the fact that anyone ever buys phones over $80 is so absurd to it

why would you do that

phones are $80

@0x6e6174 tbf a lot of people dont buy their phones, they rent them from their carrier

@Chloe that is also silly. why would you rent something that costs like $80 up front

@0x6e6174 …that one would hate knowing how much this one spent on its phone….

@Chloe yes. this it does not understand. it has spent under $400 on phones or phone parts in total ever. this includes money it has spent buying parts to fix friend's phones. the most it has ever payed for a phone is $0. why would anyone spend money on these. the msrp of a new phone is like at least 1k or something absurd like that. why would anyone spend 1k on something that lasts like a year or two

@Chloe a1662 iphones cost $60-$80 and last like 8 years instead of 1-2. it does not understand buying new phones

@0x6e6174 @Chloe because better technology has come out and people want an improvement?

@Chloe the only reason it would buy a new phone is to get a pixel it can install graphene on

@gen @Chloe the features it uses on a smartphone—aside from 5g—have not changed since the first phone it owned.

@0x6e6174 @Chloe people want a better camera, bigger and smoother screen, more battery life etc

@gen @Chloe @0x6e6174 or maybe they just get forced into hype cycles by manufacturers

@Chloe it doesn't think those are very expensive, either. a pixel 8 nowadays probably costs like $280 or something.

@0x6e6174 @gen @Chloe I can't tell the difference between photos taken on the Moto G3 and Moto G54 and they were released 10 years apart
I think the G54 does better in low light, but otherwise...

@0x6e6174 @Chloe do not buy a pixel (at least not new) i know uhh @maddy was a repair tech and can tell you the horror stories of them

@0x6e6174 @Chloe hey could this one supply some sort of “frugal phone buyers guide?” it would be very convenient for my not-financially-independent ass

@shroomie @Chloe ebay dot com iphone se 1st generation

great phone that does not break even if you literally belt sand it and drill holes in it. they are like $60-$80.

@0x6e6174 @Chloe would it support discord or telegram?

@0x6e6174 @Chloe also yeah i think that the main reason people get expensive phones is because of availability from the large brands and social engineering. i didn’t even know that 1st gen iphones were actually viable options before now

@shroomie @Chloe idk what the newest version of ios it will run is, but it could certainly run discord a year ago. it had issue with some apps, but the os was intentionally not updated so as to keep the jailbreak this one installed working. the phone could have supported a newer ios version at the time.

@0x6e6174 @Chloe well, thanks!! i’ll look into this. it’s unfortunate phones aren’t made like they used to be now ig

@shroomie @Chloe it will be a $60 dollar phone from 2016 (read: bad), but every phone is bad and this one has preferred it to every phone it has owned prior or since

@shroomie @Chloe @0x6e6174 SE 1st gen supports up to iOS 15, and i believe iOS 15 is the latest version of iOS that discord supports so you should expect support to be dropped relatively soon
telegram still supports iOS 13 so that should last a bit longer

@niko @Chloe @0x6e6174 i mean some people upgrade every year, others upgrade every 5 and some others upgrade when their current phone doesn’t work for them any more

@shroomie @Chloe it is so easy to repair. this one broke its screen 12 times, so eventually it started speedrunning screen replacements. its best time was 57 seconds

@gen @Chloe firstly, the battery life of all its phones has not ever been noticeably different, secondly I want the opposite of a bigger screen! big screen means phone no fit in hands! this is suboptimal design!

it forgot about camera tech getting better (it isn't used to phones having cameras still—its old phone's camera sensor got really really blurry (the sensor! not the lens!) and then lost the ability to perceive color. also, it drilled a hole where the camera was to make it so it could put its phone on its keychain). it guesses that is one case where it makes sense to buy newer phones, but also like,, just buy a camera if a nice camera sensor is the goal

@0x6e6174 @Chloe

i mean it depends on people’s hand sizes and how they use their phone, some might find a big screen better to use than other people, and the general trend is that people buy big screen phones more than small screen phones these days (apple discontinued the mini for a reason)

buying a nice camera costs a lot more money than getting a phone with a good camera, the phone is multipurpose, versus a camera that’s dual purpose

@niko @Chloe @maddy yeah last time it had a pixel the phone overheated to the point of melting the screen adhesive, so the screen promptly fell out and tore its ribbon cable when this one removed the phone from its pocket

@0x6e6174 @niko @Chloe Sounds like a 4a/5a generation - they had really weak adhesive. Either way, that’s definitely a Pixel moment in line with what I’d expect.

Shame it happened to you though.

@0x6e6174 @Chloe if i had more money that i was willing to part with, i couldmaybe get a fair phone, which would support graphene

@shroomie uhh fairphones do not support graphene and iirc graphene has said fairphone is actively hostile against working to add support

@0x6e6174 @Chloe wait. it doesn’t. shit

@niko damn

@0x6e6174 i mean, its had its phone for 3 years now, almost 4

@Chloe @0x6e6174 i plan to keep mine for 7 years and so far it seems like it's just fine
got a iPhone 15 Pro Max back in 2023 and it still works so shrug
i'll upgrade a year or two after it drops out of security update support

@Chloe ??? how

@0x6e6174 wdym how? it works fine, still gets software updates, and new phones are really expensive

@shroomie @Chloe also just like, ask ur friends for their old phones. many of its friends give it their old phones whenever they get new ones. no one wants to properly dispose of something with a battery. it has gotten like 6 phones this way

@0x6e6174 @Chloe i don’t have any irls

@Chloe @0x6e6174 ewww really ??