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In hindsight, I should've added a few more..

Repairability/sustainability: Easy to repair, sustainably produced.

Ethics: Anti-Big Tech (no Apple, no Samsung etc.), good workers' rights and supply chain. Preferably European.

Privacy: Speaks for itself. Privacy or anonymity, measures that foster it rather than feed data to others.

I feel like Fairphone would hit the Repairability and likely also Ethics (since it's a certified B corporation), but for Privacy, it'd be a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS... but it's Google, and given the CLOUD Act...

Maybe I could add accessibility there too, interface customisation (I like the iOS interface ways, but still, it's Apple), but that's a separate category.

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[โ€“] baguette@piefed.social 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

The 'Fair' in Fairphone relates to their practice to produce the phone as fairtrade as they can. Mind, it is not perfect and I believe they don't state that it is fully fairtrade either. This often gets confused that it is fair of them to make it repairable.

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember when Fairphone firat came out, they talked a bit about their work. Their conclusion was that it was simply not possible to create a phone that had all parts from ethical sources, so picked some specific things to focus on that were high impact and achievable at scale.

It's likely the most ethical phone you can buy, but that is mostly due to how bad most phones are.

[โ€“] baguette@piefed.social 5 points 1 week ago

Yes, I think it is nearly phrased the same in the link somewhere. I guess they also have to consider that it doesn't get much more expensive than it currently is. If I remember correctly they also want to be an example for other brands, and lead the way for other brands to choose more ethical materials.

[โ€“] BigTwerp@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

This is true, I would say it is currently the most ethical smartphone you can buy today, though. If you get it with e.os installed it is also more privacy focussed as well but as a heads up e.os doesn't work with some banking apps.

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can install postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, /e/OS and the like on the Fairphone so no Google shit unless you want it.

[โ€“] Valthorn@feddit.nu 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fairphone even sells the gen 6 with the option to have /e/OS pre-installed.

[โ€“] Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago

They also did with Fairphone 4 and 5

[โ€“] persona_non_gravitas@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

PostmarketOS on Fairphone is afaik FAR from ready for daily driver status. 100% for UBPorts Ubuntu Touch (on gen5 or gen4) though. Also iodรฉOS in addition to /e/.

Yes it is. Tried it on the 5, doesn't have speaker drivers, makes it fairly unusable. Alarm clocks, for example, are almost useless if they only work with your headphones.

[โ€“] sol@feddit.uk 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For those categories, it's gotta be Fairphone. Definitely wins in the ethics and repairability categories, and with /e/ I think it would be a decent contender in the privacy bracket.

A second hand Pixel with GrapheneOS might also be a contender. I think buying second hand is a decent ethical choice and GrapheneOS is probably as good as it gets for privacy. Not very repairable though.

[โ€“] marius@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's a bummer that /e/ does not support the fairphone moments feature

[โ€“] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's that moments feature?

[โ€“] marius@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Using the switch on the side you can activate a minimalist mode that reduces distraction https://shop.fairphone.com/web/image/3163357-3ba2e9eb/FP6_LessDistractions_1920x1080

Wow, that looks zen as fuck. Yeah, bummer.

[โ€“] mapu@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fairphone /e/OS version hits all three

[โ€“] klairman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I agree, the only (big) problem is that many bank apps don't work there.

[โ€“] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mine do, and every single bank app I've ever used works there as well. Admittedly that's three, but like 2 big and 1 small makes these claims feel antiquated.

[โ€“] klairman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I could fine this post and actually you are right, the compatibility is much better now.

[โ€“] timestatic@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago

Buy a Fairphone from Murena, the company behind /e/OS. That way you buy a mostly fair produced phone thats ethical. It's the most repairable there is and /e/OS is a deGoogled custom rom with many privacy features on top.

[โ€“] mapto@feddit.bg 11 points 1 week ago

There's also https://www.shift.eco/, but I don't think it beats the Fairphone.

[โ€“] eldain@feddit.nl 11 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 6 points 1 week ago

Jolla from Finland.

[โ€“] es_eskaliert@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe the Volla Phone also?

[โ€“] Ashiette@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Zero (at home) reparability. Their customer service makes it expensive af to repair a unit.

I'm uncertain about the ethical part.

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

If it lands in there, it has a shit camera! Which sucks

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago
[โ€“] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

the best option unfortunately is Google Pixel with GrapheneOS

[โ€“] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Buying your hardware from evil even if running graphene on it is not suitable to ops request.

[โ€“] apotheotic@beehaw.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Second hand market is great for not putting more money in google's pocket :)

[โ€“] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or support the non-evil companies.

[โ€“] apotheotic@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago

Really hard to find, but yes I agree this is a good option too

[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 9 points 1 week ago

Ethics: Anti-Big Tech (no Malus, no Samsung etc.), good workers' rights and supply chain. Preferably European.

Google Pixel literally has Google in the name

[โ€“] jnod4@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Never reccomend that again please.

[โ€“] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But how do we know there's no backdoor fuckery?

[โ€“] FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In GrapheneOS?

We don't. We just have to trust. But that's the same for everything.

[โ€“] compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

GrapheneOS is FOSS though? We donโ€™t have to trust. If you want to, you can look at the source code yourself

[โ€“] redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, but will you? In reality it takes trust for most. Personally, I don't think I could tell a sophisticated back door [pervy emoji] from a hello world! script.

[me looking at the source code] Interesting... they used words here and a few numbers too. ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] compostgoblin@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I wonโ€™t, but the code being open makes it easy for third parties to inspect. So I suppose Iโ€™d be trusting that other people who are savvier and more paranoid than me have taken a look and made sure itโ€™s safe.

Yeah, I mean I feel pretty confident trusting stuff like Graphene that's 1) open source, 2) popular 3) among techy people that 4) are obsessed about privacy and security

No, in the Google Pixel itself.