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Yeah, sure, a clanker gonna do grammar mistakes that he corrects many days later after waking up.

I suppose in your world everything you hate is woke, and everyone that isn’t like you is a clanker, right?

Not necessarily. But your reaction is a good illustration of what the conservative narrative is when it comes to DEI.

DEI isn’t about excluding a majority to promote a minority, but to make sure being part of a minority doesn’t handicap someone.

But some people feels that it is in their right to exclude people they don’t like, which can be understable when it comes to not recruit someone who stole from you previously, but in most case it is based on prejudices against specific minorities. And that’s the main problem.

Those prejudices, most of the times based on misunderstandings, fear of the unknown, if not jealousy (antisemitism in Europe is often based on the idea that Jews perceived overall wealth is stolen from others).

Those prejudices greatly diminishes (or, as you wrote, “steals”) their chance to be chosed for well paid work (if not work at all), and to be represented in media like videogames (because of knee jerk reaction like that game where you steal back artifacts from museum got).

DEI, when not exaggerated to the extremes, is beneficiary for everyone involved. Recruiters find talents they wouldn’t have previously considered, people broadens their horizon by learning others culture, philosophy and history. Who in their right mind would refuse that, other that self-centered bigots?

In my case I’m glad of the diversity of people I meet at work. I don’t care if they are black or white, gay or straight, male, female, or anything in between. They are competent and hardworking, that’s the only metrics that should matters.

12v batteries probaby, but EV I’d doubt it considering how much range was a major hurdle to overcome. More weight, less range with the same capacity, meaning you need to add even more capacity, which reduces the space available for everything else.

My vision would be Li-ion will still be the king for medium to high-end EV, but for low-end EV, or those for whom range isn’t as much of a problem than for other (short range commuters) that would indeed be a game changer.

In my case, a 300-400 km range sodium-ion battery car, with a decent fast charge (less that an hour from to 80 percent) would be ideal. I use trains for anything further than that, and my car is mainly used for short range duties (less than 40km a day), once or twice a month. For anything closer than 20km I got my trusty cargo bike (which I use extensively, 2700km last year).

Especially for residential/static storage, where energy to weight ratio isn’t as important.

If I recall well, it isn’t a good fit for cars as it energy density per weight isn’t as good. But for residential batteries, that’s huge (if true).

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Well you are lucky, or they fixed their mess a way or another. I spent at least a full week to try to make it work, to no avail.

Nextcloud Talk ils a great option for families. But if you expect to use the Video Call feature, prepare for a lot of headache. I tried multiple time configuring it, never managed to make it work for longer than one call.

Thx, but I’ll stay with alternativeto.net. At least that one is not an ad in a trenchcoat.

Thx, but I’ll stay with alternativeto.net. At least that one is not an ad in a trenchcoat.

Not exactly. It would mean it isn’t better than humans, so the only real metric for adopting it or not would be the cost. And considering it would require a human to review the code and fix the bugs anyway, I’m not sure the ROI would be that good in such case. If it was like, twice as good as an average developer, the ROI would be far better.

Writing 90% of the code, and 90% of the bugs.

Connecticut do have a D in it: mine.

Not for all use cases, but for most it is.

Hell no. I’m well aware it is a good audio brand (german I think, but may be mistaken)

What I wanted to say here is that I prefer an objective good quality product, adapted to my needs, to a brand name. Even well known brands sometimes make bad products.

As an example, I have a Sony WH-1000XM3. But if I’d be interested in an XM4, there is no way in hell I’d buy an XM5, because of some shitty choices they took (no more foldable design, forced adaptative ANC). Maybe the XM6 will end up of interest to me, I did not yet check its specs, but considering I recently changed my current XM3 battery, I won’t be back on the market until the XM7 or XM8.

I trust in independent reviews, reproducible tests and hard numbers, not in brand cultivated images and subjective choices. I don’t care if it comes for Audeze, Sony, or a Chinese Knockoff, numbers doesn’t lie.

Those who like wired aren’t out of option either. Adapters exists, are cheap, and have often a far better audio quality than integrated ports due to not being as size constrained as the main body itself, and being further from interferences. You can quite easily find some that allows to charge your phone at the same time (even if the usb-c norm do not allows it on paper).

There are a lot of very good Bluetooth headphones from Bose, Sony, and the like. If you take a look at lab tests, most of lf them got a frequency response pretty close to the ideal curve, and ANC helps a lot to isolate outside noises that would drown out the music on wired headphones.

But I do agree about choice, just not on the blind refusal of using USB-C adapters. That’s unfortunate that they removed it, but it has some good reasons. A headphone jack wasn’t made to be waterproof, and if some managed to make some of them waterproof-ish, it is often by enclosing it into its own little sub-enclosure, with a good short-circuit protection (because even a tiny water drop in there mean a short), both of which takes place.
Same goes for the DAC, we got so far into miniaturizing it, and inside interferences are so high now with new technologies, it probably wouldn’t be viable anymore to have it inside the phone itself. Even larger device, like the Steam Deck, have problems preventing interferences on the headphones jack, so that must be an even bigger problem on something as tinny as a phone 😅

A replaceable usb-c port is great too. My previous Nokia 8.1 died because of that, and my previous FP5 needed a replacement after 2 years of use.

But I agree that Fairphone have work to do on waterproofing their phones. It was hard with the previous hand removable back panel, but now that they added screws to the back panel, it wouldn’t be that much of a a stretch to add some o-rings to further waterproof it. I’m sure they could get it to IP66 rather easily, maybe IP67 with a little more work.