Ebooks, because I can pirate that way (Kobo Clara BW). That way I can also take a light e-book reader for traveling and not read it instead of taking a heavier book and not read it.

I’ve been reducing my small paper book collection.

• E-mailing my library and asking if they are interested in any and they picked up four (still can’t believe they didn’t want “Algeria: France’s Undeclared War” wtf)
• Putting them up on a local auction site (if they aren’t already oversaturated with copies of what I have)
• For the ones where there are already many copies on the auction sites, I donate them to my library’s “give away a book” shelf, where other librarygoers just take them. Apparently the books disappear pretty quickly

I just wish they had an integration wtih a password manager like Bitwarden - e-mail alias integration docs. As you can see there are already many services integrated

Hey you there reading this, I already upvoted all the anti-Reddit comments in this post, you can go rest instead

“Big Bazooka” in headline

journalism has fallen

May or may not be interesting to you: https://www.european-processor-initiative.eu/

Kevin has been angry about this for a while, here’s March 2023: https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-launches-eu-passenger-petition/

Obligatory Japanese nail clipper mention: https://www.feather.co.jp/en/g_Products/general03.html

I… cook in a terry cloth (“towel”) bath robe when I know I’ll go out after cooking. I guess it functions similar to a smoking jacket:

To protect their clothes, many men would wear their robes-de-chambre while smoking in private. These robes acted as a barrier against ash and smoke

Probably doesn’t help for not having your hair smell

Isn’t this a screenshot of Truspilot reviews for the company called “Nothing”, not Fairphone?

Pizza delivery companies hate this one weird trick

Ah yes the Un-Internet

New food chain just dropped

Also see Fairphone 6 leaked specs, and the phone itself releasing in 2 days. Fairphone 5 is fully supported by Ubuntu Touch no? Or do you mean that Ubuntu Touch as an ecosystem is in general “behind” Android?

I agree that using a dumbphone can be hugely impractical, especially in today’s app centric world. I posted the article to this community because I found it interesting how before smartphones came about, the phone market had major stakeholders from Europe (that I listed in the original post) and how using a dumbphone OS automatically cuts you off from American big techs (a big theme in this community). Switching to such OS is naturally “solving the problem” by nuking it and as you noticed - impractical for some, but I dunno, found it interesting.

Whether somebody will become a dumbphone martyr in order to exist in this Europe-friendly sector is another thing.

Maybe linkhut then? https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/27/2025-03-27-Using-linkhut.html

HMD feature phones are such a let down.

The Polish language translation within the system is clearly automated translation - the words used sometimes don’t make sense. CloudFone apps are also not available in Europe.

The HMD 110 4G (2024, not 2023) has the Unisoc T127 chipset which supports hotspot, but HMD deliberately chose not to include it. I know because the Itel Neo R60+ has hotspot with the same chipset.

At least they made Nokia XR21 in Europe for a while.

I always wondered why do people use Pocket. I just use bookmarks - for example: on the bookmarks toolbar in my browser, I have a folder named “movies to watch”. I just drag the tabs into that folder. Isn’t that similar to Pocket?

My brain being fried from the brainrot and not being able to comprehend “save to read later” probably also plays a part.

obligatory These workers in Switzerland commute to work by floating down a river

Hopefully this gives more leverage in keeping the river clean. “Well Mr. Company you can’t dump shit into the river, there are people swimming there”. As the article mentions in Denmark they hoisted red flags during incidents, but it puts at least some more public eyes on the issue.

The primary article is more terse: https://techlog.jenslink.net/posts/dns4eu/#but-lets-look-at-their-product