Anyone else feel the pain of trying to get a decent upper midrange smartphone which either has 12GB of ram, sdcard support and/or internal storage higher than 256GB in a decent price?

Many OEMs like nothing which I would’ve considered are obsessed with 128GB - 256GB of fixed internal storage.

If you can’t provide a 512GB -1TB option in decent price range. Add support for sdcard storage. It can’t be that hard to do so.

Now that Xiaomi is making it nearly impossible to unlock bootloader on my phone because it refuses to accept whatever number I provide , Shizuku is probably my last solution… tbh I don’t find it worthy for them to try forcing me to stay on their software: my phone is old and outdated , and I don’t use most of the bloatware they put on the device

I watched a couple of webinars this week on assistive tech. I had used Look to Speak before, but just learned about Activity Blocks. Also, you can apparently use Google lens on text for difficulty reading cursive or fonts, zoom in, and text to speech (though i can’t get that one to work for me.)

Of all foss browsers I tried , Kiwi browser is the worst I’m coming back to Fennic , let’s see what have changed since the last time I used it