Yea, especially if this is a second machine for productivity. The Duo is hard to beat and Lineage will help it lots.
HidingCat
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Man, I remember a time when XMPP worked. That was a glorious but short period.
No OS updates is one thing, but no security patches is not great. The base Surface Duo can easily do another 2-3 years.
Yea, I've been through that, banking apps and payment apps definitely don't like that. When I did that they weren't that well-used, but now I wouldn't go that way.
Another recommendation is Xiaomi's other sub-brand Poco. I noticed the current models sacrifice the camera capabilities with lower spec hardware, but what you get back is usually a better SoC for the price.
Yea, if your area sells Xiaomi phones, they're very hard to beat. The Note series at this stage offers fast refresh OLED screens, a decent SoC, cameras, and enthusiast favourites like SD card slot and headphone jack. Shame the higher end versions drop the card slot, but you do get OIS in the main camera. All-in-all a very complete package that is hard to beat.
Eh, did they? I'm sure I still have Ublock Origin on the work browser, which is Chrome.
Nah, I use Edge for that. Chrome is only for work for me, but I think I'm going to migrate to another Chromium-based browser for that.
I hope it spreads and influences other countries. Despite what people think about EU's regulations, I do think they care more for their citizens than many governments.
This place (the fediverse) is a circle-jerk of FOSS and paranoid privacy nuts: This comment has been a sane reference point.
I feel like one of the issues is that there's just no good regulations on data. I don't mind the ideals behind some of the things that are happening (better ads for Internet tracking, better designs from data derived from the telemetry in cars), but much of this doesn't have the same kind of regulation compared to say, medical data, which makes trusting these companies with the data very hard.
I believe my country is part of the problem. :S We consume so much sand.
Dual cores can be fine if they have the necessary support for the features that the software asks for, like h.264 decoding for video calls. I worked in a charity that gave out repurporsed laptops for vulnerable communities and an 8th Gen Intel works really well for office work. Heck Zoom requests an 8th gen for said background removal.