Hello

I’m being pushed into the market by google/android to acquire a new phone due to it slowing down. I’m sick of this marketing tactic and the clutter of preinstalled apps and junk software.

What phone and operating system could I get that could allow me to use for a long period of time and out of reach from subversive tactics from giant corporations?

I’m basically a farmer and so know nothing about coding and not too technologically oriented but would really like to break away from the capitalist/hyperconsumerist phone craze. Thank you.

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Damn. It’s like $700 but a great idea. These are “de-googled”?

Not deGoogled, Fairphone are phones build with ethical workers, compared to the cheap phones made in China and resources extracted by forcing kids to work on mines. You can deGoogle them later with any other OS you like most.

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I do like this concept. I wiped my phone and will aim to buy one of these in the near future. Their aftermarket parts are very reasonably priced as well. What’s weird is that they don’t seem to even have a market in the US.

The good thing about this is that it is super easy to repair and replaced parts. I think this started with European founding, so it’s basically on Europe as not many people cares about ethical manufacturing, most people want cheap 200 euros china phones. The US is mainly capitalist looking to bother other countries to extract their resources at the lowest cost, so it would make sense that Fairphone isn’t there.

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lol yeah my country is the literal antithesis to ethical manufacturing.

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Arthur Besse
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/e/OS

Last time I looked, /e/ OS was going-to-be-open-source-later software (but was already distributing images). Now it looks like they have published a lot of source code but their FAQ ominously says

Yes – all our source code is available and you can compile it, fork it. Some pre-built applications are used in the system; they are built separately from source code available here, or synced from open-source repositories such as F-Droid. We ship one proprietary application though.

…which, for me, goes from cool to wat to nope in three sentences.

(I do wonder what their one proprietary app is, but am not going to spend more than the minute i just spent trying to find the answer to that question.)

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The only app is magic earth, a maps app. It has a great privacy policy, tho, and works very well. You can use whatever you want, of course

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No, but you can probably install a different rom. The Fairphone 3+ is also still good and a bit cheaper.

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