Linatami

Woman infected with the FanVirus. Bad case. There is no cure.

[solarpunkbusiness]

Europe’s Fairphone enters U.S. market tapping right-to-repair demand

Dutch smartphone maker Fairphone is entering the U.S. market, betting on growing demand for repairable and sustainable devices as right-to-r

Amsterdam-based Fairphone has begun its U.S. expansion with the launch of its Fairbuds XL headphones through Amazon and plans to introduce its smartphone line later this year.

The company hopes to tap into the country’s growing “right to repair” movement, which supports consumers’ ability to fix rather than replace their electronics.

Fairphone’s approach is not about competing on power or performance, but about offering durability, ethical sourcing, and longevity.

It provides multi-year software and security support along with extended warranties — commitments that are rare in the smartphone industry. The teardown site iFixit has also given the device a perfect 10/10 repairability score, praising its design built around longevity rather than disposability.

[solarpunkbusiness]

Europe’s Fairphone enters U.S. market tapping right-to-repair demand

Dutch smartphone maker Fairphone is entering the U.S. market, betting on growing demand for repairable and sustainable devices as right-to-r

Amsterdam-based Fairphone has begun its U.S. expansion with the launch of its Fairbuds XL headphones through Amazon and plans to introduce its smartphone line later this year.

The company hopes to tap into the country’s growing “right to repair” movement, which supports consumers’ ability to fix rather than replace their electronics.

Fairphone’s approach is not about competing on power or performance, but about offering durability, ethical sourcing, and longevity.

It provides multi-year software and security support along with extended warranties — commitments that are rare in the smartphone industry. The teardown site iFixit has also given the device a perfect 10/10 repairability score, praising its design built around longevity rather than disposability.

[beardedmrbean]

He's in charge and he can do that, the next one can change that decision, that's the rules as I understand them.

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.

[themotionwaltz]

ASSAD ZAMAN as THE VAMPIRE ARMAND in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE / THE VAMPIRE LESTAT (2022—)

(these originate from this video!)

[sexandjeans]

if only you was you again

[probablysomethingtm]

Lmao we have to fucking destroy this company are you fucking kidding me with this shit

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and

[afusionoffandoms]

Reminding everyone that this exists, and you can make it your default search engine (as explained here)

[thememedaddy]

[thebreakfastgenie]

I see this post all the time and I'm so confused. Most people throughout history were busier than your average resident of a developed country is now. My primary reaction to reading about the past since I was a child has been "I'm glad I don't live then, I'm too weak for that, I could not do that much work all the time."

[aphony-cree]

In the past things took longer to do but they often required a waiting period. You had to chop wood, put it in your stove, and light it, but it took a few hours for it to get hot enough for baking and then another hour for the bread to fully cook. History books will say things like "It took 4 hours to make a loaf of bread" but they don't mention that you only had to do actual work for a fraction of that time and the rest could be devoted to other tasks or relaxing for a while

Employee workload has doubled or tripled because of modern technology. It makes things faster but also creates less downtime which employers have filled with more responsibilities. You can do more work in a 10 minute period if all the files are on the computer but in the olden days you got to take a short walk to the filing cabinet and let your mind wander while you thumbed through folders, which means a modern 10 minutes of work is more mentally exhausting. The amount of work one employee has to do today used to be split between 2 or 3 people. We lost those moments of downtime we used to get by having to do things the slow way

[mage-of-the-small]

[memecucker]

anyway remember when the US government commissioned a study on dangers of pornography and when the commission returned with a report saying it doesn’t pose a danger and recommending removing restrictions the US government denounced its own study

[kocalls]

[bifauxnenarmand]

[justrents]

Fuck, he looks BREATHTAKING. I think I'm gonna pass out.

[linatami]

Pretty much Marius reaction

[adevilonyourshoulder]

everything about this is perfect

[kingofthedaisies]

Cas: *compliments another man*

Dean: *swerves into oncoming traffic*

[beardedmrbean]

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real: Nature.com

I'm a bit frightened for the time when someone less ethical than the person that did this decides to repeat the experiment but leave out the part where they come in later and announce that it was fake and people wind up diagnosed with the fake condition and all kinds of wacky hi jinks ensues.

[beardedmrbean]

[ororium-z]

Happy Pride!

[rootbeergoddess]

Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

[thesaltofcarthage]

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

[oneheadtoanother]

idk anything about this but I love it

[lynati]

If any competition needed to be on Tumblr, it's this one.

[linatami]

Das dinf doch Joko und Klaas