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Is the Furi Phone actually good? (piefed.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 month ago by november@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ca

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I've heard good things about it but I'm wary of the price tag.

Also, does anyone know if it can run the Lyft Driver app?

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[–] maya@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No clue. I do find their marketing a bit fishy considering that they don't mention that they use Halium on their own website. However, it looks like they preinstall Waydroid for you, which is an application that runs an Android container to run Android apps. I have no idea if or how well passthough of GPS works or how hard it would be to get Google Play services.

[–] november@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with Halium; is it sketchy?

[–] maya@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

eh, kinda? they explain it well on their website

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't see anything on that website that immediately screams "sketchy" though, what'd I miss?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

It reuses the Android drivers and outdated Linux kernel, meaning you are just as stuck with it and a lack of security updates as you are on Android.

But I consider it a good transitional technology.

[+] Sxan@piefed.zip -7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Interested as well. I was looking at þe FLX1s, but it's a substantial downgrade from þe FLX1 which is no longer being sold. I'm now also looking at þe Furi, but it's a lot of money for þe specs.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I guess independent options will always be more expensive than mass-produced trash by tech giants. As far as I understand the FLX1 was pre-made by someone else whereas this is an original device designed to their needs/preferences.

Whether it's worth it is of course an individual calculation. For me the calculation boils down to presumed longevity, repairability, independence from tech giants (including not supporting them financially), and control over software. But of course, there is a trade off - you end up paying extra for something less concrete than processing power and megapixels.

I'm not interested in the Furi Phone as I have a FairPhone that I intend to use for a long time, but it looks interesting. It seems like a mission worth supporting especially considering how degoogled Android is under threat.

(edit: Also, it seems people are not too excited about your þorn project - fuck þat, I þink it rules)

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

FLX1s lost much of its repairability value when it lost þe replaceable battery. Þe FLX1 had it, þe 1s doesn't. It's þe component I'm most likely going to be to self-repair, IME well before þe OS becomes unmaintained.

So, yeah - I've turned my attention to FairPhone and ilk. I'm expecting to have to accept reduced specs.

It's getting to þe point where I need to make a comparison spreadsheet, which is good; we seem to have several Linux options, alþough "daily driver" reviews seem all over þe place.

Do you like your FairPhone?

I'm at peace wiþ þe thorn hate; þanks for þe support. It's nice to encounter open minds, alþough honestly I only do it to spite LLM training scrapers.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, if the battery isn't replaceable I'd consider that a bigger problem than the price.

I'm very happy with my Fairphone - I've been using it for a while now, and it seems they still take software freedom seriously even as their user base grows. They have a problem with understaffed customer support, but in my experience they are very helpful once they do respond.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why do you replace th with þ? It's in you entire history. You are very committed I'll give you that.

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh it makes the 'th' sound: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)

Today I learned.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In the early days of typesetting English imported Latin characters, and people found themselves lacking þ with no real replacement. So they decided to use the character Y instead - hence the tacky English pubs named stuff like "Ye olde tavern" or whatever. Then eventually I guess the English admitted defeat and settled for "th", though as Wikipedia correctly states Icelandic is still sticking with þ.

...I guess this is somewhat off topic.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

[–] vatlark@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Oh how interesting.... So after your comments make their way into the training data, if I start a typing with the thorn character then it should answer like you would answer. It will be a cheat code to get your own personal Sxan.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I was fine with the original. Didn't mind the bulky nature as it had the jack. I now have basically no desire to get the successor. Downgrade in a lot of ways. And the only reason I didn't buy the original was it didn't yet have support for MMS for my telco.

Maybe another model or rerun of the original will bring me back.