Hopefully his 7a doesn’t die tomorrow, and by then Fairphone has managed to put out Something that’s at least reasonably better than 7a.

When I bought my Fairphone, I was simply too fed up with working around the intentional shittiness of the other companies.

I prefer to deal with some technical limitations, than have to deal with intentional ones.

I use Arch BTW.

Yes, it’s relockable. You are welcome to Google for more, I had done some research a while ago.

I plan to brush up and switch my own FP4 to e/os during the holidays.

Edit: Google it on any search engine you like ;-)

As others said, it’s pretty stock android so… Bad. But you can buy it from Murena pre-flashed with e/os and then have a stock phone with a locked bootloader running a decently private OS. The bootloader is unlockable if you so wish.

Both have slightly narrower seats than a normal car

The Multipla’s seats are narrower than a normal car? Are you american?

have heating and are leather

I think the FRV was also a significant step up in price. That being said, I never understood what’s supposed to be good about leather seats.

Both are very car-like to drive

What else should they be like?

but the Honda has way better engines and better reliability.

The one I had was the natural gas version. It might as well have been on pedals. And the noise on the motorway, between the engine and the aerodynamics, was horrendous.That being said, we got 380000km over 19 years out of that one, so not too bad.

That said, getting parts for the FRV is a pain, because there weren’t many made and the wider body means that a surprising number aren’t shared with other Honda models if the same era.

Getting parts for the Multipla was pretty easy, despite the wider body most parts were somehow shared with much smaller cars, like the FIAT Brava.

It was the Honda HRV, and it couldn’t hold a candle to the Multipla.

The Multipla had 6 full size seats that could all comfortably hold adults, plus the backseats where individually removable. I loaded a couch sideways in that car. Absolutely brilliant.

The middle seats on the HRV were significantly smaller, no comparison in terms of usefulness and versatility.

I see, I know the arguments from gamers (and have seen that video before). The discussion was on TVs and I didn’t think of the gaming angle.

I’m also not convinced about that stuff, to me it’s like talking to audiophiles that swear they can totally hear the difference between made by an expensive ethernet cable in the final audio, or that they can tell 16bit 48kHz from 24bit 96kHz, while basic physics and double blind tests say they can’t.

What would be the benefit of a CRT? I’m sure they last plenty, but they draw a lot of power.

It really isn’t.

It’s the Antwerp Port Authority in Antwerp, Belgium. Designed by Zaha Hadid. Pretty cool.>!!<

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Authority_Building_(Antwerp)

I saw several such hybrid old/new building combinations in Flemish cities. And they usually manage to pull it off.

Another example I liked is the STAM, the Ghent city museum. They also host a nice yearly jazz festival in the courtyard of that one.

https://stamgent.be/

No, the Multipla deserves better.

Why 2002?

a couple KDE tweaks even made PiP work fantastic

Tell me more

Does really no one get a song reference around here?

It was always burning since world’s been turning!

It does however have possibly the worst death animations in the history of gaming…

That wouldn’t be so bad per se… Many improvements in human conditions have been achieved by automating stuff and kicking people out. Think of the green revolution.

The problem is that the use case here is to massify the production of literal shit, like clickbaity articles on social media content, or ever larger volumes of advertisement. Those jobs don’t need to be replaced, they just need to go away for good.

Are we really going to use an AI to write motivation letters from a list of bullet points, to send it to an HR that will condense it into a list of bullet points using AI? Seriously?

Personally, I find myself in a bizarre situation.

I have some open source ““Ai”” solutions that I find really really nice and helpful e.g. the image search in Immich, or LanguageTool which bills itself as an AI spellchecker.

At the same time I am horrified at the stupidity underlying 99% of big tech AI stuff that gets wall street hot.

But… Isn’t that kind of the point? Slashing computational cost so that we can deploy that stuff wherever it’s needed without a tenfold increase in the world’s energy bill?

Whether we should do that at all is a very different question.

Buying isn’t owning

Often true

piracy isn’t stealing

Definitely true

Do pirate as needed, but also do try to send a few dollars to the dev’s pockets when you like the game.

They also have families to feed (or cats I guess) and if they can’t do it by making games, they’ll stop making games.

Great game… But I have to admit, I liked Hotline: Miami more.

A couple of oldies, that deserve to still be played. Disclaimer: I played both games when they were already ~8 years old, and completely outdated in terms of technology.

Planescape: Torment

One of the best RPG ever created, and that is entirely for the world building and writing, and how much of the gameplay ends up being based on these rather than the combat mechanics (which are just ok)

Deus Ex

Again it was way ahead of its time in terms of world building and depth, and it was still an unashamed PC game, that dared to challenge its users a little and didn’t need to have a GUI that could be used with a gamepad, unlike the sequels.