I can’t wait until the trifold phones become a thing, that way I can carry around a smaller phone that transforms to something larger when I need it.

Except the proposed rule doesn’t do that. It’s only regarding carriers unlocking policies. The owner of the phone could still be under contact, and early termination fees would still apply. Carriers are still able to recoup any losses on the hardware through those fees. Requiring phones to be unlocked after 60 days changes none of that.

As things are now, a poor person would have to pay BOTH. An early termination fee AND then go buy a new phone if they wanted to switch to a new carrier before the (typically 2 year) contact is complete. They lose any money they’ve put into their current phone because it’s locked to a carrier until they have been in good standing for the full 2 years.

So what it really depends on is if you think a poor person should be trapped with their current carrier until they finish the contract, unlock the phone and move to another, OR if they should be free to switch over to the competition at any time without onerous restrictions on hardware they have fully paid for via early termination fees.

This argument may have made sense a decade ago, but phones today aren’t making the generational leaps and bounds with performance every year. Even the low end phones are just fine for most uses these days.

If you’re poor, and I certainly have been, you shouldn’t get into these contacts that ultimately cost you more. You buy a cheap phone from last year and put it on an MVNO that’s cheap

Honestly the OG stream controller would have been perfect if they could find a way to fit a 2nd analog stick on there

Same here. I heard they released a handful of new upper tier pals but I’ll wait for the next major revision to go back

It’s a shame passenger pigeon nets have fallen out of style. I imagine you could catch a lot of ducks with one of those

Uh maybe you’re missing the foreshadowing (or I could be wrong) but it seems like the Jedi killed everyone. That little fire Mae started in the upstairs bedroom wouldn’t have caused all the damage we saw in the basement. The Jedi bombed them, and that regret is what caused floaty Jedi to kill himself after meditating on it for years.

Guys we need AI on our blockchain web3.0 iot. Just imagine the synergy

Well the animation does look better than the animated Hobbit movie, maybe I’ll give it a shot

Honestly, depends on the smell. But I’d probably try a bite

Didn’t someone find perfectly good butter in a bog from a few hundred years ago?

I think we should keep this color coded. Nigel Blue can do the copper sword made from the blood of 30000 horseshoe crabs.

Agreed. If they’d just put a right analog stick in there somewhere it would have been awesome. The vibrators just don’t provide the right tactile feedback

No, they’re aware. They’re just hoping the shareholders aren’t.

It’ll even play videos that are actively downloading

I see a lot of downvotes on your comments on this thread and I wonder if it’s due to differences in nationality/geography/jurisdiction. In the USA I know we give free smartphones with working Wi-Fi to people with low incomes as a part of the lifeline program. Some of the libraries I’ve been to even have staff on hand to help low income people find out about these sorts of benefits, and even help them sign up. Maybe they don’t have this sort of program where you’re from?

And I know most people DO carry their phones with them wherever they go these days assuming they haven’t forgotten it somewhere.

Am I missing something? To me, in my area, these limitations would be a choice the user has made.

Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll have to check it out after work

Genuine question from someone with Nova launcher since like Android 6: do these alternatives have all the same features?

If your bank has mobile deposit use that so you can keep the physical check

I think this was specific to tetrapods, though I don’t know if there are any land vertebrates that aren’t descendants of tetrapods.

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/what-are-evograms/the-origin-of-tetrapods/