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  1. Comment on Major storm sweeps across Nordic countries in ~enviro

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    It seems almost like a clockwork that there's at least one storm around Christmas here. Christmas storm as we call it but maybe a "winter storm" would be more accurate. There's at least a few that...

    It seems almost like a clockwork that there's at least one storm around Christmas here. Christmas storm as we call it but maybe a "winter storm" would be more accurate. There's at least a few that have been this significant last ten years or so I think. For fun I checked how big waves were measured and the Bothnian Sea buoy logged over 10m waves (significant wave height over 9), so there could be some twice that high waves. And the buoy location was not even very close towards the end of the wind corridor just North of Åland islands.

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  2. Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech

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    Sorry for late response. I'm not ready yet to try it out as I feel like I need to study it a bit so I understand at least some more. Thank you for your offer though! I agree, Tildes threads and...

    Sorry for late response.

    I'm not ready yet to try it out as I feel like I need to study it a bit so I understand at least some more. Thank you for your offer though!

    I agree, Tildes threads and conversation are nice to follow thanks to well behaving users. Productive communicating. Really like that around here.

  3. Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech

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    There's a FAQ section and an Email field for interested people outside of the areas available: There might be other options like someone sending one there.

    There's a FAQ section and an Email field for interested people outside of the areas available:

    Will the Jolla Phone work outside Europe, can I use it e.g. in the U.S.?

    Yes, we will design the cellular band configuration to enable global travelling as much as possible, including e.g. roaming in the U.S. carrier networks.

    Can I buy the Jolla Phone if I’m outside Europe, can I use it e.g. in the U.S.?

    The initial sales markets are EU, UK, Switzerland and Norway. Entering other markets, such as the U.S. and Canada are to be decided due course based on potential interest from the areas.
    We will design the cellular band configuration to enable potential future markets, including major U.S. carrier networks.

    There might be other options like someone sending one there.

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  4. Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech

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    That's really nice. I've wanted to set up matrix on my phone but shy away because of the technicality for now. There's a SFOS native version for matrix too. It's good to have the android support...

    That's really nice. I've wanted to set up matrix on my phone but shy away because of the technicality for now. There's a SFOS native version for matrix too.

    It's good to have the android support dirt box behind a switch as well.

  5. Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech

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    Hey almost the same here. Using Xperia XA2 currently. Before that I used Jolla1. I skipped C2 mostly because I felt my current phone still works well enough for me.

    Hey almost the same here. Using Xperia XA2 currently. Before that I used Jolla1. I skipped C2 mostly because I felt my current phone still works well enough for me.

  6. Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech

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    I think you're able to cancel it and get refunded!

    I think you're able to cancel it and get refunded!

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  7. Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech

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    Haha! I hear you. You and everyone else, please rage against the machine! That we need, never give up. Thanks for dragging me again further down with that link to the earlier thread. :D No. I...

    Haha! I hear you. You and everyone else, please rage against the machine! That we need, never give up.

    Thanks for dragging me again further down with that link to the earlier thread. :D No. I actually remember that thread, I lurked it or some of it at the time. I wasn't logged in so I missed bookmarking it which I'll do now so I can read through it properly. Thanks again because it's important to come across these kind of opinions and it can be thought of as a form of peer support.

    I can say that some of the best times I've had is when you go for a multiple day hike in the wilderness and you can shut down all the electronics for once and just concentrate in the basics and nature. I think we all need that from time to time. Could be something else than hiking but that at least sets priorities in order nicely.

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  8. Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech

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    Yeah, I don't understand at all why so. Good point. It is a shame. More complicated and inefficient but maybe someone could send one if asked on the SFOS forums? When the phone actually...

    but their devices aren't sold in the North America which I think is a massive missed opportunity.

    Yeah, I don't understand at all why so. Good point. It is a shame.

    More complicated and inefficient but maybe someone could send one if asked on the SFOS forums? When the phone actually materializes anyway. I could keep an eye on this or ask if that's feasible.

    7 votes

  9. Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech

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    No, thank you. I know it's depressing. I couldn't put it in words as well as you did and while by doing so you doubled my depression regarding the survival among the goliaths thing I'm still...

    No, thank you.

    I know it's depressing. I couldn't put it in words as well as you did and while by doing so you doubled my depression regarding the survival among the goliaths thing I'm still ignorant enough and choose to remain cautiously optimistic about it.

    It can't just be so that everything is forced down by our throats. Android is just linux based as well as far as I understand. But maybe it's not the point here.

    Yeah, the performance will be less, I don't mind. The user experience on this OS is so much nicer than any other OS I've had to try or navigate through that it alone makes it worth for me (and less resource hungry I believe). The native apps are so nice whenever there is one available made by some heroes of the community.

    I'm happy to rebel and support alternatives. Some people still use dumb phones and manage. I think it takes more people that don't walk where the rest of the herd is heading to even if it means some inconvenience.

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  10. Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech

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    Well I haven't tried those on my phone as I've not needed them. Sailfish has android kind of sandboxed inside and most of the android apps I feel I need have worked, not all to be fair. Maybe...

    Well I haven't tried those on my phone as I've not needed them. Sailfish has android kind of sandboxed inside and most of the android apps I feel I need have worked, not all to be fair. Maybe because of the Android support as of now is older version or maybe because I'm not the most adept in making the most of it.

    I'm more of a casual smartphone user and I don't mind minimalism in a sense so I don't really know or use the full linux potential of it or OTOH the missed features in the android sphere.

    While writing this comment I installed discord on my phone and logged in. Everything looks like it should but I didn't test anything further.

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  11. Comment on A new Jolla phone has reached the required pre-order crowd-funding amount in ~tech

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    In case someone finds it interesting I thought that I'd make a post here. Personally I've been aboard Jolla (a dinghy) / Sailfish OS for a decade and am happy to see this getting started and...

    In case someone finds it interesting I thought that I'd make a post here.
    Personally I've been aboard Jolla (a dinghy) / Sailfish OS for a decade and am happy to see this getting started and hoping it will work out well.

    Small Finnish company formed by ex Nokia employees. A rocky road (or rough seas) they've had but seems that they're still keeping a good course with what they have and still providing an alternative for us.

    Would be interesting to know if there's anyone else here who knew about them beforehand.

    Hacker news thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162368

    Some additional context in Slashdot: https://slashdot.org/story/25/12/07/0523228/new-jolla-phone-now-available-for-pre-order-as-an-independent-linux-phone

    10 votes

  13. Comment on Current studies may overestimate microplastics transferring from containers to food in ~food

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    Lack of standardized methods and still a new area of measuring? At least in the chemistry side of it and coming with a relatively lightweight analytical chemistry background (so I don't really...

    Lack of standardized methods and still a new area of measuring?

    At least in the chemistry side of it and coming with a relatively lightweight analytical chemistry background (so I don't really know anything) I think part of the problem with analysis techniques regarding food matrices is that they are reeally complex and obviously they vary a lot depending on what type of food product is looked at. One of the workarounds is the octanol-water partition coefficient for approximation of water and fat affinity of a compound. Again, not really valid for particle type of analysis.

    Going further down in food matrix known chemical's analysis, I don't know if there is any standardized analysis methods of microplastics or plasticizer analysis from food products, probably there is but since the sample is quite complex there would probably have to be an internal standard compound that is somewhat similar to the target compound but differentiable from the target analytes and is added to the sample before any sample preparation is made and then the measured analytes are compared to this internal standard compound's measured value to give a relative response. This is very basic stuff and everything but adds to the complexity of it and is kind of laborious.

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  14. Comment on Alaska man survives after being trapped face-down in creek by 700lb boulder in ~hobbies

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    Alaska is surely amazing and it would be great to visit one day. Imagine though all the exploring potential of Siberia. So sad that the country is politics-wise disgusting and ruined.

    Alaska is surely amazing and it would be great to visit one day. Imagine though all the exploring potential of Siberia. So sad that the country is politics-wise disgusting and ruined.

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