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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You're already unpopular, Linus. You swept a workplace sexual harrassment scandal under the rug, were called out for your lack of proper testing, and your data is constantly incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

By "sweeping it under the rug" what you meant was "ARE NOT PUBLICLY COMMENTING ON POTENTIAL FUTURE LEGAL ACTIONS AGAINST THE COMPANY."

It really seems like a lot of the anti-Linus crowd gives way more of a shit about it than the actual victim, which is about par for the course with anything involving LTT.

Wish people had the kind of energy for shitting on actual horrid companies that they do for this one.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wish Linus had the energy to be a less shitty person and NOT work his team at an unmanageable rate, and had a clear idea of what his company even is.

Btw, nice condoning sexual harassment by completely minimizing it.
"Linus isn't a big company, so it shouldn't matter as much"

Fucknuckle

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're completely illiterate.

Stop talking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Are you Linus or do you work there...

Bootlicker?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That was my first thought. Then the video starts with, we got these phones last summer and they are prototypes...well, I don't think I have to hear anything else. Maybe his integrity issues stalled the release of the video. If that's the case, just throw away the review and wait until you can do a production unit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Something like half the comments on that video are about his facial hair.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

He actually said that it was a late prototype, then went on to list the things fairphone said had changed between his unit and the final product.

Then added that nothing he experienced should've been impacted by the slight changes they made.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Linus is many things, but I never saw him "shill" for anything that wasn't clearly labeled as such.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shill for what?

Got a followup?

No?

Didn't think so.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got a followup?

No?

Didn't think so.

Were you expecting a reply while you typed the comment?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Clearly fucking not.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like it when youtubers use thumbnails that scream "this is crap, don't watch". So many use them, too. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY MANSCRAPED

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Please don't promote this prick anymore!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with the review here, I've always found the mission of fairphone exciting and noble, but the specs...always left me with a meh feeling.

"It's a fairphone, not a great phone"

"They overshot the mark and made too many compromises" - 100% agree with this line

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll still hop to Fairphone after my current phone dies. I would miss a great camera the most but a decent camera is still a decent camera. At least I'm the boss over my own phone, I'm so fed up with not being able to swap out parts myself like with a normal desktop.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm so fed up with not being able to swap out parts myself like with a normal desktop.

Meh, most phones (except iPhones) aren't really that difficult to swap a battery out or something. The easy removable battery is nice, but you can change the battery on any Android phone with a bit of patience, time and heat.

Beyond the battery, the fairphone looks...pretty much the same inside from any other Android I've taken apart, the battery adhesive is the most difficult part once you're inside the phone, everything else is easy. So it's really not worth the performance compromises IMO

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You aren't paying extra solely for the modular design. I don't know why tech enthusiasts always hand wave the social and environmental benefits of Fairphone away when they are the key focus of the company.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean I agree on some Points and I too agree its in many ways a overpriced undercooked phone but the Note 5 comparison is absolute nonsense.

I'm the first to recommend second hand flagships but the Note 5 is maybe a fun secondary phone but definitly not daily drivable and recommendig it to people who don't know what they will get themselfes into is criminal.

Like just the fact that he implies that the Note 5 SoC is comparable in Performance to the Fairphone is braindead. You are comparing a Cortex A57 to a A78. There are 6 generations between them.

Also what are these doofusus in "The Lab" doing. Would it really have been that hard to pull up some common CPU Bound tasks like rendering websites, compressing files, ... . App opening Tests are often limited by Network speeds and IO Speed and tell you very little about the in App Performance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They just throw out any random shit and people click and watch it. LTTs quality dropped years ago when they got too big. It's about views now, not respectable content.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

100%. I don't get how people still enjoy this slop. He was alright 6 or 7 years ago but now it feels like mass media thrown together crap. Same as well for MKBHD honestly. Dude is reviewing nothing and always just sharing first experiences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes MKBHD is the same. Just loads of shill content to keep brands happy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Billionares paying millionarea to promot their wares to their wage slaves.

[–] RamblingPanda 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

156,031 views 1 hour ago

Yes.
He doesn't have 15 million subscribers that all hate him.

[–] RamblingPanda 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can click a link even if I dislike the linked.

But yes, I know that many still like his content.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's certainly popular but not necessarily liked.

[–] RamblingPanda 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Methinks y'all doth protest too much.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You have to press the enter key for unlocking... there is no uninstall option on the app menu... what???

You even a real reviewer? All ASOP roms do that.