Fun read beating DRM, even if they’re supposedly “good for the environment cuz recycling” which is in this case, bollocks.
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The UK government says it is not “currently considering” copying European Union plans for a common charging cable.
UK will not copy EU demand for common charging cable - BBC News
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iFixit is becoming an official reseller of Google Pixel spare parts and Google Pixel repair kits (from Pixel 2 till latest) Google Pixel – iFixit Store
This is a big win for right to repair movement, also for infosec community since Google Pixel smartphones have a good security track record.
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Linus Tech Tips tested Apples Self Repair service.Conclusion: its cheaper to let Apple repair it or buy a new SE.
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Glitter nail polish 
the bad news: service costs 200 USD.
Similar methods analyzed:
https://dys2p.com/en/2021-12-tamper-evident-protection.html
App to compare:
Anti-Tamper Techniques by Elena Dubrova of Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
That´s exactly what you´d expect from Apple.
Summary:
People, who want to throw way to much money at an a…hole company, are buying Apple products!
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A bit rude to people and fruit and there alternate holes to fill and fields to cultivate, but ultimately each of us can climb out only to find or make another to fall in.
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I love this idea so much!
Ethical and environmental rankings of 20 mobile phone brands
Interesting information even without subscribing.
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It’s actually not an article but a project that provides a single installer to flash different alternate OSes on smartphones.
From a quick reading it supports FP2 and FP3 and at least Lineage and /e/.
It does come with this warning though
Warning: This application is currently in early alpha state, so use at your own risk! I take no responsibility for bricked devices or dead SD cards.
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In the German counterpart to this topic attention was brought to the following …
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Well, at some point this was to be expected. However, I do think that seven years is indeed a very good result, considering many vendors don’t even provide more than 1-2 years of updates.
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I guess they need the resources still working on the FP2 for other “projects”, so its a bit sad, still completely understandable.
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If they would transfer the in-house software development from the Fairphone 2 to the Fairphone 5, it would be a win for the Fairphone 5 in my book.
How they go about issues and updates on the Fairphone 2 seems to me to work out better overall than the outsourcing done for the successors.
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Rossmann has found comprehensive schematics for the Fairphone 4 on the Fairphone website, which he likes.
I wasn’t aware of their existence, when were they uploaded? And is there something similar for the Fairphone 3?
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- It runs on Android 9
Might feel like it, but yeah, they didn’t research that one very thoroughly, did they 
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