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Evan
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I use keet but not for texting. I use it primarily as a replacement for Dropbox/Google Drive for moving large files between devices.

Video chat is also very good with Keet though.

Signal is daily driver for texts, haven't tried out SimpleX yet, but that's on the todo list.

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The Fairbuds noise-canceling earbuds have an easily swappable battery

Fairphone, the makers of the ultra-repairable Fairphone 5, have launched a new pair of easy-to-repair wireless earbuds. Instead of tossing away your earbuds when the batteries eventually die, Fairphone’s new Fairbuds let you replace the batteries inside the buds themselves and their charging case.

In addition to replacing the batteries, you can repair or exchange the left or right earbud, the silicone ring, earbud tips, the charging case outer shell, and the charging case core. The new buds also come with a standard two-year warranty, but you can add one extra year if you register them online.

Certainly, these objectives should be embraced by all manufacturers. I will never forget my first (and only) Apple AirPods and their batteries failing just a month past the warranty period ended. They were super expensive, and I vowed to never again pay so much money for a disposable product.

The downside though with Fairphone products is they are not the cheapest around, so many are still going to buy cheap disposal earbuds. They are very likely not as good as the top end earbuds are either, but I'd be interested to see some reviews around the sound quality.

One would have to assume these could last at least two or three times longer than any earbuds which have non-replaceable batteries (batteries are usually the component that fails). But the cost of any batteries being replaced also needs to be factored in.

I'd hope though if there is enough support and sales, that these prices could actually get cheaper over time too.

See https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/9/24125089/fairbuds-fairphone-noise-canceling-earbuds-battery-replace-repairability

#technology #earbuds #environment

That's great. Didn't know about them.

If you can't repair it, don't buy it.

Yeah that took me by surprise too when I learned that couldn't sign a message proving ownership of a multisig address.

Bitcoin talk forum explaining that it is impossible (in 2016).

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1576803.0

Then more recently (2021) Craig raw explaining why it is currently not a feature.

https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/issues/193#issuecomment-1117139854

A wall USB outlet for power. Went through a set of AAA batteries on day one. Day two (today) I switched to plugging it in.

RIP long-term HODL wave.

Urge to re-imagine multisig setup with new device(s) rising.

Yeah, it was a solution for stopping the "Trending 24hr as the default" problem. The fact that you can't rearrange to pick the default... I hope someone is working on that.

Can click on your profile pic, settings, feed, to get rid of "trending 24hr" and anything else you don't like (except for chronological).