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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

I have this phone (6a). I put in the survey to get the 100 but so far I haven't seen a single $. Meanwhile I'm sitting on a fire hazard.

If they just made replaceable batteries, this wouldn't be an issue. My next phone is going to be the fairphone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Well, great, but the fairphone is like 2 months behind on security patches, and they generally never do more than 1 OS update (for comparison, my pixel 7 has gotten 3 now, and with the 2 more years of support its likely to get 5 in total).

So basically instead of getting a phone that works for 8 years, you get a permanent security liability that is more likely to get water damage.

I mean sure, great idea, I would buy a phone with inferior CPU if I can support something good, but instead of something good I'm getting something inferior in every aspect just so I can change the battery in 2 years when I won't need the phone anyway because they just abandon any kind of timely updates anyway??

(BTW, I checked, the fairphone 5 is to this day still on android 14, a 2 year old OS. They could not care enough to update a 2 year old phone in 2 years except the legally necessary patches, they can't even release a monthly patch, and yet I should trust them with my most valuable data?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My pixel phone is a ticking bomb.

You can put other OSs on the fairphone instead of their defaults.

But yeah it's frustrating no matter what there is a downside of just owning a stupid phone.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can put other OSs on the fairphone instead of their defaults.

Calyx only releases patches when Fairphone releases them. They are therefore just as bad with updates, while completely managing to hold up with the pixel releases in a timely manner.

My pixel phone is a ticking bomb.

Maybe you shouldn't have lobotomized yourself. Anyway, since you did that already, let me remind you that you can get a battery replacement for like 50€.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Calyx only releases patches when Fairphone releases them

There are other roms than calyx and stock you can put lineageos on it and they are great with updates usually within a few days of a patch coming out they'll push an ota

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