But splitting the vote isn’t an issue with proportional representation is it? If the libs lose one seat to the greens that’s still one seat not occupied by the cons.

In Japanese it’s customary to use shi and shichi for 4 and 7 when counting, because they can’t be confused when appearing in order. So you can sound a bit more like a native counting that way :)

I already admitted a dongle is a compromise, I don’t like them, but don’t start claiming people are forcing you to buy Bluetooth headphones when they’re not.

Every quarter? This is why I asked what was meant by ‘a lot’. If you’re going to claim that the extra wear caused would be this extreme I’d like for that to be at least somewhat substantiated.

requires you to buy and use battery powered headphones

This is simply false though, we’d agreed that you are required to buy and use a dongle, and that this is an added inconvenience. But you are not required to switch to wireless headphones and your old cans haven’t suddenly become useless. People still have a choice between wired and wireless, wired has just become a little less convenient, that’s all. I completely agree with you that people shouldn’t go out buying new gadgets if their old stuff is still functional, but you can just continue using your old headphones if you get a new phone if you buy a dongle with it. Inconvenient yes, but not the end for wired headphones.

You lose them easily

Just leave them connected to the headphones.

you can’t charge your phone if they’re connected

Dongles with an additional usb port exist.

if you disconnect your headphones the device still behaves as if they’re plugged in.

Again, leave the dongle connected to the headphones, not the phone.

It’s so much less convenient

It is less convenient, but I’d argue not by all that much. More importantly it’s not any less convenient for the vast majority who are already only using Bluetooth.

there’s just no downside to having a dedicated headphone jack

1. It’s an additional, and to most people superfluous, point for water ingress. Water damage is the most common type of damage in phones.

2. It takes up space which could be utilised otherwise, like with a slightly larger battery or larger speakers or camera modules.

3. It’s an additional part which needs to be manufactured, stocked, installed and purchased. Extra cost which only benefits a few. This is especially important to Fairphone in particular because they don’t use off-the-shelf components and promise to supply replacement parts pretty much indefinitely. I.e. Fairphone would have to design a custom module and then have that module in stock and manufactured specifically for them for the lifetime of each of their devices. That’s not a trivial expense.

expediates wear and tear on the port by a lot

How much is a lot? And good thing the usb-c port is a $15 user replaceable part then. Also dongles with two connectors exist if you specifically want to charge and use headphones at the same time.

I don’t bother with a case for this reason, haven’t broken anything so far. Just replaced the battery a couple times.

Do you happen to know whether this was before or after the camera update? The camera has been noticeably improved at some point.

Looks like AccuBattery.

So now you still do the exact same things but with a little dongle, right?