Paula with an FPJul 6, 2023

#Introduction #Introductions

Hi,
Another account of @PaulaToThePeople.

This is all about #Fairphone.

The story:
Do you remember back in the days when #Apple installed the suicide nets in "their" factories?
That's when I decided I'll no longer buy any Apple products.
When my iPhone died I looked around for a more sustainable and/or free (as in freedom) option.
So I stumbled upon Fairphone and bought the #FP1 or rather the #FP1u.
Soon afterwards I joined the first Fairphone meeting that took place in Vienna, Austria and we founded the @AustrianFairphoners.
So I joined the Fairphone community on Dec 9, '14 and it was like a family for me for a long time.
In 2018 I was actually introduced to the #Fediverse via the Fairphone forum.

In 2019 I joined #FridaysForFuture and ever since, I'm less active with Fairphone, but I would still never buy another phone and if I get the chance to help setup a Fediverse instance for Fairphone of course I will take it. 🙂

Who else owns a Fairphone here? I'd love to read your Fairphone origin stories. 😉

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@paula @PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners
(1/X) From 2014 to 2016 I was on an Apple hype. I had an iPhone, iPad and MacBook.
This was when I started studying computer science and I got really introduced to computing everywhere.

Back then I had an LG Android phone running Android Gingerbread.

I bought a MacBook Pro in January of 2014, this was my first Apple Product.
In Summer, during my first visit to the USA I bought an used iPhone 5S. Had a mixed experience. It broke twice in warrant

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@paula @PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners (2/X)
I don’t know when I got the iPad.
Continuing my study to a computer science degree, my relationship with technology and the way I use computer changed more drastically. I also started to get more interested into right to repair and generally my rights to use a computing devices how I want to use it.

It still was heavily focus on gaming and I think around 2015 it was when I first build my own computer.

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@paula @PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners
(3/x)
2016 I got into University (and was kinda lazy for a very long time. Still my computing changed more and more.
In 2016 is Sold the iPhone to a friend. I wanted to buy a Google Project Ara phone, but those got canceled just before release. So I looked at the Google Pixel phones. To expensive. I choose a OnePlus3 and used it until 2022.

And in I think it could be Xmas 2017 or 2018 I gifted the iPad to my Sister.

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@paula @PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners
(4/x) By 2018 I was definitely a Power-User. I think 2018 was the time I build my second computer.(still have the first in a closet).

But I would say by 2020 I really started to take right to repair and use my device how I want to use it very seriously.
Since then I daily drive Linux on my PC, my MacBook still got updates from Apple so It remained on MacOS until very recently.

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@paula @PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners (5/x) in 2021 I repaired my OnePlus3, the screen was heavily scratched (I never broke a phone screen in my life). And when I was at it I also replaced the battery.
And the trouble started. The phone was not designed to be repaired. Whenever I fixed a thing I broke something else.
I also installed a custom ROM on the phone.
I dealt with the troubles until early 2022 when the ROM started to be troublesome, and the deceive was just awful to use.
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@paula @PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners (6/x) I still held on until end August but by then it was already decided to by a new phone. I also looked at iPhones but to expensive. And I wanted something repairable.
By Brother and Mum both use Shiftphones (also repairable).
Because of futures proofing I decided on a Fairphone 4. I wanted to gift it myself to my birthday, inconveniently my OnePlus 3 final bit the dust in August so I started using the FP4 two weeks before my birthday.
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@paula @PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners (7/x) for me the Fairphone was a Great choice, I have a repairable, hackable and future proof device. I intend to use the device for at least 5 years but aim for 10 years.
If it get no more android updates I install another non Android based Operating System, Fairphone allows you to do that without any restrictions.
My MacBook ist still alive but now running a Fedora 38 a Linux based Operating System. My PC got an hardware upgrade just recently.
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@paula @PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners (8/x) Even things like a keyboard are now bought with repairability in mind. I want to use my devices without restrictions and invasion of my privacy.
My next laptop won’t be a MacBook, eighter I buy from TuxedoComputers, System76 or Framework. If I every buy another laptop, after university there’s little need.
The iPad still lives on.. A new tablet, idk there are so few Linux tables and even less are repairable.
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@paula @PaulaToThePeople @AustrianFairphoners (9/9) the tldr is I use a Fairphone because they do not restrict how I can use it and they support right to repair.