Still is.

My fucking god.

I just opened Lemmy, went to 196, seen Dubai Chocolate in TV ad again. I tried to search it up to see what that is and why it’s so expensive and everywhere.

I closed the tab, went back to Lemmy, scrolled literally one post and I see this. What are the odds…

Unfortunately, especially with lower budget, that often ends up being choice between hardware and software.

I didn’t want to run custom ROM on the X3 Pro due to warranty. I had the motherboard replaced thrice, on average surviving for 9 months each… But there were theoretically options.

Armor 24 doesn’t seem to have any custom ROMs available, as seems to be usual with MTK devices, but the hardware is quite unique. I already had numerous strangers ask me what that phone is, how often it needs to be charged, or “what can that thing do” and “I am not surprised it has such strong light anymore” (it’s a massive 85.14Wh brick).
To be honest I like how it feels in hand compared to a fragile thin slab.

But the only ones making crazy devices like this seem to be brands like Ulefone, Oukitel and Unihertz (they even have a projector phone like Samsung did, but modern) which most likely won’t see custom ROMs, and I am too dumb to try building and maintaining something myself. I don’t even know how it works with device-specific drivers.

I did, as I said, by returning the phone xD

I think I also (unsuccessfully) tried ADB.

I can feel those seeds in my mouth and nose.

Not a carrier phone. I don’t know what specifically it is, Google Play… something. I disabled automatic updates in Play store, so probably something else. I usually just quickly pull down notification shade and click “Cancel”.

Even disabling all available restriction settings often doesn’t quite work. For clock app I set it to unrestricted and disabled optimization in DuraSpeed, still, it’s a dice roll. The chances are lower when charging. (Ulefone Armor 24)
On previous phone Unrestricted setting and locking in recent apps also didn’t quite work, but that phone had more issues. I’d often find that everything just randomly crashed overnight. (Poco X3 Pro)

But it also seems per-app. From experience, the most kill-resistant app is Termux (terminal emulator), but only if you disable child process restriction in developer settings. LibreTorrent also survives well, making the 2 only reliable large background download methods LibreTorrent and wget in Termux.

But anyway, my Alcatel 1066G dumb phone was just 10 bucks. A more reliable solution (and it supports animated GIF wallpapers 🙂).

It often feels like I am just a user of someone else’s device.

Even from the stuff that is shown like “Your device has new features” and “Settings changed by carrier”. And how Motorola tried forcing updates by using non-dismisable (they would re-appear immediately) full-screen notifications, and trying to disable the app led me to “Blocked by your IT admin” (I returned that phone).
Also when I connect any modern phone to Wi-Fi not manually set as metered it starts downloading a bunch of random shit automatically.
It keeps killing apps I want running (I had to use a cheap dumb phone as alarm clock with the past 2 smartphones), but keeps all Google services conveniently spending data and battery.

Maybe, but it would be like pointing out “Hey, this user has low IQ too”.

Don’t know what else to call that, unnecessarily adding someone to such information elsewhere than originally mentioned.

Ahem, not marketing to kids is bad?

Nah, bottom is better. Attracting kids to get the habit of eating unhealthy isn’t.

And how about hyena bite: https://lemmy.world/post/24602554 ?

Also, what do you even mean doxxing them?

I meant the other, different user, by username.

I didn’t find such post on their account. Are you sure you’re not mixing it up with someone else?

I know somebody else here (Lemmy) posted some low-IQ related question(s).
I am not going dox them here though.

I just got an old HP inkjet that doesn’t care about reported ink levels and cheap ink bottles from AliExpress.

I print white on black because I have so much damn ink and nobody expects dark mode documents. Kinda funny when I take out a sheet of paper and have to dry it out. 120g/m² is absolutely the minimum when doing such crap though. Regular 80g/m² just wrinkles up and leaks through, although that’s also a property of dye ink vs pigment ink.

But I also lucked out on sales combined with coupons

Currently it’s €18.50, though for 0.5L (~1 pint) that’s still cheap. Honestly I am surprised I actually received that.

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10 years later
Printers now include embedded cellular modems as backup for OTA firmware updates, ink subscriptions and telemetry.

Wait, I thought that’s something that only color laser do with yellow toner…

Edit: Possibly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

I am afraid this place is dead

And once again the only available good tech is old 2nd hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad