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by toastal 1219 days ago
Can any of these privacy-oriented forks support a device from within the last two years with a headphone jack?
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I have the fairphone 4 with divestOS:

https://shop.fairphone.com/

https://divestos.org/pages/devices#device-fp4

Super happy with it, but yeah no headphone jack, but i have it with the usb-c convertor.

I'm not happy with that compromise. I don't want to choose between charging and audio. And the dongles that can do both are actually really bulky. And Bluetooth headphones are a scam: too small to be repaired, must worry about batteries, Bluetooth likes to be flaky in general, almost all buds have terrible frequency response curves so the audio quality is not very good.
Take a look at my Amazon link above. This is a 5G "daily driver" from 2021 with a headphone jack, 6/128 GB and a big 5000mAH battery.

It's everything that the average Joe really needs for only $99 refurbed. As I said above, I just installed e/OS on one as a Christmas present. It runs very smooth and fluid, better than stock because the background Google spyware crap is gone.