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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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[–] 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