Polymath - lemm.ee

Trying to shift over towards the Fediverse.

Secondary/backup accounts on the main lemmy.world instance and Divisions by zero

Find me also on https://mastodon.social/@PolymathGirl and https://mstdn.social/@Polymath

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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: August 16th, 2023
  • Polymath - lemm.ee@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Fairphone 5 - release date and US support??English
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    1 year ago

    I often also wonder about when we’ll shift towards some combination of like Google Glass types of vision wearables, communicating seamlessly with some form of headphones (or ear pods, since those seem to be so goddamn popular, even tho I see somebody lose one of their two every dang day it seems…) and communicating seamlessly with the FitBit-style watches that so many people sell their souls to

    But I’m still also personally really a fan of big screens, hence why I really love seeing the foldable technologies like Samsung’s Z Flip and/or Z Fold

    …and then there’s the part of me that keeps wondering how long it’ll be until there’s secure (encrypted?) ways for someone to just like 2FA-verify that they’re the owner of a car and use like the Near-Field Communication/NFC or Bluetooth or something of their phone/wearables to unlock and drive their car, or, far more importantly and bringing cybersecurity into question, being able to like “AirDrop” like a 2-hour limited usership to a friend or family member that needs to pick something up or borrow it.
    Like, I envision some way to use tech to share driveability of a car digitally to friends or family, but I’m sure that all the layers to make it so it’s not like the Kia hotwiring problem are gonna take several years, and be a cat-and-mouse continued struggle.

    IDK man, I’m just rambling

  • Polymath - lemm.ee@lemm.eetoTechnology@lemmy.world•Fairphone 5 - release date and US support??English
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    1 year ago

    Good looking out. And thanks for explaining all that! There’s lots of stuff with the security and platform that’s still currently beyond my depth of understanding (it doesn’t help that tech and cybersecurity are screaming ahead so fast that it’s one of those Red Queen “it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place” fields where I can’t seem to catch up or stay anywhere close to current)

    Mine is currently a Pixel 4a, and, ironically enough to your feelings about the headphone jack, which my Pixel 4a does have, one of my personal/primary gripes related to capitalist consumerism and spending, is that it doesn’t have a removable microSD card slot, and I personally prefer to keep and backup my photos and files and everything on the local microSD card that I can switch out to whatever, rather than being forced to pay for Google’s additional cloud storage.

    So it sounds as if we have similar reasons behind the

    Removing choices from users, to put them into … sales
    distaste.

    I wish I could just pick and choose a company and device that’s not massive, that does have a microSD slot (and ideally a second one for a dual SIM), not un-fixable and un-updatable, and reasonably eco-friendly. And I can’t help but see flagship models now of major companies soaring upwards of $2,000 USD, which is just fucked. Ugh, le sigh