Lineageos has probably the most compatibility among the android-compatible opensource and open (not vendor-locked) phone OSes. However the list of compatible phones is too small. There's almost devices one can go and buy (except Pixels, but I would not use Google's Pixels just to avoid feeding the wolves).
Are you serious? There are more options than you think (or try to convince others). I do prefer control over what I can install to my computer be it a box or a mobile one, and control on what runs there.
Okay so people can choose to buy a second device and do some things there (until chatcontrol 3.1 finally is approved by parliament anyway), but for the device that's basically mandatory for normal life now, what other options than "work with the system" or "don't" does F-Droid have?
I'll probably end up doing that btw. For now I'm still fighting the "have control on 1 device" battle, simply not using things that require a locked DRM state (no 2FA government login for example, limited bank choices, soon no age verification, etc.) until that's no longer tenable for me. I'll be among the last 0.02% to give in, judging by how it's going today (not even 99% of tech people seem to care that they're not the admin on their own device). We're on the same side with the same goals here, but I'm simultaneously also looking at what realistic remaining options are for my friends, family, and semi-child
That will depend on how Defender is configured - in a corporate environment it may be set to be far more strict. In fact tools other than Defender are likely to be used, but these often get conflated with Defender in general discussions.
my personal pet theory is that china could in principle block whatever they wanted, but, decide instead to block only sometimes and with some random noise thrown in, if only to impose a tax or cost on trying to connect out but to have some plausible deniability on not having it be impossible while still retaining the option of turning the dial to 11 if/when need be.
fair call! the CRT toggle was fairly recent in comparison to the full screen toggle so it was a case of seniority haha but I'm at the point now were I can spend time on things like that and the icons will be getting a refresh at some stage so i'll remember this.
To me, the CRT effect looks like an early LCD (TFT panel) one. CRT monitors picture did not look like made of dots from what I can remember (maybe not for all monitors). Except maybe the Trinitron ones.
you're probably right and I've actually had someone tell me that no monitor during the XP era would've been a CRT one haha so the whole things a bit off but I think people can let it slide
> I've actually had someone tell me that no monitor during the XP era would've been a CRT
That person is incorrect. WinXP started selling at retail in Oct 2001. I started using it at work in early 2002 and as a senior employee in a tech company I had a pretty deluxe 21-inch Viewsonic CRT which ran at 2048 x 1536 resolution. That Viewsonic cost $1600 new in 2000 and looked great. The company didn't upgrade to flat screens until about 2006 when the Viewsonic was replaced with a 20-inch Dell 2005fpw with native 1680 x 1050 resolution for $800. That's the year Windows Vista came out.
Even in 2006 corporate priced LCDs at the 20-inch size didn't look quite as good as the high-quality CRT I switched from. In some ways (like sharpness) a good LCD could look better but in other ways (like contrast) it wasn't as good yet - so it was still a mixed bag. About 2004 the company started buying newly hired entry-level employees 15 or 17-inch LCDs but they were typically 1024 x 768 and the quality wasn't great. A designer like you would definitely have stuck with a CRT longer both for quality and screen size at a reasonable price.
Just noticed: not sure if intentional, but with the CRT effect, I see a sort of moving line every few seconds or so. I don't recall my CRT monitor doing that, haha! But the tiny dots are spot on for me. The better a CRT monitor was, the smaller and less visible the dots were. But they were always easily visible from up close.
Yeah XP did use a flatscreen for some of its iconography, but that was to look cute. Nearly everyone but rich people were using CRTs for the first half of XP’s heyday.
Confirm. I used xp on a silicon graphics 21” crt for a longgggg time. Was freaking heavy as hell to lug around, but it was a great monitor even well into the lcd era.
oh, I was definitely rocking a 17" CRT in 2001! Pickup up 2 other guys with CRTs and lugging it to a friends for a LAN party we couldn't fit them in the boot of the Ford Meteor and had to cram them in with the passengers in the back seat.
> no monitor during the XP era would've been a CRT one haha
Well, not really, and it depended highly on the place of work/study and country/state. For example, my University replaced the CRT ones with LCDs only in 2005-06 (they've used XP in computer rooms for quite a long time, skipping Vista and 8).
I myself used the CRT monitor with winXP until the late 2004.
Nothing stopping you from using one with totally modern systems as well, except for the ever increasing prices, I guess. Anyway, yeah, same as some of the others already mentioned, but I don't think I actually owned any sort of standalone display—be it a monitor or television—that wasn't CRT until ~2009 or so?
I used my mom's iMac G3 (CRT) probably until 2004 or so, because I distinctly remember getting stuck on Tutorial Island on RuneScape as a kid, since you had to Right-click -> "Prospect Rock", and at the time, I had no idea how to actually do it with Apple's single-button mice lmao.
Aside from the couple of laptops that came later, I don't think I had moved on [for the worse] until a bit after I put together my first DIY computer (Phenom II 920, etc); I still had a CRT TV in my room long enough to have been using it when Halo Reach came out.
The comparison is wrong. FDA is not there to confiscate anyone's money by locking down their accounts. FDA regulation is applied to companies. KYC is the US shit which applies to anyone, anywhere in the world outside the US, having the priority above local laws.
