Thx, but I’ll stay with alternativeto.net. At least that one is not an ad in a trenchcoat.

Thx, but I’ll stay with alternativeto.net. At least that one is not an ad in a trenchcoat.

Not exactly. It would mean it isn’t better than humans, so the only real metric for adopting it or not would be the cost. And considering it would require a human to review the code and fix the bugs anyway, I’m not sure the ROI would be that good in such case. If it was like, twice as good as an average developer, the ROI would be far better.

Writing 90% of the code, and 90% of the bugs.

You can use Heroic Launcher instead. And you get an Amazon Games and GoG client as a bonus.

Connecticut do have a D in it: mine.

Not for all use cases, but for most it is.

Hell no. I’m well aware it is a good audio brand (german I think, but may be mistaken)

What I wanted to say here is that I prefer an objective good quality product, adapted to my needs, to a brand name. Even well known brands sometimes make bad products.

As an example, I have a Sony WH-1000XM3. But if I’d be interested in an XM4, there is no way in hell I’d buy an XM5, because of some shitty choices they took (no more foldable design, forced adaptative ANC). Maybe the XM6 will end up of interest to me, I did not yet check its specs, but considering I recently changed my current XM3 battery, I won’t be back on the market until the XM7 or XM8.

I trust in independent reviews, reproducible tests and hard numbers, not in brand cultivated images and subjective choices. I don’t care if it comes for Audeze, Sony, or a Chinese Knockoff, numbers doesn’t lie.

Those who like wired aren’t out of option either. Adapters exists, are cheap, and have often a far better audio quality than integrated ports due to not being as size constrained as the main body itself, and being further from interferences. You can quite easily find some that allows to charge your phone at the same time (even if the usb-c norm do not allows it on paper).

There are a lot of very good Bluetooth headphones from Bose, Sony, and the like. If you take a look at lab tests, most of lf them got a frequency response pretty close to the ideal curve, and ANC helps a lot to isolate outside noises that would drown out the music on wired headphones.

But I do agree about choice, just not on the blind refusal of using USB-C adapters. That’s unfortunate that they removed it, but it has some good reasons. A headphone jack wasn’t made to be waterproof, and if some managed to make some of them waterproof-ish, it is often by enclosing it into its own little sub-enclosure, with a good short-circuit protection (because even a tiny water drop in there mean a short), both of which takes place.
Same goes for the DAC, we got so far into miniaturizing it, and inside interferences are so high now with new technologies, it probably wouldn’t be viable anymore to have it inside the phone itself. Even larger device, like the Steam Deck, have problems preventing interferences on the headphones jack, so that must be an even bigger problem on something as tinny as a phone 😅

A replaceable usb-c port is great too. My previous Nokia 8.1 died because of that, and my previous FP5 needed a replacement after 2 years of use.

But I agree that Fairphone have work to do on waterproofing their phones. It was hard with the previous hand removable back panel, but now that they added screws to the back panel, it wouldn’t be that much of a a stretch to add some o-rings to further waterproof it. I’m sure they could get it to IP66 rather easily, maybe IP67 with a little more work.

They have to be user removable, not hot-removable. Take a FP6 as an example, you have to remove a couple of screw to get to it, then another couple to remove it. What are forbidden will be glued batteries and back panels.

they are cable-less, thus need to be charged separatel

If you wish for ANC you’ll need a battery anyway, and most people do want ANC these days

they are cable-less, thus it is easier to lose them

I’m loosing my wired headphone far more often, for a simple reason: wireless ones having a battery allows me to make them beep, given they are near, of course.

bluetooth implementation is a potential security vulnerability

Sure, and so are wired headphone as they act as an antenna, broadcasting to anyone with an appropriate receptor anything you say and/or hear.
As for the implementation vulnerabilities, at least it can be patched.

transmission by radio will always be less energy efficient than transmission by wire

Sure, but is it that much of a problem? It would take years (if not decades) of constant listening to even use a dollar of electricity for wireless headphones. Even if you factor the data transmission from the phone into that.
And wired headphone are not energy neutral either. They works by pulling energy from the phone battery.

I prefer the wireless headphones ease of use to headphone I have to untangle every time I want to use them. I keep my wired ones for home uses.

Removable batteries are coming back, as they become mandatory in the EU in 2027.
Or you can already get one with a Fairphone (which also has SD card slot).
As for the headphone jack, I’m afraid it won’t come back. Bluetooth alternatives are far better these days (I got both, so I know from experience), and good adapters (like Apple one) are barely more than $10.

“Treated” means the solids and goo that may have been a problem has been removed. It is mostly water, a lot a fecal bacteries, and diverse dissolved chemical that wasn’t removed.

Especially since the Steam Deck and derivatives mostly killed the gaming laptop niche market.

Nowhere in the press release they claim to be an industry first on swappable mobile GPU, and the title imply that the “industry first” is to have a swappable RTX5070M, which may be correct, especially depending on your definition of “swappable”.

Same here, but the performances are abysmal on the Deck (15-20 fps on low), and crashes on every map changes. I’m gonna wait next week to see if it goes better with the first few fixes, and then I’ll chose if I refund it or not.