Oh btw all, Fairphone 5 is out https://www.fairphone.com/en/, I remember @jlj@twt.nfld.uk was interested in it! :D

@adi@twtxt.net What’s so great / different about a Fairphone 5? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net It’s the new model of Fairphone? :D It’s self upgradable and repairable, not sure about the upgradable part.

Self as in the user repairs his own phone.

@adi@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net It’s worth bearing in mind that

• Fairphone has taken a considerable amount of VC funding so, sooner or later, that bill will become due: (see: https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/31/fairphone-growth-capital-raise and https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/fairphone)
  
• Fairphone comes with Google Play apps by default, so it’s also a spyware vector (see: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110978014080809471)
  

I used to have a lot of hope for them but these two ingredients mean that enshittification is virtually inevitable.

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Let’s say that for me personally it’s an option that sucks less.

@adi@twtxt.net Sucks less compared to what? Define “sucks”?

@prologic@twtxt.net To having to buy a new phone every year for instance?

@adi@twtxt.net I don’t buy a new phone every year. Who told you you needed to do that? 🤣 I think I’ve had my current iPhone for umm ~3 years now 🤞

@adi@twtxt.net oh yeah, no doubt. I just like to keep an eye on these things because I hate being blindsided.