It's not every day that a Youtube legend like Linus Tech Tips roasts your phone. We just had to get our co-founder and product manager Miquel to watch the wh...

I can’t believe some of the points Linus made against the Fairphone, especially given he’s onboard with the same compromises for the Framework laptop. 🤭

  • derpgon@programming.devEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Chiming in on the SIM/SD: as far as I can remember, my phone didn’t let me hotswap neither SIM or SD, always required a restart to handle it properly.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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      8 months ago

      What phone was this? I can add and remove SIM cards on the fly, and did so once or twice all the way since Android 9. Could be a firmware thing that’s preventing it from working for you, but even then SD cards should still just work; those have been swappable (excluding adoptable storage, of course) since at least Android 4.

      • derpgon@programming.devEnglish
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        8 months ago

        All Samsungs - Note 4, Note 8 (had two), S20 FE (current). Always says the media was not safely removed (SD) and requires a restart, or outright refuses to recognize there is even a SIM card until I restart.

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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          8 months ago

          If you eject the SD card in the settings, it’ll happily take a new SD card. Just popping it out is how you get a confused OS, especially with the way Android was designed, but that’s why the eject button is there.

          The SIM issue is pretty weird. I don’t know why Samsung phones don’t seem to cope with that.