Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10? | iFixit News
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Is the Fairphone 5 just a repeat of a proven formula or a real improvement compared to its predecessors?

While they were happy with what the fairphone 4 brought to the table, they seem to like what was changed for the fairphone 5.
What are you guys’ opinions on this? A welcome change? would you get one if your phone died within the next year?

  • @ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    you do know that you could have made your point in a nicer manner, yes? why would we want to bring the strenuous tones of hollow outrage from reddit to here?

    we are all better than that, even the big danish guys.

    • @Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9•1 year ago

      He didn’t even make a point. That was all insult and comparisons that don’t compare.

    • @BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      I’m sorry, but I had to say something. I’m so tired of non-technical people moaning about the out phasing of the 3.5mm jack, and especially the arguments about audio quality and vendor lock in that has been raised in this thread. I had to make sure that it was understood, that the view is not unopposed.

      Could I have done it more diplomatically? Maybe, but I also wanted to drive my point home in as short a post as possible.

      I asked chatgpt to help out rewriting my comment, but with your criticism in mind. It came up with:

      While 3.5mm jacks may seem like a staple, it’s worth noting that technology evolves. Much like the transition from 3.5" floppy drives, change takes time to be widely accepted. The omission of the jack in smartphones isn’t about dismissing tradition but adapting to newer, more versatile alternatives. It’s been nearly a decade since the OPPO R5, and as technology progresses, embracing these changes can lead to a broader range of innovative features.

      I don’t want to bore people to death, but I can also see now how perhaps I could have attacked the technology instead of the people.

      We are better than our old /u/ on reddit, and we must strive to keep it that way. Competing with reddit on toxicity, will be a fight we’ll never be able to win.

      Thank you for calling me out on my BS, and helping us all to keep the fediverse a better place.

      • @Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7•1 year ago

        Technology evolves?

        You need an extra clump of stuff in your pocket that’s terribly unreliable now or your top shelf standard audio equipment now needs replaced by our branded earbuds that sound terrible. PROGRESS.

        This isn’t progress. This is forced obsolescence. Literally everything about it is worse. I can put my phone in a plastic baggie when it’s raining, but I’m not carrying around an extra fucking DAC/amp everywhere. I just have to deal with crappy wireless earbuds.

        • @BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0•1 year ago

          your top shelf standard audio equipment now needs replaced by our branded earbuds

          What company does this? I keep hearing the argument, but I have no clue who it is.

          I haven’t found a phone my Jabra headsets couldn’t connect to. Only my ps4, but that is not really part of this discussion.

        • @BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          You know the kind of guy who writes nothing but bad things and troll comments, and then wonders why his life sucks? Well… that was me. Every time something good happened to me, something bad was always waiting around the corner. Karma. That’s when I realised I had to change. So, I switched from reddit and joined the fediverse. I’m just trying to be a better person. My name is Earl bigdanishguy.

          We need to be better, reddit can go suck a donkey, but if we want this to be a viable alternative down the road, we need to be better. Calling each other out on bull shit behavior is warranted from time to time.