routing incompatibles around like oil and water. On shared ground, weirdos would always happen to be on the other side of the street. Train cars and elevators filled with groups of people approximately their own kind. All cars good looking on every commute, timed just right for people’s tastes. On the web, OkCupid and Quora used to be good at that, matching tastes and interests.

Do the opposite of what the for-profit sensationalist media does, smearing the wildest progressive stunts in the conservative’s face, because rage sells, anger is addictive. The blame is mistakenly placed on the depicted, not the media breaking people’s boundaries by pushing incompatible people into knowledge of each other.

If they got access to the DNA data that many companies collect to analyse heritage and health, the eugenics could work well.