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   Ingrid Burrington (ingrid@everything.happens.horse)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 22:22:10 JST Ingrid Burrington

   https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight

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     Rachel Rawlings (linuxandyarn@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 22:22:07 JST Rachel Rawlings

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     • myrmepropagandist

     @futurebird @ingrid The only thing that makes me want a new phone is that I can't get any degoogled build on my current one.

     (And is everyone involved in GrapheneOS somehow blind to the fact that I don't want to buy a Pixel to install it because 👏 that 👏 means 👏 giving 👏 hundreds 👏 of 👏 dollars 👏 to 👏 Google?)

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 22:22:09 JST myrmepropagandist

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     @ingrid

     "device hoarding?"

     Is this a suggestion I give away my older devices more effectively so even fewer people need to buy new ones? Because that's the only correct way this could be called "hoarding"

     I can think of a hoarding that's hurting a lot of people too.

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     GM In DM's Clothing (dmhaikers@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Nov-2025 01:23:00 JST GM In DM's Clothing

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     @ingrid It's amazing how often free markets throw a tantrum when it's suggested "consumer choice" should include a "none of the above" option