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garryknight@diasp.org
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Murena, the privacy-first Android smartphone, arrives | ZDNet

If you value privacy and you use a smartphone, you've got a problem. Both Apple and Google constantly collect data on you. A Vanderbilt University study found, for example, that Android sends data to Google even if your phone is sitting idle with Chrome running in the background at a rate of 340 times a day.  
Murena and Mandrake Linux founder Gael Duval was sick of it by 2017. He wanted his data to be his data, and he wanted open-source software. Almost five years later, Duval and his co-developers launched the Murena One X2. It's the first high-end Android phone using the open-source /e/OS Android fork to arrive on the market.

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/murena-the-privacy-first-android-smartphone-arrives/

Murena, the privacy-first Android smartphone, arrives

Murena's first smartphone release, the /e/OS-powered Murena One, tries to free you from Google.

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anonymiss@despora.de
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#Selfies may drive plastic surgery by distorting facial features: #Cellphone images could alter the appearance of the nose and chin

source: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220406160601.htm

"Adolescents and young adults are expected to develop a stable sense of self-identity, a neurodevelopmental process related to making comparisons of oneself with others. Unfortunately, selfies emphasize the physical aspects of oneself in making those comparisons and have been associated with lower self-esteem, lower mood, and increased body dissatisfaction," she said. "Many changes in our society, including selfies, #social #media, and isolation from #COVID-19, have led to escalating rates of mental health problems in this age group, including #depression, anxiety, addiction, and eating disorders."

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Selfies may drive plastic surgery by distorting facial features: Cellphone images could alter the appearance of the nose and chin

Cellphone 'selfies' distort facial features, an effect that may be driving an uptick in requests for plastic surgery, researchers show in a new study. The findings highlight an unexpected consequence of social media and the need for plastic...

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hackbyte@friendica.utzer.de
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Mkay, some things change over time in a really meaningful way.....

Context: I had to buy a new smartphone and got myself a fancy Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro.. Really nice hardware for the money .. not the latest SoC but still good enough and 6gb ram + 128gb flash should last a very long time...

On top of that, this beast boosts a fricking 5020mAh battery.. which is huge... Actually _more_ than half of my biggest powerbanks.... *yikes* ;)

But now comes the very best part. It has a quickcharge capable USB-C socket.. And included was a nice 15w USB charger... Whenever i plug it in, the phone starts to count more than 0.1% charge per second..... which is just... insanely cool.

And so i come to the very best change in my "smartphone habits" overall.

Usually, and i think lots of us ppl more or less "grew up" with that since we have cell phones, are used to plug the phone in at evening, at least when we go to bed.... To get it fully charged in the morning.

Which worked out well .. but meant, that the battery was charging for some few hours and then basically sat at 100% charge, for the rest of the night... And whenever it even got down to 99% oder 99,5% charge, it would be immediately fully charged up back again.

Which wasn't ideal in the first place even on the older NiCad batteries we had (yes, my very first cell phone was a Siemens S6 which NiCad battery)..

With lithium-ion batteries, things are actually a bit worse sadly...

They're like to be treated like we treat ourselves .. like humans..

They thrive in similar temperature ranges (about +15 to +35°C) and their chemistry likes it to be somewhere in between 25 and 75% of charge.... They have no problem with getting fully charged at all, but they don't like staying at that for any prolonged time. Similar as we don't like to eat any more when're we are really full. ;)

Luckily, the phone now can charge a completely empty battery to full within about 16 minutes (right now, with a nearly factory fresh battery)...

SO.... instead of having it on the power plug all night long, i changed my "charging habits" some bit .... so that i usually plug in the charger once a day, usually in the early evening or so, charging it up to 100% .. and then unplugging it, living just from the battery all night long and usually for the better part of the day too....

Additionally, it's very very easy for me to avoid that i get low in battery too, because when i plug it in, like let's say around 1900 (7 p.m.), it has at least still 30~38% of charge... (thanks to it's humongous battery)...

In the long run, because of avoiding un-healthy battery charge regions, i expect this battery to last at least half a year longer compared to my old and very shoddy charged battery......

Just some 2 cents about modern stuff..... ;)

P.s.: Tl;dr: i still charge the battery up to around 95~100% each day, but because i unplug it, it doesn't _stay_ there for any time. ;)

#battery #li-ion #lithium #smartphone #cellphone #charging #quickcharge #randomshit

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anonymiss@despora.de
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Top U.S. #Catholic #Church official resigns after #cellphone #data used to #track him on #Grindr and to #gay bars

source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2021/07/20/bishop-misconduct-resign-burrill/

The resignation stemmed from reporting in the #Pillar, an online newsletter that reports on the Catholic Church. Tuesday afternoon, after Burrill’s resignation became public, the Pillar reported that it had obtained information based on the data Grindr collects from its users, and hired an independent firm to authenticate it.

Which finally debunked the saying, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

#economy #bigdata #location #tracking #gps #surveillance #smartphone #problem #privacy #religion #fail #ethics #moral #humanrights #news #security #app #internet

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