Openwrt made a router and the wrt2 is supposed to be made later this year i think.

But it’s a decentralized service! /s

The really nice thing is that the larger phone batteries get the more you get to use at 50% depth of discharge. My phone is 5,000 mAh and so I get to use 2,500 mAh of it. Once average phones start getting 5,500 mAh, that will mean I will be able to use 2,750 mAh. 250mAh may not sound like a lot, but it can go a decently long way.

That’s honestly one thing I’m really glad about. I’m legally blind, so pictures don’t honestly matter that much to me, and so I could really give a fuck less what the camera looks like as long as it functions well enough to act as a magnifier for me to read small print on things occasionally.

Like if I go pick up one of those frozen pizzas from the store and I need to read the box to know what temperature to set the oven to and how long to put it in. I use the camera to just zoom in on the print and read it and then leave the camera.

/e/OS doesnt interest me because its far to iphone(esk) in design. Though i might be able to flash LineageOS instead. I also want nothing to do with Google Play Services or even Micro-G. I even think Micro-G is too much of a compromise and won’t use it. If an app won’t run because Google Play Services doesn’t exist, then I don’t run that app. If I don’t get notifications because Google Play Services doesn’t exist, then I don’t get notifications. So be it.

So my device settings have the functionality built in to stop charging automatically when the battery hits a certain percentage. And so I have set it to stop charging automatically at 81%. I also use BatteryBot Pro from F-Droid to alert me when the battery rises above 80% or drops below 30%

I really wish this was available in the US. I’ve found myself able to hang on to devices longer and longer. So this would be perfect. I’m only charging my battery to 80% and discharging it to 30% before charging it again just to prolong the life of the battery because that’s the first thing that dies on most devices. Having a user replaceable battery again would be an absolute godsend.

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Good point

They are bad for privacy, which is why I use them from the web instead of having an app installed anyway. Even if I could make it work with the apps, I don’t want the apps on my system because apps have more access than a website does.

Not really know. I can’t use some apps that absolutely depend on Google Play services, such as Uber and Lyft. But I can use the Uber website. So that doesn’t matter.

Throw lineage OS on this thing and it would be a battery beast. Just because then you wouldn’t have Google Play services crap running all the damn time.

Edit: I have the OnePlus Nord N200 5G from 2021 that I purchased new in the box in 2023. It has a 5,000 mAh battery and i charge it to 80% and discharge it to 30% before charging it again. So I am only using 2,500 mAh of the total capacity. With LineageOS it runs super well and the battery does not discharge quickly. If the average phone battery gets to 5,500 mAh that would give me an extra 250 mAh of usage which would be really cool.

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I feel so much better knowing that our solar system is stable and that all we have to look forward to is the sun potentially swelling up like a giant balloon and swallowing us. That’s super comforting. /s.

Then again, by the time something like that occurs, I suspect if humanity is still around that we will have the ability to control the star itself by mining metals off of it and therefore reducing its mass and making it smaller or move the earth further out and then back in once it’s done expanding.

Humanity already has the science and knowledge to go about actually doing these things. We just don’t currently have the technology.

Take a look at the show, Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur. One of his phrases is that if brute force isn’t working, you’re just not using enough of it.

Fair enough, there are just so many backdoor encryption bills that they all begin to look the same.

When encryption is a crime, I just beg absolutely everybody to break the law.

I’m sorry, but if backdoor laws start getting passed, I’m going to just fucking break the law, and they can come and fucking arrest me if they want. But I’m not putting up with that shit.

I sincerely hope that is the bridge they cannot cross and get away with it. Because if you are right, then we will be okay. If you are wrong, we are screwed.

I really, really, really want to like peer tube. I mean, I truly, honestly do. But, at least currently, I can’t find any of the content I want to watch on it. lemmy and Mastodon have reached a critical mass where there is enough content to not need other services. Peertube is not to that point. My guess is that it is due to the fact of the bandwidth and storage needed to host the video and the fact that video content takes more effort to create.

I had this same issue the other day where none of my videos in new pipe would work and I found out that it was because YouTube wanted me to sign in and I’m assuming that that’s the next phase of them trying to kick us off is just not serving people who do not have an account. So I would expect this to only increase over time. YouTube is about to end up the same way Facebook is where if you do not have an account you can’t even look at anything on the service itself I would just about bet you that.

Because who doesn’t have or doesn’t want a Google account, right? /s