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You’re just fartblind.

Like I said, the messaging around the PRC’s imperialistic ambitions in Taiwan goes far beyond the concern around blockades. It’s just interesting from a military/strategic perspective.

Worth noting that even Russia has not been blockaded after it’s imperialistic annexation of Ukraine.

Lots of good points, but one aspect that people haven’t mentioned yet is that Taiwan is part of the “first island chain”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_chain_strategy

If the PRC conquers Taiwan, then it makes it much harder for the west to blockade the PRC in future conflicts.

Though technically, it is much more important to control the strait of Malacca than Taiwan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacca_dilemma

The Linux drivers were pretty buggy at launch, so probably. Every Mesa release this year has come with a ton of fixes and improvements.

Brings a new meaning to the phrase “cash me outside”.

Fork of Organic maps, both are still OSM

Some hospitals are horribly staffed like this. In Sweden I had this problem until I changed to a different (government-owned) GP.

using Linux desktop isn’t easier than using windows

(X) Doubt

Userspace is allowed to break themselves

Trump and Netanyahu have alienated 92 million people from the west and kicked a massive, nuclear, hornets nest. I worry that the Tehran regime has nothing left to lose at this point. They’re on the ropes militarily, but they’re not out of power.

also there’s a vestigial headlight, and the two wheels have different style fenders

Never said they were

Yes but some of the people criticizing Lee may be Swedish or another culture that has the same view about public character assassination.

In some cultures, including Sweden, it’s not considered proportional to attack someone’s reputation publicly, even when they do abusive things. Here, the proper response would be to report the post to mods and to the police, and let them see over the punishment.

cash for clunkers without the cash

On non-Fairphones, which tend to have larger batteries and lower power consumption batteries tend to be usable for much longer. We are talking 3-5 years there.

No way.

Get the battery replaced once in the phone’s lifetime at a local 3rd party repair shop for €100 wait for half an hour and get your phone back.

These shops only service iPhones and Samsungs, there’s only like 1-2 shops in Stockholm that repair Pixels and Xiaomis at all, let alone whatever 3 year old model you have. Not to mention things like screen and USB port repairs cost 100-200€ more than the fairphone parts.

(Fairphone tends to have availability issues with spare parts. For example, right now the FP5 battery is out of stock.)

I’ve had to wait a month for a fairphone battery before, but it’s not like they’re discontinued. I can imagine battery warehousing costs more than screens and USB ports.

A repairable phone is the most important thing. I could buy a used flagship, but the battery will be trashed. I used to buy a phone every 2 years but now I just buy a battery every 2 years. I can use my phone knowing that if anything breaks I can have a replacement part in within a week, and I don’t have to spend 100€s to ship it to some repair shop in a different part of the country.

Fairphone 4 and 5 are also the only smartphones certified by the Swedish unions: https://tcocertified.com/product-finder/index?category=Smartphones

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCO_Certified

I have a grandfathered purchase of their app on android, works very well