samsung does bullshit where the parts have serial codes paired to the phone or whatever and you need to match it using their proprietary software for it to function. apple does it too.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I bought a Samsung as well. We should both learn from our mistakes, and never do that again - this is simply the cost of doing business with them. Maybe Fairphone would be good?

[–] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

where can I get a good phone like a pixel or fairphone or whatever in greece? phones like that cant be found anywhere.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 6 points 9 months ago

Sadly I know very little there. I know I HATE my current Samsung (mostly due to the company practices like you mentioned), and I also felt incredibly betrayed by my OnePlus 7T before that (the device itself was amazing, until an update broke it and now it literally hurts my hand, like I wonder if it's giving me cancer by radiating something through the shielding that it burned through), and before that I absolutely adored my Nexus 5 (but Pixels are a whole other thing entirely - far too much camera and too little actual phone for my tastes). The entire smartphone world is incredibly predatory. I mostly figure that the next one I get will be a cheap phone, maybe even a dumb flip... but on the other hand I do live in an area where Google (or whatever) Maps could really help out so... I don't know what I'll do when my current one craps out:-(. Probably I will research a Fairphone, but if you live in an area where that would be difficult to repair, then yeah that may not be an option for you:-(. At least you live within the EU though where such is being forced to change, so you have that going for you.:-)

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Can you not buy one online?

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

Fairphone removed the headphone jack so it’s pretty useless as a personal electronic device IMO

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