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  • PumpkintoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    I actually have really fond memories of Sabayon, the community was really nice. It also served as a good gateway into Gentoo by giving you a pre-configured usable system, including its binary package manager, but also gentoo’s emerge (not that you should use both at the same time).





  • My last phone I kept for about 5 years. I had two issues:

    • software support had ended
    • the battery was severely degraded

    fortunately there was a local shop who’d replace the battery (it wasn’t a fairphone so I couldn’t do it myself). If it wasn’t for the software support I’d have gone that route and would be still using it now. It worked perfectly well for my use case. Unfortunately, I ended up retiring the phone and getting a new one.



  • I’ve found this too. Generally if I’m okay waiting for the answer I’ll try and find the relevant lemmy community and ask that question there instead of clicking the reddit links. There are times though I simply need the answer and so of course I do click the reddit link.

    Even so, if we all try and ask the questions we have here Lemmy will eventually be the place you find this information






  • I’ve used a Sony Xperia 10 III running Sailfish OS for a little over the last year. I’ve been a recent convert having used iOS before it. You’re right that it does have some notable bugs, including the ones you have listed above. For me I don’t use the camera for much so while the picture quality is really not good at all, it’s fine for me. I also haven’t experienced the echo issue, however I’ve heard people talk about it and I think Jolla officially recognize it as a bug. Excessive battery drain is another issue I have, I need to change daily more or less, it does use quite a bit more power in idle than android.

    I haven’t really considered switching back because the benefits of sailfish out way the problems, I think a lot of people who care about the camera for example would not make the same judgement call. I find the platform relatively problem free for what I care about. I want a linux system which I can ssh into, have the tools I expect (bash, coreutils, systemd, cron daemon, etc.) and be able to run some linux software (some KDE apps, syncthing, command line tools, etc.). This is why I wanted this phone, for a linux distro. I also required some amount of android support for 2 apps which are applicable in sweden (banking), which works great for me. I’d lastly say the gesture based UI is really nice to use and I like it a lot.

    I do wish it had a better camera, I wish they’d open source the propitiatory parts, etc. but it’s currently the best option for me. I think folks wanting to switch need to know what problems they’d accept and if Sailfish could be a good option for them.






  • Reddit is nothing without users posting and upvoting posts and comments. If all, or a large proportion of the users stopped using the site, reddit would have to listen or they’d stop being useful. I think there are two problems:

    1. As you said, users don’t realize the power they have. It’s a bit more nuanced than that, they do realize the power of the collective, but don’t think the collective will exercise that power, and thus won’t act individually. It’s the same as “my vote doesn’t matter, it’s just one vote”. This is obviously a self-fulfilling prophecy because they are making it happen, they simply need to follow what they think is right.

    2. A lot of users don’t care. Again, a bit more nuanced than that, most users probably have a preference reddit listens to their users, keeps the 3rd party app access, etc. But they don’t care enough to do anything about it, which in effect means in any practical way, they don’t care. I’m guessing that to them this feels a bit of a “niche” problem and will use the official app. There are a small amount of users, like me and probably you reading this who’ve left reddit and won’t go back.

    The protests have worked. They’ve moved a motivated minority over to lemmy and we’re creating communities, posts and comments, contributing to apps and running instances. We’ll spend our time and effort improving the tools and communities for the fediverse ready. Hopefully, with enough of reddit being reddit causing more waves of people in the future to seek another platform, the fediverse will grow and reddit will dwindle. That’s my hope anyway.







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    1 year ago

    I use Sailfish OS on the Sony Xperia 10 III.

    I choose the OS because I wanted a phone OS which would get updates for a long time, which sailfish has a good track record of and I wanted one which ran linux so that I had the normal things I’m used to on the desktop like systemd, pulseaudio, bash, rpm, etc. I did need it to run android for a couple of banking apps and sailfish provide a pretty decent android support layer. It’s worked really well, the biggest drawback I’d say is that parts of it are not open source and they’re kind of doing their own stuff so while some things do work like KDE apps, other apps would take a lot more effort to get working (gtk apps for example).> Fairphone





  • I think I disagree. I have heard this a lot on Reddit and I’ve heard it about Twitter, Google Plus and a bunch of other social networks and I’ve been on small ones and huge ones alike. Honestly, to me, when a social network is large it includes both nuanced discussion and there more casual posting. I don’t see why both can’t exist on the same site and I feel like it often does exist on the same site.

    I also think people have a huge range of interests, some of which might be quite niche and having a large user base means these niche communities can thrive. When I’ve used smaller social networks, this typically has been the problem. They often have their tech communities covered and they often have other large common hobbies and interests covered, but if you take for example learning welsh or theremin music or something else, then you typically only get communities about those things on larger networks.