Ach ja, Thema Thiel. Hallo zurück. Beide psychotisch mMn.

Verdammt, du magst GIFs aber ganz schön. Erstmal dein Unter abonniert.

Thank you so much, I couldn’t have asked for more!

Thanks! 5 years of Android updates sounds good. $400 is not much for a niche device. I hope you get the full 5 years out of it.

A few questions I have not seen answered:

• I’m aware of the limitations of e-ink displays (and their advantages), so no video etc., but how does it fare with standard Android or web apps, email, transitions etc.?
• How large is it? Looking at the photos on their website, just the size of a larger smartphone (e.g. mine has a 6" display), probably smaller than most readers?
• is Battery life better than on a normal smartphone?

This could be ideal for me. I don’t watch videos or “scroll” on my phone. But everything else should just work normally.

BTW there are other good minimal launchers for Android, I think I used one called Kiss Launcher many years ago, should be both on f-droid and the play store.

PS: do get the case asap. I destroyed 2 slippery phones within a year 😢

So they just voted to - well, not quite dismantle democracy but at least open the doors wide for dismantling it.

Almost unanimously.

That’s so fucked up.

Slightly unrelated, but in my language Bestie means Beast. So, Peter Thiel’s beast

Devoid of all meaning except for being unmistakably racist. And not the mild, everyday kind either.

edit: there’s already two sibling comments with almost opposite interpretations. Fuck that shit, I don’t need to understand the finer (?) points to know that Yarvin & Thiel are horrible people who have way too much influence. And I bet half the time Yarvin doesn’t even understand it himself, he just needs to keep the controversy boiling.

Probably throwing back his long hair with a head movement, while challenging the prof with what he thinks is an unassailable argument. Mistaking the stunned silence that follows for a win.

🤢🤮

Now you, too, know about Curtis Yarvin. You thought Jordan Peterson was bad? Welcome to the club.

And people think I’m exaggerating or polarising when I call Peter Thiel a neoliberal fascist.

edit: it seems some people don’t understand that Neoliberalism and Fascism do, in fact, go together very well. And that the fascism we’re all facing now does not look the same as 90 years ago.

so far

Just half a year. End afaiu he isn’t finished with tariffs yet. Would (or Will?) love to see the balance after one year.

Ich muss hier mal wiederholen was ich woanders schon mal kommentiert habe:

Tuvalu ist nicht (bzw. wird nicht sein) die erste bewohnte Insel die dank Klimakatastrofe unbewohnbar wird. Das passiert jetzt schon und nicht erst in “einigen Jahrzehnten”. Es ärgert mich dass photogene pazifische Inseln von Medien gepuscht werden während das Drama in Bangladesh schon stattfindet, und das wusste man schon vor 10 Jahren:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/29/world/asia/facing-rising-seas-bangladesh-confronts-the-consequences-of-climate-change.html
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/bangladesh-country-underwater-culture-move

Wer böses denkt könnte meinen dass die Medien absichtlich versuchen die Effekte des globalen Klimawandels weiter in die Zukunft zu verschieben.

A phone with e-paper display? Tell us more!

Yep. I was going to comment that LEGO is made out of amazingly hard plastic, but this one has clearly suffered the consequences.

Relevant:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/31/hong-kong-democracy-campaigner-accuses-uk-police-of-asking-her-self-censor

Carmen Lau, who moved to the UK in 2021, was asked to sign the formal agreement in March by Thames Valley police after her neighbours were posted letters offering a £100,000 bounty for information on her movements or for her being taken to authorities.

Thames Valley police requested Lau “cease any activity that is likely to put you at risk” and “avoid attending public gatherings” such as protests.

I’m confused by the title.

She breaks down the history of personal data collection which of course started way before smartphones or even the internet. Fair enough. But before that she spent several minutes listing ways in which your phone does listen to you.

Does she not know that Android is an essential part of Google’s business model, which is data brokerage? Just like YT btw.

Why did you link to that specific timestamp?

So… Peter Thiel is an alien?

instead of offering any aid or insight, i was immediately stereotyped as “an android user” and told “we don’t offer tech support for android” basically for no other reason than “because android users bitch too much and then give you a bad review,”

This sounds like there were several users berating you, not (just) the developer?

It’s a tricky one. You can’t ban every user from your Discord just for being condescending.

As a 10 year Arch user* I concur. Reports of danger are vastly exaggerated. Most software comes pre-compiled and tested. I never had any more (or less) problems than with Debian stable.

Newcomers often underestimate the importance of its wiki, and some are perpetually unwilling to understand.

I don’t know how many tutorial I saw about compiling arch

2 things wrong with that:

• No end user compiles ArchLinux from source
• One of the first things you’re told when using ArchLinux is to peruse the Wiki, not “many tutorial”

You don’t know what you’re talking about.

GNOME devs however should stop forcing their UX ideas onto others

And then break them with every major release