Mostly the FairbudsXL which are basically a scam, as the parts fail chronically but fairphone has abandoned the product and the firmware. I have bought the same replacement part 4 times. Also much of the product is proprietary and they don’t allow you to run your own software on them.

The fairphone itself is not awful and I’m still using my fairphone 4, but I increasingly get the idea that they are increasingly abandoning their values in favor of profits.

I posted a rant here. Looking back, I was a little to worked up and excessively negative, so take with a grain of salt.

As a side note, I’ve grown increasingly disappointed with fairphone. I recebtly switched to shiftphone, which also supports degoogled ROMs, and offers the same repairability. I think shift is much more aligned with the values fairphone claims to represent.

Last I checked the android app only works as a primary device, and the desktop app doesn’t run on android, did that change?

It will still require a phone number, this is a nothingburger. Meanwhile, there’s still no way to use Signal on an android tablet.

I didn’t downvote, but personally I’m upset that this article doesn’t give you a good alternative, only a ridiculously complex new setup that is unrealistic and impractical for most users.

right now maybe, but I won’t believe for a second that US arms manufacturers aren’t ready to churn out more death machines

I thought blahaj was defederated from a few instances? Interesting that the score is so high anyway.

I thought it’s a melange between the puzzle piece autism thing and evil hacker stock photo stereotype

To answer your second question specifically:

Are there Linux distributions that place a stronger emphasis on privacy?

Yes, luckily most distros do.

If you just want decent privacy, then honestly most of the popular distros are better than Ubuntu.

You are wrong about debt leading to inflation, that’s monetarism and has been thoroughly debunked.

Public spaces are too dangerous for children? Just ban the children!

Smart TVs are really just somebody else’s computer that you paid for to watch ads on.

what about stoat?

Poland being a safe place in the buildup to a world war is a new one

When I’m in a “make game unattractive to buyers before it comes out” competition and my opponent is Krafton

We have PLENTY of average benefits per person already. Currently most benefits go to rich people in the form of public investments in private companies, subsidies for often harmful industries, and a plethora of tax breaks. Growth is not the problem.

And if GDP wasn’t keeping pace, why would that be a bad thing? It’s not like growth has meaningfully improved peoples lives in the last couple decades

speaking Korean and being captured in Ukraine should narrow down the possible nationalities quite a bit

In Sweden yeah. And in the Netherlands they have iDeal. In Germany the only PayPal alternative for online payments usually are credit card or bank transfer / SEPA mandate. Not everybody has a credit card and direct bank transfer is clunky