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by fgeiger 6y ago
Fairphone employee here. As I just replied to a different thread: We are trying (and struggling) with continued software support for our five year old Fairphone 2. The Android 9 is currently in beta and my colleagues are trying to address t
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by fgeiger 6y ago
Fairphone employee here. I totally agree with your assessment. So does Fairphone. That's why we trying to address both issues with a modular design for ease of repairs and long lasting software updates. Have a look at our current effor
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by fgeiger 6y ago
If you have a Fairphone 3 already, you can install /e/ OS and try for yourself: https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP3/
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by fgeiger 6y ago
Apple does a much better job in keeping devices alive for longer than Android OEMs in general. Having full control over hardware and software and focusing on few devices helps there. In Android land, this is unfortunately different. Longevi
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by fgeiger 6y ago
Thank you for your kind words. It is true that we do not have an Open alternative for Fairphone 3 yet. I don't know if we will ever release one. However, I truly believe that the cooperation with the /e/ foundation [1] gives
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by fgeiger 6y ago
Fairphone employee here. > Thanks to the mentioned LineageOS team (and many other developers at XDA forums) this otherwise "enormous undertaking" is relatively easy. You would think so. In fact, we also thought so, when we had
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by fgeiger 6y ago
What is the advantage over using `git subtree`?
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by fgeiger 9y ago
I found Hetzner's domain robot to be easy to use and cheap: https://www.hetzner.com/registrationrobot The major downside is the limited range of TLD's it allows you to register: .de, .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz,
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by fgeiger 9y ago
I used to have a similar scheme for passwords. It only works well as long as one uses the same pattern for all passwords though. This starts to break once you want to or need to change a password. I had to abandon the scheme once haveibeenp
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by fgeiger 9y ago
Pipelining.