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you seem to have answered your own question.

if i can’t cheaply repair an old board, or source parts, it’s not repairable.

upgrading is part of what makes old computers still usable.

depends on what you need repaired. and upgrades are a big no too.

yeah, it’s nice in that context.

in fact, it’s something that could have been a thing for a while, they had phones doing this in 2012ish.

android is pretty locked down, and being locked down further this year to allow only google-sanctioned software. following this trend will see actually unlocked and repairable computers replaced by locked phones. pixels are better than average but not available everywhere.

are the ifixit guides gonna help me replace the busted storage chip that renders my phone unbootable? i can just replace it for cheap on my laptop.

I guess?

Enabling people to minimize the number of devices they need

this is literally the biggest issue here. relying on a country that doles out sanctions and bombings like it’s parking tickets.

and increasing reliance on google and the aforementioned empire for underpowered computing is not a positive at all.

yay, locked down unrepairable computers owned by a us company that aids in war and surveillance!

i hope keep this up until i need a new phone

i want it too. motorola, pls.

here we go again

motorolas are available worldwide, i’d ratherit be them over some no name manufacturer

soon we will need bootloader unlock exploits (or the blessing of our overlords) to install anything other than (unrooted) stock os, not unlike android and chromebooks.

we desperately need to break free from US tech.

it’s effectively the same as chrome vs chromium. google/microsoft invests the resources to develop it, and someone simply comes and forks it without the closed source parts or telemetry.

which is fine, but means they still get to dictate how the software works. the best real world example i have is chrome and adblockers, or google-made web “standards”.

haven’t read the article just yet, but these companies are known for price fixing and colluding for decades now

i just watched a video of car manufacturers doing the same.

professionalized reviews are bullshit

never trust proprietary software that connects to the internet or company claims if you aim for privacy.

they arent dumb tho. this is the dystopia they want to build.

evil*

the entire point of all the surveillance in the first place. land of the free.

where did you post it?

mine logs it as such:

Info: Found H.264 encoder: h264_vaapi [vaapi]
Info: Found HEVC encoder: hevc_vaapi [vaapi]

after a bunch of messages about trying some codecs and setting bitrate and color depth for the found encoders. connecting with a client should show you no errors and a message with the selected encoder. you can try cpu encoding to see if that changes anything for a clue.

if the encoders are showing up as properly detected and selected in the logs, then you might want to look into something else as encoders are probably not the cause.

is the output of the log (in the sunshine configurator web page) showing any codec errors? give that a read and report back to us with more info.

i had a similar problem before and it was related to permissions and how it was installed. the sunshine packages are finnicky as fuck on linux.