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Useful Websites
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General BuyEuropean product database: https://buy-european.net/ (relevant post with background info)
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Switching your tech to European TLDR: https://better-tech.eu/tldr/ (relevant post)
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Buy European meta website with useful links: https://gohug.eu/ (relevant post)
Benefits of Buying Local:
local investment, job creation, innovation, increased competition, more redundancy.
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Lemmy:
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Basque Country: https://lemmy.eus/
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🇧🇪 Belgium: https://0d.gs/
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Friendica:
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🇦🇹 Austria: https://friendica.io/
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🇮🇹 Italy: https://poliverso.org/
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🇩🇪 Germany: https://piratenpartei.social/ & https://anonsys.net/
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🇫🇷 Significant French speaking userbase: https://social.trom.tf/
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🇵🇱 Poland: soc.citizen4.eu
Matrix:
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🇬🇧 UK: matrix.org & glasgow.social
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🇫🇷 France: tendomium & imagisphe.re & hadoly.fr
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🇩🇪 Germany: tchncs.de, catgirl.cloud, pub.solar, yatrix.org, digitalprivacy.diy, oblak.be, nope.chat, hot-chilli.im, synod.im & rollenspiel.chat
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🇳🇱 Netherlands: bark.lgbt
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🇦🇹 Austria: gemeinsam.jetzt & private.coffee
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🇫🇮 Finland: pikaviestin.fi & chat.blahaj.zone
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Are we not well past a point where the Fairphone 6's DAC for the 3.5 mm jack would be better for audio quality than Bluetooth 5.4 with aptX Adaptive/LDAC? When headphone jacks were being removed from phones around the mid-2010s, it was ridiculous, greedy, and premature. Now, though? I find wireless earbuds vastly nicer and more convenient for phones, and I would only go with wired, say, on a vacation where I can use a cheap $20 junk drawer pair and not mourn them if they get lost somewhere – at which point I can just use a dongle for a weekend or whatever.
I still always want a microSD card slot, but I'd prefer that my phone not have a headphone jack at this point. I think the people who still mourn the loss of the 3.5 mm jack are a vastly smaller minority than they think they are. Which is fine; you're still welcome as a consumer to buy or not buy a phone based off that. But I also think that nagging Fairphone over the removal of the 3.5 mm jack with the Fairphone 4 in 2021 is "old man yelling at clouds" territory.
For me, I already have very good headphones from years ago, and they are all working. I don't want to buy additional Bluetooth headphones just for a Smartphone. Why do I have to buy additional gears just to be able to use my perfectly functional old ones? Or do I have to accept that Smartphones nowadays are just not for music?
You don't have to. You can still use a USB-C dongle. Phones in 2025 have considerably longer battery life and charge considerably faster than phones when manufacturers started phasing out 3.5 mm jacks in phones, so charging should rarely conflict – unless you're frequently doing wired data transfers too. A dongle is about $20. You're also entirely free to get a smartphone that still has the jack if it's an important feature to you. As I said in my above comment, nobody's saying you aren't allowed to factor this into your purchase.
"Why do I need an external optical drive to read DVDs on my laptop? Why can't they just build it into the device?"
A 3.5 mm jack is just more stuff that needs to go into the limited thickness of a smartphone. They also need to be made water-resistant, and it's just another potential point of failure. And for those who don't use them, they're a useless lint trap. Overall, they just cost more to produce which puts more cost onto the consumer. And now that Bluetooth audio is so widely used because it's no longer complete trash, the vast majority of users not using the 3.5 mm jack would end up subsidizing the very small minority that do.
No, you definitely don't. Like what? Wirelessly they're better than they've ever been by a mile. If you care deeply enough about audio quality that even modern Bluetooth quality bothers you, your alternative isn't 3.5 mm – it's an external DAC via USB-C. Space and streaming bandwidth are basically no longer considerations for high-bitrate music. If you care about music, smartphones are in a much better position than they were when the 3.5 mm jack was thriving.
"Smartphones nowadays are not for music" is such a histrionic distortion of "I personally have to use a $20 dongle when I listen to music on my smartphone with the headphones I alreay own."
Thus is straight up a lie. They cost less than a dollar to buy and put in a phone. Even the thinnest iPhone could have one without it impacting space and finally they are just as easy to waterproof as usb c port.
But yeah keep regurgitating the same facts big companies want you to use cause a extremely backwards compatible analog audio standard is less "convenient"