I use CalyxOS on my Fairphone since 2022. It is better than the stock OS and allows re-locking the bootloader. It also provides timelier updates than Fairphone OS. It is absolutely fine and has zero issues.

I have one banking app that doesn’t work. Another one that does work. Also, I have paid purchases through the Google Play Store that do not see the subscription. I was going to let them expire anyway. I also have a Google One that doesn’t see the subscription, so none of the advanced editing features in Photos works. I assume all of these would be problematic on GrapheneOS as well.

I would run GrapheneOS if I had a Pixel, or if it supported the Fairphone.

I got the popup all the time for a few weeks with Firefox and uBlock Origin. As a YouTube Premium subscriber. The paid service. The whole reason they were pushing back on ad blockers to begin with.

Fuck these guys, I let the subscription lapse.

Storage space, support cycle, type of screen, third party OS support, aftermarket accessories, camera quality. Size.

Also kinda part of the SoC, but the frequencies supported since I travel a lot.

I think phones have been fast enough for a while now. There’s more to a SoC than speed. When I came back to Android, I went from the fastest iPhone to a SD480 with only 6GB of RAM and it was…fine for daily use. But the camera was a big letdown on that device so I got something a little bit better a year later.

Do smartphone benchmarks matter?

Probably, but not for me.

Are they still a useful reference and do you consider them when shopping for an upgrade?

No.

Champion of the people

No, unfortunately I use the trash they give me for the job. Low end ThinkPads and Elitebooks.

So that’s why it’s nice to come back to a decent system at the end of the day.

I have nothing but good things to say about system76. They are everything we wanted a Linux-focused hardware vendor to be. I’ve owned three of their laptops with no major issues.

Good luck, I hope you find something that works for you.

Keep an eye out for system76 laptops on eBay. They are a bit pricier than equivalent generation ThinkPads, but they have supported Coreboot on their laptops for about three years now with continuous updates.

Be careful when searching; none of their AMD devices support Coreboot, and none of the desktops do, even if they are Intel. Also, if buying an older machine, make sure it came after 2020 or so. Galago Pro after galp6 and Darter Pro since the redesign are safe bets since they have Intel graphics. System76 has excellent documentation on their website for older laptops so you should find your answer there. These systems are designed in conjunction with Clevo, but one cannot simply flash Coreboot on the equivalent Clevo hardware since system76 has a different embedded controller.

Also, if not system76, the answer nobody wants to hear for Coreboot is, Chromebook.

Probably the only life my piece of shit Z16 has left.

13% is low, but I guess this shows how resistant to change people are. It’s better to establish a new market (or the first to become popular in a young market) than to try and come along with something disruptive in a mature market.

There is an entire industry of shady companies who make tens of millions per by selling dogshit “secure comms” products to barely literate and computer illiterate LtCols and procurement officers in the US Government.

Those officers are close to retirement and by regurgitating big words they do not understand while still in their procurement positions, they can land a job at said company and receive some of those funds once they hit minimum retirement age and wait a year.

Signal is free and disruptive to those business models.

Ergo the misinformation campaign, the FUD, is well funded, by people who have a lot to lose.

DX2400 crew!

Great computer. Got me my undergrad and my wife through her masters program. Later we maxed out the RAM and did like a Core2 Quad upgrade and an SSD and it was great. Radeon upgrade gave us our first dual monitors. And yes it also ran Arch, but awesomewm.

Sold it as a downsize and move overseas thing. Good to see one still in use out there.

EndeavourOS.

He misses the point that companies like Fairphone and Framework and system76 have proven that it’s possible to support devices for a very long time when the bigger manufacturers told us it wasn’t possible, or even if it were possible that there was no market demand for seven years of software support. In 2016, sustainability and longevity were not words associated with new tech. They showed us the way.

Nokia sells a couple of phones with a screwdriver now. Pixel 8 is going to receive updates into the next decade. Lenovo is trying to make 80% of devices repairable, a remarkable pivot from where they were trending. The demand is there and the ability is there. They also made us think about things that we had never considered before in terms of impact, educating us along the way.

If Fairphone folded tomorrow, they left the smartphone market a better place than they entered.

Spotify Premium pays Joe Rogan.

The software development is outsourced to a few people, and Fairphone is not the only project those people work on.

Are flairs supported with Lemmy yet?

Its a made up criticism to make it look like the author is thorough, but it doesn’t reflect a real use case. In two years using the FP4 in five countries, there has never been a single time where I wanted to swap SIM cards or eject a mounted SD card while the system is running. You do these things while the phone is powered down. It’s an argument being made by an idiot.

Criticizing bezel sizes when people put their phones in protective cases; criticizing having to remove batteries to get to components that you only swap when powered down anyway; bitching about price to performance ratio like this isnt a phone designed to last half a decade; this is what techbro marketing shills, AI output, and other brainless NPCs do. Not quite as bright screen, no LTPO, who the fuck cares, nobody is comparing two phones outside under the sun in any sort of real life situation. You generally carry one phone, two if you have a job where you’re on call, and you don’t really choose the iPhone they give you for that so why would you compare brightness for two devices outside and use that as a reason to tell people not buy a phone? That’s just not something real people do. You use one phone at a time. This review is not reflective of how people use phones. Its nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking. It’s a worthless marketing review.

He’s a locker room cancer who turns 38 in a couple of months and who relied on athleticism for far too long and never developed his game. He has been out of the league for a year and is facing serious legal issues.

How very kind of Golden State to even interview the guy.

Neither.

I tell them about the ethical supply chain that produces my Fairphone.