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  • The Fairphone 4 and Hiking

    The Fairphone 4 and Hiking

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I spent three hours on a train and hiked for a few hours. I also spent two hours in a museum. During this time I was using the fairphone 4 to listen to an audiobook and streamed media. At the end of the day I think I was at about sixty…

  • A Fairphone 4 With A Terabyte of Storage

    A Fairphone 4 With A Terabyte of Storage

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you wanted an iPhone with a terabyte of storage it would cost you 1549 CHF for the iPhone 16 Pro. With the Fairphone 4 128 GB model you would pay 329 CHF for the phone and 101 to 109 CHF for a 1TB card. That’s about 440 CHF and you’d have…

  • A Dormant YouTube Habit

    A Dormant YouTube Habit

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor months now I have had Pihole running, and other ad blocking solutions working. I said, at the time that I don’t feel bad about using ad blockers because they’re so invasive, especially with YouTube, among other platforms. I also find that when I play games on Android ad blockers work.…

  • Ankle Fitness Trackers

    Ankle Fitness Trackers

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThe automatic reflex is to wear a fitness tracker on the wrist so that it may measure heart rate but also so that we may look at the data that it is capturing without using an app. The issue with this habit is that we need to stop wearing a classic watch,…

  • Fairphone 4 Impressions

    Fairphone 4 Impressions

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo days ago I got a Fairphone 4 because the battery on my iPhone SE is still not lasting for a long time and because it’s laggy when I open certain apps. For both of these reasons I was tempted to wait until 2025 for the new iPhone SE to come out.…

  • Why I chose to Deactivate Threads

    Why I chose to Deactivate Threads

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis morning I woke up to people insulting me for not being an Apple fan boy on Threads. Before that I was trolled for several other reasons and the consequence is that I have now deactivated my Threads account. For me the web is a place where, if you agree, or if…

  • NaNoWriMo and Typed Wordiness

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesNovember has Arrived. With November so does NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is the US National Novel Writing Month. This is the month where people spend every day writing 1,667 words per day, so that by the end of the month they have a draft of a novel. I have tried the challenge several times…

  • Web Browsers and Operating Systems

    Web Browsers and Operating Systems

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople like to speak about whether they use MacOS, Windows or Linux and I think that for a long time this was a great question because what we did on computers required programs and apps that could run on that system. In 2024, however, I believe that the OS barely matters anymore.…

  • Epix Gen 2 Continued

    Epix Gen 2 Continued

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I went for a run and the Garmin Epix Gen 2 labelled it as unproductive. Yesterday I went for a 5k run and I wore the Garmin Instinct Solar with the HRM-Pro Plus and it was just marked as a wrong. I was curious to see if I would get more…

  • Toying With the Idea of Fairphone

    Toying With the Idea of Fairphone

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesThere is an inalienable truth, that within two or three years all of my mobile phones require a battery swap. With an iPhone this costs 67.50 CHF for the SE but only 28 CHF for a fairphone. In light of this it makes sense to recycle the iPhone SE and replace it…