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georgia
georgia
hell I havent updated my phones OS in 7 years because after updating to 15 it soft bricks when a SIM card is in. but when I put my SIM card in my new sailfish phone and after backing up and putting the backup on my future working puter I'm considering updating android versions.... although, I'm pretty sure android has gone downhill since 9, so maybe not!
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@georgia how do you even use any app without updating
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@ergo android hasnt quite walled off its garden that much yet
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georgia
georgia
@icedquinn @phnt @VD15 I had the iPod touch, the first iPhone, and the iPhone 4. dropped the 4 in the terlet...
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icedquinn@blob.cat
@georgia @phnt @VD15 nah i have an msi bravo from costco that i bought with weird biden minority grant money during the covid years, a t420 i used for a couple years on fedi before that and an hp elitebook i bought used to travel with (the bravo's hinges are fucked and its heavy, but at least it has a lot of ram...) but then we stopped travelling. 
but i did sell off my remarkable and replaced it with a smaller supernote, and basically ran my last cell phone well past the planned obsolescence
but i did sell off my remarkable and replaced it with a smaller supernote, and basically ran my last cell phone well past the planned obsolescence
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icedquinn@blob.cat
@Vo @georgia @phnt @VD15 every so often i try to shop for palmtops but they are just extinct. there's like this thing https://pocketmage.org/ but you can't actually get one
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@ergo you would be correct, bofa and amex dont work, but venmo and etsy and grubhub do
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@icedquinn @phnt @georgia @VD15 I remember back in the day my friend made some bank by buying lots of these keyboard phones from corporate, ripping the gold off their contacts with aqua regia.
I simultaneously loved his passion for the hustle and hated where the tech trajectory was headed.
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@georgia @icedquinn @phnt @VD15 At least we've got durable plasma cutter electrodes from this guy. My bro probably just created a ton of toxic waste to grift a few bucks.
He's pivoted since then, currently runs a highly profitable anime figurine grift, attending cons to shlep vinyl
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