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   Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave@social.librem.one)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Feb-2025 15:53:48 JST Hans-Christoph Steiner

   The first time I went to FOSDEM, I was constantly explaining what F-Droid was to people who never heard of it. I was introducing it and promoting it.

   Second FOSDEM, people said "oh yeah, I heard of it, what does it do?"

   Third FOSDEM, people said "I'm a user!"

   Fourth FOSDEM, I listened to people tell other people what F-Droid is, and heard groups of people talking about it as the app store that everyone in the group had on their phone.

   It has been quite a ride!

   #FDroid #FOSDEM #FreeSoftware

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   Chicken :cqlgusu: (lookitmychicken@blorbo.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 10:18:38 JST Chicken :cqlgusu:

   @zuli this morning I'm sitting on my balcony watching my vertical neighbors on their balcony, listening to music & noodling around on my phone.

   It's delightful

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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 13:22:39 JST mcc

   @v @benjohn Unfortunately this is not a real solution. Because it is a $35 phone it runs very slowly. I feel I have low demands in terms of how much slowdown I'll accept but this phone has so many delays I don't think I can use it as more than my temporary phone.

   It's really unfortunate I have to make a decision between the form factor I want and basics like "minimally timely app launches" or "a quality camera".

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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2024 03:51:14 JST Rich Felker

   in reply to

   See, Walmart has this thing of demanding you show your receipt and let them search you if you're the wrong sort of shopper.

   Oops, no paper receipt?

   Now the person accusing you of shoplifting is holding your phone.

   It's a vector for harassing people they want to accuse of shoplifting and putting them in a severe power differential at a moment that's already terrifying.

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   13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2023 05:02:16 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

   My posting levels will be down for a bit, as my phone has died, possibly permanently.

   It has all the symptoms of Fairphone "sudden death" (https://forum.fairphone.com/search?context=topic&context_id=94207&q=FP3+sudden+death&skip_context=true
   ) usually caused by a damaged solder joint on the core module (which I might be able to reflow) or a faulty Qualcomm power management chip.

   The phone had its ~100th knock to the ground a few hours earlier, so there's a solid chance that it's the solder, so I might at least be able to get it up and running for long enough to keep using for 2FA and the Way of Posting while I work out what to do about a replacement phone.

   It sounds like solder fixes won't stand up to any further damage, so my friend will have to be relegated to backup phone. Sadly, my current backup phone is actually too old for most of the 2FA services I need.

   I'm increasingly seeing the argument for putting those in a password manager, all your eggs in one basket be damned.

   I'd really love to me able to buy a replacement core module and just fit all my other components to it, but it's the one bit you can't just have them send you.

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   Technology Connections (techconnectify@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Dec-2023 23:28:00 JST Technology Connections

   in reply to

   @ernie shout out to the idea microsoft was trying at the tail end of Windows phone.

   I never tried it, but you could plug a Lumia 950 into a dock and suddenly you would have a desktop Windows experience running from the phone.

   It kind of sucked because it was so early into ARM on windows (and has that actually gotten much better?) But the idea of your phone being your PC that you slot into laptop frames or even a desktop setup was and remains appealing.