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   Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 00:59:14 JST Hugo

   being tied into US digital infrastructure increasingly feels like a liability.

   https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/apple_enhanced_visual_search/

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     priryo@linernotes.club's status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:52:55 JST priryo

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     • Eleanor Saitta
     • ira

     @rra
     My FP3.5 has a problem with the charger after 4+ years. I solved the problem myself by getting a spare battery and an external charger and now I expect to get another 4 years like this.
     I agree that a phone which doesn't need repairing is the beat but this way I have best of both - it could be repaired and because of the way it's designed, I didn't have to.
     @dymaxion @hugo @iraantlers

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     𝓻𝓻𝓪 (rra@post.lurk.org)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:52:57 JST 𝓻𝓻𝓪

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     @dymaxion @hugo @iraantlers Yeah tbh I think self-repair is overrated when it comes to phones. Pixels have a lot of spare parts sourced from original phones that you can order online and then bring to a local technician for professional repair. You will *have to* with Pixels because they are incredibly fragile in my experience. Speaking of sys-adminning a phone in scandinavia, I have two identical models so that when one breaks *again* I can hotswap while waiting for repairs without losing access to public institutions 💩It is such a sad state of affairs.

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     Eleanor Saitta (dymaxion@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:52:58 JST Eleanor Saitta

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     @hugo
     You're going to want a shop to do a lot of the work on the current models, at least, but I'm hoping the EU right to repair law will at least push things in the right direction.
     @iraantlers

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     Eleanor Saitta (dymaxion@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:52:59 JST Eleanor Saitta

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     @hugo
     I will note that despite owning a recent pixel, I haven't yet done this myself, because I loathe sysadmining a damn phone
     @iraantlers

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     Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:52:59 JST Hugo

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     @dymaxion

     nice. yeah, that combo is one of the options on my list. the fairphone scores well for repairability though, which as far as I know pixel isn't that great for?

     @iraantlers

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     Eleanor Saitta (dymaxion@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:53:00 JST Eleanor Saitta

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     @hugo
     I'd look at a pixel running grapheneOS personally, but it does mean mucking about with re-imaging the phone. They've got an aggressive sandbox for Google play services (not installed by default) so you can still interact with the normal app store and most stuff should run fine. There are exceptions — often the banking apps — that won't run on anything without a stock os, which will also include the de-googled fairphone.

     https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

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     ira (iraantlers@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:53:01 JST ira

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     @hugo alternatives? tried Fairphones long ago but they seemed tied into Google/Andriod & I'm not a tech wonk enough to install Linux etc. Just want it to work otu of the box like Signal messenger app.

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     Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:53:01 JST Hugo

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     • ira

     @iraantlers fairphone with one of the degoogled OS is probably my preferred option. although to be fair I only got a smartphone in 2021 to play pokémon go: I'm always weighing a possible future in which I don't have one.

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     Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:53:03 JST Hugo

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     was planning to keep using my recycled iphone until it physically fell apart but I checked the settings, "enhanced visual search" had been enabled and it might be time to fire the whole thing into the sun.

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     ira (iraantlers@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:53:10 JST ira

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     @hugo Yes, though travelling without one seems more & more difficult.

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     Hugo (hugo@assemblag.es)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 20:53:10 JST Hugo

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     @iraantlers yeah. in scandinavia, public infrastructure and basic citizenship functions are increasingly mediated through smartphones that run on operating systems controlled by one of two competing US tech giants. it's stupid af.