Sure, you can buy one to never unfold. But you’d be getting a thick, expensive AF phone for no reason, lol
Sure, you can buy one to never unfold. But you’d be getting a thick, expensive AF phone for no reason, lol
I only bought a Pixel because of GrapheneOS, and the “a” series is at least slightly smaller (plus plastic back instead of glass, that’s something I am also happy about).
But yeah, I feel you :( I am not even small, I have average hands!
That… Seems so wasteful for me.
Only three years for a premium phone sounds like rich people behavior, to be honest.
You’ve been through two phones in just four years? That doesn’t sound that great for them…
Wouldn’t it be better to just, y’know, cut out the free space around it?
First - 6.3 usually means already over the edge of comfortable, 7a is already almost too much. Second - thickness adds to it when it’s in your hand. And third - why would I spend huge money (doesn’t seem like it would decrease in price with generations as much as a normal phone, it might be EOL when it becomes affordable) on something that breaks more easily and is still bigger?
The ones I have seen in stores are still too long to be used with one hand or fit comfortably into a pocket. My Pixel 7a is about the biggest I can use one-handed, and even then there is awkwardness.
I wonder how it would impact custom OSes.
No, I mean not Njalla-like services, but normal registrars like Porkbun.
Fair point about credit lookups… I wonder if you could use a real person’s info like this.
Yeah, but quite a few of them DO accept crypto - then it’s fine I guess?
Also they don’t include comments, which are a huge part of my reading. I save pages to read on a e-ink tablet for comfort, html where pictures are irrelevant but pdf in case of any graphics.
I wonder what those do with people who live in apartment buildings, lol.
I mean… They disabled desktop registration, then disabled registration from any non-official client, then can randomly ban people who try to make their usage of the platform more private/anonymous… Then there is censorship, at least here. And I have heard of at least one case of cooperation with German LE, so it’s not “untouchable” for Westerners too.
It was never safe with such an approach of “I can close my eyes and pretend the law doesn’t apply to me” even in the West. If it was hostile to privacy and anonymity by design, it was a matter of time until it became wide open to Western LE too. The sheer amount of compromate it had on users was a ticking time bomb.
“Highly decentralized complexity” - what does that even apply to? That would apply to Matrix, XMPP, Simplex, especially Briar. Even Signal can technically be selfhosted (whether it is feasible is another question), in Telegram you can’t have even that because the server is closed.
I am not disagreeing with your experience. I am disagreeing with cursive being a “made-up thing that nobody uses”.
Although there still is not a similar way to acquire your first Monero, the minimum amount for any trade there. Same problem as Bisq)
Telegram.
TG selling out? Was it not always like this, with all its censorship and attempts to combat anonymity? Weird to put it next to Tails, Tor or Localmonero.
To each their own. I would prefer to stick to my $3/mo plan with no extras. And said $120 are, while a good deal for a premium phone, are still $120 I would rather spend on better things (or if they’re this throwaway - donate to a charity). A phone after 2-3 years is still very much functional, I don’t see the point to get a new shiny thing just because you can.