Update 1
I see a framerate/refresh rate bug that occasionally locks the framerate at a low value upon unlock. Fixing it requires a lock/unlock cycle.
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Should I eat an entire black forest cake by myself?
Don’t do it.
Back when I was young, swimming competitively, my go-to high snack was an Entemann’s All Butter French Crumb Cake and a half gallon of 2% milk. 2700 calories in a clip. Literally couldn’t put on weight.
But this story’s going to take a turn, because let me tell you, that shit catches up, and a poor diet is hard to forget, but when you’re old you do put on the weight.
So I’m going to say no, don’t eat the whole thing. Eat half of it.
Lmao. Well you see I’m an all-or-nothing kind of guy.
Just redefine your timescale. If you eat the whole thing by yourself over a week, you’ll probably be fine. Probably.
it depends, is it REALLY good and do you have to be anywhere for the next 4 hours or can you just lay around comatose?
No questions, but I’m so fucking pissed that Fairphone is on their 6th generation and still doesn’t offer them globally.
I have to replace my wife’s dying phone, and it kills me that I’ll end up buying some garbage, probably from Google, that will end up as garbage in a few years.
Please, bring these to Canada! 😭😭😭
Buddy, I’m in Torontario guy. Bought from Clove UK for 1016 Canadian peso final-final, after DHL blood sacrifice.
I don’t want to import, I want to purchase from an authorized local dealer with warranty and parts available in Canada.
Even clove says that you’ll need to send the phone back to the UK, at your expense, for any warranty related work. That’s not only incredibly time consuming and costly, but it would negate any environmental benefit of owning the phone!
I can’t imagine how expensive and delayed parts would be, again, missing the point of having a repairable phone.
The demand for at least North American consumers is there. I wish Fairphone would just do it already.
Do you wear wigs?
Have you worn wigs?
Will you wear wigs?
No, don’t recall, maybe.
When will you wear wigs?
For those who have not seen the brilliant interview where Hans Jensen interviews Elijah Wood!
what is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
African or European?
how do you know so much about swallows?
How did you take a picture of your phone?
We’re not doing this again
I’m invoking the mirror clause immediately.
I was there as that unfolded. It was a beautiful thing, and made me love that place in the early days before The Donald and all the corpo-bullshit.
Same. The good old days.
Do you think three wheeled cars should make a comeback?
I’d go for three wheeled bikes.
Those are called trikes… obviously. How have you not figured that out? Bikes are called what they are because they have two wheels, “Bi” meaning two, same as we humans are bipedal because we walk on two legs. If a person had a third leg they wouldn’t be “bipedal with three legs”, they’d be tripedal.
I seriously don’t understand how anyone older than a literal child fails to understand that.
At first congratulations to your new phone.
A few questions:
- Are there any notable gaps between the screen and the side? Can you e.g. put a piece of paper between it? Asking because the predecessor had these and they required cleaning from time to time as dirt accumulated in these
- Did you test the camera yet? Are you ok with the zoom or picture quality in darkness?
- Did you get a case? How are these available currently?
- How is the sound quality?
- Did you already open the backcover? Are there any difficulties in doing so?
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Didn’t need to so far but I did it for you. It’s still alive. 😄
I don’t know if I like what fairphone is doing, is not a lot ago the new fairphone 5 came out… If they plan to support a phone for 10 years, what’s the point in releasing another model…?
Do you like the default launcher? Is there a way to clean up the screen? From youtube videos, I see that the launcher is similar to iOS where all your apps are laid out. I prefer the minimal approach: a few favorite apps, some widgets and an app draw
You’re probably looking at /e/OS on it. The standard OS launcher is the same as Pixel’s.
Can we get a side by side photo of this with your old phone (pixel 8 pro)?
Want to see how much smaller it is and is it is small hands friendly
It’s not too much smaller,
Where do you plug in your headphones?
In a Qudelix 5K. Ever since phones got really thin and their jacks too fragile for heavy headphone plugs and cables like the ones on MDR-7506/ATH-M50 (mid 2010s), I embarked on a journey into high quality Bluetooth audio receivers. For many years now FiiO has made way better Bt amps than what’s available in most smartphones, even when most had headphone jacks. The Qudelix 5K is one of the best small format amps these days. On the wireless side, LDAC and AptX have eliminated Bt bandwidth as significant quality constraint. That said talking over such a setup has always been some form of bad.
There’s still enough space for a headphone jack in current phones. They are omitted as a cost cutting measure.
Latency is still worse than wired. For gaming its somewhat okay nowadays, for making music its not.
Yeah latency isn’t and likely cannot be music production grade.
The cost is a tiny aspect. There is the space issue and the physical issue. Jacks are holes where dust and water come in, making it harder to make devices resistant and as durable as they can be.
Chat GPT makes up everything it says. It’s just good at guessing and bullshitting. These are excuses, not reasons. There used to be waterproof phones with headphone jacks. Phones have become bigger since the headphone jack disappeared as well. So space isn’t really the reason.
What does ChatGPT have to do with this…? This is what FP themselves say https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/9836188988049-Audio-Jack-3-5mm
I have a FP3 with a jack, for reference. It doesn’t have an IP rating. FP4 has IP54, FP5/6 both have IP55. Also yes, phones have become bigger, but they have more stuff inside. More cameras, for example.
I mean, the jack is literally a hole in the chassis of the phone, while I cannot exclude the fact that someone managed to make a design with good IP rating, I can very easily see that it makes it much harder.
What do you use that yellow switch for?
you can set the function in the settings if you keep the stock os. things like flashlight, work profile and such.
on /e/os it is hard set to turning on and off camera & microphone access. at least i haven’t found a way to rebind it
Is it noticeably slow?
I bought the FP4 a year or so ago, and I couldn’t tolerate how slow everything was on it
Also, does it work with US cell networks?
I don’t have any problems with the FP4.
Having a FP4 myself, I do suspect it’s significantly slower than alternatives at similar prices - not a problem for most uses, only things that would actually stress the CPU, but it could bother some people.
It’s a small company and they use fair materials whenever they can. They also pay their factory workers a better wage.
The whole idea kind of implies less performance for your money.
What did you have for breakfast this morning?
I don’t eat breakfast. Been doing intermittent fasting for as long as I can remember. Surviving on 2 meals a day, one at lunch and a smaller one at early dinner.
