resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@oilyfish @oysmal If you can get an xo-4 touch, not only is the software more freedom-respecting than conventional COTS e-readers, but the dual mode screen is superior because you can choose between color LCD and e-ink. Commercial e-readers have yet to catch up (AFAIK) despite the tech being over 10 yrs old. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO-4_Touch

@oysmal @oilyfish unleashkids.org is one such project

@oilyfish @oysmal the best e-paper reader in the free world is #OLPC (one-laptop-per-child). They are not sold commercially though last time I checked. If you want one you have to find a project that works with them & slip them some cash.

@Br0m3x @rysiek @owl But the problem remains that manufacturers will offer 1 or 2 Android OS upgrades, and then quit, leaving users with a phone that has just fine hardware, but AOS is too old. I have an android that's trapped on AOS 2.3. Since the drivers are proprietary, I can't just upgrade it myself.

@owl @rysiek @Br0m3x In Belgium, they don't have the problem of OCD phone upgrades that are consumer-driven. If you look around there, you'll see people using phones so old that the finish has worn off the plastic so the milky colored plastic is showing, and that's a good thing.

@Br0m3x @rysiek @owl The OCD phone upgrading disease that inflicts many Americans is separate problem, which happens to hide the problem of designed obsolescence. Belgium solved the OCD consumption problem by banning the practice of locking phones to plans (which encourages ppl to upgrade needlessly at the end of their contracts).

@rysiek @owl I see it as an extension of the concept of implied warranties, which is a lousy 1 year in the US, and a lousy 2 years in the EU. Implied warranties should be more like 5 years and support for updates on working devices should be 10 years. What is the planned obsolescence limit proposed in the EU? Seems that's still unknown.

@krock If I'm with plastic-only people, I either pay the whole bill in cash or I insist on separate bills, just to ensure that my portion of costs are paid in cash. #Visa offered a $10k award to small businesses that go cashless a few years ago, so it's important for restaurants to have metrics that show a portion of sales reliant on cash.

@krock wow that's eye opening. I sacrifice the airmiles to pay cash as well, because we need people to fight on the cash side of the #WarOnCash. You inspired me to look for a way to randomize Android MAC addresses. There's an app but sadly it needs root (and the app has been abandoned): https://android.izzysoft.de/repo/apk/com.moosd.netghost

@meejah The restaurant should want customers to get paper take-out menus & they also shouldn't want the menus back. Like giving out business cards, it could lead to repeat business. In one case I pressed the matter & they were helpless on the food menu, so I shared a phone w/someone (not good during #COVID).

@jayrope it's bizarre that someone at these places didn't think of laminated menus, soap, and water, or sanitizing wipes.

Went into *two* restaurant+bars recently & was told "we have no paper menus due to COVID; use your phone to get the web menu". It's disturbing that a B&M business just assumes everyone has a smartphone & they're willing to marginalize those who do not. One of the bars outsourced to a site that outsourced to #Cloudflare so the online menu discriminated further against Tor users.

@daniels @aral ElectronMail is based on #Electron, which I think is based on Chromium, but certainly not based on Ungoogled Chromium. https://github.com/vladimiry/ElectronMail

@joerebelloharley@tilde.zone @aral Good idea.. it's a #Cloudflare site.

@aral @daniels there is also the #ElectronMail case, where the browser is bundled with a mail client (the only MUA that can access #ProtonMail).