ExtremeDullard

ExtremeDullard, 27 days ago

Wow… If even Best Buy figured out those repair programs are designed to appease the regulators who ask for the right to repair but never actually be used, it should tell you how unappealing they are.

ExtremeDullard, 27 days ago

It’s time to stop thinking phones are anything but commodity hardware with variable degrees of shittiness. There are no such things as premium phones, just premium prices.

ExtremeDullard, 27 days ago

Totally agree! I can’t wait to put that granite-cased phone with wood-backed PCBs in my pocket.

ExtremeDullard, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

We have zero insight into the longevity of flash memory because it doesn’t matter: whatever it is, it’s a lot longer than the phone’s planned obscolescence.

That’s why you’ve never heard anybody complain about their saved data getting corrupted: their device has long since hit the landfill before that happens.

ExtremeDullard, 5 months ago

I’m as excited by cellphones as I’m excited by underwear at the supermarket: I need it, it needs to fit me, but I’d rather do something more interesting than shopping for new underwear. And just like underwear, no amount of gimmicks makes them more exciting: at the end of the day, it’s just a locked down computer loaded with spyware that you need to live a normal life.

ExtremeDullard, 5 months ago

FairPhone 4 running CalyxOS. It’s not cheap but the repairability factor is important for me, it runs a deGoogled OS which is even more important, and I stocked up on spare parts to make it last as long as possible.

As long as it serves me, it’s the most exciting phone I can think of and I already own it :)

ExtremeDullard, 7 months ago

Isn’t not buying anything on Black Friday generally a good advice?