Chewy

Ladybird is new and some people seem to think it’ll be useable for normal desktop usage in the coming years. Servo is 12 years old and markets itself as an embedded browser and thus it’s understood that it won’t catch up to Firefox and Chromium.

I have no idea why people think Ladybird would be the saviour independent browser when there’s Mozilla with Firefox failing at exaty that. How would Ladybird even finance itself? Ads? Then you’ve got the Mozilla Firefox situation again.

I currently install chromium on my systems additionally to Firefox, just to be able to use PWAs. PWAs are supported on Firefox Android anyway so I have no idea why they removed the little amount of support they had a year or so ago.

Fair wages for the people making the phone is also a selling point of this phone. It’s not just about repairability.

That said I’m also not writing this from a Fairphone, because the price is too high for me.

My mum constantly gets landline calls, e.g. from some Microsoft employess out of a center in India… Anyway I also don’t receive them but I imagine of your number lands in such a pool you might be out of luck.

Edit: I just reread and question my reading comprehension. Robocalls exist? Now I understand why these call screening features are so sought after.

Yes USB is annoying to clean. We were on a trip and had nothing at hand except a piece of a plastic zip tie lying on the ground which worked wonders. It took a while though.

Iirc it’s possible to edit Wikipedia articles without an account. In this case they publish your IP instead of a username.

Some user information is necessary for many users. E.g. email for password resets and notifications (discussions, …).

I do agree that all personal information should be optional, but I don’t know whether that’s the case atm. Logging IP’s is probably important for preventing spam and misuse. E.g. a german politician made the news a few years back because the IP who edited their article came from their office.

Safari is the new IE.

From a feature perspective, yes. But with the dominance of Google’s Chrome and them pushing awful web API’s I’d say the title of “the new IE” goes to Chrome.