> t is my decision if I buy ultra high tech phones where everything is soldered together or go for fairphone or framework laptop. In the case of the fairphone, it's not available in the US or with many major carriers (namly mine). I can't speak to a fair phone, they may be all that, but other alternatives, are unfair to say they are even as close in comparison to flagship phones from 5 years ago. We had "good" devices, now we have to give up more than we did (privacy, repair etc), just to get the same thing we had before. As someone who hacked together a non-google "foss everything" android, because I care about it - it's NOT EVEN CLOSE to usable in comparison with Google Android and imo, anyone who disagrees is coping too hard to make a valid argument. If I had anywhere close to a normie life all foss android simply could not work, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who actually prioritized being productive. Same with most arguments of "just use this foss app on github" has never used it to actually get work done, or get somewhere important, or heavily rely on it.