Yep, I’m in Sweden, 30 and both know how to and do drive a manual car.

My last phone I kept for about 5 years. I had two issues:

• software support had ended
• the battery was severely degraded

fortunately there was a local shop who’d replace the battery (it wasn’t a fairphone so I couldn’t do it myself). If it wasn’t for the software support I’d have gone that route and would be still using it now. It worked perfectly well for my use case. Unfortunately, I ended up retiring the phone and getting a new one.

I’ve found this too. Generally if I’m okay waiting for the answer I’ll try and find the relevant lemmy community and ask that question there instead of clicking the reddit links. There are times though I simply need the answer and so of course I do click the reddit link.

Even so, if we all try and ask the questions we have here Lemmy will eventually be the place you find this information

I don’t really read news in English anymore, but when I did, I subscribed to the economist. I found most other news sites were too biased and ignored most of the world.

Kmail on desktop and the native sailfish email client on my phone.

Yeah, I use ublock origin. I don’t like the ad model and many ads on the web are privacy invasive. I’m not averse paying for content (something I’m doing for some of it) but I won’t watch ads to fund creators.

I live in Sweden. Yeah, the tap water is clean and can be drank straight from the tap without boiling, filtering, or treatment in the whole country.

I use Sailfish OS on the Sony Xperia 10 III.

I choose the OS because I wanted a phone OS which would get updates for a long time, which sailfish has a good track record of and I wanted one which ran linux so that I had the normal things I’m used to on the desktop like systemd, pulseaudio, bash, rpm, etc. I did need it to run android for a couple of banking apps and sailfish provide a pretty decent android support layer. It’s worked really well, the biggest drawback I’d say is that parts of it are not open source and they’re kind of doing their own stuff so while some things do work like KDE apps, other apps would take a lot more effort to get working (gtk apps for example).> Fairphone

I use SMS and Matrix. I’d love to see something like Briar become more popular, or maybe XMPP make a resurgence as it’s been a great federated chat protocol for a long while.

I think I disagree. I have heard this a lot on Reddit and I’ve heard it about Twitter, Google Plus and a bunch of other social networks and I’ve been on small ones and huge ones alike. Honestly, to me, when a social network is large it includes both nuanced discussion and there more casual posting. I don’t see why both can’t exist on the same site and I feel like it often does exist on the same site.

I also think people have a huge range of interests, some of which might be quite niche and having a large user base means these niche communities can thrive. When I’ve used smaller social networks, this typically has been the problem. They often have their tech communities covered and they often have other large common hobbies and interests covered, but if you take for example learning welsh or theremin music or something else, then you typically only get communities about those things on larger networks.

I have all the languages available to select selected, but swedish unfortunately isn’t one of them

Just commenting here to say thank you for running an instance. I have found the experience of using this instance to be great. I think having instances like this one to accept new reddit users is fantastic and what Lemmy needs to be the successor to reddit. I have some technical expertise so I’m considering starting my own instances, to pitch in and help with the influx of new users. I don’t know if I will realize this idea and if I do if it’ll be open to other users other than myself, but if I don’t, I am happy I have my account here, it’s a really good instance.

Thanks again!