• SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
    51·
    5 days ago

    Remember that the “fair” in Fairphone is also about living wages, working conditions, etc.

    So, whilst we’re moaning about missing feature X or lower performance Y, someone’s able to live better…

    (Written on my FP3+)

  • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
    63·
    6 days ago

    They need to regulate banking apps first, currently almost all banking apps rely on proprietary apple or google apis to work.

    I cannot even use my banks website without an android or ios app that is needed for authorization. It does not work without play services on Android.

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      6 days ago

      Honestly needing to rent (we don’t own the code) software to use the basic functions in our banking systems is a serious problem

      • illapa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

        I’m curious about this - what do you mean by “renting” vs “owning” the software and how is it a problem? And would open source software or another solution meaningfully address that? I haven’t thought about it in this way before

        • schubidubiduba@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          10·
          6 days ago

          I suppose he is referring to banking apps (and all security-critical apps) relying on Google and Apple for attestation of device integrity (i.e. that nobody, including you yourself, tampered with the device operating system).

          This almost surely could be solved with open-source, public-owned code, although I’d have to research that to be sure.

        • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          5 days ago

          Ive seen it first hand in “mission critical” software stacks. The major difference between software proprietary software is that it is at the end of the day their ball. That can pick it and go home if they want, maybe there is a penalty for doing so. They can say how they want you to use and how they don’t. They choose how clean it is how dirty, etc etc.

          FOSS code is yours, you can redistribute it, modify it, study it, or run it how ever you want to, and important for big orgs, you can whoever you want do those things for you. Like owning a house you get to pick your contractors. DIY to SLA contracts it’s all on the table depending on the needs and budgets involved.

          If it doesn’t matter, renting can be fine, but if lives (and livlyhoods) depend on it, its crazy to rent it instead of

      • comrade_twisty@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        Obviously they should regulate in a way that does promote free choice as far as FOSS goes. There is no technical reason to rely on third party apis, one could even argue that the banks are neglecting best security practices by doing so.

    • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyzEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      Do you think they would regulate it in our favor or shut down the few apps that work without play services for being insecure?

  • SirSlothful@piefed.worldEnglish
    23·
    6 days ago

    I use a FP6 with /e/os as my daily driver and it works for everything I need, including banking. However I’m not sure it will handle the new government ID for the UK.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Yeah, I am interested if our identification service ItsMe here in Belgium works on the FP6 on /e/ or on calyx. That app is used for everything that needs identification.

      • skarn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Used to live in Belgium, I still have itsme and it works like a charm. I sometimes use it to authorise big transactions from my KBC account. The KBC app also works perfectly, BTW, which I still use because the online services of German banks mostly suck.

        FP4 with /e/OS

      • Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I can install and start the setup of ItsMe just fine on grapheneos, but I’m not Belgian so I can’t actually log in.

        • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          The logging on function is the one that even Belgians have trouble with on supported hardware sometimes because of like the 5 step authentication process 😂 hard to say, but it is already positive that it doesn’t instantly flag it.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    24·
    6 days ago

    Let’s just hope the EU steps in with Google trying to become an iPhone clone and making third party stores impossible without their bidding. Only then can we have a deGoogled phone past 2026

    • skarn@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      It’s a little more complicated than that.

      What Google is trying to do does not apply to degoogled ROMs.

      On the other hand there are FOSS apps that might just not be viable without the users in the Google ecosystem.

      Think for instance of something like Grayjay, which just might be killed by something like this, as it will never be allowed by Google, and won’t survive with just deGoogled users.

  • thebazman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    5 days ago

    Currently writing this on a fairphone 4.

    I love the hardware aside from the camera, but that was a sacrifice I knew I was making going in to it.

    My big complaint is the software. It has never really been fully stable. During the best patches things work most of the time, but there have also been some pretty bad bugs. Again, I knew the updates would be slower and bugs might take longer to fix due to a smaller Dev team but I didn’t expect it to be this bad. It does feel like they just gave up on the 4 to work on the 5 and 6. At this point I’m 2 major android versions behind.

    I love that when I broke the screen I was able to replace it in 5 minutes, and I want to be a big supporter of fairphone. I even went to the trouble of importing the phone and replacement parts to Canada.

    I don’t know if this is also an issue with custom ROMS but if this doesn’t change I don’t know that I’ll get another when the time comes.

    • DrLeetClown@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      5 days ago

      How much of a camera downgrade is it in your opinion? The rest seems fine to me considering I still have a samsung galaxy s8. As long as I can download apks or an equivalent I would be fine I think.

      • thebazman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        Compared to the flagships of the time it was pretty noticeable. When it was new it seemed like the camera was maybe 3 or 4 generations behind. You could probably find some comparisons for the new generation of fairphone and see what its like. It works for my use case because I bring out an actual camera for photography.

        My current main gripe is android auto and bluetooth (separately) disconnect randomly when I’m in a vehicle. Usually comes back on its own but I have to refresh the screen. To give FP the benefit of the doubt it could be a problem with my aftermarket stereo, but its a decent brand.

          • frank@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            8·
            5 days ago

            So I’ve heard the FP6 camera is less of a compromise. I have a Fp5 and it’s definitely noticably worse than my work phones (a new iphone and some Samsung Galaxy) have been. But as the OP said, it’s very impressive otherwise.

            I love swapping a battery on the fly, love the repairability in general, and love that people got living wages and benefits instead of being nearly enslaved to make it.

            I’ve taken a different mindset with many things like phones, tech, etc. It’s less about “how few compromises can I live with to do the ethical thing?” Now and more about “what’s the best product I can get while remaining ethically aligned with myself?”, which has led to just not participating in a bunch of stuff. So I couldn’t find anything to cross shop the Fairphone with, because it’s the only phone that I can ethically align with.

      • thebazman@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        No idea :/ I’m not in the market for a new phone so I haven’t been paying attention to what’s out there.

        I’m hoping fairphone can/does get better at updating older devices before I need to get another phone so I can stick with them.

        I have gotten security updates and occasional bugfixes but it does feel like they’ve done the bare minimum to fulfill their promise of supporting phones for a long time.

  • noretus@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    18·
    6 days ago

    If Fairphone doesn’t faceplant by then, it’ll be my next phone in a few years.

  • Tehdastehdas@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    5 days ago

    I’ve used this for half a year, and it’s good enough to recommend to my technologically untalented parents (in their 70s), big reason being that it’s available in Finnish.

    Awkwardly I also have to recommend leaving an Android phone in a drawer for the few cases when an app requires Google Play Services and microG doesn’t work. Any old clunker worth 20€ will do.

    • Szewek@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      If your Finnish… Do you know how it compares to SailfishOS (I guess the latter is more popular in Finland than elsewhere).

      • Tehdastehdas@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I haven’t tried it because I’ve been reading threads about phone Linuxes in daily use: not so easy or workable yet. It’s the right choice long-term, so Europe should invest in the usability of Linux on phones. On the desktop, I quit Windows in 2007.

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    We need stuff like this to be common enough that people have to support it. My main concern in going this direction is that I’m unsure how things like banking apps respond to operating on a degoogled platform.

  • pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    141·
    6 days ago

    /e has been critiqued a lot about security and being behind on adopting upstream patches. Again, that’s security, not privacy, which for me is much more important on the device that wants to handle my personal information and banking.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    I put e/os/ onto my old old Essential phone, which for some reason still has a community build that was being maintained (at least as of July)

    Just wanted to see how smooth an experience it can be and whether or not it’s even possible for me to fully de-google.

    I must say I’ve learned a couple of things:

    1. Especially when you make use of the Murena cloud, get yourself an Murena ID and email, not using Google is incredibly easy. It’s a smooth process so far, with my only sticking point being my password manager not always being able to autofill properly.

    2. Design Wise, the Essential phone is still roughly five times more eye-catching than most modern phones. Performance wise, of course not (though it holds its own pretty well to be fair). But from a looks perspective, that shiny cermic and titanium rectangle still catches more eyes than most others.

  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    From the little I know, I would say that for now, barring a phone with similar qualities as Google Pixel + GrapheneOS, this would be the best choice.

    If anyone knows better though, I’m all ears.

    • ___@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      GrapheneOS recently announced a working relationship with a top 10 Android OEM to officially support GrapheneOS builds, so that’ll give another choice once the first release happens next year. Though it’s been confirmed that it won’t be FairPhone, speculation is pointing to Nothing, Motorola, or possibly OnePlus. I’m pretty excited about this because I quite like GrapheneOS but have had hardware issues with every single Pixel I’ve owned (2, 2XL, 3XL, 3a, 7 Pro)

  • hanke@feddit.nuEnglish
    4·
    5 days ago

    I have run iodéOS on a Fairphone 4 for a couple years and it has been working pretty good

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    I neeeeed a phone with a MicroSD slot. Finally, an alternative to the Pixel that I can jump to.