Obsolesce this
Had an email a while ago that my phone, a Fairphone 3, won't be supported after August this year. And I'm a bit mad about it honestly. Yes, it's been longer than most phones. That's great. But I bought mine in 2020, as the newest version. So that'll be six and a half years. Which isn't enough.
By the time this was announced the replacement parts were mostly sold out and won't be restocked. So I can't do any insurance by buying spares. I'd been procrastinating on getting a new screen module as it was. The other half of the issue is the software support. So at some point in the not too distant future I'm going to be upgrading and I really don't want to.
Lots of people with non-Fairphones much older than mine are still chugging along happily. My sister recently replaced her eleven year old phone. That's older than all the kids!
In good news I got a replacement strap for my watch. The watch itself cost me £7.99 (it now costs £13, a whole other story) and the new strap has cost me £8.98. Do that maths.
I'm not an accountant but there's something incredibly wrong with a world where it's cheaper to buy a new dishwasher than get it repaired. For 'dishwasher' swap out 'basically anything'. This is why I mention my city's repair shop makerspace to anyone listening despite the fact I've never set foot in the place. And why so much of my stuff is held together with duct tape.
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