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Sound more like you learned the hard way what “abusing the system” mean.

Idk, I still see 256GB Emtec ones for 10€ in my local supermarket.

That a shitty analogy… But a good one.

I did, I use Lawnchair.

Which is alright. It’s their project after all. I find myself very happy from my Murena Fairphone (except the launcher, which I hate), so I’ll probably be a good Fairphone/Murena client for the years to come.

That’s fair. We all have our needs, and I find mine in Fairphone + e/OS, which is nice. And when I upgrade, I get to give my parents an almost new, still supported phone, which is nice.

Low-range, yes. Mid-range, no. As soon as you get de decent quality camera, given you know how to use it, you’ll always get better result than smartphones.

I’m not that much into photos, so I can’t really judge. In my book, it is OK.

If you want to get good pictures, nothing will ever beat a dedicated camera, even a mid-range one is way better than a smartphone, even an high-end one, due to the size limitations.

Some of those requirements are really hard to get for non-Google devices. EOM don’t get updates as early as Google engineers gets. It takes time to validate everything, especially since their don’t control their own hardware.

Those requirements are more a way to not appear like dicks by telling that they’ll only supports Pixels.

With unofficial parts you can get anything, from very good parts to outright dangerous ones (especially batteries).

The problem with IPhone is their association system (which is illegal in the EU BTW). Understandable with those dangerous part on the market, but far too overcharging. They could just warn you during boot or something like that.

As for the software wall, it is where Fairphones shines. Even when the official support ends, the custom ROMs keeps updating for a while. IPhones are great on that aspect too, Samsungs are OK, but can’t say for other brands.

The choice of only supporting Pixels comes from GrapheneOS’s side, not Fairphone. Fairphone got some great ROMs support, and even have an official partnership with one of them (e/OS).

First party spare parts or third party sketchy spare parts?

Spare part availability comes partly from the popularity of a phone, and iPhones were pretty popular.
Fairphone is just starting to get some steam, so third party spare part may start appearing in the future. same for used parts.

Fairphones got a lot better lately. I got both the 4, 5, and now gen 6, and the latest one feels like a good phone, unless the FP4 which is a brick in comparison. Still lacks several Flagship feature (wireless charging, amongs other), but as a mid-range phone it is quite good.

And the repeatability is great. I repaired my FP4 once (usb-c port), and it was easy as heck.

My Z2 had à drive failure recently, with 4To drives. Took me almost 3 days to re-silver the array 😅. fortunately had a hot spare setup, so it started as soon as it failed, but now a second drive is showing signs of failing soon, so I had to pay the AI tax (168€) to get one asap (arriving Monday), as well as a second one, cheaper (around 120€), but which won’t arrive until the end of April.

Better than a benchmark, you should try Boinc or Folding@Home.

Heating by science.

A model being local doesn’t make it magically better than cloud based ones. Especially since your local hardware may not be as optimized as professional hardware.

And I say that as a local AI user.

The way to make it less harmful mainly comes from external factors :

• The origin of the electricity (renewable)
• Shift consumption to a time of low demand (or use a residential battery)
• Use specialized hardware for specific tasks (use less energy per token)

Edit:

I’d add to that that you can reuse the heat generated to heat your apartment. But it only works during winter, as during summer any heat generated will make your AC (if you have one) work harder.

Firefox vertical tabs are better IMO. At least you can close them when minimized, which Edge cannot.

I never got an issue with copilot, at least in Visual Studio (only one I use).

Make repetitive tasks like unit test a breeze. And very useful for debugging issues with tools like Entity Framework.

I switched to full Linux on my personal hardware though. I only use Windows for work.

Same here, the Steam Deck changed my life 😆. Less AAA, more AA and indie games, especially at work.

There are not many cards you need these days, especially not that doesn’t have an USB equivalent. USB capture cards are now decent, same for Wi-Fi+Bluetooth ones (provided you buy one with deported antennas). Other than storage related ones (for moar m.2!, or for sff SAS ports), I don’t see that much uses these days.

Even my NAS, which uses a micro-ATX MB, only uses one slot on the 3 available. And all its 4 m.2 ports are used (2 for redundant system discs, one for an AI accelerators (for Frigate object detection), the last one being an old SSD used as ZFS cache for my main disk array (will probably be replaced by another AI accelerator once I find another use which would need one).

IGPs are very dependant on memory speed. Many uses gains from faster memory speed (but I can’t give you one out of memory), but most games gains more from memory latency than raw speed (with some exception, like Stellaris).
Usually, if your app is CPU heavy, you’ll gain from RAM speed.