it's legit amazing how long the Fairphone 6 (or any phone) lasts on a battery if you strip out google support entirely.

@bunch_of_dergs well I think flashing e-os properly re-locks the bootloader and all that, but I haven't verified myself if some apps get upset because of the secure boot chain being temporarily lost, I can imagine some banking apps wouldn't like it. But I don't run those anyway because they also don't like it when you rip out google play services and the like lol, I use my work phone for that instead.

And yea I mean, it's not open hardware but many ppl have made things: https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/Transparent_Fairphone_6_Lego_Back_Mod_148a7af8.html

@anthropy What kind of SOT do you get, though?

@anthropy Yeah I kinda need the financial stuff... Gosh, why is our tech landscape such a disaster that you have to get all cozy with Google just to do banking in ways entirely unrelated to that company.

I guess I'll just swallow it for now and accept that FairPhone is still a relatively good compromise - but if a bank came along that did accept people actually having some control over their devices, I should maybe switch.

@bunch_of_dergs IIRC the EU is trying to get banks to loosen up on this but I'd have to search for it to find the details (and I'm trying to work from home right now so I shouldn't get too distracted hah)

@hexaitos you mean voltage? Currently I'm at 14% (still haven't charged since taking that screenshot) and the voltage is about 3.7v. I'll probably connect it to the charger soon, though, I usually keep it between ~15 and ~85%

@anthropy Ah sorry, I was wondering what kind of screen on time you were getting! As in, how much of that time the screen was on, essentially.

@hexaitos honestly unsure, the current value was skewed because I had briefly (like 10 seconds) connected it to a charger the other day, but it said about 10 hours in this run. I'll try see what it ends up being for the next charge cycle.

@hexaitos again about 10 hours it seems, I'm at 20% now and didn't charge it to 100% to save the battery, but 10-14 hours if using the full capacity is not unreasonable an assumption

it's legit amazing how long the Fairphone 6 (or any phone) lasts on a battery if you strip out google support entirely. It happily lasts almost a week.

Note that I'm still using this phone for Matrix, Mastodon, my (nextcloud-synced) calendar, Telegram, KDE Connect, Signal, Nextcloud (+ Deck), taking all my photos, interacting with my Flipper Zero, etc etc. It's definitely not just idling. It just doesn't constantly keep GPS up to date and upload my location etc

#fairphone #fairphone6

still giddy about the 6 day battery life even with intensive usage (made lots of photos, used it as torch, shitposting on fedi, telegram/matrix/signal/etc)

still giddy about the 6 day battery life even with intensive usage (made lots of photos, used it as torch, shitposting on fedi, telegram/matrix/signal/etc)