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sellmesoap • today at 5:26 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I wish fairphone was waterproof, what's the advantage of a repairable phone if a rainy hike will destroy it!


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grapheneos • today at 6:22 PM

Fairphones also don't get proper updates which ruins the prospect of using those over the long term. Fairphone 5 and earlier already have end-of-life Linux kernel branches with no plans to port forward as Pixels do. Fairphone 6 will be in the same situation soon. OS updates are delayed for a year or more at launch and it gets much worse. Incomplete backports of patches to older releases start out delayed 1 to 2 months, which gets worse.