The EU pays for translators for Irish, which has less than 2 millions L2 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language), Latvian with 1.5 millions speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_language), Maltese with less than 600,000 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language).

Why wouldn’t the EU pay for Catalan, which has 4 millions of L1 speakers, and 5 millions of L2 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language)?

If the argument is “yes, but they are their own country”, then that’s just going to give ammunition to the Catalan independentists.

I’m a bit confused as well. Maybe for people who like the S25+ but want it lighter?

To each their own, but not being able to just remove it just seems weird to me.

I unbloated the S23 quite quickly, it’s not as bad as I thought it would be.

Pixels have indeed good support for alt ROMS (the grapheneOS support almost made me get one), but the battery issue seem to happen quite often:

https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1jorwd3/battery_megathread_april_2025/mnybfar/

To each their own. My main issues with Google is the subpar chipset and the short battery life. Also the fact that you can’t remove the Google search bar from the Pixel launcher.

https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pixel-9-needs-great-battery-life/

https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/1jorwd3/battery_megathread_april_2025/mnybfar/

To be precise, Xiaomi OS allows you to change launchers, but you can’t use navigation gestures with them, you have to use the 3-buttons. It’s a deal breaker for quite a few people, and it’s a shame, because besides that the phones are great on paper.

The decision between the hardware and the OS is personal. I got a S23 recently because I wanted a smaller phone, it’s great so far.

I considered Pixels for a while, but on top of the subpar hardware the fact that you can’t remove the Google search bar from the Pixel launcher is still crazy to me.

I’ve had a Motorola 30 Fusion for a while, it’s a great device. If the Edge 50 Neo had a better chipset, that would have been my go-to.

Galician gets official EU language status, but a regional language in another EU member that has official status at a national level doesn’t.

At least Catalan (not sure about Galician or Basque) is a bit different from other regional languages. The education system in Spain is federated to regions, so children in Catalunya speak Catalan most of the time, Castillano/Spanish being a second language. In comparison, the French education system is monolithic, so all French children learn in French. There are a few schools who speak Breton or Catalan, but those are really minorities compared to Spain. Even from an official perspective, Breton or Catalan are not official languages of their regions in France.

EDIT: Maybe Spain could just commit to internally providing and funding Catalan, Basque, and Galician translations of EU official documents, as that wouldn’t require sign-off from other EU members.

That probably wouldn’t be enough. Catalan, Basque and Galician speakers also ask for the right of their representatives to speak their languages at the European Parliament and other instances, which requires translators from those languages to all of the other languages.

Also, about the cost, the EU pays for translators for Irish, which has less than 2 millions L2 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language), Latvian with 1.5 millions speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_language), Maltese with less than 600,000 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltese_language), why wouldn’t the EU pay for Catalan, which has 4 millions of L1 speakers, and 5 millions of L2 speakers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language)?

If the argument is “yes, but they are their own country”, then that’s just going to give ammunition to the Catalan independentists.

Well deserved!

Good one!

Impressive

If you are looking for a device smaller than 155mm from at least 2023, you can choose between

• Google (subpar hardware)
• Xiaomi (don’t allow third-party launchers)
• Motorola Edge 50 Neo (subpar chipset)
• Sony (overpriced)
• Samsung

https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2023&nHeightMax=155&nRamMin=6000&idOS=2

Edit: Xiaomi allows third-party lauchers but blocks gestures navigation.

We have a single liner pinned on !fedibridge@lemmy.dbzer0.com that recommends lemm.ee and Voyager to new joiners, so that they can choose between a website and an app. People seem happy with that

Good assessment

Piefed allows you to actually block other instances rather than hide them like Lemmy does

Good to see indeed!

Nice to see they still do headphone jacks! Those models are just a bit too large for me

Trying it right now, it’s pretty sweet