I haven’t heard of a carrier that doesn’t, at least personally. Then again, I’ve mostly used smaller carriers. Republic Wireless, FreedomPop, Mint, etc. I did use TMo for a while on a prepaid plan up until I got tired of the texting not working half the time
Huh, I’d never actually noticed they were higher price. Most of the time I’m buying the phone from the manufacturer’s website, and I at least didn’t see carrier locked phones on Motorola’s website when I got my last phone. Does make sense, though, given carriers will hope to subsidize some of the cost of the phone through the plan itself
Kinda depends. If you buy the phone outright it’s usually pretty similar in price, but most people finance, and then it is cheaper to buy separately because interest hits like a truck :D
I know a lot of people who can’t necessarily afford $200 minimum to drop on a phone, though, and that’s for one that really starts to struggle after 2 years to do anything other than the most basic call/text functionality
A 36 year old is supposed to act however they want xD There are some expectations about maturity in certain areas (knowing how to handle money, being better with social situations, etc), but stuff like posting online? My girlfriend has 2 Tumblr blogs because she kept hitting the limit of 50 queued posts a day, and she’s 40. Boyfriend spends a lot of his time playing video games, and smoking, also 40. I’m 30, and spend a lot of my time playing video games, and on Lemmy/Friendica/general web stuff. Hell, other person in my life (same age as me) has bags decked out in sanrio stuff, with cutesy stickers on every electronic device they own. I know people in their 50s, and 60s who do all this same stuff, too.
I have a couple ideas on what happens with that, though:
Idea 1: I think it’s partly perspective. When you’re 18 5 years feels like forever. You were 13 then! At 23 you’ll be old as shit compared to now! (Not really, you change a lot less per year as an adult than as a child, and teen).
Idea 2: Different, but still perspective. My parents felt young as shit (my parents were 18, and 19 when I was born) to me because I wasn’t raised by them. When I turned 20 my uncle, who would have been ~40, felt more like an older peer than a grown-up. Why? I wasn’t raised by my parents! My grandma would have been 45 when I was born, and my great grandma (her mom) would have been 61. They’re who raised me. I always felt I saw the adults around me as younger than all of my peers did, likely partly due to that. “The teacher’s not old, my grand aunt still gets out there and mows an entire acre of grass every week, and she’s 50! The teacher’s not old at 28. That’s my mom’s age, and she’s still basically a teenager!” sort of thinking.
You kinda just… Never stop feeling like a teenager, in a way? You change a lot, you mature, you get jobs, etc. But I don’t feel particularly “different” to how I did when I was 15. I still feel like me, just now I think 15 year old me was an idiot, one of my joints hurts sometimes, and I have carpal tunnel. You don’t really feel old until your age starts making a noticeable dent in what you can do, which might be at 40, but might not be until 70.
As a reminder to everyone:
If you can afford it, you can 100% just… Buy a phone online and use it with your carrier. Make sure it’s carrier unlocked, but yeah. All but one of my phones (bought in an emergency) was bought this way, and I’ve been through… 5 or 6? carriers and never had an issue
This, though if you start it start kinda slow. 1tbsp per day for a week, up it to 2, then 3. I tried starting at 3 and it had some wild symptoms (most people just get gassy/bloated though)
I’m not sure if bluetooth hacking is enough of a concern to be a problem? I’ve never heard of any major cases of it, and of all things, I doubt a music player would be a high enough value target for them to bother with? Could do something meant to spread to other devices, sure, but… I doubt the risk is high enough to be a primary concern.
Semi-related, but I did learn something: The modern name for MP3 players is DAP (Digital Audio Player), which can help with searching for them.
Work/Life balance for me. I want a better position insofar that it’ll let me home more
That… Is a fair point, yeah. The older software you want to run, the more complicated it ends up getting, either through VMs or software emulation.
For GTA:SA specifically it has a gold rating for version 1, and bronze for version 2 on the WINE app database, so it would actually run through Linux, probably with some tinkering. Not sure if there are differences between the PC and PS2 versions, but if there aren’t then you could always run the PS2 version through an emulator as well.
It’s opt-out. The default experience of DDG is with AI. They have a subdomain without AI, and you can disable it on the main domain.
Opt-in would be if it were disabled by default on the main domain, and they had a subdomain for AI.
Yeah… I wish I wasn’t as much of a sims fan as I am. Here’s hoping Paralives is good…
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PAID: Lootbox Losers™️ is an immersive online experience-
Yeah, with the way activity pub works it doesn’t pull the old info, it just gets new posts. I know you can usually take a link to a post and search it and it’ll pull, but Friendica didn’t get anything from one of the trail links, though friendica is picky
Hello Lemmy user Big French Bread AT Men Going Their Own Way Lemmy DOT Org, I think you might be doing a eugenics here. Maybe you should not do a eugenics in the future. We’ve made the discovery several times that it is Bad for Many Reasons, and thus should not be done.
If you find a site you like, you can put /feed at the end of the base URL and it’ll give the RSS feed about 40% of the time, since about 40% of sites use WordPress.
I have no direct recs aside that, just figured it was generally useful if anyone else posts a good site
404 Media has a full text RSS feed, but it’s paid-only
The Canary (assuming this is the right one) is here: https://www.thecanary.co/feed/
Poked around, there’s a demo instance with a demo account. Plugged it into Friendica, and it seems to pull the info.
Not sure where you are in the world, but 4tb drives are $80? Which like. $80 is a lot when you ain’t got it, but in computer terms it’s probably the cheapest part in the box
RAM’s expensive, storage has gotten pretty cheap, at least for HDDs.
This I’d, admittedly, a shaky memory from when Win10 was first released, but while you could disable the visible portions of Cortana, I remember being unable to disable the telemetry portion. Hell I remember a custom version of Win10 being built to remove all of the tracking stuff they put in it, I think RevOS was the name?
Admittedly I haven’t used Windows at all outside of work in almost 4 years, and even then it hadn’t been my primary OS for a few years, so memory’s fuzzy
I’ve mostly used new budget phones, personally. My current phone is the most expensive one I’ve owned, and it was $400 xD I probably should do used more, but phones do usually last me a while, and I normally use a wallet case so they’re fairly well protected against drops