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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste (www.bbc.com)

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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

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[–] MaximilianKohler@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Needs indefinite software support too. It has 8 years software support, which is the best that exists I think, but that means I'll have to trash it in 8 years for no good reason. The only reason I've had to get rid of old phones is because they weren't providing security updates anymore.

[–] BrowseMan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

The problem is that, apparently the software support is lacking.

It seems security updates are (very) slow to come.

It's a shame because the concept is very interesting and was thinking of taking the fairphone 5 as my next phone. However the bad feedback regarding updates made me look into another model

[–] BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Security updates are good but the major of the weakness it's the human using the device, there wouldn't be any security update which can fight a dumb user, my humble POV.

I'm not saying you are dumb, what I'm saying it's from my POV security updates are redundant.

According what I know about devices security updates are meant to protect corporations interests they usually are not to protect you from being hacked it's more like to protect the corporations devices from you hacking it.

[–] __dev@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

There's vulnerabilities like the recent iMessage exploit that are executed remotely through no interaction by the user. In combination with the ability to self-spread you get mass exploits like WannaCry which spread to 300k+ computers in 7 hours. All you need is a network connection.