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Cake day: April 13th, 2024

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  • The keypad lock feature is really bad. You know the feature in smartphones where even on the lockscreen there is an “emergency call” button, so anyone can call? In the HMD candybar phones, you can just press “9” and it bypasses the keyboard lock. So if you put the phone in a bag and the buttons get pressed randomly, eventually it will reach “999”. Then it’s a matter of the green call button being randomly pressed and it calls the ambulance.

    The emergency team even called me back asking why do I keep calling and do I need help, as they wanted to block my number from calling them.











  • On a journey like this what I found most difficult is not to go insane. With search engines sucking (though you can narrow down google to look only in EU) it’s sometimes really annoying to find every little item from an EU company. I still buy used non-EU clothes on Vinted, because who cares, they’re already there. Patagonia is cool despite being an US company, so they get a pass.

    Finally it’s obviously a bit more expensive to buy European. But then again workers in Portugal, Bulgaria or Austria have completely different working conditions than their peers in Bangladesh.

    Things have a base price. The fact that you can buy a t-shirt for 5 euro doesn’t mean that this is how much it “should” cost. It means that the company cut every corner possible to nuke the price to an absurdly low level, where it’s downright unhealthy to the ecosystem/industry at that price. It’s not that the made in EU clothes are expensive, it’s just that the price is just right if European manufacturing and natural/recycled materials are important to you.








  • I agree. FP needs to walk a fine line between ethics and being profitable. In FP threads people keep making demands instead of being able to compromise

    You worked to create a phone made with ethical factory conditions which no one else does? How nice! Wait, what do you mean it doesn’t have a headphone jack/ is too big?! I don’t care about the people anymore

    Same with people saying “the price is not worth it for a mid tier phone” yes of course it’s not, you’re partly paying for how it’s manufactured, which has no direct benefit to you as a user. This is an ethical purchase. Recycled cotton t-shirts made in Germany cost 40 euro, I wonder why?