For myself I don’t consider NFC payments or the few apps that require device integrity auth. Not everyone falls into this category but a good percentage are. We need more modern open hardware. To the larger software point there is a lot of good Foss software out there even for phones. What we need is a open software center like a flathub that makes them easy to find and deploy.

Oh I mostly blame capitalism and the shitty tech bro CEOs.

Yeah he has said many times the submitter of the code is the one responsible for knowing how it works. That’s not the only issue with LLMs though. Stolen intellectual property and the larger environmental impact that the data centers required to run them is having are just a couple more.

Been burned too many times by Motorola. They always promise but I have rarely seen them deliver.

So a lot of people are pissed because they launched their fair buds immediately after removing the headset jack from their phones. Seems more profit motivated than sustainable motivated.

I thought we would see more custom Roms honestly. CalyxOS shows upcoming but still seems to be unavailable. What really concerns me about fairphone is their delay in Software updates. The FP6 releases June of last year, the same month as Android 16. It took them until March of '26 to release Android 16 for the FP6. That is quite a large gap. Software support is as important as hardware support and unfortunately not a single manufacturer seems to nail them both.

Yeah this is because for some god unknown reason they decided to drop USB3 support despite the CPU supporting it. It’s such an anti consumer move.

Couple of things they really need to fix that they just keep dropping the ball on.
Hardware, why still USB. 2.0

More timely software updates. The fairphone 6 launched the same month as Android 16 but the Fairphone 6 took until March of 2026 to recieve an update to Android 16. Still waiting on Android 17 which was released last month. Waiting to see how they do on this next major update but 6 month lag time is not impressive.

Unfortunately it is one of the only phones that has a user replaceable battery and is easily repairable. I WANT to like this phone. Just fix the software and don’t cheap out on wired things like connectivity standardards that literally would have added pennies to the cost.

Something you are is not a valid MFA either as it is unrevokable.

De-googled my phones when they continued pushing this. Google TV is a little harder but turning off voice input and loading a 3rd party launcher fixes most issues for now.

Or just stop using Google. Hit them where it hurts.

Fuck that.

Oh no… Anyway

And this is why I de-googled my phones. Fuck off with that surveillance bullshit.

Yeah, Protein design is absurdly complicated and time consuming. Collaborative computing programs like folding at home have helped a lot but its still like trying to find a grain of sand in a desert. Having a well tuned AI help narrow down what needs additional attention via other computer models or even moving past computer models is a reasonable use of a well tuned specific AI. Not these general purpose LLMs that just tell you what you want to hear.

I can be mad at both. B

Jokes on you I don’t use Gemini

I can make a function that does the same thing in 8 lines of code that another function does in 8 lines. More often then not less is more with code. It’s more efficient, easier to audit and has a smaller attack surface. So yeah bullshit metric indeed

Lol, all AI is shifting to this model. Those other companies will bait and switch too just a matter of time.

I purged all my email from google a while ago due to increasing privacy concerns.