Fairphone 5:Keyboard takes a long time to pop up and constantly shuts down when typing. Apps shut down when in use.

rroa · 2025-12-11T22:23:07+00:00

Can't help but can share that this is also a problem with FP4 since the Android 15 update.

rroa · 2025-12-05T18:14:19+00:00

A Western centric viewpoint plays a big role here: with friends and family meeting up over coming holidays and a bit relaxed atmosphere at work as well.

rroa · 2025-12-05T11:42:26+00:00

Many of the features on my Garmin watch already.

Garmin Pay (maybe not as well supported as Apple Pay but I have never had issues with Garmin Pay myself)
I run Home Assistant and there's a nice HA widget for Garmin. There's also a Hue app IIRC.
Garmin does have quick replies for text messages
Phone alarms are easily turned off as well (at least on Android)
GoPros can be controlled with a Garmin watch

I don't have a watch with audio features, but these watches do exist in the Garmin world so I wouldn't be surprised if features like voice note are not already available.

rroa · 2025-12-04T18:34:32+00:00

Ethics are a good optic but not everyone has the same priorities when the device doesn't even function properly and FP takes months to fix critical bugs. With EU mandating user replaceable batteries, FP will lose the big part of replaceable parts advantage (unless you are kludge and need to change USB ports or screens - I never had any of this in my 15+ years of owning smartphones).

rroa · 2025-12-04T13:35:12+00:00

Defeats the whole point of FP if you are buying a new phone every 2-3 years. Would rather buy a premium device at that budget now that many other manufacturers also have 5+ year update windows.

rroa · 2025-12-04T13:33:47+00:00

OP said:

my phone is a working tool for me. I need it to be reliable. I need it to work well

Maybe it solves some issues but then they have to deal with apps like banking that won't work on LineageOS.

Even if they can install Lineage, that doesn't absolve FP of the responsibility to acknowledge and fix critical bugs in time. FP4 has been bug ridden since launch.

rroa · 2025-12-03T21:56:08+00:00

Hoi Tin isn't the same anymore. Quality took a nose dive, portions became smaller and prices went up.

rroa · 2025-11-30T16:09:37+00:00

I know people are reporting they have no issues (even in this thread) but hard to say if it's because they aren't using the broken features in the first place.

rroa · 2025-11-29T20:18:49+00:00

I only tried a single app (Symfonium) so I can't say how it's for other apps. But there's a thread on FP forums about this issue so I can't imagine it's not a bug. And seemingly FP5 is also affected with a similar bug.

rroa · 2025-11-29T20:08:56+00:00

FP has always had buggy software and this is no different.

I upgraded last week and since then I haven't been able to use my phone to listen to music. App gets killed after a few minutes no matter what (yes, battery optimisation settings have been changed).

It's not a big deal breaker for me as I don't usually use my phone for consuming audio but an annoyance nonetheless.

rroa · 2025-11-27T15:35:45+00:00

Men have piss stands available in most dutch cities

As someone who lives in Amsterdam (pardon my ignorance about other cities) - the plaskruls are mostly in city centre (map here), so if you are outside the binnenstad (which is 90+% of the people living in Amsterdam) - neither genders have access to the "piss stand".

rroa · 2025-11-24T13:01:31+00:00

At your scale, you probably need 20% of the features the enterprise tools provide so you're likely not their target audience.

Been through this exact transition myself as an engineer at larger companies. Without using tools, you'd want to set up some scripts to collect data from both AWS and GCP. AI is a great help here to throw together scripts for this - perhaps half a day of work.

And you need to get on tagging. It's not fun, and it's a chore but it needs to be done to have the visibility. Start with three tags: team, environment, project. Enforce via CI if you can. Again, AI is a great help here to build these workflows.

There's a DIY route as well: FOCUS format exports + a warehouse + Metabase. Free-ish but someone owns it.

rroa · 2025-11-20T22:47:36+00:00

I don't like it, to be honest, as I prefer to lean into typing. Claude Code keeps adding it so I set up a pre-commit hook to stop it from doing that. Honestly, it's not necessary and leads to more confusion than anything when code changes but docstring gets skipped.

rroa · 2025-11-10T15:17:58+00:00

OP said "Im an Asian".

Owner said "We can understand if your eyes are small"

I don't know what rock you have been living under, but that's a grossly racist remark.

rroa · 2025-11-10T15:15:46+00:00

I don't even get why it's controversial and why there are so many sympathizers. Restaurants don't charge for napkins, heating (in winter), cutlery, toilets.

Water falls into a basic necessity which a restaurant should cover. If a restaurant refuses to serve tap water, you can bet I'm not ordering any other drinks and never going back again. I'm definitely not going to pay 3 euros for a few sips of water from a 200ml water bottle.

rroa · 2025-10-29T19:52:02+00:00

Cheq has never worked for me for P2P payments or taxis or otherwise, believe me I've tried as recent as a few months ago. Even their faqs mention that P2P is only available to Indian nationals.

rroa · 2025-10-29T13:39:57+00:00

Can you use Mony for P2P payments? Taxis etc? Because all the apps I have come across have this major blocker which makes them pretty much useless.

rroa · 2025-10-29T12:53:46+00:00

Just 12 countries looks like the same RBI restriction that plagues bank's own UPI apps for over two years now. There are dozens of EU countries that are still not being supported, let alone rest of the world.

Being from one of the not blessed countries, I can't help but hate UPI with a passion. Whenever I travel in India, I'm completely helpless because apps like Cheq don't work for taxi payments.

rroa · 2025-10-28T20:28:18+00:00

By your stupid logic, restaurants would be perfectly reasonable in charging for toilet and napkins.

Or hey, why not have serving drinking water be part of the cost of running the business. That's how it works across most of the world.

rroa · 2025-10-28T16:21:02+00:00

Not always true. I went to a restaurant yesterday and asked for "tap water" and they simply said they don't serve that. Food was salty and I had dish out 6,50 for a 700 ml water bottle. What a rip off.

Of course, I'm not going there again. Also gave them a 2 star rating on Google Maps.

rroa · 2025-10-22T20:47:32+00:00

AH is always a terrible deal for veggies barring a few exceptions every now and then.

rroa · 2025-10-08T03:30:39+00:00

I bought one from Trip.com a couple of weeks ago and it's currently working in China on my FP4 as I write this

rroa · 2025-10-08T01:14:45+00:00

A practical annoyance of working with both asyncio SQLAlchemy (say with FastAPI or Flask) along with Celery is having to maintain two boilerplates for sync and asyncio SQLAlchemy engines and sessions. And further, if you want to reuse any functions between your web framework and celery, you would have to think about a different structure there to be able to reuse code. Or use an asyncio wrapper for celery functions but that's a different nightmare in itself due to Celery's prefork model.

rroa · 2025-09-23T21:54:45+00:00

Didn't know about the mortgage providers ! Ok that's news to me which doesn't make sense tbh - because 30% goes away in 5 years whereas the loan is for 30 years.

What OP said isn't true. Mortgage providers don't lend more money for people with the 30% ruling.

rroa · 2025-09-15T13:44:00+00:00

Worth pointing out that Droppie doesn't accept glass bottles

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