That’s funny because I live in a shared house which has 8 bedrooms but only 1 kitchen. Even if I worked 40 hours a week I couldn’t afford a studio in my city. New Zealand rentals are unaffordable, here I’d need to have a professional job and be married just to rent a 1 bedroom apartment with almost no space.

I spent the weekend sitting on my ass now it’s sunday night and I didn’t even do the things I told myself I would do haha

In 2014 and 2015 I was nearly killed or injured in two separate accidents at work. Luckily I got away with no injury. I’ve worked dozens of jobs but they are either high turnover roles or they are part-time and barely pay my rent so I need to be subsidised by social welfare. All the people I meet are bonkers and I feel uncomfortable around normal people anyway, because I don’t have their lifestyle or any career direction. I’ve basically been unemployed since early 2021 with very few small exceptions. Prior to that I was unemployed from about early 2016 til late 2020 then had my job for 5 months but quit due to the intense pressure and my boss threatening me with written warnings for not performing tasks with perfect KPI and too many complaints from impatient customers. It’s just impossible these days. Even with a job I can’t move into a better rental - I’m stuck in a shared house with 8 bedrooms and only 1 communal kitchen which has numerous problems. No car park, so I can’t drive to any jobs now, has to be on a bus route. I got sick of having to share a driveway with the other 6 tenants who all own cars. I have to keep moving my car and then on the road there are time limits. I sold my car at the start of the year and made a loss. It didn’t take long to spend the money because it was so little. I basically bought a board game, some new underwear and a subscription to a website. Also bought new foam (installed on my computer chair) no money now lol

Indeed. A phone that costs half as much can pretty much do the same job… I doubt I’d notice performance issues or hit the limit of what the CPU can do on a cheaper phone. I just learned I can use Unexpected Keyboard through f-droid, although there is no auto-correct, it tends to be very smooth and lightweight compared to other keyboards. People don’t know it, but the keyboard is a resource hog. It’s always calculating things every time the cursor is moved.

Cool. Smart move by China then.

yeah just like in the video games when you c4 anything that you can’t take with you, just to deny it to the enemy :)

I’m prepared to pay a little more for fuel and groceries if we keep seeing successes like this.

Just one more war and it’s enough to trigger a revolution. Buy your iPhone Duo before chip fabs get gobbled up by missiles launched by retreating US forces!

8k USD? Worse than I thought!

I had to look it up. Yuck. A lot of users are just beta testers aren’t they? At least with Linux you know that people care about fixing it. But Windows, it’s a mess.

No it won’t be good if the global economy collapses but it isn’t good to keep it on life support either. Time to euthanise the economy and rebuild from the ashes I reckon.

Putting a custom OS on a phone is like trying to install Linux in 2004. Out of curiosity I had been looking at some phones here in New Zealand, available on Trade Me (our Ebay, basically) and some of those phones had a note that there was no guarantee that the boot loader could be unlocked :/

Ewwww

The NSA does not want Americans to be under Chinese surveillance? Is that it :)

Back Market? You don’t just order off the One Plus website and ship anywhere in the world?

Proof?

If I had a job I’d buy a One Plus direct from China and put LineageOS on it. I don’t need to relock the bootloader since my phone is mainly for browsing and text/calls (no important private stuff). I don’t even log into Lemmy on my phone because the PC experience is superior.

Recently I got rid of WhatsApp (now fully deleted my account) plus I removed Signal. My battery life is incredible now. I don’t even fast-charge cos I’m too poor and my phone doesn’t support any worth-while fast charger anyway! Next step is to get LineageOS and get rid of Google Play Services. Even more performance and battery saving.

My friend ordered one but then it had to be refunded because they couldn’t get enough phones to the customers. Very small operation I suspect.

I don’t care about the downvotes. I intentionally view ALL posts in the feed, I don’t hide anything just because of low score. The lowest score might be the best!