WhyJiffie

a video sharing site that makes it hard to download videos

its just a spreadsheet, until you want to track what happens to it over time. maintenance, failures, ...

I use protonmail

maybe I'm doing something wrong but in the past 2 years none of my mails were spam

"your own discord server" was never a server, just a blatant lie, or "marketing" term. in matrix spaces are the equivalent (or similar) feature

Matrix is not something you can just set up with no skills.

not everyone needs to host their own server. just choose an existing one that's not matrix. org (which is basically overloaded)

And apparently the ability to watch YT

the ability to watch youtube on a 240x320 screen? at that level, video is heavily compressed. is any text in videos readable? is it possible to discern tools and screws? or is it just a low-level entertainment device effectively?

Though yeah, my post is more about feature phones, not real dumbphones as I originally wrote in the title.

I have to admit I did not recognize a difference between these two. I thought feature phones and dumb phones are the same category.

The advantage here is that the underlying browser engine is ran and updated on the server. This helps avoid the KaiOS situation: KaiOS v2 (the last version in Europe) uses Firefox 48 (current version is 137).

there is no advantage there, only disadvantages. a dumb phone is not supposed to have internet features. but this is wholly running in the cloud? that's a horrible privacy nightmare, and it must also be very inefficient as it places a relatively large load on the network and the company has to run powerful servers that use unnecessarily large amounts power, more than normal dumb phones of the same quantity would

There are some rumors on /r/dumbphones about a WhatsApp CloudFone app which would be big.

yeah it would be so big if I bought a dumb phone because I'm fed up with tech and then I'm forced into facebook services in yet another "innovative" way. pretty sure they would even market it with "end to end encryption" and "security" even though the server sees everything

I get that this approach is not acceptable to the freedom-oriented, tech-savvy demographic on Lemmy, but it looks like this is where the mainstreaim is heading right now.

I really dont get why if so. why does anyone want tiktok and such on a dumbphone? then buy the cheapest smartphone from alibaba or your local telecom company. the entire purpose of dumbphones is to be able to call and SMS, keep a simplistic contact book and that's it

also, how does it even run a web browser when the whole device has just 128 MB RAM. will the device crash if I load up facebook. com?

deportation in a black bag

that probably does not have redundancy

mythical simple past but they wouldn't put down the fucking phone. anything but the phone!!

(regardless of gender)

browsers are not protocols but applications. how do you make an open standard for an application? was that done before?