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I dont want to start a fight or anything like that, I have to decide between these 2 and cant figure out which is the best and why, mostly because if you ask on X they just start swearing to each other without giving any real explanation, can anyone help a person who want to embrace privacy and anonimity?

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[โ€“] LoveSausage@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While I am agreeing somewhat, and I haven't been active in the community much. The few encounters I had was in the matrix chat . Yea toxic af . Checked in too see now , scrolled a bit but quite civil atm.

I repair pixel phones as an hobby / side gig and yea not comparable withe fairphone, but still repairable , better than a lot of others but depends on models.

I buy second hand in bulk and repair whats needed. Bonus of no trail to Google as well.

[โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Off topic: but about repairing pixels as a side gig.

For the Pixel 5A5G, the screens not being responsive issue, it appears to be widespread. The discussion forums, and the Google forums, simply refer to it as a "motherboard issue".

In your experience is that more likely to be a bad BGA join coming loose over time? Is the most likely repair option for those devices reballing the BGA on the CPU?