Thank you. Your right about me enabling them, I need to reflect on that! It also seems I need to set some boundaries & not feed the hateful trolls with my limited time.

I can not oblige that. Hate is a sin, and sin hurts everyone.

I don’t feel the need to defend my self against such ad hominem attacks, or deny such baseless claims. You have feel will to think and say as you choose. Your opinions are none of my business. If you want a discussion, please start with some good faith questions. Else, how can I not see you as a hateful troll?

I look at conservatism as a concept that preserves the experiments that worked, and a necessary counterbalance to progressivism. Obviously, the ideal is a balance between them.

As an example, I think the separation of genders in such things as changing rooms, sports, & jails are all valuable traditions learn by hard lessons of those you come before us, and that we throw those out at are own peril. Basically conservatism = traditionalism in my mind. Who are we to be so bold as to think we are smarter than those you came before us? Or that the ‘old rules no longer apply to our lives’?

Thank you for leaving room in your judgment, it’s only a %97 change you wish me “the absolute worst.” :)

Either way, I don’t feel I need to be less of my authentic self to please you. I will wear your hate with pride if need be.

Thanks for the reminder about humility, I struggle with that. I’m not really into echo chamber political type communities tho. I need to learn to stand ever when others won’t, feel better about my probably rather faulty idea’s.

Seem peoples presumptions about the terms conservatism & Christian are all over the place. Getting thrown in the "97% correlation between being a Nazi trash person and being a “conservative Christian” is trying.

Thanks for your encouragement :) It’s nice to find someone who is not getting there exercise from jumping to judgment.

Haha, I’m trying to not think about it and move on. I don’t want more of the questioning my self stress from that experience!

Some people seem to really hate those two word already :| looks like I should be praying for them. Hate is a terrible thing in someone’s life.

It’s funny to think of them as ‘sleeper agents’, acting normal until the trigger words “Conservative/Christian” are spoken :)

I’m one too https://lemmy.today/post/49597645

Here’s a few Trump’s executive orders that make me hopeful for the future of the USA

1. Removing DEI from the government (the modern version people ok being racist) https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/insights/client-alerts/20250122-president-trumps-second-term--anti-dei-executive-orders & https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/keeping-americans-safe-in-aviation/
2. Unleashing American Energy: (https://www.hklaw.com/en/general-pages/trumps-2025-executive-orders-chart)

Also, DOGE is doing good for the people, very happy with the waste & people over 150 years old being cut in Social Security.

Hope your life goes well in New Zealand. Leaving on the cusp of a new hope is an odd choice.

The Pixel 3 I have I got used and it still works, although the back glass is broken and the battery health is 85%, and stopped getting updates around a year ago. I’d say it’s 5 years run so far (released October 2018) is pretty good. If you know of any other devices that would be useful for 4~7 years please share! I think high end Apple and Samsung devices would, and they are now committing to longer software support, and are likely to carry though.

Hello, here is a comparison of the 5G support specs. on the on T-mobile of two of the latest Fairphone’s vs Googles latest Pixel. Note that as of writing the Fairhone 5 is not available in the USA

The Fairphone 4 https://murena.com/america/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-4/#tech-spec

5G supported bands n1/n3/n5/n7/n8/n20/n28/n38/n41/n71/n77/n78

The Fairphone 5 https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-5/#tech-spec

5G supported bands n1/n2/n3/n5/n7/n8/n20/n28/n38/n41/n48/n66/n71/n77/n78

The Google Pixel 8 https://store.google.com/us/product/pixel_8_specs?hl=en-US

5G Sub-621: Bands n1/2/3/5/7/8/12/20/25/26/28/29/30/38/40/41/48/66/70/71/77/78
5G mmWave21: Bands n258/260/261

T-mobiles 5G bands https://www.t-mobile.com/support/coverage/t-mobile-network

5GUC (Ultra Capacity 5G)

Band n41 (2.5 GHz) // Supported on all the above 
Band n258 (24 GHz) // Only supported by the pixel 8
Band n260 (39 GHz)//  Only supported by the pixel 8
Band n261 (28 GHz) // Only supported by the pixel 8

5G (Extended Range 5G)

Band n71 (600 MHz) // Supported on all the above 

Hopefully this is helpful. Next would be the 4G LTE comparison.
P.S. I understanding what 5g frequencies are used in what cases in important to extracting meaning from this.

Thanks for checking my sources! I think you made fair points, and the sample size in the one test that seemed reference-able was too small, so I’ll edit my post to suggest using a glass screen protector.

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Thanks for the input, you have a lot of helpful points! I encourage others to do there own research as I have done. In my research I find that liquid “screen protectors” increase the force required to crack the screen, and have add no functional scratch resistance, hence why I recommend the screen protector on top, glass is the way to go, as it will crack hopefully absorbing the force of impact and you can replace it instead on you display :)

Here’s what I found in my research about screen protectors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIPOTDUnUfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhUrevQKFbo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Knv5_zc8ghA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S00WsL6cnvw

Thank’s for the advice, and being the first replay to my first post! I’ve retired from Reddit and hope to add value to society without supporting as many companies I disagree with. :)