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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 05:24:19 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Phone Upgrade 101

   * Get a phone.
   * Use it 'til it dies.
   * Get a new one.

   Ignore the hype by Apple/Google/Samsung and co.

   • Adam Honse (calcprogrammer1@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 05:29:37 JST Adam Honse

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     @nixCraft

     * Check postmarketOS wiki for best supported devices
     * Go find one in acceptable conditon on ebay
     * Use it until it dies or a significantly better supported device exists
     * Repeat

   • Zorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷 (algocompsynth@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 05:35:08 JST Zorro Notorious MEB 🪷🪷🪷

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     @nixCraft "dies" for me is "stops getting security updates". IIRC for Apple that's five years. My Samsung phone is approaching five years and I think it's still getting security updates. But it used to be three years for Android.

     So no, you can't ignore the supplier's hype. The phone may still take pictures and all that but you do *not* want it on the internet if it is vulnerable to hackers.

   • Social Justice Bard (violenteastcoastcity@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 05:37:29 JST Social Justice Bard

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     @nixCraft My mother in law said she has to get a new phone by the end of the year because Apple will no longer update hers. I don't think it's all that old. Never had that problem with my Android.

   • Darwin Woodka (darwinwoodka@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 05:45:20 JST Darwin Woodka

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     @nixCraft

     *nods in Pixel 2*

   • Hennadii Chernyshchuk (shatur@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 05:54:06 JST Hennadii Chernyshchuk

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     @nixCraft I recently bought a used OnePlus 6 and flashed LOS 14. Quite happy with the result.

   • PaperTowel (papertowel54@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 05:55:54 JST PaperTowel

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     @nixCraft My brother is still using a Samsung S7 Edge. He really needs an upgrade!

   • lemgandi (lemgandi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 05:58:18 JST lemgandi

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     @nixCraft Still happy with my Teracube 1 ( 2022 or so). The new model has a removeable battery, a feature of my last phone I sorely miss. But alas, no separate charger as of yet.

   • Jorge Morales (effectix@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 06:38:18 JST Jorge Morales

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     @nixCraft Yes. Model swap at the speed of planned obsolescence.

   • Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 06:49:29 JST Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

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     @nixCraft Pretty much what Iʼve done my whole life. Canʼt think why one would do it any other way.

   • Baron Vonskinnback (vonskinnback@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 06:55:27 JST Baron Vonskinnback

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     @nixCraft I would like to add, use until it dies, fix it until the parts are not available, then recycle it. With Apple you have the added challenge of managed obsolescence with the OS, but with Android, 3rd party roms/OS it is better, I rocked a Nexis tablet (2012) until 2023, paid £99 quid for it new, done an absolute shift until it could no longer perform, I now have an Amazon tablet that cost £89 & hope to keep it going until 2030, I get about 6 years out of a phone & try to buy second hand.

   • George Girton (martinicat@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 08:24:56 JST George Girton

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     @nixCraft I have a different MO but I think what you suggest is a super fine way to go. 🍸😺

   • Radio Azureus (radioazureus@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 08:32:38 JST Radio Azureus

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     @nixCraft no just no I have a Samsung phone over here which Samsung has deliberately slowed down after three and a half years of work a perfectly fine phone I have to root it and put Linux on it in order to use the thing

     #hardware #POSIX #OpenSource ClosedSource #programming #smartctl

   • Gatekeeper..Harris Walz (gatekeepken@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 08:46:08 JST Gatekeeper..Harris Walz

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     @nixCraft
     I have a $150 Galaxy that has a great Hotspot. My service is $25 a month w/Visible, unlimited data!
     I don't pay internet charges,,,Could not be happier.

   • naught101 (naught101@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 09:21:28 JST naught101

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     @nixCraft 2.5: repair it repeatedly

   • Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴 (aknorals@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 10:06:29 JST Aknorals⚑Ⓐ 🏴

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     @nixCraft MFW folks don't recharge their phones /s

   • Seth Galitzer (sgsax@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 10:22:53 JST Seth Galitzer

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     @nixCraft You mean I don't have to buy a new phone every year because it has one marginally improved feature and a crapton of useless new features?

   • Bryce Belcher (belch@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 10:47:19 JST Bryce Belcher

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     @nixCraft I feel like this is the truth though. I had the iPhone 8 2019, then I got the 13 Pro Max in 2021.

   • Nitin Khanna (nitinkhanna@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 11:13:34 JST Nitin Khanna

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     @nixCraft this is exactly why Apple secretly killed their phones’ performance due to “battery issues” for all these years. They saw this trend coming a mile away.

   • 🐜 (antdude@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 11:30:28 JST 🐜

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     @nixCraft or too slow & unsupported like my iphones 4s & 6+

   • gi124 (gi124@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 12:58:30 JST gi124

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     @nixCraft same goes with computers btw

   • user15082024 (mastodon_nb@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 13:02:09 JST user15082024

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     @nixCraft my old Nokia N9 is still alive since 2011!

   • NicAnnCop (blueinthesouth@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 13:32:44 JST NicAnnCop

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     @nixCraft then use your kids' old phones until THEY die. Helps to have very responsible kids who upgrade every 3-4 years.

   • MoonHear (moonhear@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 14:31:02 JST MoonHear

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     @nixCraft

   • mr_observer (mr_observer@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 21:31:55 JST mr_observer

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     @nixCraft Get a Pixel, install GrapheneOS and use it untill support ends.