Chelsea being funded by a Russian billionaire is no different.

Take his titles away too.

I’m sorry, I started joking because you weren’t being serious either.

Wait, you were being serious?

Well I’ve got a solution for you!

Just insert this adapter into the 3.5mm jack and it will be blocked for you. It’ll no longer be wasted space because this adapter is a useful place to store several grains of rice for a snack.

Unfortunately you do lose a feature as a result of using this adapter, it will stop one of the speakers from working and degrade your audio quality.

But you shouldn’t complain about anything removing a feature, or degrading your audio quality. You’ve got a new feature of being able to store rice!

You can even buy special fairphone sustainable rice from us. With only a small 300% mark up but an incredible 80% of the sustainability of already available rice. It comes in green!

The “demographic” of human being who doesn’t want to wreck the planet if Fairphone’s target.

If Fairphone is not trying to be universal anymore you should see that as a problem. So should every fairphone customer.

I’ll buy a more sustainable phone than the fairphone when my phone loses support in 2027. I’ll encourage everyone to buy a more sustainable product today.

I’d much prefer a 3.5mm jack

If you want a market solution to correct this, it should cost more money to submit frivolous patents.

Or simply rate limit the number of parents a company can submit if they have a lot of failed applications.

Sorry, you’ve wasted our time with 3 failed applications this month, no more applications until next month.

Headlines.

No one should buy this.

The lack of ethics and increase in waste is a deal breaker for me.

They’re not the best performing. They’re generally slow. Other phones objectively perform better.

Not only did the fairphone 4 ditch a feature I needed and would prevent waste in general for many.

It also caused my housemate who owned one no end of issues with every update. Bluetooth dropouts, touchscreen glitches.

Issues with the camera.

Issues with the microphone

Slow charging.

He’s a beta tester and he’s paid a premium for it.

Support from fairphone has basically been pathetic.

It’s hilarious how many supporters of this company are. It must be like the phenomenon of car drivers supporting public transport. They’re hoping everyone else buys a fairphone.

As they’re not even the most environmentally friendly phone it’s all a bit silly.

I disagreed with the video.

Sounds like you’re too keen to spout fallacies as if you’re in a debating match rather than engaging in a discussion.

When they ditched the headphone jack fairphone ditched environmentalism.

The fairphone 3+ was their last fair phone.

It’s just another cheap phone now. Made in the same place from the same stuff as other makers, with maybe a year of extra security updates.

They started by doing stuff differently, now they do things the same as everyone else and want to pretend they’re different.

Even if no one does anything, the first book was published 40 years ago. It won’t leave copyright for another 62 years.

Copyright is too long.

They really don’t care. It can take a lot of time to put a solid case together and you’re better off having a solid case than a quick trial.

The statute of limitations is much longer than a year. It’s usually around 5.

They can wait, see who’s made the money, then target them for a payout.

The rights holder first considers the size of the payout vs. the cost of legal fees.

Just because they haven’t been sued directly for this doesn’t make it infringement.

It’s clear from the output that it breaks copyright.

We don’t have to look inside the black box to demand to see the input which caused that output.

To be clear a machine is not responsible for itself. This machine was trained to break copyright.

If every time what already exists gets used there’s a risk of a massive fine or court case they’ll throw it away.

The game now is to delay the legal process long enough until they’ve built the replacement.

Then they can afford to throw the, essentially faulty, model away.

My point is that corporations often see a fine as a cost of business because the fines are issued by a regulatory system that has no teeth.

If you’re in a lawsuit against another corporation they are going after damages in civil court and it’s likely to be a high enough fine to stop the behaviour.

Typically they aren’t fighting other corporations.

Except AI models may end up having to start again with licences or public domain data.

They are currently breaking the law and delaying legal action as long as possible in the hopes they can repeat the trick with a new data set.

Monetisation?

Licensing the site to AI when there’s finally a ruling they can’t just scrape the internet for training data while ignoring copyright.

The patient Nintendo gamer has to wait for an emulator and raise the Jolly Roger.

In all seriousness Nintendo games for previous gen (Wii U) are roughly half current gen. In the current gens store. Go back further and they just don’t support it.

The real problem now is all console companies just close the store on their old consoles so physical media is the only purchase route that lasts if you want to stay legal and that has scarcity value in the end.