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[โ€“] OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Luv me fairphone 3 Luv me 'eadphone jack 'ate the 4 cos they removed it 'ate the 5 cos they didn't add it back on Simple as

If it was faster and the camera wasn't shit I'd keep my 3 forever

It just sucks that at some point I'm going to buy a less fair phone because the fair ones don't have the features I need.

Thats the eternal dilemma with these modular phones - you trade features for repairability and fairness, but at some point we all hit that wall where we need the feature more than the ethics.

[โ€“] poddus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

their next article should be "how to maintain support of a fairphone 101" because I think they desperately need a refresher

[โ€“] rmuk@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

My Fairphone 5 lasted all of six months.

I installed LineageOS on it, but then went back to stock when I realised my bank's app didn't work. All was good until the next OS update utterly bricked it - and I really mean bricked. Loads of people on the forums had the same issue, and apparently it's happened many times before. It took well over a month for FP support to send an automatic reply to my messages, then another two weeks for them to tell me I'd be expected to pay for the repair. I ended up claiming on insurance and buying a Pixel, which happily jumps back and forth between stock and GrapheneOS.

So, how about "How to test a firmware update 101" or "How to support a phone 101" instead?

[โ€“] kepix@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago

greenwashing