congratulations, LA residents! Your bodies have been donated to a corporation for beta testing!

their search function also returns primarily random, unrelated videos… I think they just don’t like people deciding what they look at

I also hate how every time I accidentally open Edge it shits a search bar onto my desktop

When does this take place? I just looked at my hosts file and the lines

::1 twitter.com

::1 www.twitter.com

are still there??

I’ve had it since 2016, so it’s close to 7 years now. I replaced the screen and battery on it, but it has been pretty solid. Actually, uptime is something that’s an advantage for self-repairable stuff: when the screen needed to be replaced, it still worked enough to use, which I did until the replacement arrived. Takes a minute to swap the screen and then it’s running again.

I’m based in Germany so I only used it in the US when traveling. Maybe the 5 will be the one where they decide to cover the US officially? It seems like there’s more attention to repairability than there was 7 years ago…

I hope it comes out soon - I’m still using my Fairphone 2 but it’s really time for it to retire