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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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[–] Luffy879@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, you could use CalyxOS

It dosent have such things as 2 factor pin auth for fingerprint, but its the closest to Graphene

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Not quite the same. The big thing with GrapheneOS is it can run the actual Google services, but sandboxed. Organic Maps is better than Google Maps in everyway, but it's routes are so much worse because it has no traffic into to go on. It's an anticompetitive network effect, but it's hard to fight without law makers.

Edit: Ok, it is good, but the main thing I like about is the maps can be setup to be as good as ones you'd manually navigate by. A bit like UK's Ordnance Survey maps.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Organic Maps is better than Google Maps in everyway

It's really not, here are a few more:

  • no reviews for businesses - that's a huge reason people use Maps
  • you have to manually download maps you want to see, and repeat w/ every update
  • lots of missing info, especially where I live, and especially businesses
  • no satellite images or street view - OSM has it though

That said, I use Organic Maps almost exclusively, and I put in the time to add missing info where I can. I've probably added hundreds of places for my area. Basically, when I go somewhere new, if it's not in OSM, I take a few pictures and add the place when I get home, and I'll put in the effort to enter hours, phone number, etc from their website. It's a pain, but hopefully someone down the line appreciates that.

All of that info exists in GM though, so the only reason for me to use OM is stubbornness. OM is fantastic, but it's hardly "better than Google Maps in every way," in fact it's probably worse in most ways. However, I prefer it and will keep using it because I refuse to use Google services.

[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Ok, I accept all that, but the maps just are better to me. I grew up with the UK Ordnance Survey maps, and that's kind of what I want from my maps.

I'll amend.