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At least the earlier Fairphones continued to work even if you removed some modules (like the camera & microphone), and all you needed for that was a regular-priced Fairphone, a scr…

It's becoming harder to find a place to sit down in London (UK), too, especially one without hostile features like bench partitions or spikes.

Restricting the scope to those two problems would remove 1/3 use-cases and around half of the pages required (going by the "The Birth of a Product" section's bullet point list). It…

One example: https://www.caricecars.com (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823186 )

There's also Turris from cz.nic [1]. Technically they use a fork of OpenWRT with some convenience features like auto-updates, although it looks like you can run OpenWRT on (some of…

I get that you wanted to make a general point. In case you're still curious about this specific case: It's been a long time since I last used Mp3tag, so I tried the latest Mp3tag i…

Tesla's privacy policy [1] suggests you can (by disabling connectivity all together), although it does break some features: > Opting out of vehicle data: Connectivity and performan…

Have you tried kid3 ( https://kid3.kde.org )? It has both a GUI and a CLI. From a quick glance at the feature lists it looks quite comparable.

> It's hard to tell someone to connect to 2601:3c7:4f80:1a01:4d2:3b7a:9c10:6f5e. If you would like your IPv6 addresses to be more human-friendly, you could use DHCPv6 (in addition …

Ironically on Kobo you can buy Enshittification with DRM: "Download options: EPUB 3 (Adobe DRM)": https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/enshittification-4 Kobo does sell some other book…

Another possible compromise might be to use watermarking-based DRM. Amazon doesn't seem to support it, but other e-bookstores do. In any case, thank you for offering the LeanPub op…

It's at least available as a search filter. On the book listing it seems to show "Type: Ebook (DRM-free)". Maybe there's a better way.

Is there any way to see a full list of what's in each pack?

Get the Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB (or more if you care). Get the RasPiKey [1] for faster storage (compared to SD cards), without needing to get an SSD. Just use the Raspberry Pi OS. …

> I can share an anecdote how slow tech adoption is in Korea. It is not exactly about tech in public section but in private companies. I assume public section has slower adoption r…

Surely you can still pay with plastic cards, at least if the venue advertises accepting the big card issuers? The latest neobank might require an app, but I'd be surprised if you c…

Can't you do this with most email filtering systems with a rule similar to `.*@example.com` -> trash/bin?

> But one thing that seems unavoidable is that the "section" (the part where you hold the pen) gets messy when you put the cap on it. I wonder why every fountain pen seems to have …

It seems that both RHEL [1] and Ubuntu Pro have docs on FIPS, so it looks like the distribution vendors have thought about this problem, at least for paying customers. Might you be…

I'm curious, do you maybe have an example for each of the "legal services work processing" and "accounting workflows" that LibreOffice can't handle?

Can you upgrade the storage of your XPS laptop? Maybe check out the Framework laptops? For example the Framework 13's new screen is 2.8k @ 256PPI apparently [1], which has slightly…

Maybe consider a DECT/WiFi cordless phone that can do VoIP? Something like https://en.avm.de/products/phone/ (I think they're intended to be paired with the same company's router/m…

> “I have money and I have a person’s name and address, how do I send money to them?” Send a cheque?

For 2FA try a Yubikey or similar hardware U2F device. (opinion my own)

It's being discussed in courts, see e.g. https://www.eurogamer.net/french-court-rules-steam-users-hav... .