@Leaflord@narada fun fact because foss projects did away with real name policies to please internet tough guys like Hector Martin and schizos online who pick stripper names, you can bants and abuse it.
"We don't require you to use your real name if you don't want harassment" okay then I've just made a few new usernames whoops you don't know I'm the same guy who took a shit last night.
@thegreatape every kid who was allowed a cell phone on moms plan back in the day (not mine my parents were controlling) had these: the SCH-u750 33647823-2-1333-OVR-1.webp
@thegreatape I seemed to have lost the parent lottery, even the poverty kids in section 8 apartments had shit I couldn't.
By the time I got into phones it was the early Android era and I was using the poverty spec phones, I miss the time when you could root any Android phone with the shadiest software and "bootloader locking" was as foreign of a concept as "diy HRT" was back in those days.
@thegreatape also the days of buying a cheap chinese phone (or a blu), with 8 core mediatek chips (what a novelty back then), stock android with no bloatware, and you could root them easily and do fun shit with them.
That's before the goal was to degoogle a phone and when the goal was to do fun shit with android, when SafetyNet and similar DRM didn't exist. I had picrel until the USB charger port was getting loose (thanks micro-USB), rooted and all. Piss easy on mediatek even. BLU-Life-8-600x545.jpg
@thegreatape Two other phones I miss that self destruct are the BB Priv (infamous overheating CPU, the Snapdragon 808 was dogshit), and the Note 4 (eMMC failure/soldering failure).
The last truly great phone I used to own was the LG V20 as well. The camera on that was some bomb ass shit, I genuinely fucking miss that thing and it's camera but unfortunately you need to do some thermal paste magic to keep it going. Also it's the last flagship smartphone of the time to have batteries that are removable. blackberry-priv-review-2791.0.jpg A16IG-LDYqL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg 61zLxzYarKL.jpg
Basically literally every single printer company got together and chose a standard for printers made in the early-mid 2010s because of the rise of phones, Windows RT, and similar.