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Fairphone CEO says it’s a ‘myth’ that sustainable tech has to cost more and be of lower quality: ‘Neither is needed’ (www.techradar.com)
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[–] voltaa@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

What would you consider a natural lifespan for a phone? I'm currently using a Pixel 6 that I got in 2021, it's still well within it's 8 year lifespan (which is around what I would call reasonable for something that costs me $800) and the USB-C broke at around late year 2 early year 3. It's been the same issue with each phone of the USB-C getting loose and eventually failing to charge. As for your point about the micro USB port outlasting the button, same vibe those ports were indestructible, this is an issue that has only come up and consistently come up when phones started switching to type C. My blackberry bold is still kicking and usable so you can call "user error" all you want but I'm not convinced I suddenly became bad at maintaining my phones suddenly when the port swapped.

So I'm supposed to solve the issue of not wanting bluetooth headphones by...using bluetooth headphones? For five years while I wait for my phones natural lifespan to pass? K. Like yes I get the audio quality argument, you're going to use a DAC anyways as I do on my desktop, but having the possibility of my headphones dying on me, as well as the price to performance when compared with wired options is enough for me to not want to deal with it. Sure I can get 100$ bluetooth buds, but they're going to not only not be high quality, they'll sound like shit at best.

The "scenario I made up in my head" is coming in the next few years, guaranteed. I remember when "the 3.5mm jack is going away" was a stupid argument that wasn't going to happen too.

Just like I can buy a phone with a 3.5mm jack (with increasingly limited options for that each year) that isn't my only criteria when buying a phone, it's about weighing pros and cons of it. Sure you can't fit an optical drive in your razor thin Lenovo, but you have options to buy a laptop that can, it all depends if you're priority is buying something functional or something pretty.

You're probably right though, it's on me for having a broken port on the only piece of tech that I can't easily open and tinker with, I just don't understand technology.