Currently writing this on a fairphone 4.

I love the hardware aside from the camera, but that was a sacrifice I knew I was making going in to it.

My big complaint is the software. It has never really been fully stable. During the best patches things work most of the time, but there have also been some pretty bad bugs. Again, I knew the updates would be slower and bugs might take longer to fix due to a smaller Dev team but I didn't expect it to be this bad. It does feel like they just gave up on the 4 to work on the 5 and 6. At this point I'm 2 major android versions behind.

I love that when I broke the screen I was able to replace it in 5 minutes, and I want to be a big supporter of fairphone. I even went to the trouble of importing the phone and replacement parts to Canada.

I don't know if this is also an issue with custom ROMS but if this doesn't change I don't know that I'll get another when the time comes.

Compared to the flagships of the time it was pretty noticeable. When it was new it seemed like the camera was maybe 3 or 4 generations behind. You could probably find some comparisons for the new generation of fairphone and see what its like. It works for my use case because I bring out an actual camera for photography.

My current main gripe is android auto and bluetooth (separately) disconnect randomly when I'm in a vehicle. Usually comes back on its own but I have to refresh the screen. To give FP the benefit of the doubt it could be a problem with my aftermarket stereo, but its a decent brand.

Nah, axe body spray had legit use-cases. Dry shampoo can be replaced with any other brand of dry shampoo.

Comment of the week right here Username makes it even better

No idea :/ I'm not in the market for a new phone so I haven't been paying attention to what's out there.

I'm hoping fairphone can/does get better at updating older devices before I need to get another phone so I can stick with them.

I have gotten security updates and occasional bugfixes but it does feel like they've done the bare minimum to fulfill their promise of supporting phones for a long time.

There are websites that can forward packages for you. IIRC I ordered my phone from vireo and they were able to ship to Canada, but when I needed spare parts I used a forwarding business and ordered straight from FP. Maybe forward2me or something like that.

Decent modern printers can handle overhangs fairly well. If the overhangs get too big you can use supports. If you want to get fancy there are filaments meant to be used only as supports in a multi-material print that dissolve in water so they don't leave marks on the print.

FWIW I don't think it was printed upside down. It would complicate things and would require more supports for no benefit.

I think any modern stove will work that way.

Something that helps mitigate it is using pots and pans with more thermal mass. Cast iron is great for that. I know not everybody wants to deal with it so really any pots or pans that are on the thicker side will be better.

I notice it a lot more when I'm forced to use the dirt cheap thin non stick pans.

As I said in my comment, the technology they use for these cancer screening tools isnt an LLM, its a completely different technology. Specifically trained on scans to find cancer.

I don't think it would have the same feedback loop of bad training data because you can easily verify the results. AI tool sees cancer in a scan? Verify with the next test. Pretty easy binary test that won't be affected by poor doctor performance in reading the same scans.

I'm not a medical professional so I could be off on that chain of events but This technology isn't an LLM. It suffers from the marketing hype right now where everyone is calling everything AI but its a different technology and has different pros and cons, and different potential failures.

I do agree that the whole AI doesnt have bias is BS. It has the same bias that its training data has.

And pedestrians on the sidewalk....? I hope theres no sidewalk on your side of the street. Either way extremely bad take

We actually get 220V to the house that gets split up into two different phases of 110. Kitchens and laundry rooms get 220 for ranges and dryers. IIRC the gas appliances are because of marketing and lobbying but I could be wrong.

I actually liked not having a minimap in BL1. I missed it at first coming from BL2 but it made me get to know the areas a lot better, which in turn made the game feel more like a connected world.

BL2 felt more like a sequence of levels than an open world.

This could be due to other choices in the game design but I think the minimap plays a big part in it.

No, some resellers ship straight to north America. FP just doesn't officially support using it here. They can't guarantee it will work with all the cell networks, but I haven't had any problems.

I don't think its fair to say that "ai has shown to make doctors worse at their jobs" without further details. In the source you provided it says that after a few months of using the AI to detect polyps, the doctors performed worse when they couldn't use the AI than they did originally.

It's not something we should handwave away and say its not a potential problem, but it is a different problem. I bet people that use calculators perform worse when you remove calculators, does that mean we should never use calculators? Or any tools for that matter?

If I have a better chance of getting an accurate cancer screening because a doctor is using a machine learning tool I'm going to take that option. Note that these screening tools are completely different from the technology most people refer to when they say AI

Idk where you are but where I live teslas are one of the stereotypical asshole-driver cars. Theres a third demographic that wants more speed/$ and loves the torque of electric motors that let's them zip around cars by veering into the bike lane (extreme example but I've seen it happen)