European Commission produces new rules to make household appliances more sustainable:
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The article claims:
The Fairphone 3 has been launched. That is no more than a step in the right direction, because smartphones are almost impossible to make sustainable.
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Local though not fair.
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You bet me to it 
I first learned about it on notebookcheck.net. The company website is very slow and glitchy, but the product specifications are very thorough. If only some other manufacturers were this open about their products. The only information missing is input/output ports. I can see from pictures that it uses a single micro USB port though, which is probably a good choice for compatibility with other chargers in Rwanda. Only the cheaper āXā model has a removable battery. The other one is glued shut. The X uses the lighter āGoā Android 9.0 with its 1GB of dynamic memory, which Iām sure would work just fine.
True. Rwanda is a nice country though. I can not say that work practices there are fairer than in China, but Iāll wager that they are. I want to learn more about Rwanda now.
Correction: How wrong I was! Rwanda is still most certainly not a nice country. A simple look on Wikipedia about the leader, Paul Kagame was sufficient.
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Your smartphone does quite a bit of damage: canāt that be fairer and more sustainable?
The smartphone that you carelessly let disappear into a drawer after a few years of use, comes about in rather problematic circumstances. Canāt that be fairer?
And of course Fairphone is mentioned in the article:
We asked experts from the field, viewed reports from telephone brands themselves and spoke with Fairphone, a Dutch telephone brand founded in 2013 that recently released its latest model; the Fairphone 3. Precisely because of the great effort it has to make to make its devices āfairā, this company illustrates better than anyone how deeply rooted the problems of the telephone industry are.
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WireGuard removed from Google Play Store, rectification in progress
Google appears to be cracking down on software asking for donations, despite such software being FOSS. The software is still available on F-Droid.
One more reason to be not relying on Google Play Store.
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An article about Fairphone with mostly stuff we all know
I had to cringe a bit at this sentence
The company designs for longevity, easy repair, and modular upgrades.
That might lead to unmet expectiations I fear 
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The item is in Dutch but that news should be linked elsewhere as well. The point is that the first Google Pixel was released on October 4 2016, and receives its last security update in December 2019. Which is 3 years and 2 months (38 months) updates. For a flagship device. Which cost 800 EUR. By one of the largest corporations in the world (Google).
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I had a lengthy discussion about that on twitter once. A person there couldnāt imagine how Fairphone can guarantee 5 years of support when Google only has 3. That person also didnāt seem to understand that the FP2 already has longer support than 3 years. I was at the end of my explanation skillsā¦
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Also had disbelief, or laughs that is was running ancient Android 5/6/7 (whatever it was at that time). What matters is that the device is stable and secure though.
Of interest for the Android jailbreak (or unpatched vulnerability) community is https://research.checkpoint.com/the-road-to-qualcomm-trustzone-apps-fuzzing/ which I suppose (not sure) could defeat Widevine, and/or get you root. I didnāt verify if the FP2 or FP3 are vulnerable.
(Thereās also been a jailbreak for a lot of iPhone devices.)
The article that clued me in that the fairphone even exists (i had no idea until then, would have likely brought FP1 and FP2 otherwise)
Now a FP3 owner 
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The Met Office Hadley Centre is one of the UKās foremost climate change research centres. This is their āClimate Dashboardā which is āTracking the Changing Climate with Earth Observationsā. The dashboard contains clear graphs which should be convincing in a discussion, even with climate change deniers.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/monitoring/dashboard.html
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https://co2.earth also has much information about climate change.
The Laughs section is particularly funny: https://www.co2.earth/earth-to-america
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They call themselves āThe worldās first ecologically sustainable computersā (all-in-one computer, laptop and mice)
http://www.iameco.com/
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Jolla has released Sailfish OS support for the Sony Xperia 10 (Plus). Some hope they might support Fairphone 3 eventually, though Iām not holding my breath.
This is so difficult to comment on. Kinda like comparing Fairphone with a non-fair phone.
50 EUR for a mouse with 2 buttons. 80 EUR for a membrane keyboard (with ugly Windows key). I really like the wood though. In like 2003 I saw an Italian craftsman who made a full laptop housing, custom, for any current laptop. The price thoughā¦ 2000 EUR or so. Thatās the complete case though; not half of it like these laptops. Plus, the laptop they show on the website here has VGA and seems to run Windows 8.
With mice, I donāt need such for a laptop (Apple Trackpad FTW, else trackpoint). There is a mouse by Razer which can be converted from a normal mouse to a Naga (12 button) or a Hex (6 button). So you donāt need a separate mouse if you play a MOBA or MMO. Razer mice are not known to be durable though, and I already got a normal and MMO mouse as it is (plus I donāt have time for MMOs anymore).
Keyboard-wise, a mechanical keyboard can be made from durable plastic. Mechanical keyboards last longer than membrane, and keys can be replaced. Sure, they can be loud, but that is also a matter of preference (something like Cherry MX Red or Cherry MX Brown with o-rings should not be loud, and it is also a matter of using the keys differently).
Finally, the website seems out of date? As at the Archive the top entry is November 2015.
Looking great.
But is that preject still up to date?
The āArchivesā-section ends 2015 and the ānewsā are from 2013!
The shop does not offer the laptop and the specifications of the desktop computer, featuring Windows 8 and a dual core Intel ATOM D525 CPU from 2010 seem a bit outdated.
It would be a pity if such a good concept would go waste.
But unfortunately this is the first time I heard of them; so they might have not been successful enough at marketing?
Edit:
Latest tweet from September 2017.
Latest facebook post from December 2018, announcing the starting of selling USB keyboards and mice. Thatās what the online shop mostly features; in various designs.
Maybe Fairphone could team up with them, as the concept they had for their computers was really great (including repairability of course).
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āMaking a one-hour call a day produces up to 1250 kg of CO2 per yearāthe equivalent of flying from New York to London.ā
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