I'm thinking that my next cellphone might be a Fairphone. I've generally tried to shop wisely for phones, and mostly I've been quite successful. They generally last me at least five years each, often a year or two longer.

I go with as close to vanilla Android as much as possible, with high RAM and good specs - never top-tier phones, but solid mid-range phones. I don't buy from Samsung, because I have no interest in having crapware foisted on me or helping a corporation violate my privacy.

My current phone is a OnePlus 6T, which is still running solidly after nearly seven years. But Carl Pei left OnePlus some time ago, and OnePlus has apparently gone downhill as a result.

The Fairphone sounds appealing, but I'm concerned that I might have to switch carriers. Meanwhile my son is pulling for a Pixel; I'd rather avoid doing business directly with Google because they're so fucking evil.

So...suggestions? Thoughts?

Thanks!

#cellular #phones #Cellphones #Android #Fairphone #Technology #FediAdvice #FediTechSupport

Hi Brussels! First time going to FOSDEM and first time ever in Brussels 🙃 Any tips where to have dinner?

#fosdem #brussels #fediadvice

I tend to listen to my gut. It's not always right, but it usually is. And right now it's telling me that I could disappear from Mastodon at any moment. So I think it's getting a little more urgent for me to find a second account. I'm looking at the list of servers online, and the descriptions are helpful. But they aren't necessarily giving me the full picture. Don't know if anyone is able to help, but I'd like to hear suggestions for new servers - assuming that my posts here are still visible to others.

Sorry, but I've lived with censorship and shadowbanning for decades now. Maybe that has made me paranoid, but maybe it hasn't. I've had a good time here, and I hope to stay; but I should have remembered that it's never wise to keep all your eggs in one basket.

By the way, is there any good way to automatically post to more than one Mastodon account at a time? I think I asked that before, but I can't find the answer. Thanks!

#Mastodon #Servers #Tech #FediAdvice

Entirely serious pole time! I have a lot of work to do, so naturally my brain gets distracted with the questions that really matter.

Like is #coffee #tea or is it #soup? Time to ask the #fedivers for #fediadvice to solve this age old mystery!

Hi folks, Id love some advice:

My youngest brother is 10 years my junior at 25 and an army veteran. Both our parents were working long hours and away from home, my dad for about 40 weeks out of the year. I was parentified and my brother's caregiver until I moved away for college. For context, he currently lives rent free in my parents' basement as he saves for a home down payment.

When asked to join the #NoKings protest this Saturday, he said that we needed to respect his decision not to go. When questioned he doubled down. The ensuing conversation had a lot of deniability on his part around: the state of the nation, the importance of peaceful protest under the first amendment, and importance of showing solidarity for those not sheltered by privilege.

I don't want to give up on him. Any ideas or suggestions?

#advice #FediAdvice

It's time to make the jump from Windows 10 to Linux (Mint).

Do I buy a slow 1TB SATA III SSD for my 10-year-old desktop for it?

Or should I buy a fast NVMe one + PCIe 2.0 adapter (No DXE = bootloader/UEFI hack)?

Or should I shill for a new machine with a powerful CPU, tons of memory, and blazing fast SSDs?

Hmmpf 🤔

#PC #FediAdvice #hardware

Fediverse, I need your help. If I buy music on iTunes, I am then downloading it and own it, or is licensed and need always iTunes for listening?

#music #BuyMusic #DigitalMusic #Apple #iTunes #Advice #FediAdvice #Question