Fairphone is now officially available in the United States

Post by stetrain » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 4:24 PM UTC

Volundr wrote: post #104

SiempreViernes wrote: post #92

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This has it backwards, it is the AI that writes like cliched AD copy. Feast your eyes on this quote from a whiskey CEO, supposedly written in 2016: > ‘When you bring people in from overseas [to Scotland], you’re working on their mindsets,’ he says. ‘You make them get a feeling for Scotch. It’s not about an advert, it’s about this magical industry with its rich heritage and this history. > ‘It’s not about kilts and dr…

This is something that frustrates me a lot when I see people jumping on a piece of writing as AI generated, these AI-isms didn't show up in a vacuum. Yes, AI commonly overuses some patterns, but it got those patterns from it's training data because real people wrote (and continue to write) that way. A few matching sentences here or there is not the smoking gun people make it out to be.

Post by fsflover » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 4:28 PM UTC

Gormo wrote: post #108

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It's also extremely expensive. I'm more interested on seeing the next iteration of the PinePhone to fulfill the full Linux phone dream. In the meantime, commodity Android phones are still good enough.

Post by nemomarx » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

garlic_enjoyer wrote: post #91

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It really irks me that it still can't get the contrastive clauses right. "it's not about adding (more features), it's about (more features, but with a different emphasis)" is so empty of meaning. how do people copy edit this and not notice?

I agree that it's marketing mumbo jumbo, but it's saying "we haven't added more features because more is better, we added them because they actually improve the longevity of the product." If anything, that sentence tells me that they are insecure of their features being perceived as bullshit.

Post by filoleg » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 4:41 PM UTC

Gormo wrote: post #106

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It's a ten dollar dongle that can stay attached to your audio cable out of the way when not using it and has no perceptible affect on sound quality, and there's even passthrough options for when you need to charge, so the whole no-audio-jack thing is a moot point nowadays. It's a solved problem for years now.

Using a dongle makes it impossible to charge the phone or connect it to any other device while using audio, which I do all the time. I also frequently interchange my wired earbuds between my phone and laptop, and don't want to be bothered with an extra loose dongle when I disconnect the earbuds. Sorry, this isn't a solved problem at all, apart from the solution of only buying phones that have audio jacks.

Post by Fnoord » Tue, Aug 18, 2026, 4:47 PM UTC

microtonal wrote: post #73

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> And they put the power button on the exact opposite side of the volume down button, so you make a screenshot when you want to lock the phone half of the time. To be fair, Apple has nearly the same design. > I got it because I like their mission Same here. This is why we need to be buying them now, while they are working out the bugs. Small sacrifice in my mind.

To be fair, Apple has nearly the same design. Yeah, I should criticize them for it too. Though the issue rarely occurs for me on iPhones I think the reason is that the volume buttons are much higher up on the iPhone. So when you do the movement one-handed where the left side rests on your palm and you use a finger to press the power button, the palm doesn't hit volume-down, which does happen on FP6 since the volume b…