That’s because it is a cheap Chinese phone. Nothing does all of their R&D, engineering, software, etc… In China at the moment from the best anyone can tell. They only hire electronics and hardware engineers in China according to their postings.

The UK company registration seems just to not be another Chinese phone company so they have a marketing division there.

They are also owned by american investors.

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Sodium ion batteries are going to be the solution. 18650 packs are already out and perform economically. Since the molecules are so much bigger, energy density is only like 60% of lithium based solutions, but they have a very wide temperature range and are incredibly more inert and safe and density isn’t a problem for bulk energy storage.

The hurdle to overcome in inverters dealing with the very wide voltage span and bespoke charging ICs, but definitely possible and within 5 years will probably become a lithium iron phosphate competitor.

Wolfram alpha suddenly makes even less sense

Do you happen to know when the last time was that a rich company was prosecuted for this?

It seems a lot like the perjury laws: there to scare poor people into telling the truth because of almost non-existant prosecution of it.

And if it is a fine and not jail time (white collar crimes are almost never jail time) the fine would have to be much larger than the penalties they would not have to pay because of the crime, otherwise it is simply a net win for the company

I don’t understand the usecase for tuta and proton. Their “automatic encryption” only works for people also with those providers if I am not mistaken, otherwise it just uses the same method as PGP (password that you have to send the recipient).

It seems to me that for 99.9% of emails going through the account, it is not any more secure that other providers like mailbox, posteo, nubo, etc…

Maybe I am understanding them incorrectly though.

Apple mail

It uses standards instead of a proprietary app like proton/tuta so you can simply add it to almost any mail client.

I mean, it isn’t as thick as normal toothpaste, and the taste is different (like every brand switch of toothpaste to be honest), but they got a new formula for much much harder tablets in the beginning of 2025 more like real mints, so they don’t get powdery or fall apart like they sometimes used to.

It doesn’t sit on your teeth as much after you spit before you rinse, I find, but sometimes you get tiny grits in the molars from chewing them if you don’t brush them out well enough.

I find it completely fine, just took a few uses to get used to.

That being said, there are also thousands of logos that go through proper design companjes and they pay a lot of money out and get literally just the name in a standard sans serif font or abstracted until it is unrecognizable as a name like KIA or TVA.

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62657cd22274f23af33a4b49/1651109120857-S6HF3QB80PZN8CSL96YF/image-asset.jpeg

https://digitalsynopsis.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/logo-redesigns-rebrands-worst-jaguar.jpeg

https://nataleerushurst.blogspot.com/2022/08/alphabet-company-history.html?m=1

https://1000logos.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/AirAsia-Logo-history.jpg

https://storage.googleapis.com/ftidag_prod/activities/stad-gent-2/logoGent_c100.png

And the list goes on, Verizon, gap, tropicana, jcpenny, etc…

I mean, AI is trash, but it can also be extremely difficult to know if you will get a decent logo after paying thousands or tens/hundreds of euros spent (looking at you Belgium cities using millions of taxpayer euros for bad rebrands).

I kind of agree. I use accubattery on my phone since I got it so I know more or less how much I have used to charge it.

1526593mAh over almost 4 years. If we assume 3.9V charge voltage (about average between CV/CC and I only charge it to 80%), then it is a bit under 6kWh consumed, which is under 2€ with our high electricity prices here.

It uses literally a rounding error of power over its entire lifespan.

However, having a standard way to test battery life and battery cycle longevity in phones would be very helpful, but I am 99% sure it would be an unrepresentative test that manufacturers would start gaming within a year or two to have very skewed results.

Happy tabs! (happy-tabs.com, not happy tabs.com) Toothpaste tablets with fluoride, because they aren’t anti-vaxxers like many toothpaste tablets

They are as expensive as the more expensive toothpaste because you can’t stretch them out by just using less since you need 1 tablet, but they have 0 plastic packaging, the tablets are amazing for camping, they have 2 sizes of glass containers and the refills are just in paper and cardboard, they have actual reasonable subscription delivery periods and amounts, and they have versions with charcoal of that’s your thing.

(You can find the standard jars, but not refills at Dille and Kamille in Belgium/NL)

Very funny, I stille have an old TPlink running now for 6 or 7 years, my parents had an old linksys that only did 2.4GHz running for 13 years or something. Before i replaced it for them.

I honestly don’t know how a router breaks. It can become outdated or obsolete such that it can’t interface correctly anymore or it can have a hardware failure that kills it by surges or physical damage, or it can be completely unsecure because it hasn’t been updated in a decade but routing is “fairly simple” and just getting data throughput isn’t rocket science software-wise.

Ugh I hate excel. It can’t do the most basic things like search and replace things reliably in all cases. I have moved literally all data analysis besides the absolute basic “count” and “sum” operations to python in spyder. 200x faster, repeatable, won’t freeze up with large datssetd, and has never once failed a basic operation like a search and replace. Not to mention the localization issues and the fact that it will fuck things up completely if you install a new printer because Microsoft decided the printer has priority of your document and spreadsheet layouts over choosing a default.

I had some evaluation board software that whenever the value dipped below -1, would place the comma completely randomly in the floating point number.

Excel almost had a heart attack when I asked it to search and replace ”-1” with “-1,” and it found all of the cases just fine, but decides to ignore the replace and not place a comma at all. If I tried to convert them to a number, it freaked out and placed the decimal place also randomly, different than the input. And of course trying to do in-place operations on a column for export is just painful.

Hell, in notepad++ I could just regex the digit range that was preceded by a ”-1” and get everything replaced using a few brackets.

Not to mention how terrible the graphs work in comparison and how bad they look with the default options 😅. But hey, you can automatically put in a drop shadow or frame it in a useless way.

There are some people who can work very efficiently and do some crazy things in excel (like the excel doom) but unless you have literally been using it daily for many years and actively looking for ways to speed up, then it is just as easy or easier to do things in an actual data processing program like matlab, octave, python, or R (And I am not a coder) and you can literally copy paste a file name for the next full dataset.

Well one thing we can know: if during the next round of satellite imaging from apple/google maps in 2025 sometime, if a building or tent appears over the place, then it was definitely bodies.

El Salvador gets internet too, they have definitely seen the controversy and would move it or cover it up in the future against satellite imagery.

If nothing at all happens and the next round of imaging shows the exact same dimensions and no clearer imagery emerges from a world regime with higher zoom spy satellites, then it is likely nothing.

Ah yeah, that is the difference. I always keep a local copy of my photos since immich has broken once in the past for me. That is one fantastic piece of software though.

I also use jellyfin, but the security on it is an absolute clusterfuck mess apparently so I don’t expose it to the internet, so I use syncthing for my music.

I should really also set up a backblaze or hetzner off site backup for everything, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.

Yeah I need an SD card. I have ~160 GB on photos, videos, and a pretty decent music library synced to my other devices via syncthing. My current system apps (no games, just utility apps and messaging caches) + music streaming downloads (18GB) are 87GB. That is right on the boundary of internal storage if I don’t take any more pictures or add any more local music.

Just android alone is 21 GB, but yeah if someone doesn’t take photos or videos, doesn’t listen to much music, and doesn’t play any phone games, 128 or 256 is probably more than needed.

Music assistant has Spotify connect integration, so if you have a Spotify connect device, maybe you can use voice command -> regular Spotify Integration -> music assistant Spotify connect device?

Polar and withings are the only ones left. Polar has better biometrics tracking. Withings is a style brand. A guy does a to. of comprehensive heart rste comparisons with the Polar H10 gold standard ECG. He also now does sleep tracking correlations with EEG.

Sadly that is it. Some guys in India I believe just released an open source HealthyPi Move, which is getting closer.

You can also take the route of buying a supported watch by Gadgetbridge which at the very least will get rid of the data mining and constant location tracking of some non-EU smart watches.

Withings, sadly has absolutely horrific heart rate tracking. This guy does correlation tests with the Polar H10 (skip to the graphs).

And I say this whenever this comes up in this sub.

Nothing is European in name only. They only have UK marketing. They have american investors, a shady CEO with a history of lying about his companies (oneplus “starup” BBK controversy anyone?) and everything is designed, coded, manufactured, tested, etc… in China.

They have started to maybe hire some people to possibly take over a bit of the phone design in the future in London, but the smartwatch is 100% a Chinese product. It even looks exactly like the standard ODM smart watches from the dozen Chinese companies that make all of the generic smart watches that get rebranded.

Interesting, my girlfriend’s friend bought a FP4 because she wanted an eco-friendlyish phone that would last a long time and she says it has been the worst phone of her life with tons of bugs, super slow specifically over 4G, mediocre camera, android auto works badly, etc…

(She uses android, not /e/ or calyx)

I want so hard to believe, but there are just as many reports of it being very bug ridden as positive reviews, so it is difficult, since the negative ones always seem to be detailed and specific.

I would also consider a pixel for graphene, but no SD card and 128GB or 256GB internal memory only is a deal breaker. My SD card + flash in my current phone is already at 245GB