Are they bringing back the headphone jack?

My Nokia should last until 2027 with updates but it would be nice to know my options if it breaks.

PENGWINGS!

Framework 13 has a fingerprint reader in the power button.

Look up the antikythera mechanism.

The Romans could make enough quality metals for a clock.

The idea of a printing press was revolutionary but it’s just an engraved plate, ink, later and a weight on a lever.

I’m confident I could make a printing press without plans having seen one. I’m not confident I could design an accurate watch.

I might manage a pendulum clock. Just. But that’s far less useful.

The lack of ethics and increase in waste is a deal breaker for me.

They’re not the best performing. They’re generally slow. Other phones objectively perform better.

Not only did the fairphone 4 ditch a feature I needed and would prevent waste in general for many.

It also caused my housemate who owned one no end of issues with every update. Bluetooth dropouts, touchscreen glitches.

Issues with the camera.

Issues with the microphone

Slow charging.

He’s a beta tester and he’s paid a premium for it.

Support from fairphone has basically been pathetic.

It’s hilarious how many supporters of this company are. It must be like the phenomenon of car drivers supporting public transport. They’re hoping everyone else buys a fairphone.

As they’re not even the most environmentally friendly phone it’s all a bit silly.

I disagreed with the video.

Sounds like you’re too keen to spout fallacies as if you’re in a debating match rather than engaging in a discussion.

When they ditched the headphone jack fairphone ditched environmentalism.

The fairphone 3+ was their last fair phone.

It’s just another cheap phone now. Made in the same place from the same stuff as other makers, with maybe a year of extra security updates.

They started by doing stuff differently, now they do things the same as everyone else and want to pretend they’re different.

Now rotate it 180° and put it on the wall.

Except for people like me I never paid Google with money.

I gave them my date for them to organise and assist me with.

If they can’t use my data to assist me, I’ll stop giving it to them by turning off permissions and features I don’t use.

Google really does need handling over your data to be useful. Especially as the EU gradually forces defaults to be for privacy. Google will need you to opt in more and more and that means they do need to give you good service.

Some manufacturers use standard audio connectors to carry just plain power.

They’re robust and can carry relatively high current and voltage.

It works, I can see why they get used. After all RCAs are on everything for everything.

I have an e-bike that uses an XLR as a charging port for the battery.

There’s an IR led on a cable with a 3.5mm jack somewhere that’s an extender for my home cinema system remote.

(That might be what this is, so see if your phone camera can see the IR light from a TV remote and then test it with that thing)

This possible LED plugged into something either home made/bespoke, very old, or Chinese.

Small chance it’s from some medical or scientific equipment that hasn’t moved with the times.

If it’s an LED put a DC voltage down that plug. If it’s a light sensor, measure for a DC voltage.

Audio AC signals didn’t have an effect so it’s probably a DC component.

My bet, point your phone camera at it and put a DC voltage down there in the right direction and you’ll see IR light come out.

It might be the receiver. In which case you need to monitor voltage. Then point a TV remote at it.