With completely wireless earbuds, the rule is: when the battery fails, they have to be disposed of. Not so with the Fairbuds, that allow you to replace batteries in just a few seconds. Combined with a repairable design, the earbuds should therefore have an extremely long lifetime.
    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      6 months ago

      And get caught on everything.

      I can’t be bothered with the inconvenience of wires. Bluetooth quality is good enough for what I need it for, and the convenience of simply putting them on gives me sound is hard to beat.

      I have a pair of noise-canceling Bluetooth headphones (not buds) from 2008 that still work. Battery life isn’t what it was, but whatever - they work fine for how I use them (as one pair of several). I could replace the battery if I felt like it, just not worth the effort.

      But I get that some people prefer the wired for their use-case.

    • thorbot@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Why the fuck use wireless phones? Just use a classic wall phone you fucking dummies! Why use SSDs? Just use good ole floppies!

      Fuck sakes man, pull your head out of your ass. It’s called modernity and it’s okay

  • Pattyice@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    here’s hoping the next Fairphone finally launches new in the US.

    Really would love to finally use one.

      • Pattyice@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        they sell the fairphone 4 not the 5. And while I’m not against e/os/, that’s kind of neat for me I think it’d be awesome if they sold the original model with android with all of Google Spyware lol

        • Ruthalas@infosec.pub
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          6 months ago

          This is true. Hopefully they will soon sell the 5! I tossed lineageOS on mine, and have felt pleased with it.

          • Pattyice@lemmy.ml
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            6 months ago

            Did you buy it from fairphone or are you saying you got the fairphone 4 with e/os/ from Mureno?

              • Pattyice@lemmy.ml
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                6 months ago

                I’m curious what made you not like e/os/. I’m interested to try it if they do the fairphone 5

                • Ruthalas@infosec.pub
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                  6 months ago

                  I didn’t have strong feelings about it, and had extensive experience with LineageOS. I just stuck with what I knew.

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Really happy to see replaceable batteries! It’s a wear item and guaranteed to brick your device after a number of years if they aren’t replaceable.

    • Blaubarschmann@feddit.de
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      6 months ago

      Replaceable batteries are coming to the EU in general, at least for portable devices, via the EU Batteries Regulation, which is in force already and requires all portable batteries to be easily removable and replaceable by the end user from 2027

  • wit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The comments on this post are entirelly missing the point. Jesus christ lemmy. Yes, we know you like 3.5 mm jacks. That is not the point. The point is that FairPhone launched earphones with ANC with replaceable batteries. This is good!

    • tourist@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Their website has a page that says they “embrace open source”

      I couldn’t find the source code specifically for their app. Maybe this?

      https://github.com/fairphone/android_device_fairphone_FP5

      Honestly have no clue what I’m looking at there. There seems to be no iOS equivalent, so who knows.

      Otherwise, their app permissions seem pretty reasonable:

      • discover and pair nearby Bluetooth devices
      • Access Bluetooth settings
      • Pair with Bluetooth devices
      • connect to paired Bluetooth devices

      But yeah, if no open source, that can definitely be a deal-breaker for the market they seem to be targeting.

    • piyuv@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Imo its fine if they open source it when they decide to end support. The fact that app has a pristine privacy record is good enough

            • B0rax@feddit.de
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              6 months ago

              You don’t know what DNS is, do you?

              Basically your device (for example your phone) needs to know the ip adress of any service it wants to connect to. As you may know these services usually use addresses like Lemmy.org or google.com or whatever.

              To know what IP adres is behind these addresses, you device needs to ask a dns server, in a local network (like your own WiFi) this is usually your router, but you can set it to any arbitrary device you want. This way you can see what addresses are being asked for by your device.

              So if the app want to send data to some server, it usually needs to resolve the adress first. And you can see that.