What about telecommunication companies conspiring with phone developers to force communication into the different buckets of data, voice, and text and then charge us for each?
This reminds me when cellphone companies used to charge for sms sent lmao
That’s what I’m talking about, before cell phones were a thing, they weren’t a thing. When they were becoming a thing they specifically conspired to segregate data into different streams so they could rip us off. And yeah 30 cents to send a 140 Byte chunk of data
I love modern phone cameras. My Pixel 10 pro takes pretty amazing pics and I’m on graphene so I don’t worry about being watched. I do miss headphone jacks. I’ve been thinking about getting a portable DAC/amp and going back to wired headphones but I’m already carrying 2 devices because of my diabeetus, and I’m likely going to have a work phone soon as well.
DAC drains your battery like crazy. At least mine does when paired with Sennheiser HD6xx. You might want a battery powered one.
I lowkey kinda wish Fairphone would make a new phone that has an aux port for the craic. And an FM radio built in too. Use the aux port as an antenna like how older phones did before they stopped doing it.
I hate when people take away the freedom that people already have and claim it’s in the name of improvement. This applies in technology or anything.
My BlackBerry had a notification LED that I could set to different colors and based on the type of notification. Made it super easy to see if there was something I needed to look at without picking it up. I miss that.
Early Android phones had that, too. A very neat feature they got rid of.
Something I “love” about my current phone is it has like a 60gb hard drive. This could hold all of the photos I will ever take for the rest of my life. But it keeps trying to put them on the cloud, and then it complains that I’m running out of space because my free 5 gigs on the cloud are full. I never wanted to save anything to the cloud in the first place… just save them into my phone… this is fucking stupid.
Syncing to the (i)cloud is a setting you can uncheck. You can ask chatgpt how to do that, or maybe your mom. Btw, a 60GB drive is not enough, by far. My fullframe camera disapproves of your lack of awareness… ;-)
Pardon me, we’d like to spy on you, but space is expensive, could you possibly be willing to pay for us to look through your photos?
Microsoft onedrive is the same shit. Don’t you want to keep backups? It literally costs us pennies, how about $100 a year?
Disable backup in Google/Apple Photos then?
Forced age attestation on unlock. Camera always on.
Ooh, maybe a dedicated AI button right next to the power button that can’t be turned off or used for any other function that you accidentally hit all of the time.
Superglue.
Better yet not to buy such a phone in the first place.
My LG G8 all but got “upgraded” to this, it was a dedicated Google assistant button, right next to the power switch, and the assistant became AI. Thankfully, while you were unable to remap the button you could still just turn it off, I did that pre AI because I just never used assistant and kept accidentally hitting the button. There are a lot of things I miss about that phone, the AI button is not one of them.
I wonder what the new XCover FR, which is assumed to be in development, will be like
Anyone got experience with the latest Fairphones, whether they are as glitchy as some report?I have the FP6+, currently running iodeos and I’m very happy with it.
Fp6 user here. It was pretty buggy in the beginning but now everything seems fine (occassionaly something minor but could just be android).
Biggest disadvantage is a worse camera, battery power and compute power for the price, but it is all acceptable.
Yeah I did look at one of the fair phones and my big problem with them is that they’re just cheap androids (cheap in terms of quality, not in terms of price) at the end of the day. I get that’s the point to a certain extent, but it would be nice if they had a more premium version with things like a better camera, and magsafe charging. I’d happy enough to give them more money but they just make the one model.
I agree, but they already have trouble supporting their current phones so I get why they just have one.
Could you tell me more about the disadvatanges?
Maybe with some examples.Does the battery ever not last a whole day for example?
Is the worse camera only about quality or does it take unreasonably longer to process combined with lower compute power?Battery last me almost always everyday except with excessive use.
Snapshots with camera takes a bit longer and like the other guy said it ain’t great (personally acceptable but that is opinion).
And specific example compute power I really don’t have, I am not the biggest power user anymore. I can say for typical daily tasks it is totally fine.
I just remind myself that making something cheap, repairable, better for enviroment and no slavery just isn’t as good as the slave made phones hahaha.
It’s got a rubbish camera. It’s basically 3 x zoom and that’s it, as long as you’re taking photos in bright lighting conditions, aren’t particularly bothered about really high quality colour reproduction, aren’t planning to zoom in after the fact (it ain’t got enough pixels for that), it’s okay.
But taking photographs at night even in fairly well illuminated streets is basically impossible. Not only do the photos not have great contrast but they’re also really noisy.
Obviously that’s only important to me, for me personally I’d rather have a better quality camera than the latest and greatest processor.
curious question: did you consider carrying around a small camera if taking pictures is so important for you? i am weighting pros and cons of this solution myself and slowly but surely coming to that breaking point…
I’ve yet to find a camera that’s both small enough that it isn’t a significant presence on my person, while at the same time a quality that it’s significantly better than something on a high end smartphone.
You can get some very good SLRs but they’re not exactly compact. Plus they’re really expensive and because they’re bigger more likely to get knocked. I suppose I can get really bougie and get an old compact film camera and then scan the negatives. But I think that would get really expensive.
Not sure why this is a “shit post.” This actually happened.
Take away your ability to install apps that aren’t stamped approved.
Oh wait, one did it over a decade ago and the other is about to start enforcing it.
Oh, and there’s pretty much only the two of them.
Is there any way to stop this?
Use graphene OS or deal with the “advanced flow” process once
I understand but the problem is my phone in not supported sadly
Pretty sure only pixels are, but Motorola was working on one. It’s fucking stupid that the only phone they support is manufactured by the company that is causing most of the problem. Their phone sucks too.
I agree I hope something changes in the future
Next flagship Motorola will have official GrapheneOS support. It will be very expensive. After that, hopefully more mid-level Motorola phones will be supported too.
OR - they could dumb down grapheneOS so that it can run on a lot of other phones ?? ? maybe? yes? I get the desire to be able to encrypt the entire drive - that IS important, but I think its more important to get the functionality of graphene provides to more people. A non-google based phone is pointless on only google based hardware.
The flagship Motorola also sucks, missing a bunch of features that even my $150 Samsung J3 had
You can still find LineageOS for your device. Check their wiki, they support A LOT of devices.
Well I guess I am not lucky because I even checked there and still my device is not supported.
See if there is an XDA page for your device. If it has a qualcomm chip, there’s likely some custom roms for it.
I searched and I found nothing, seems like I am cursed
Click the “Show legacy phones” or something similar. Some cellphones were supported, but no longer receive updates, so they do not appear in the supported list unless you explicitly tell the page to show them for you.
I check the lineage devices list very frequently, only Pixel phones are getting support mostly, maybe fairphone too
I bet there’s a single Fairphone in my whole country tho
I got a cheap used Pixel at the tail end of support, it’ll last a few more years. After that I hope there will be more Motorola phones than the currently planned.
That’s not really a hardware solution
Not really. The companies will continue removing end-user ownership, even if they move to alternatives. The profits must flow, the number must go up.
If people start to boycott it can make a change
Boycott the technology they have forced on humanity. There’s a growing number of basic tasks that require a device and there’s a large portion of the population that just doesn’t care enough to not fall in line.
True, no change can be done without a will that comes from most of the people, but that’s life, somehow you need to feel like a feather moved by other people’s choices.
Focusing on what we can do is a better choice.
With how apple shit is treated like divine ambrosia and, in many places, a status symbol, I seriously doubt any boycott against them will have any effect.
Android is like Windows in the 1990s. It’s fucking everywhere and literally too big to boycott. Most OEMs also prefer to play ball with Google and keep the phones locked because it’s profitable for them as well. Boycotting a specific OEM might cause some damage to them, but it won’t budge Google. It’s good that some companies are making phones that ship with more open android clones, but those phones are still too expensive for most people to buy
Capitalism made them so big.
I miss the headphone jack so much.
That’s still a hard requirement for me, but I don’t mind using older “tech”.
I totally get it but I have been pretty happy with the earbuds to be honest. I know that’s a bit of a hot take but I always wanted wireless in the past and I use my jabra’s on a daily basis. Still, I dont like the removal of useful features, we could easily have wireless earbuds and still have headphone jacks for fuck sake
Same. It took about a decade after the widespread removal of headphone jacks before wireless headphones became a reliable replacement. Now I can’t imagine being tethered to my phone.
I miss the IR blaster so much, I used it constantly
Can you explain this to me? I’ve never heard of this as a feature and literally cannot tell if this is a joke or real.
it turned your phone into a universal remote. useful for when you’ve lost your tv remote and such
You can also screw with TVs in public locations which was quite fun.
I have it on my OnePlus Nord 5 but a few months back they killed the OnePlus brand in Europe and North America. :(
Now all that’s left of OnePlus is overpriced Realme phones and Oppo, which is outside of my budget…
Luckily this phone will probably last me the next 4 years or so, since I just bought it before they started killing the brand, which was not that long ago.
It was an IR led tied into the phone. You could record and send out IR signals to anything with a receiver like tvs, appliances, etc.
For a little while you could buy an IR blaster that plugged into a headphone jack.
They remove the math-based image processing and replace it with AI, making all your photos invalid as any kind of evidence.
Whoa, got an article or something? I’d love to read more about this
If you hate cops, that honestly sounds like a good thing
Works the other way around too, though. Cop abuses can just be relegated to being AI doctored.
>they took your bootloader unlocking >they took your sideloading(i think)they took your job(2027)
