I don’t think so. Here’s an example of it being used to mean “restricted to a certain age”. I apologise for the confusion if I’m wrong, I am talking about the same thing as you.

Yes, that’s what I just said.

If you use Android you can just export your subscriptions and import them into a third party app like Grayjay or NewPipe. There is no reason to use the YouTube app or even remain logged into an account, unless you absolutely need to watch age-gated material.

I had the razr 40 for about 18 months and Motorola consistently failed to deliver updates on time and match their promise. All they had to do was push out an update every 2 months and they couldn’t do it, I’d go like 3 to 4 months without an update then get 2 in a fortnight. I thought it was pathetic for what was a relatively expensive phone from a relatively large company so I gave up and sold it. You would probably have a better experience with an Ultra, but I wouldn’t recommend Motorola if you care about timely updates. They just aren’t reliable at all in my experience.

It’s an issue upfront, but if the phone is pretty close to perfect then I’d use it long enough to justify the price. I used my Note 9 for a long time because it retained all those features whilst other models were losing them.

Okay, but what is the solution? I see a lot of whining from consumers about how expensive and enshittified everything is, yet very few people seem to be willing to donate to/pay for the few alternatives that exist. They vote for the same entrenched political parties in their countries (or don’t vote at all). They don’t get involved in activist movements. Why are we expecting the system and/or the outcomes to magically change when all we are willing to contribute is crying on social media?

Sounds like this only fixes the problem on the user’s end. Developers are still getting screwed and many will stop maintaining their apps if they are forced to give their personal information to Google.

The back kinda looks like the Moondrop phone.

It’s also very locked down (more than Android is currently) so unfortunately I don’t think it will ever be a viable alternative for those desiring an open operating system.

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It seems to be a fairly common problem on cheaper/mid-range headphones with plastic builds. I had some Shure SRH840s about a decade ago and they broke in a very similar fashion, but it was too difficult and expensive to repair them. Since then, I’ve only bought headphones that are fully modular and user-repairable. My main pair is the AIAIAI TMA-2 Studio, I’ve replaced several parts on them over the years (including the headband which lasted a long time but eventually broke last year).

Mine broke yesterday. The headband base part unfortunately has a weak point and can snap out of nowhere under very minimal force (e.g. taking the headphones off your head, as happened to me). Hopefully it’s an issue Fairphone has looked into and fixed, mine were a secondhand pair purchased a year ago so I’m not sure if there have been changes made since (seems maybe not, based on this recent thread). The replacement part appears to be exactly the same, but unfortunately because I’m in Australia it’s too much money and effort to get two (it snapped at the same time on both sides) sent out via parcel forwarding (which, to be fair, I knew when I bought them). Hopefully I can 3D print some replacement parts because they are really good headphones otherwise, especially for the price I paid.

I convinced my “non-techy” partner to try Firefox after a fresh OS install and she had zero issues adjusting. I wouldn’t even call it an adjustment in fact, she just continued using it the next day and never ran into a single problem. A lot of the reasons she still used Chrome were just down to complete misconceptions about how to use a web browser, like thinking she needed Chrome to be signed into her Google account or that she would lose all her bookmarks and stuff if she switched. I also got my mum to switch last year - again, the only reason she used Chrome was because she was confused about the difference between Google Chrome the web browser and Google the search engine. Google has a monopoly on these people without doing anything deserving with their product, it’s just pure marketing and market dominance.

Modern smartphones are so over-engineered.

???

The biggest invasion to people’s privacy is generally through the apps and services they use, not the operating system. If you don’t switch to FOSS and privacy-respecting alternatives wherever possible, you’re not actually gaining much from changing the operating system. So whilst I do try to prevent as much tracking as possible at the OS level, it doesn’t trouble me that much. The loss of some privacy is worth being able to use any phone, at least for me.

This isn’t true and dismissing the anti-cheat issues because you don’t play these games is quite ignorant when they are some of the most played in the world. Just off the top of my head, all Battlefield games, PUBG, Apex Legends, Valorant, Rainbow Six Siege, Escape from Tarkov, League of Legends, Fortnite, Destiny 2…

I think it’s easily good enough for general use. It’s only certain types of gamers (anti-cheat support is still pretty terrible), and people who are heavily attached to a specific Windows program that they spend a lot of time using, that will have trouble switching across full time. For everyone else, Linux is superior because it runs so much faster than the now incredibly bloated Windows. Depending on the distro, it’s also arguably simpler than Windows too.

The only slim hope was that anti-trust case, but it was ruled that Google is allowed to keep Android so it’s probably just going to deteriorate further.

Isn’t it a dead project?