If you’re buying the phone outright then that could work. Provided it’s supported for that long, and you can look after it well enough then I don’t see why not - you just have to be prepared to pay £800 all at once.
Part of my reasoning is the £400 cost keeps my monthly bill down, as I don’t buy the phone outright.
If nothing else, keeping one phone for 6 years would be better for the environment.
In my opinion it’s fine. I’m not super into photography or anything so take that with a big grain of salt. I don’t take too many pictures, but when I do they seem perfectly serviceable.
They’re never going to compare to a newer flagship, mind you.
Uhhhhh, rip and tear?
All of this is more than I’m prepared to pay for a phone these days. It’s absurd.
I switched to a Nothing Phone 1 last year (about £400?) and it’s been more than capable of handling my daily usage.
I’ll keep the thing for three years, then upgrade to another mid-range. I don’t need to pay more than twice the price for hugely diminishing returns.
Ah really? I could put it on the hard drive, but the whole point of the SSD was for it to take the OS… Will have to think on that.
They generally don’t do more than browse the web so I’m not anticipating any major issues. I used to game on it, but it’s so old now I’ve stopped using it for games.
Maybe I’ll put it on a usb for a while instead of dual booting.
I see Linux in my future, as I just don’t have the cash for a new rig.
I have to be careful though, as it’s my family PC, and the rest of my family aren’t going to tolerate much of a learning curve. It really needs to just work out of the box.
Considering Zorin OS. Hopefully I can get it on my SSD next to Windows so I can dual-boot for a while to test the water…
I own a pair of Porta Pros as daily drivers. I also have a pair of Ananda’s that I run through a BTR7 (not super flashy but more than your average person’s setup).
I would say the average person doesn’t need more than a pair of Porta Pros. They’re absolutely fine 😅
He’s a business man.
And business is goooood.
Yep, it’s like it’s her generously compensating job compels her or something.
Who’d have thunk it?
(For real though, what did people expect her to say?)
You fools! If you die in Australia, you die in real life!
That’s John Startrek, the titular protagonist of Star Trek.
The sad part is that there’s a not insignificant number of people out there who would honestly rather embrace the human instrumentality project and never look back.
I used to wear women’s skinny jeans as a teenager because they were skinnier and easier to find than men’s at the time.
The men’s stuff was more of a slim-fit, rather than an actual skinny fit. The shallow pockets sucked, but otherwise they looked much better.
I wouldn’t say I have an actual phobia, but I completely understand people with trypophobia. It makes me very uncomfortable and I find it pretty revolting.
We won’t. We’re gonna continue to apathetically march towards a world-ending climate crisis, and when it’s finally producing societal collapse and the average person’s life is being disrupted in a practical way beyond climate protestors, and it’s clear we strolled past the point of no return years ago, the millionaires and billionaires will all retreat into their private safe havens and shield themselves from the rest of the world and all consequences, proclaiming “we tried guys, we really tried, but the insert scapegoat blocked us at every turn and ruined it for everyone,” while we proceed to tear eachother apart.
I’m actually the opposite.
Wanted to play DnD for years but never really had the opportunity as I didn’t have enough friends who also wanted to play so we could get a campaign going.
We’ve got a group together last year and now manage to play about once per month.
I think I’d have still been interested in BG3 even if I didn’t have a DnD group, but I’m definitely more interested in BG3 now than I would have been because of my DnD group.
I have a very, very limited understanding of the subject, so take this with a lethal dose of salt, but I’m under the impression that the US healthcare system is an absolute minefield, and not everyone has equal access to it, even via insurance, in the ways you might otherwise typically expect.
The glyphs are a fun gimmick. I wouldn’t say you’re likely to use them all that much.
Maybe Google around a bit and see what you can find. There will definitely be other mid-range phones that lean more heavily into the camera, but at this price you’re always going to be making concessions somewhere.