12/12/2025 at 12:51:29 PM
It is criminal that supercomputers in our pockets have expiration dates.Even cheapest phone these days is hundreds times more powerful than PS2, has better camera on par or better with most feature phones back in the days and cellular/wifi. They can be used for detection, automation or just plain fun/gaming.
But no, you can't install Linux to overcome bloated, insecure abandonware (old Androids, iOS). Built-in, hot pillow of a battery that is pain in the ass to remove and even then it can't work without it.
by wiseowise
12/12/2025 at 1:39:55 PM
People are nuts, that's all there is to it. They're worried about thinness, but meanwhile buy phones that are so tall and wide they cannot actually fit in a pocket. There's no benefit whatsoever to the thinness, except that someone else's phone is thicker. And no, water damage is not a concern. You can absolutely build phones with a battery compartment that can safely be fully submerged in water.by everdrive
12/12/2025 at 4:10:01 PM
Are real people worried about thinness? I don't think I have ever met anyone outside of a marketing department that has asked for a thinner phone vs one with more battery life.by fhdkweig
12/12/2025 at 4:13:31 PM
The iPhone Air is the most recent proof that consumers don't actually care about thinness.by hamdingers
12/12/2025 at 3:23:58 PM
I have a 6.9 inch screen, which is the biggest if not extremely close, and it fits in my pocket just fine. It fits well because it's so thin.by stronglikedan
12/12/2025 at 5:24:06 PM
I think mine is stated as 6.7" and pretty thin. I wouldn't say it fits comfortably in all conditions. In some trousers/shorts it either sticks out a bit or digs in my side when I'm sat and bend (to tie a show, etc).by dspillett
12/12/2025 at 3:48:57 PM
And it would still fit in your pocket even if it was few more millimetre thick. And, it is better to make the pockets bigger by a few millimetres rather than making the phones thicker.by thisislife2
12/12/2025 at 3:27:19 PM
In a broader context, it’s actually a bit of an oddity that computers had this brief moment of hackability. You can probably turn an old washing machine into a lathe, but it would be crazy for its manufacturer to even acknowledge this idea.by exitb
12/13/2025 at 5:55:17 PM
> it’s actually a bit of an oddity that computers had this brief moment of hackability. You can probably turn an old washing machine into a latheYours is a wildly misleading analogy. The design of Washing Machines (WMs) contains no elements solely dedicated to preventing the off-label use of them, the analogy with phones would be a WM that comes surrounded by barbed wire, a moat and self-destruct explosives attached to the WM to brick it in case the owner tried to unscrew some screw or another. Then a technician with an unauthorized key for your home visits you whenever he wants and messes with the WM and its "defenses" at his pleasure.
There was no "brief moment of hackability" for WMs because they were always hackable to the max - as much as the basic usage design allowed. The WM manufacturers neither acknowledged nor prevented the conversion of WMs into lathes or any other artifact for that matter, that's up to the owner to decide. So yeah, make phones like WMs and stop crippling and messing with people's property.
Incidentally, the off-label use of drugs saves a lot of lives every year. Should we add poison to them to prevent that? Because that's what phone manufacturers are doing to the their phones under the merciless prodding of the OS suppliers.
by bigbadfeline
12/12/2025 at 1:07:24 PM
I understand. I got a Linux phone & its remarkably decent - its called Jollaby 747-8I
12/12/2025 at 1:39:46 PM
I need to know if this is running e-banking a.k.a. "we are secure, yet is that you that made this payment" apps?by bobim