The US isn’t listed as a country Fairphone ships to when you try to check out on their website.

I wasn’t aware that they sell their /e/OS phones in the US through Murena with the extended warranty, so that’s good to know.

Everyone loses here though. Walmart will only lose money because people can’t spend their SNAP money there and it’s not like they’ll be spending it at more ethical stores.

That’s just their headphones though.

Are you just out of luck if you need warranty service?

I’m in the US too and I’d love to get a Fairphone when my S22 Ultra stops getting updates in a year. I visit Europe once or twice a year, so acquiring the phone would be easy, it’s just the lack of warranty coverage in the US that would make me hesitate.

Privacy while shopping in person is literally impossible these days, so I don’t even try there.

I know I’m recorded dozens if not hundreds of times by cameras and other devices every time I leave home. Apartment building security cams, neighbors’ doorbell cams, public transit cams, police surveillance cams, dashcams, retail cams. There are thousands of automated license plate readers in my state. My car has four cams and sends all sorts of data back to the manufacturer. My apartment front door is electronic and it logs all locks & unlocks. My building’s parking garage logs every time I enter and exit. Virtually every intersection has surveillance cams (not just red light cams). Hell even when hiking you’ll end up on trail cams.

Last month police in my metro used outdoor surveillance cams to falsely accuse a woman of package theft and the cop that visited her home told her, “You know we have cameras in that town. You can’t get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing."

Your best bet for privacy while shopping is if you walk everywhere, pay with cash and wear a mask. And even if you do all that, gait-recognition technology will be widespread in the very near future and you’ll be identifiable in public even while wearing a mask.

Morakniv also makes a huge variety of knives, everything from knives for woodworkers and electricians to utility and kitchen and outdoor recreation knives. All of their knives since the company was founded over a century ago have been made in their factory in Sweden.

Interesting, here in the US their products are made in China but they market them as Swedish design! I’ve never tried Jordan. Personally I really love Flux oral care products and I’m pretty sure they’re all made in Sweden. I don’t think Flux makes toothpaste, but their fluoride chewing gum is the best gum ever and I always stock up when visiting Sweden.

Agreed, it’s super unlikely we’ll have free and fair presidential elections again anytime soon. MAGA will illegally hold onto power for as long as possible and that could be decades.

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Their products are widely available here in the US and it’s all made-in-China crap, even the toothpaste. TePe is a much better Swedish brand in my opinion.

Stannous fluoride is far superior to sodium fluoride though, so look for toothpaste with it.

Am dumb American so I’m not familiar with most of these European brands, but Sensodyne famously uses stannous fluoride and you’ll find it in some formulations of Parodontax.

Same here, skin is perfectly fine without moisturizing. But I also drink like a gallon of water a day.

I recently switched from Spotify to Tidal. Tidal sounds better on my car stereo and doesn’t have podcast/ebook crap that I don’t need. Tidal recommendations are almost as good as Spotify, but it’s improved a lot this year and it’s catching up. Tidal recommends a lot of music that’s in genres I normally wouldn’t explore but I end up liking many of them, while Spotify recommendations are completely locked into the genre of whatever track/playlist I’m listening to.

I tried Qobuz and Deezer too. Deezer Android app was unusable because it’s so outdated and poorly designed, while Qobuz recommendations were so bad that I’m convinced they recommend completely random tracks as opposed to using an algorithm.

Are you me!? What you described is exactly my experience with Linux. I really want to completely ditch Windows, but I’m not keen on the idea of spending full days of my life every year on maintaining a Linux installation. I tried Ubuntu, Manjaro and PopOS, all of which have bugs preventing audio from being played on my laptop (I spent so many hours troubleshooting and couldn’t figure it out). Finally tried Mint and audio works most of the time, but Mint is a super mediocre experience that I’m not excited about and I don’t understand why people rave about it. My laptop is dual boot and I use Mint 95% of the time but it’s pretty lame and doesn’t feel like “my” OS.

Linux enthusiasts scratching their heads wondering why the masses aren’t switching over to Linux need to understand that it’s nowhere near ready to go mainstream. Even after decades of development it takes more troubleshooting and customization than 95% of people are willing to give it.

Well, I have a very specific play routine I do with my cat almost every day that no imposter could emulate. I’ll point at her and exclaim, “YOU!!! I know what you’ve done!” and she’ll take off running for her life and I’ll chase after her. When I finally catch her, I ball my hand into a fist and shove it in her belly and she gives me rabbit kicks and sassy chomps.

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Fair enough, but having a snappy phone with plenty of storage is important to those of us who do pretty much everything on our phones. My laptop on the other hand was purchased cheaply 6 years ago and I’ll often go a week without using it, and my laptop before that lasted 11 years.

I forgot my wallet the other day and only realized it when it was time to pay for my grocery purchase.

My state’s driver license app works flawlessly, but I can’t get any of these crappy wallet apps to work with Android on my S22 Ultra due to unresolvable errors with each of them. Hopefully PayPal can finally give us both a working wallet app.

I’m a 6’2" guy and people only mess with me if they’re intoxicated. I’m always completely aware of my surroundings unless I’m in a crowded place that should be safe (like malls and airports).

All my sketchy encounters were on public transit, so I no longer take it in my city (transit in Denver is THE FUCKING WORST). I’ve been threatened and followed multiple times by drugged out weirdos, but let me tell you about the two worst incidents: 1) I was jumped and attacked by a random guy at an empty train station, there was nobody around to help or even witness and I ran for my life as he chased me; 2) guy at a bus stop recognized me from my workplace and he followed me on the bus to my girlfriend’s place and then on another bus back to my home and he started hanging around outside my workplace hoping to run into me. So yeah most of the time I’m hyper-aware of everything happening around me in public and you’re right to be as well.

I feel the same about Paris, there’s nothing romantic or magical about it. It had easily the worst air pollution I’ve ever seen in Europe (but I understand that’s improved a lot in the last decade), it’s overcrowded and smells like sewage everywhere. Not a place I’d ever care to visit again. That said I use a number of French services and I really like a lot of their cultural exports, and I’d love to explore other areas of France.