Speedtest hasn’t been trustworthy for a while. Okla bought them and immediately started selling to ISPs nodes that they could install (probably just a container or something) that would sit as a “local” speedtest node, so you were testing your connection to the ISP, not testing your actual internet connection. (i.e. giving you the best possible results and what your ISP wanted you to believe).

Fast.com is slightly better in that Netflix spun it up to test your connection to their servers. So it’s independent of ISPs - but then they built high speed optic lines to most ISPs so it’s more like the second-best possible speed.

Accenture will be the same or worse. I don’t trust it for speedtests anymore.

That’s fair. A huge difference is how much money is behind the crazy hype machine, and how desperate they are to keep the hype going. Most actual tech people I know, work with, and are connected with in the field have normalized on tech usage. Knowing when to use it and when not to use it. It’s only the tech bros at the top who are still like “Yeah bro it’s totally going to get rid of labor bro we’re all gonna have androids who do all the work bro just trust me just 200 billion more dollars bro I promise”

Exactly. It should all be treated as another tool in the toolbelt. To me, it reminds me of when GUI editors came along in IDEs like Visual Studio. It honestly feels the same. Tech CEOs immediately clamor to say that tech jobs are dead, the market for engineers dips. Engineers freak out and refuse to learn the technology while others learn what it is. Those who learn and use it as a tool elevate themselves and move faster. There is a non-trivial group of people who refuse to use the GUI tools on principal. Eventually the CEOs realize they made a mistake, and then more work comes in faster than ever before. Eventually over the years/decades everyone starts using the tech as a tool.

It’s the same with an AI. Like it’s following the exact same pattern to a T. CEOs starting to realize that it’s just a tool that can be used, but it needs people at the helm to know how to use it. Devs are split, some it’s accelerating their work if they know what it’s doing, others see a useless boondoggle and refuse to use it but are probably only hurting themselves because every interview is asking “are you using AI”. I’d say we’re finally starting to normalize on it’s usage as a tool.

Lousy Smarch weather

Nice, that’s useful, they get something for free… What do we get?

They revealed it I guess, but they didn’t make it. They bought it off a startup.

It’s been nearly 20 years since Google revealed Android

Right off the bat it’s incorrect.

Yeah this stuff was never impossible before, it’s just easy to digest now.

Nothing too exciting, it’s a killswitch which disables mic and camera

Update: I installed 3 separate (large) banking apps and all worked without a hitch, absolutely no problems

This was a big worry for me switching over. I can say that I’ve set up 3 separate (large) banks and all three have functioned without a hitch. I think microG is doing a lot of lifting, it basically manages that attestation

They also completely ignore that they had free training for green energy jobs, because they killed off all of that free training so they could keep saying “they’re terking ther jerbs”

I disagree with the other commenter. Your male friend is irrelevant, it comes down to trust, does your boyfriend trust you. I don’t like the opinion of the commenter of “Just dump him”, that’s a very throwaway concept. (Something isn’t perfect? Throw it out of your life. I don’t like that line of thinking)

I think you should communicate with your boyfriend, ask him why he feels that way, and ask why he feels like he can’t trust you. It’s a dialogue you two need to have. It won’t be a fun one, but if you both want the relationship to work you’ll come out stronger. (If he tries to say things like “He’s waiting for his turn”, turn it around, make it about you and him. “But do you trust me”?) You then give him time to learn and adjust to it. Of course if he refused to learn or adjust, and it doesn’t work, then it becomes a more serious decision.

My anecdote, I was your boyfriend for a long time. My SO, now spouse, was hanging out with someone who was clearly interested. To make it worse, I had been cheated on before so it was a massive trigger for me, and I was immediately paranoid (cheating really fucks with your trust). I grew jealous and it became very unhealthy. If my SO took the other commenter’s advice, we wouldn’t have the life we have now. Thank god they didn’t, and instead talked to me, and gave me the ability to learn and grow. I learned to trust her, and worked on myself, and now 15 years later we’re both very happy and have built a life together.

This unfortunately I can’t answer as I haven’t traveled since I got it, but if fi works I would assume it would still work there. From what I understand that’s more about the antenna in the phone and the coverage, and the antenna works with the standard T-Mobile network

Haven’t run into any sites that don’t work, but I did install Firefox with ublock like my last phone, and so haven’t used the built-in browser much. FF handles everything perfectly, and no ads.

Haven’t tried banking apps, I’ll download a couple tonight and try them out and report back

So far I haven’t had any issues, I’ll let their specs speak more for me: https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/08/07/lets-talk-fairphone-gen-6-cameras/

I’ll say as an average photo taker mostly taking photos on vacations, it’s been a solid camera. Never felt that the resolution or quality is bad. Maybe you’d notice if you really really cared and wanted to come from iPhone? This question is tricky for me because it’s subjective. For me, I’m happy with it.

From what I understand, yes it will. Fi is a T-Mobile MVNO and they explicitly say they run on all T-Mobile MVNOs

That’s what I’m finding too, I tried with the Samsung app but it gets stuck at "Accept T&C"s page, which microG doesn’t have implemented. There’s a bounty out for that that I’m going to be contributing for

I have many of the same issues, and was able to work through it. Their /e/OS comes bundled with microG, and Google Services replacement. Because of this, I was able to install:

Google Calendar Gmail Google Maps Google Fi (Fi is my carrier, but I’m looking for a new one)

Installing apps was as simple as downloading the relevant Google app from the “App Lounge”, which is a Play Store equivalent. The only Google thing I couldn’t do was enable my Google Calendar for my work account, because they require a YubiKey, and there’s something there blocking it, but they claim to be working on it for the next major release of microG.

There was a bit of fear when I set it up that I wouldn’t be able to set up Fi, the first login attempt to my google account failed, but the second one passed perfectly fine.

Good and bad, but mostly good. It’s a solid phone, it does pretty much everything I could ask for. I was really nervous when I tried to activate it (I’m still on Google Fi, for now until I decide on a good carrier), and it activated without a hitch. The /e/OS App Lounge has pretty much every app, at least there aren’t any I haven’t found.

Setup was like setting up a phone back in the gingerbread days. Completely green field, figuring out what apps I liked and what I didn’t, there was definitely no guided “this is your phone”, more of a “Okay here you are, go make it your own now” vibe, like original Android.

No wallet, and I haven’t been able to get my Samsung watch to work with it, but there’s hope on the horizon there. For me, these are worth it to leave Google behind.

It doesn’t have every bell and whistle, I’d say it’s nothing fancy. It’s a solid phone. It has a good camera, battery, screen, but nothing amazing. I’d say it’s very… fair.