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The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. (shop.fairphone.com)
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I don't like smartphones. I use a dumbphone.

But this is a wonderful initiative.

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

not just that. with a jack, you can use your phone as a perfect mic for your PC. its also better in terms of privacy as you don't blast "IM HERE" signals that every other shop has a tracking device for logging them. I would guess majority of bluetooth audio devices don't even support mac address randomization

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would guess majority of bluetooth audio devices don’t even support mac address randomization

Wouldn't that be a nightmare for pairing? The device wakes and tries to connect to the last device it was paired to, only to find unknown vendors

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

mac randomization is a defined thing in the BLE standard (afaik bluetooth classic does not have it, but maybe that changed in BT 5.1?). It's not truly random, it involves cryptography so that paired devices can recognize each other in the end

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Ah interesting, thanks for context