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Cake day: December 25th, 2023

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  • I don’t prefer wireless headphones, as can probably be told by my impassioned argument. But I also recognize the convenience of them, even if I think it’s not that much of a convenience over a pair of wired earbuds. I just see no reason other than their bottom line why they couldn’t have given us both options.

    You already have to make a compromise in your hardware choices when choosing a Fairphone, because their hardware is simply put nowhere nearly as competitive to the other phones out there that compete in their price category, with the longevity of their updates as well. That singular choice demonstrated to me that the compromise you have to make for a more sustainable phone is ultimately not worth it, because they’re willing to sacrifice their sustainability in order to push sales of another one of their own products.


  • No because wireless headphones are not sustainable.

    Also and this is my opinion they don’t compete at a disadvantage because of their sustainability. They compete at a disadvantage because they have yet to make a phone with hardware that actually makes them worth buying. They’re whole selling point is sustainability but nothing else makes their phones worth while when there are other players in the industry with better hardware at the same price and with software updates for close to the same length as fairphone.

    So to me when their whole brand is focused on sustainability and you have to give up better hardware for that yet they make a whole unsustainable decision and remove the one feature that most phones has dropped for “industry standards” why would i ever consider the company?


  • Never called them evil. Id probably put it closer to misguided.

    They are battling for industry standards? Yet they just follow the industry trend?? Which is it? imo you can’t have both.

    It just informed me of the fact they if they were tasked with doing something for their consumers and longevity or doing something for their bottom line they are gonna pick their bottom line. Right now most their bottom line benefits from being “eco aware” telling you they will be in it for the long haul. But I don’t really trust that will always be the case cause they already showed what corner they thought they could cut and still keep users “happy”. Influence And Money destroys most.

    Wireless headphones are destined to be landfill waste practically from the day they are made. Just because they made theirs a little user serviceable doesn’t negate the fact that when the Bluetooth codec on em gets too old or incompatible they will be trash. Unlike wired headphones which don’t need to rely on any of that and can last basically as long as you take care of them or the physical materials degrade.







  • Just really don’t see the worth in trying it period. There are enough privacy focused free search engines that get me all the answers i need from a search already. I have no reason to want to invest more into it. And i think general public would see it the same way.

    Kagi based on its features doesn’t have a good enough value proposition for me to even want to try it out cause really what more are they offering?

    it may be a good value proposition for people who lives revolve around searches and research but it ain’t a need I have and unless ypur part of that group idk why youd want to pay for it.

    And don’t said ads. They are honestly laughable easy to get around still or even ignore.