daddyjones

No, but Munich did something similar a while back. Different German town, similar headlines.

deja vu…

Am I right in thinking this only applies to US users?

I’ve been a Java dev for roughly 20 years and still find it a very comfortable way to write code. Most of the complaints I hear about it (e.g. verbose) are wildly overstated or just plain wrong (e.g. slow).

Of course, a lot of it comes down to the developer - anyone can write bad code in any language.

I disagree - Java seems like the ideal choice for this. I might be in the minority in that view, though. Java seems to get a lot of hate.

Does anyone have any experience with Firefox on Android?

It’s looks more like they’re focused audio rather than bone conducting.

I regret that I have but one upvote to give.

Minor point, but Wales isn’t in the EU.

I feel like we’re told about some sort of “kill switch” or silver bullet for cancer every couple of years. Hopefully one of these days it’ll actually beat fruit. Maybe even this time?

The hardware being very poor was the killer for me. Unless they improve starter specs or allow you to upgrade hardware I won’t ever buy another one.

I answered above replying to another post.

Low end hardware made the user experience frustrating and the overall performance was poor. It’s annoying because the concept is good, but a phone that’s supposed to be your “long term phone” shouldn’t be painful to use after only months. It’s certainly very repairable - or seemed to be. I didn’t actually have to ever repair mine, but if I’m going to deliberately have a phone for a long time then I need it to stay off with specs that mean it’ll still perform after three or four years.

Unless you’re happy with a very mediocre phone - please don’t. I very much applaud the idea behind fairphone, but the years I had my fairphone 3 were full of frustration.

As a native English speaker who’d never heard of this word - TIL x2

That is absolutely not how all leases work…

There is a middle ground, though and it’s called leasing. It’s what we get most of the time when we “buy” digital content. They call it buying, but leasing describes it more accurately.

Edit: not saying I like it - I don’t, just making an observation.

No - being a monopoly makes it a monopoly…

I thought all the Samsung ones had a screen that covered the whole of the inside section? This one only had a screen on the top.

What’s the phone on the left in that top image?

Edit: turns out it isn’t a phone - it’s a Gameboy Advance SP.