I mean I don’t have a laundry list but like:

• all day battery, doesn’t seem Fairphone hits this exactly. When I’m vacationing I’m using my phone constantly to map and translate and record so it’s the single biggest thing I want in a phone.
• a great camera, until I get a standalone shooter this is what I got. This is a great argument for a Fairphone because it’s on the cheaper side.
• a large screen, ideally the largest I can possibly get. I joke that I won’t be happy until I can unfold a 72 inch OLED from my pocket. So bright, colorful, OLED, fast refresh and variable refresh, and big.
• wireless charging. I really like the idea of the pixel snap feature. That would be a big selling point for me.
• great processor. I don’t play phone games a ton but my current phone turns into a toaster on an idle game and that’s unacceptable. Would like to not worry about performance.
• USB C, think everything has this these days.
• dual speakers, I listen to things when cooking so good speakers are actually nice. All the casting that used to be so easy seems like it’s gotten harder these days.
• if someone other than apple would offer the lidar camera setup they’ve got, or whatever allows them to get a good topographical scan that would be a big selling point.

Again, not really exhaustive, but I’d consider myself a pretty normal consumer with a larger budget and a recognition that I use my phone more than any other device in my life so I might as well make it good.

Fair phone is compelling, especially compared to getting an expensive folding phone, but I’m not sold yet. You guys have definitely given me something to think about though as my screen continues to dim.

Screen is dying, can’t wait for their supposed deal in 26/27 that sounds exciting.

They could have also reread my original message. They could have also commented something meaningful even with the wrong initial reading. They could have asked for clarification, additional context, or anything else useful.

Instead their comment was… Idk how I would describe it. An attempt to insult? An unhelpful observation?

Its the opposite of being an ally, of helping people break from their chains, to misread their position and then write something snarky. Idk, I think people who make online spaces exhausting or worse deserve a few more insults in their life. Especially if they’re not being helpful.

That’s great to hear! Google is a PoS for doing that.

It’s comments like this that make me worried about literacy rates and reading comprehension.

I want to replace my Pixel with a cutting edge phone that is user friendly, repairable, highly private, has all the features I like, and whose company is owned by its workers and not evil.

That phone doesn’t exist.

So now we talk priorities. With Google looking to close down android, I want something more open than stock android. My options are very limited. Graphene only works on the pixel line and not even the newest pixels, which are very underwhelming, so that’s not a great fit. LineageOS doesn’t seem to support any new phones albeit I didn’t cross reference every phone. The nothing phone, and every other competitor, seems lackluster as well.

So I’ve resigned to settling for any phone that’s cutting edge. If this is going to hopefully be my last mega evil corpo phone, I’ve been flirting with going with multiple screens because I doubt in 3 years there will be a non-corpo folding phone option if the normal slabs are still struggling. Samsung only “comes to mind”, and this might surprise or confound you, because we’re commenting on a thread about a Samsung phone.

If anyone has better recommendations for a last corpo phone out now or on the horizon, I’m all ears. And if someone wants to try and convince me there’s a great phone out there that can run a non-stock OS and still be a largely enjoyable experience I’m also ready to be wow’ed. But I’ve looked around a bit and failed to find anything.

I mean I’d love to buddy. When someone releases a phone with all the modern features I want and the best processor and a repairable battery (or any other of the consumer friendly practices we all want) I’ll buy it. But don’t act like I’m choosing to not get the ideal phone when it doesn’t exist. It’s compromises everywhere.

No word on if it’s coming to the EU :(

My pixel 6 is dying and I’d like to get something for graphene or another less monopolized distro but there’s no support for phones released this year as far as I can tell from most distros so I’m looking for one more normal phone until hopefully that ecosystem is better off.

Even the new pixels look weak from several angles It was hard to get want them after all the reviews came in.

Which is totally valid… And also the entire point of my comment. This video had Linus Torvalds in it, giving a pretty decent interview, while building a Linux PC and this thread was nothing but hate. Literally no appreciation for the positive impact LTT was having in a community that, at least on paper, should be over the moon.

I don’t see much Torvalds stuff on camera, so this was nice. I’m not asking people to like LTT, it’s just the dialogue around them on reddit and Lemmy feels extremely immature and outspoken and in this instance felt detrimental to the space and the supposedly shared hobby.

LTT was a big supporting factor for why I degoogled and switched to Linux when I did. It was partially because of their work I jumped over to self-hosting, open source, or other less “evil corpo” apps.

I’m not really interested in defending the channel or the guy, especially in areas so polluted with hate for the guy, but there’s no way they were paid by Microsoft to slander Linux and tbh I never took their Linux videos as overly critical or completely thorough examinations of the Linux experience. Idk, just feels like over exaggeration on the part of people who have too much fear a bit of non-perfect coverage will hurt their darling product.

God damn the LTT hate is huge in this channel. I don’t really get it, but shit you guys really don’t like a tech review channel.

When I posted this, there wasn’t a single comment about the actual interview with Linus Torvalds. That’s a crazy amount of vitriol.

It says there are 200 comments but I can see 2. So my 2 cents, jump onto the easiest instance you can. For me, that was .world. Get on the boat, then reassess when you have more time.

The first jump, reddit to Lemmy, is the hardest. The second is super easy in comparison.

Running arch Linux KDE on Wayland with a 4090. Not a single issue graphically in the last year.

That coalition, if they stuck to their word, would last so long it would only fall out of favor when people forgot how bad it was under the CSU coalitions.

Edit: which I should say, Germany is amazing as it currently is. People are unbelievably fortunate to be living nearly anywhere in the EU, let alone Germany. As an immigrant from the US, things are markedly better here and I hope to never leave.

Thank you for this write up, I really do appreciate it. I will move forward liking the SPD even less than I already did.

Idk if I would give blame to the SPD for the actions of a joint coalition when they’re in the minority. Maybe I should? But if the will of Germans has been to shoot themselves in the foot with the CSU for the overwhelming majority of the past - what - 40 years I struggle to blame the SPD even if they were a part of the government when those actions took place.

That being said, as I asked, maybe I should. I see them as equivalent to US centrist Democrats. They won’t make much of anything better but they won’t make many things that much worse. They’re the slow collapse of the empire party, vs the aggressive collapse of the Republicans (in Germany the CSU/CDU) or the speed run of the AfD (post-Trump Republicans.

While they were leaders of their party, even despite the backstabbing FDP they passed several things that seemed good. For a moment it felt like Germany was moving in the right direction. Maybe you’re correct that it’s an outlier, I don’t claim to be an expert although I’m trying to learn as much as I can.

All of that being said, my advice remains vote for Die Linke and Grüne first and foremost, and then if you have to the SPD. But never the CSU and the FDP and AfD should be ridiculed and shamed out of ever admitting they have political inklings let alone that they’re running for office (and arguably the AfD should be outright banned for preaching evil policies). Which I think is a reasonable position to have given how popular the SPD and CSU still are among the majority of Germans.

Edit: I should have also said, if the SPD did say those things and are actively engaging in anti-humanist actions like id expect from the CSU or the AfD then fuck them too. Get politicians out of government that don’t serve the people.

The SPD is not perfect but based on my short time in Germany they seemed decent. Would I prefer someone more progressive and more capable? Yes. But if you’re talking about the stop light coalition, I don’t see the SPD’s actions as blatant betrayal. It read to me, admittedly not a native German speaker/reader and who came in a year or so into their coalition, like all lost progress was entirely the fault of the FDP. They conspired against their own coalition and I personally believe they should never be elected to another public office again. They were traitors to the German public and did so with intention, disgusting behavior I hope the German public never forgets or forgives.

Merz is a conservative conman like all the rest. He wants to enrich himself and his allies at the cost of selling out his neighbors and countrymen.

If people want progress they must vote for progressives, if they want things to improve they must vote for those that stand with the working men and women of their country, if they want to be more wealthy they must vote for those that would make them wealthy by reducing wealth inequality.

In Germany that means voting for Die Linke and the Greens and when you have to the SPD.