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   tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 05:43:13 JST tech? no! man, see...

   buying a phone nowadays feels like if you wanted an oven and you went to the appliance store and said you wanted an oven and they showed you a large selection of microwaves and then when you go like "what about an oven that isn't a microwave" they look at you like you're from the 1950s and patiently try to explain how much more convenient a microwave is and you're like "I understand all that but what I want is different" and they're like "well... too bad"

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 05:47:11 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     (buying a computer is probably like this too, except I'm not foolish enough to go to a store and try it)

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     tech? no! man, see... (technomancy@icosahedron.website)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 05:50:47 JST tech? no! man, see...

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     • CEO of Anti-Clock Society

     @be yes but if you try this approach next year you will end up having to throw away your perfectly good headphones and replace them with garbage

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     CEO of Anti-Clock Society (be@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 05:50:48 JST CEO of Anti-Clock Society

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     @technomancy My approach for buying phones for the last decade or so has been looking for what was a "flagship" phone 3 years ago, cross referencing that with the LineageOS supported devices wiki, then finding it on eBay for under $200.