I think his org has consistently done its best and I still tune in across the channels. I know that I couldn’t do better with matched resources, without experience and a lot more considerations.

Listening to everyone hate on a whole media group puzzles me a bit.

Thanks for the analysis. I’ve got to say. We on Lemmy can be vicious.

That’s … Likely less than a dollar for each American after lawyers fees.

🙄 first of all, I carry a very limited wallet with me most of the time, and I only have to carry a keychain when I’m in the US.

I was replying to the dismissive person above asking what to do when he loses his phone. Which is absurd in itself.

I will say that it is incredibly liberating to have my one device do almost everything else I care about, mapping, calendaring, communicating with people in meeting with, conducting my purchases, and providing podcasts or tunes all at the same time. I love that I have open source software for almost all of the functions, and well essentially all conglomerated businesses are evil, I trust Visa way more than I trust, say, Bitcoin, or BNPL vendors like Affirm, or Klarna.

I’m not going to handle cash money if I don’t have to because exchange rates are terrible and take margins at EACH transaction, are bulky, are prone to loss and are dirty, while my CC/Debit cards offer zero forex fees.

I value my privacy, and I make reasonable efforts to frustrate the algorithms’ models of me, but quit pretending we all have to be Mennonites, and purity testing your community …

Poe’s Law is alive and well.

Dude. On what hardware? My 1 years old AND 4 years old Samsung phones now lock their bootloader.

Random, fly by night China phones won’t have enough documentation or enough consistency in hardware to be a viable rally point for firmware devs, will they?

Don’t get me wrong. I will buy exactly that Linux Phone for my next device if it gives me three browsers and enough untracked fundamental functionality like calculators and contact lists.

But I’m genuinely worried there won’t be a hardware vendor in the game in my market (the land of Y’allQaeda) to sell me a compatible device that plays nice with the three mobile providers that still exist here.

Control. Where else are we going to go?

Thanks for sharing all of that. I got to think a little bit about stuff that normally I would take for granted.

Meanwhile…

Taking the CC out of the sock drawer, at home. That’s an edge case though. That’s not what we are solving for the other 99.99% of the time …

If Reddit Old would play nice with said device, and doesn’t have a native app, I probably will settle on that when my ReVanced 3rd-party-Boost finally dies. (I also use the same developer’s Boost for Lemmy app).

I already use Amazon in one browser instead of its app, and Facebook in a whole separate browser on my device, even.

But there are apps on in daily, like my brokerage account and my budget/financial app (Monarch Money is worth the subscription, for me).

I would absolutely pay for access to

Honest question - why not fork android which already has all of the infrastructure needed for things like 5G handling, power management, and a widely supported ecosystem of components and vendors?

I would try a Linux phone, absolutely, but why not just Android instead?

The issue is current and future vendors for current and future Android phones are largely tainted and lockstep with Google.

But wouldn’t developing off yesteryear Android still be leap years ahead of just reinventing the wheel around Linux? I kinda thought Android was Linux for our devices.

I’m mostly saying this just because I’m jealous to bring all of my APK’s with me into that future.

I don’t want to give up my reddit app and my current trio of browsers.

I kind of feel like MS tried three distinct times, first with their WinMo products pre-Apple, then with their Nokia partnership, then finally with one last push through the mid-10’s before Intel finally made x86 on mobile an impossibility (nuking the Atom line, selling their 5G modem business to Apple, etc) and before there just weren’t any paths forward for MS.

Amazon and FB having their own phone product lines felt like the weirdest me-too-also-ran Android reskins to extend their own walled gardens, but also felt like both threw in the towel after like 18 months?!?

MS had to be a loser for more than a decade before they gave up. They were really great at being a big loser.

It’s just … apparent that nobody is going to do this for the love of the game, and that they can only get minimum market presence by financing their way to launching yet another walled garden ecosystem. Which is exactly what we all want to avoid in this group.

You need a certain critical mass to enter this market, since you need to be able to get an army of Foxconn slaves to produce the handsets.

No company is going to be and to swoop in and eat those two’s lunches.

I’m sorry, you lost me at…

but the vast majority of investors are aware of the risk of not diversifying your portfolio

The vast majority of investors, myself included, are … not that savvy. I only sorted diversification this year and I’m still tech-heavy but we all are just eating what’s on our plates and available.

I don’t believe these markets will have humanity’s interests at heart, either.

That’s kind of my point. The bias is laid bare and I vious for those that listen. NPR did the very best at sharing information while fighting hard to stay neutral, AND kept listeners and viewers informed.

They’ll continue their mission, but many smaller affiliate stations that only have Sinclair media broadcasting in their neck of the woods are going to be moderately more screwed than they already were, with more conservative agitprop pretty much occupying their airwaves.

The bias was ordered from the top down …

https://www.npr.org/2018/04/02/598916366/sinclair-broadcast-group-forces-nearly-200-station-anchors-to-read-same-script

TBH it’s been frustrating to see how watered down the reporting has been this year.

Listening to KQED (local NPR affiliate) I was hearing taking heads from the CATO institute and the Heritage Foundation, without any qualifications of what those orgs are.

You can really feel the slide into milquetoast, neutered, both-sides press from every major outlet and the domestic landscape, but it’s still a head above trying to get your news from CNN/CNBC/MSNBC/WaPo.

I can’t fathom people on this platform being offended by how left-wing the people’s Media has been though, historically, when NPR/PBS have gone out of their way to be so damned neutral and nakedly honest in their coverage, and have proceed ACTUAL journalism in even remote corners of our country.

People should be deeply grateful for NPR, and PBS has been a national treasure. I still can’t believe we defunded Sesame Street and at the same time that anyone has an axe to grind with the only unbiased reporting left in our nation.

Thanks for the link.