I use Ecosia nearly exclusively.

I don’t like it as much as DDG; which has a somewhat better privacy focus, more widgets, and better support for “bangs”.
But the bangs I really care about are still there, it’s European and working on a European search index along with Quant, and the trees are pretty cool too.

As is it still relies on either Bing or Google for the results, but oh well. So does basically every alternative search engine, and I’d rather go through Ecosia than directly through those two.

No other keyboard does the backspace swipe like gboard does. It is the reason I get hung up on whatever else I try.

Also One Hand Operation+ and some of the other Good Lock apps.
Quick Cursor has been an okay replacement for OHO+

Also modes/routines. Tasker is not the same.

google does have a setting to automatically turn my WiFi on when I come home, but not off when I leave! samsung did.

Again, I do not regret making the switch. But damn, samsung does so much more than google Android.

Apps notwithstanding; they did some great things to move the industry forward with OneUI. I still prefer it over the more native google Android on my Fairphone 6.
Also the samsung gallery app is amazing. Automatic tagging, great editing tools, all native to the phone without any google cloud necessary. Samsung Notes is solid. Migrating from one phone to another transferred all apps and their settings too, even F-droid ones, rather than having the play store simply redownload them.

But, despite all that, there was a reason I made the switch to Fairphone. Fuck samsung and their overall business practices.

I do miss the camera from my Samsung since making the switch. I’m looking into pocket cameras since I do find those fun to play around with, but that’s a bit of a dead category in recent years.

Performance-wise the Fairphone 6 has been more than fine for me. Maybe it wouldn’t have been if I played 3D games, but I don’t, so I wouldn’t know.

Through Murena, I believe?

Wonder they are fucking stupid enough to sue YouTube for something similar.

They don’t/no longer need to, YouTube has content ID and copyright claims.

Yeah. Bitcoin is probably safer and easier.

I’m just saying the option exists, and that I think it’s neat.

Yeah, not sure how it’d work with return addresses and whatnot. But if the letter itself is intercepted there’s probably more that can be used to trace back to you, unless you only handled the money and paper in a clean room.

Furthermore, you can pay with bitcoin or even cash (sent to their HQ by mail). That way they’d have even less on you.

That name is what initially put me off, but they actually seem to have some decent takes.

That’s a different user. I wonder what browser they will switch to which does have title bars enabled by default.

I didn’t know people actually liked title bars eating up a window’s vertical space.
Firefox specifically adds a bit of padding either side of said tabs in non-maximised windows.

They also set up an initiative around the fair extraction of cobalt.

For the specs alone it is an expensive phone, but well worth it to me.
I do somewhat miss the HD haptics from my previous Samsung.

Steam’s age verification is entering your credit card details.

Sony partnered with/sold their TV division to TCL as well.
Strange for this news to come so soon after that.

I think it looks promising, but it’s still very early days. Hopefully they can gain more traction.

Some progress is being made, but it hasn’t seen large-scale adoption yet. Which is the point, as I read it.

It doesn’t really dispute it, though. Lithium-ion has seen a lot of improvement, yes, because it’s already a giant industry; other battery chemistries have a hard time breaking through because they require entirely different processes to manufacture.
I’m still rooting for it, but it’s not really the same thing.

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