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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste (www.bbc.com)

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

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[–] tabular 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Very interested in repair but I also want software freedom, and I've not heard anything about avoiding proprietary drivers/software.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I run /e/ OS on my FP4, super easy install. Been loving it.

[–] vanveen 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How do you do if you need for work to use Google products? I would love to use alternative OS, but I cannot because of my job

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lineage OS can work with Google services. Probably others too. But beware that unlocking the bootloader to install anything may disable some security

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You unlock during the e os install but it makes you relock after. Not aware of any additional security issues using this process

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Google services are not installed by default but you can install the play store and other google apps from the built in app store if you need them. The only thing I am lacking from stock is google pay because I haven't installed any google services but I'm fine with that trade off.

The built-in anti tracking and privacy features a very nice

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

I would love to use /e/ but I couldn't get it to install. It seemed my phone was the wrong version of the phone it was. Like a revision 1.01 kind of situation. They should also change the project name, it'll be killing their SEO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a shame, are you talking about a fair phone? I was not aware there could be versioning issues, I thought the hardware was unchanged per model.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am not talking about a fair phone