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I feel like a boomer in my 20s with the fact that I fucking despise having to pay 30-40 dollars a month just so some guy from work can reach me and tell me I need to work extra hours. Everything and everyone else I can contact online using my work's PC or my personal laptop. It's also dogshit-garbage because it's getting to the point where most services entirely give up on their desktop/browser ports or websites because they just assume people are going to use their phone.

Instagram was like this for a long while. Indeed recently removed their "distance" feature and other filter features from their desktop version. Reddit is another example. Enshittification of the internet to put it all on a phone is awful.

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[–] lelkins@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i know people that use tablets and phones to type out entire essays and stuff... how?! the keyboard feels really bad no matter what i use, i'd rather use my laptop. i don't care that i can use my actual keyboard, a computer feels smoother for that purpose alone

another example are kiosks. like in a fast food restaurant. i tried one of those and it didn't feel responsive just as you said

how is the pinephone pro in general? i can't afford it and i don't know if it'd be viable sooner or later. currently i have an s9+ and i'd need to switch to a new one, hoping for a xiaomi or anything with support for custom roms. i won't be able to get my hands on a pixel tho

i also hope china breaks new ground chip-wise to be honest

[–] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know about the Pinephone Pro since I don't have one (I was talking about the Pinebook Pro which I do have and since the Pinephone Pro is basically just a Pinebook Pro that fits in your pocket most things apply to both) but I would only recommend Pine64 stuff in general if you're into hacking and tinkering with hardware. Any smartphone that is supported by a Linux distro like postmarketOS or Armbian will probably work fine.

[–] lelkins@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

i misread it lmfao

apparently the j5 2016, a phone i used to use, has partial support for postmarketos, with the only issues being microphone not working and brightness not being controllable. would be cool if i do that but my dad forced me to flash original firmware because "it'll be very expensive in the later years, a collector would buy it!"

real