It would be pretty low-key. I wouldn’t want to pry this phone open and then glue it back together. Fairphones are supposed to be rather easy to repair.

I live in France, I wanted a phone with buttons that wasn’t just an ODM with a different logo on it. It is an interesting company. I’ve had some contact with them. They are legit going to pull out of China and move production back to France. They uphold their 5 year warranty promise as well.

And, they update their stuff. I’m on Android 13 and apparently older devices are still receiving updates too.

Crosscall Core-Z5 https://www.crosscall.com/en_FR/core-z5-COZ5.MASTER.html

I would also like to know what the problem is with the CPU. My current phone has this CPU and it works fine.

Edit:

Geekbench FP4 Vs FP5 https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/2432096?baseline=2439889

The Trine games are fine for couch co-op.

And Overcooked.

It’s a little French-bashing is all. I live in France and haven’t heard a peep about it, even from places like LQDN or Drama.

Article 6 of SREN states that France will follow European law 2022/1925:

• Browsers will be informed of illegal website urls via a reporting mechanism blah blah blah

Mozilla is pushing against this. They started a petition and now every tech journalist is writing something about it.

I think this is up to date here https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/16/textes/l16b1514_projet-loi#D_Article_6

Bonne lecture

When I was young (probably too young) I would always play as Kabal on UMK3. That spin attack plus the easy combos was great.

Totally anecdotal, but I teach at an international school and I have many Chinese students who have talked about this with me. They say this attitude is present throughout advertising as well. They very frequently mention this ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Few8kJ0zfnY

Sony should kee this series going. And Nintendo needs to do something with F-Zero.

I was never a fan of CNET either… In fact, most of the Red Ventures subsidiaries seem quite bland.

I read through the entire thing, in French, and it references several other laws and European regulations. The browser part is only in those paragraphs of the bill, but those paragraphs are referenced throughout the bill so there might be more to it. The whole bill is 91 pages long.

It was adopted on 5 July, by the way…

The blog post from Mozilla does say, “France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet,” so the precedent here is what they’re worried about.

Interesting share. Thanks.

I live in France and we are more interested in the part of this law that wants to put age restrictions on pornographic websites, so this is the first I’ve heard of it.

Jean-Noël Barrot, a business school graduate, is Minister for Digital Transition and Telecommunications. He is the leader on this project.

As noted by Mozilla, it comes down to 2 paragraphs, but I’ve included the paragraphs before and after below. This law overlaps with European regulation too:

Article 6

1. Article 12 of the aforementioned law no. 2004-575 of June 21, 2004 reads as follows:

2. "Art. 12 - I. - When one of its specially designated and empowered agents observes that an online public communication service is clearly carrying out operations constituting the offences referred to in articles 226-4-1, 226-18 and 323-1 of the French Penal Code and article L. 163-4 of the Monetary and Financial Code, the administrative authority shall give formal notice to the person whose activity is to publish the online public communication service in question, provided that it has made available the information referred to in article 1-1 of the present law, to cease the operations constituting the offence observed. It also informs the offender of the precautionary measure referred to in the second paragraph of paragraph I of this article, and invites the offender to submit his or her observations within five days.

3. "At the same time, the administrative authority notifies the electronic address of the service concerned to Internet browser providers within the meaning of Article 2, paragraph 11 of Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2022 on fair and competitive contracts in the digital sector and amending Directives (EU) 2019/1937 and (EU) 2020/1828, for the purposes of implementing precautionary measures.

4. "As a precautionary measure, the recipient of a notification shall immediately take all necessary steps to display a message warning the user of the risk of prejudice incurred in the event of access to this address. This message is clear, legible, unique and comprehensible, and enables users to access the official website of the public interest grouping for the national system to assist victims of cyber-malicious acts.

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Street Fighter 6 taught me to enjoy fighting games again.

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s about Time showed me (again) that rebooting a franchise is worth it. There is so much to do and I haven’t been challenged like this since Hollow Knight. The levels are gorgeous and creative. Plus, the game is teaching my son that it is OK to lose and that persistence pays off.

I looked through that thinking, “Cool, looks like the Tales from the Loop artwork.”

Then I realised it is, indeed, the Tales from the Loop artist… Which is a quite decent mini-series/anthology on Amazon Prime that is worth a rainy-day binge.

Is his website in pure HTML?

There is some CSS in there…

Lots of blogs out there like this, if you’re interested. Fedi people like indieweb and “smol” things… And Gemini too.

This blog is made with a bespoke Python site generator: https://sr.ht/~lioploum/ploum.net/

For more nostalgia:

• https://blogroll.org/
• https://indieseek.xyz/
• https://weirdwidewebring.net/
• https://wiby.me/

That make sense. I was wondering about this just the other week. I would absolutely pay for and play both the Cybertron games and Devastation again.

Thanks for the share.

Interesting. I haven’t used Pop, but I had always been under the impression that it was meant to be as easy as Mint.

Watched this last week. I was really hoping for more information. It is an introduction more than anything.

Will that be the case for pretty much any non-Windows OS? If I want hardware transcoding with Plex will it be more difficult than it should be? Is there any OS that I’d be better off using that’s still mostly a simple regular experience?

Sounds like questions for threads of their own…

Quite positive you will find something non-Windows that works smoothly.

The only Windows computer I ever use is a company-managed work laptop. Every time I turn it on the wallpaper and start menu reset to whatever the admins decide. I did manage to change some aspects to make it more comfortable… Windows is actually pretty snappy.