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More and more parts of the windows eco-system is now generated by AI and reviewed by AI, humans are only involved in testing (source is a familly member who works for microsoft). N…

It depends of the operating system you install. Fairphone by default comes with a pretty standard Android version with Google Play serices, so it will be impacted. If you either bu…

When doing coppicing it's definitely something to be careful with. Once started, the trees needs to be cared for regularly. E.g. on the ash trees I have, it needs to be "harvested"…

It depends of the type of tree. Ash used to be used both for firewood and timber in France. I have ~35 250 year old ash trees like this, a good chunk of the branches are straight, …

Wero is the alternative, it's moving on quite well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment)

And the Internet was state sponsored too, at the time though it was not even legal to create communication networks in a lot of countries. But that's the premises But what it gave …

The web originally was way closer to anarchism and I really miss that. It was a cluster of self-organising communities, little to no intervention from the state, a lot was not prof…

I always used to think ask jeeves was a malware because of the IE bar that was installed automatically with some app (java i think). A fair amount of my teenage years was spent on …

Closer to 2 as it was rarelly running at full 56kb/s. Although, being patient was part of the experience as well

Yes, it brought back some video card memories

At this point, windows is already becoming a poor implementation of wine anyway.

Our behaviour is also responsible for China's and India emissions. We've exported lot of our production to those countries and are importing it back. If we were to measure emission…

This portal will just contain propaganda to serve the fascist agenda of the current US government. Not saying that things are perfect in Europe but the US talking about freedom and…

I wonder what the plan is to recycle those. Without a plan to safely bring back all this hardware and recycling it, we'll deplete earth from it's mineral. The matter used to build …

Oops, i fed a troll or an ai

China is doing so while western countries delegated a lot of its manufacturing to China though. The fact that US emissions are not going down shows that something is really really …

Security is a fallacy here because, being a US company, it is technically not secured by default as it has backdoors (or one has to assume it has backdoors and those cannot even be…

Allowing people to own their devices and modify them can first foster creativity and competition, which can lead to the creation of standards, alternatives and businesses around th…

What the US built is already dystopian, there's nothing to lose moving away from that. Things like chat control are not a good thing neither, but adding regulation can also be bene…

And?

Toyota RAV4 seems to be the best selling car globally in 2025, not model y. Overall tesla models looks dated, quality is not great, ongoing safety issue with underwhelming response…

The risk of loosing a domain, especially if used only for email, is lower than losing a google account. Using a gmail.com means that google owns both your emails and your email add…

Not really though. The data is also Google's and being in the US it's also accessible to other entities.

The problem of repairability and independent garages to have access to the tools, software and training to repair cars is not specific to electric cars. The level of electronic and…

Good question to ask manufacturers.