Polymath - dbzer0

I did a search to find the original article, first from Business Insider, then from her LinkedIn share.

Definitely not the gender nor race – or even age range – that I anticipated the person being.
I totally assumed white guy around 60 years old, not Imani Ellis being it looks like about 32 years old

As far as I can tell, it looks like her companies, CultureCon and Creative Collective NYC, don’t seem to be massive or rolling in the big bucks like finance and banking (rudimentary search result here), but nonetheless, to even be ABLE to take 30 days off work, spend the money on a flight – and hotels!!! – for 30 days in an incredibly expensive place overseas, that’s still flaunting money that most of us would have spent on food or rent.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominiquefluker/2019/10/21/imaniellis/?sh=2ba4cc261eff

In the leftist Slack groupchat I’m part of, that was one of the first emojis/Reacts that we created custom: a guillotine

I like the idea of scrapping Google altogether, and just having “better” search engines here that account for federated decouplings/distributions

Not entirely the same, but I switched over to Presearch a year or so ago, just to get away from Google and the “big tech” corporations

For some bizarre reason, although I prefer and lean towards certified refurbished electronics in like every other arena and regularly suggest them to friends and family, I hadn’t considered one here, for my next cell phone. Thank you for this so-simple suggestion! 🤦‍♀️

I tried Ctrl+F searching to see whether anyone here had pasted the link to the law, and didn’t find anything, so I went to Presearch and found this, which appears to be the official European Union log for it, and has attached PDFs at the end with what seem to be the nitty-gritty for further reading…

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/07/10/council-adopts-new-regulation-on-batteries-and-waste-batteries/

If I’ve found an errant page that just looks official, please link something better for those looking for the legalese

Next up: SCREENS.

I long for the day that a cracked screen becomes a simple swap-out fix.

Especially since so many corporate shitlords seem to intentionally “engineer obsolescence” by making them not very durable to even minor drops with reasonable cases (or various other bizarre things, like pets jumping up while you’re taking a picture or similar)

I should also ask, how long have you had it (it appears that the release date was just shy of 2 years ago; 30 September 2021), and do you thus far anticipate it continuing usage several years into the future, or does it seem like after 2 years of usage you might be headed towards needing to get another/new phone?

Longevity is another of my main wishes/desires

(Not trying to be combative/pedantic/“devil’s advocate”)
What kind of phone do you personally use, and/or prefer, that’s more user-friendly, as opposed to user-hostile?

I’m not necessarily opposed to anything specifically, and trying to find less-corporate alternatives that are, ideally, more eco-friendly or whatnot, but obviously “no ethical consumption under capitalism” and all. Fairphone is just the least corporate and eco-fucked thing I’ve found thus far that’s reasonable with current technology and interoperability.

Thoughts? Suggestions??