… optimise the use and recycling of critical raw materials

Does anyone have an idea how this helps with recycling?

They have 5 models listed for Google

Touché. However this doesn’t change the fact that the interface is absolutely useless.

When I’m searching for Google I just get the model ids:

• GUR25
• GEC77
• GZC4K
• GTF7P
• G6GPR

None of these phones have the word “Pixel” anywhere and I have to look the market name up on a 3rd party website.

It’s hundreds of cycles. So 1500 cycles.

Seriously? Maybe they should include the unit of measurement or just print two extra zeros.

Again these points just highlight that this utterly unusable for a normal user.

Whilst I get the idea the implementation is currently unusable:

So I filtered for “Battery user-replacable” and found 117 smartphones (out of ~500). This is a straight up lie because all these phones are glued together (nearly all are IP68) meaning that you need some special tools.

It lacks a lot of phone models. I couldn’t find any Google Pixel or Fairphone.

The “Battery endurance in cycles” (number of charge/discharge cycles a battery can withstand until its usable electrical capacity has reached 80 % of its rated capacity) attribute is completely broken: It never seems to exceed 15? I had phones for years that withstood hundreds/thousands of battery cycles and the battery still nearly behaved like it’s new and you’re telling me the maximum number is 15??? Did you guys just stop testing after 15?

Also “with regard to energy labelling” what is this labelling about? Energy? Ok then why are there values about the phones “Repeated free fall reliability” or IP protection inside there?

The whole thing looks way to intransparent and useless for the average phone buyer and definetly needs some improvement…

General labelling about repairability/phone lifetime (e.g. receives updates for X years, replacement parts are avilable for X years, can install another OS, can replace battery without external tools, etc) without a overall score that merges all aspects would be a lot better and useful IMHO.

Summary for people who don’t like to read for 10 minutes:

Only Google Pixels are currently affected

from Calyx’s post:

• Google did not publish any device-specific source code for supported, modern Pixel devices.
• In previous years, Google released full device trees alongside new Android versions. This allowed developers to build and boot AOSP on Pixel hardware relatively easily.
• With Android 16, only the platform/framework code has been released. The device trees are missing, at least for now.

So let’s don’t panic and just wait a few days until more information is available…

So I just had a look at your robots.txt:

User-Agent: *
  Disallow: /login
  Disallow: /login_reset
  Disallow: /settings
  Disallow: /create_community
  Disallow: /create_post
  Disallow: /create_private_message
  Disallow: /inbox
  Disallow: /setup
  Disallow: /admin
  Disallow: /password_change
  Disallow: /search/
  Disallow: /modlog
  Crawl-delay: 60

You explicitly allow searching your content by bots… That’s likely one of the reasons why you get bot traffic.

A yes, a public dns resolver funded by taxpayers money and nothing of it is open source…

Sounds like a massive waste of money to me. Just give someone like Mullvad (they already have a DNS service that is open source) that money instead of trying to be another shitty DNS Resolver.

Also the company behind this looks incredibly scummy and their products are mostly buzzword-bullshit. The whole company is based on selling a DNS blocklist for as much money as possible.

Also: https://www.whalebone.io/aura-for-consumers

People want to be safe online. They are even willing to pay for it. They just want their telco to offer them a smooth way to get there. Common cybersecurity products struggle with low adoption rates due to the need for downloads. Whalebone Aura requires no installation or updates and activates with a single click.

That’s sounds a lot like the ISP is implementing some kind of deep network inspection “to protect you from the internet”… aka censoring.

You can already do that:

Get-AppxPackage "Microsoft.XboxApp" | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage "Microsoft.XboxIdentityProvider" | Remove-AppxPackage -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Get-AppxPackage "Microsoft.XboxSpeechToTextOverlay" | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage "Microsoft.XboxGameOverlay" | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage "Microsoft.XboxGamingOverlay" | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage "Microsoft.Xbox.TCUI" | Remove-AppxPackage
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\GameBar" -Name "AutoGameModeEnabled" -Type DWord -Value 0
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\System\GameConfigStore" -Name "GameDVR_Enabled" -Type DWord -Value 0
If (!(Test-Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GameDVR")) {
	New-Item -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GameDVR" | Out-Null
}
Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\GameDVR" -Name "AllowGameDVR" -Type DWord -Value 0

You’re welcome

Lemmy is open source, so feel free to go back to Reddit

I don’t want to say anything against their efforts because competition in a market is always great, but their product pricing and setup is just laughable.

Example: 4vCPU 16GB RAM Instance

• Stackit(Scharz/Lidl): 120€/month, 4 locations
• AWS: 110€/month, with saving plan: 60€/month, 30+ locations
• OVH: 70€/month, 16+ locations
• Hetzner: 7-12€/month, 5 locations

For who is the pricing designed? Super big companies where management is dumb enough to buy that crap? “We have to host there because our companies CEO knows their CEO” situations?

There are a ton of other EU companies that get the job done a lot better.

Just keep using Remote Desktop Connection aka mstsc.exe?

It’s even recommended by Microsoft:

Although replacements have been released, as of the release of the Windows App, Remote Desktop Client is still recommended for use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Remote_Desktop_Protocol_clients

As it wasn’t mentioned before: GitHub Discussions also launched in 2020

Not sure if you read this blog post: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2025/04/unified-pycharm/

Rest assured – our commitment to open-source development remains as strong as ever. The Community Edition codebase will stay public on GitHub, and we’ll continue to maintain and update it. We’ll also provide an easy way to build PyCharm from source via GitHub Actions.

PyCharm is - like all JetBrains IDEs - based on intellij-community and the “Pro” stuff just some fancy pre-installed plugin that requires a license.

Alternatively, you may choose to manually switch to the new PyCharm immediately and keep using everything you have now for free, plus the support for Jupyter notebooks.

So all community functionallities will also be available in the unified edition for free.

Also the Pro license - which you can also get 4 free in like 10 different ways - pricing is extremely fair: A license costs $100-60 for an individual, which is cheaper than most streaming subscriptions…

Can’t wait for all the other horror stories getting posted here :D

Off topic: Why is there a “gift” code and various tracking paramters in the url?

Url does seem to work without them: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

IP based blocking is complicated once you are big enough

It’s literally as simple as importing an ipset into iptables and refreshing it from time to time. There is even predefined tools for that.

While AI crawlers are a problem I’m also kind of astonished why so many projects don’t use tools like ratelimiters or IP-blocklists. These are pretty simple to setup, cause no/very little additional load and don’t cause collateral damage for legitimate users that just happend to use a different browser.

With F-droid you trust F-droid to build the binary from the developers’ source code

Not when using a self-hosted F-Droid Repo - which is the case for Ironfox.

because it takes a like 3 or 4 minutes to boot

What kind of PC is this? Does it have an SSD?

saying there are unspecified “known vulnerabilities” within Signal

His source: Trust me bro