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Comment Re:Oh Brother. (Score 4, Informative) 116

I have a Brother as well. It's just a black-and-white laser printer, but it's the best device purchase ever. Very reliable. I've been using it for 12 years with no issues. They've even kept the drivers supported through Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11. They're a great example of how a company should treat its customers.

Comment Finally (Score 1) 47

I used to use my Kindle 3 a lot, 13 years ago. It was a great reading experience at the time when LCD technology was fairly bad, but I would find that, without a physical copy, the book was missing something. I would forget about the story much more quickly than I would a real printed book. It would just fade from my mind, and finishing an ebook was no longer an achievement, just momentary entertainment. Maybe it's the lack of a physical artifact to associate it with, or the lack of the physical reminder on a shelf, but I found it overall to be a more diminished experience.

That said, if this could be used to display comic books, well that would be awesome. I hate reading on a backlit display. It would be the perfect use case. I might check this out just for that reason.

Comment Re:Viral marketing or spam? (Score 1) 75

Fairphone has always been a sham. They sell eco-chic to guilty Europeans, but their products are overpriced and underdeliver. What we want is for Apple and its copycats to stop being actively hostile to repairability. This kind of sham repairability is just jumping on the bandwagon.

I bet this will blow your mind: Maybe instead of forcing people to buy disposable wireless headphones, you just put the headphone jack back in your phone. I know, right?

Comment Not Impressed (Score 3, Interesting) 75

6 hours battery life? That's not very good. I have Anker earbuds that I bought for a fifth of the cost that regularly give me 8+ hours of battery life, and that's with the noise cancelling on. Have they considered that maybe it's more environmentally friendly to just not manufacture such a low-quality product to begin with?

And the replaceable battery is a joke. Since the battery isn't a standard size, you're relying on the manufacturer to continue to produce them for the next 10 years. The thing about lithium batteries is they have a fixed shelf life. It's actually an amazing thing that I can buy a 50-year-old electronic gadget and put standard AA batteries in it, and it works fine. Unless I can do that with these headphones, there won't be any truly replaceable wireless earbud batteries.

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