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In hindsight, I should've added a few more..

Repairability/sustainability: Easy to repair, sustainably produced.

Ethics: Anti-Big Tech (no Apple, no Samsung etc.), good workers' rights and supply chain. Preferably European.

Privacy: Speaks for itself. Privacy or anonymity, measures that foster it rather than feed data to others.

I feel like Fairphone would hit the Repairability and likely also Ethics (since it's a certified B corporation), but for Privacy, it'd be a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS... but it's Google, and given the CLOUD Act...

Maybe I could add accessibility there too, interface customisation (I like the iOS interface ways, but still, it's Apple), but that's a separate category.

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[โ€“] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use Google maps and Maps which is based on Freemaps if I'm not mistaken. Google's directions are just miles faster and better than Maps provides but I want to start writing reviews in both and contributing.

[โ€“] PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Cheers, thank you!