I had a fairphone 2 years back. Had the battery replaced once, otherwise it worked fine. It was a bit clunky, a bit slow, the camera wasn’t that great, it felt a bit out of date overall, but I’m not crazy about this sort of thing, I just need a basic smartphone. For me the environmental and fair trade aspect was the selling point, not the technical stats, so I can’t really speak on that. It was … a phone, lol. It worked fine. Friend of mine is using a newer one (not sure which one) and says they’ve done a good job to bring it up-to-date and especially make the battery last longer. I don’t think they aim for super high perfomance cutting edge phones, so don’t expect that. Oh, because you can take them apart, they are obviously not waterproof. Just something to know.

Looks good on first glance. Here in Germany, the new government did the ministry shuffle and created a wholly new one, which was - and still is - pretty disruptive to the stafe-funded scientific organisations. It also came with budget cuts, so maybe the new EU programme at least will relief some of the burden.

Fiskars is mainly known for gardening tools (at least that’s how I know them), but they also make cookware and cutlery.