I’d keep macOS for Pixelmator Pro, but Photoshop …

Yet, yeah, that’s very cool to have! I’d have one installed, probably. However, Gimp is close to being gunshot usable, with PhotoGIMP.

Yes, I do agree. If only Apple allowed compete and true removal of some apps (not hiding them, but completely removing some system apps), and allowed Safari upgrades, that would be quite decent phone for an average light use. I’d use it, I think.

Also, since we dream here, if the system was open source and drivers too, and all that… theoretically, we could run a slimmed down OS that would allow some apps to run.

My point is, in some sibling comment, that software is more of a problem than hardware. I have a usable (hardware wise) iPhone 4S, but it’s useless software-wise.

It’s great to hear, thanks for the feedback!

I meant any spare parts, so in your terms they are sketchy spare parts, I guess. Yet, it’s better than nothing though.

My primary concern is the software part though. I have plenty of phones that never broke, but all of them hit the software wall and it was just easier to buy a newer model.

With all respect, I still think an iPhone is a better chance at having spare parts many years ahead. I am confident I can find some spare parts of iPhone 4S. Would that hold for FairPhone or a similar phone? If not, the benefit is an illusion. Unless, I think, you can produce that part yourself.

That’s exactly the issue, and the bigger one. Theoretically, Google Pixel 1 could be upgraded software-wise with the newest Android, while the hardware can work longer. So, I’m not really interested in repairability (except the battery replacement, obviously) as much as in software longevity.

My iPhone 4s is still going strong, even despite numerous falls. The software though, it made it useless. I use one as a digital voice recorder sometimes, but that’s the only idea I had. It can shoot nice pictures too (in a bright daylight), and be a nice smartphone for a kid. (Because it’s very limited, and also small, and also cheap.) But the software made it useless.

Sorry, I’ve lost my capacity to discuss this further, for today. I’d try, but that’s the best I can do.

I gave your point a better thought, and I mostly agree. I should have formulated my reply better, perhaps, but I didn’t have much capacity for that either. I live in Ukraine, and I’ve spend the childhood mostly in Russia with relatives, so I know it first hand. You won’t persuade me they are strong. They are not. They are a paper tiger. I don’t believe they even have nukes (that work reliably).

The problem is, they are stronger than Ukraine. That’s why we need help with them, we won’t win alone. Russia’s allies aren’t pussies, while we have no allies, only partners. US switched from being a ‘won’t give more than the minimum’ partner to ‘capitulate, lol’ unreliable partner. They are closer to enemy now, and they’re owned by fucking russia. Russia is good at generating fiction, and I afraid people believe that fiction.

Have you even been to Russia? I didn’t understand, honestly, as I have an impression you say that Russia is strong and powerful. I don’t believe so. But that does not mean they are nothing to worry about.

Look, they send some soldiers to attack some positions on the front, they would more likely die, these poor souls. Yet, they can bring harm. They can kill someone’s on our side. They can ruin something. En masse, they achieve something, with a great price of about 1,000 personnel a day. They send missiles and drones, which are intercepted en masse. You cannot imagine how much better the air defence became over these years. I bet that’s one of the best air defences in the world right now. Yet, it’s impossible (or super difficult, at least) to intercept all the missiles. They still do harm. And what? Would you say something like ‘they target civilians with deadly drones daily, but hey! Ukraine is good at shooting them down, so I’m okay with Russia doing that!’ Those are two separate issues. We’re being good at protecting ourselves does not mean it’s okay to casually target civilians daily.

Right now, we have no electricity, heat, and some cities like Kyiv, there’s a catastrophe. That’s a combination of factors, including political, corruption, and of course Russians. They terrorise civilians all the fucking time, all the time, starting in 2014, not even 2022. Nobody gives a flying fuck about that. Imagine Ukraine targets Moscow and casually murdered some tens of people in some high storey building. The world would yell ‘how dare you’s. All that, it’s allowed for Russia, but others, they must play by the rules. It’s not even expected of Russia. The number of war crimes they commit daily is unimaginable. Nobody gives a fuck. It’s some kind of a show for an average westerner. I’m sure there are huge masses of people who’d sincerely ask whether we still have that war. Yeah, we do. Because they don’t help us as much as they could. The EU gives Russia more money than they give Ukraine.

We fight alone. Remember, a couple of years back, they were threatening everyone with everything, including nukes, if the EU or the US would dare to give us this, give us that. These partners of ours, they gave us some technologies, they gave us F16s, patriots. The Russians? Did nothing.

They are very good at lying, they create fiction and many buy that fiction. They are weak. They’d collapse within a year or two, if that’s not for China. They are anything, but strong. They are not even winning this war. The issue is, we fight alone, and we fight what others believed in being the second military in the world. Turned out, they are second army in not only Ukraine, but in Russia too. (Kursk offensive.)

They are weak, but it doesn’t mean we would automatically win without help and doing anything. We would not. But we fight alone. Nobody sent their troops to fight for Ukraine. China, North Korea, they did. The world? Does nothing. Business as usual, isn’t it?

Russia is showing the NATO is a hoax, and the EU and the US are not different to Russia, they are paper tigers too. And unfortunately they are successful at it, because the USians are dumb enough to elect someone who’s an enemy’s agent. The EU, I don’t know, it looks like they don’t quite understand they are next if were to lose. And the worst thing is, if Ukraine would lose, they’d fight for Russia against Europe, or just die, so … I don’t know what the EU thinks, they appear to not understand the situation, and are too afraid to actually act.

So my point is, fuck the US, I don’t believe they’d return to normality any time soon. Even if they would, they’re unreliable partner and you cannot trust them. They are falling into irrelevance, by their own stupidity. The EU though, they should find some nerve to actually do something and stop being terrified.

It’s not as simple as ‘Russia is strong, so let’s not provoke them’ or ‘Russia is weak, so let’s do nothing, Ukraine would deal with them without any help at all.’

Their might is rather irrelevant, I’d dare to say. It does not matter. You must answer yourself whether you’re okay to live in the world where Russia is a winner and is given everything they want. Or you want to live in the world where the aggression is persecuted and there’s rule of law.

If there’s rule of force, and you can do everything you want if you’re strong … well, I might die by that point, but it still be quite funny to see the US thinking they’re the strong ones, too big to fail and all that … it would be quite entertaining to observe their fall off their illusionary pedestal and thrown into irrelevance by some brute force autocracies that are actually stick to each other. Unfortunately, that’s a very depressing scenario for many of us who’d been relying on that unreliable partner.

Why is it shitty? Ukraine is the only one country that actually fights Russia, with everyone else sitting there too terrified to even fart. Not enough ammo, not enough political pressure, if at all. No real sanctions on the shadow fleet.

Any chance you’re from Russia or working as a Russian propaganda mouthpiece? If not, and you’re from the west, I guess it’s time to stop fucking being afraid of your own shadow and do something.

It’s the worst ever situation for Ukraine, because these fuckers target civilians only, they’re unable to do a fucking thing on the front lines.

I’m from Ukraine, so you might stop fucking around persuading me of all the mighty and powerful great Russia. I’m sick and tired of the idiots of ‘don’t underestimate the Russia’ camp. I mean, I agree, as an enemy, it’s dangerous to see them as complete and absolute idiots. But apart from that, they are actually complete and absolute idiots.

For what’s it worth, now we know the American rich are actually even dumber than that, so easily captivated by the Russian honeypots. But again, that doesn’t make Russians all mighty and powerful. Ukraine struggles with this war because it gave up its nuclear status, for the illusion of security guarantees from Russia (LOL), and USians (LOL, who turned out to be straight enemies), and Britain (which helps, but there are buts about it). That war won’t even be started, have Ukraine its nuclear status.

But Russia did its homework well, by accumulating russofiles across the globe. So instead of topping them in the 90s, the idiots were so helpful to ‘save Russia.’

Honestly, I see no point in overestimating them either.

My opinion is that they are overestimated.

It’s irrelevant and learning to write a couple of words is a nice skill.

Thanks! So, why does it matter? It’s a server, you can have it to do the job unattended. Or does it affect other services and you’re unable to use anything else before it finishes?

If not joking, what would you want a huge amount of ram for on a server?

Imagine buying one for cheap because it has some bad blocks and it’s unreliable to keep real valuable data on it! I have a 8 TB HDD bought for like less than a $100 a decade ago, from a friend though, as he had some bad blocks there. I host only media for the HTPC there, but it’s been a solid all these years. And when it dies, sad, but nothing valuable that I cannot redownload.

I think we need SATA4 for that, or something like that, with at least double the speed, but ideally more.

Not yet there, I think. It’s not that fast to fall from economy number one to irrelevant peripheral country. They’d get there quickly if they’d not change the track, but it would get them much more than a year. A decade or two is my guess. But I believe in Americans, they’d manage that idiot and his clique, I believe.

What do you mean by USA question mark?

I bet Russians en masse are dumb enough to not know that infamous fact.

Russians? LOL. The best they can do is to fucking eat the poor little bird, as their economy is fucked and they are stupid enough to not understand why. Stop believing into miracles. Russia is a shit hole not much better to Nigeria. (Sorry Nigeria, I’m sure you’re much better than that, I just have no good example to compare to.)

It’s much worse than I anticipated! Thanks for explaining! I hope to see as little laptops with the key as possible.

Ok, thanks. It really sounds like a simple solution to the problem. I think even if it does drain battery for some reason (e.g. a repository with a huge number of files), this could be automated, like the on/off switch to run the app to sync and be done with it.

On iPhone, I use sushi train, and it does automated sync via Shortcuts (a built-in app for light automations), via timers or other events like charging. It works perfectly fine for my use case. It syncs my notes multiple times a night, plus during the day while on charge or when I join trusted WiFi networks. I expect the same can be achieved on an Android. So, really, the CLI version might do the job plenty good, I believe.

Is it? I mean, if I have Linux installed, you know.