Yes, let people do what they want.

Just check if it’s legal first.

Or if they copy the data from the servers, as it isn’t e2e, the data is unencrypted on the server (or usually encrypted on the server with keys accesible by people working there) as far as I know.

So you drive manual on an auto? Weird.

The initial performance is always decent. The problem is the planned obsolessence. To compare two 2017 phones: my mom’s Huawei p10 and my Redmi 4X, for example. The p10’s geekbench score is ~2* the Redmi’s and it’s visible even in simple use. Web browsing works fine on the p10, but on the Redmi, it takes way longer to render a page slightly heavier, than wikipedia. OSMand works on the p10 perfectly, but on the Redmi, it takes very long to calculate routes and crashes often. If you want to use a phone for ~10 years, it’s usually better to invest in a performant one.

Most of EU still drives manuals (most older models and newer floor models of VW group). I’ve been in an automatic once in my entire life.

And how do you engine brake with an automatic, is that a thing?

But the performance is terrible for the price. The only jack phone I would reccomend is poco f5.

And recently also top end midrangers for some reason.

Well, I won’t enjoy loosing ~1060€ for the license, but I feel like I would at least enjoy driving a car.

Well, the quad-core i5 still works decently on my latitude, but it has ~30000 geekbench score.

Wow, thanks. I’m kind off sceptical of the aliexpress adapters and I don’t even know if the tape player even works. I might test it with some kind of religious tape from my grandma.

If you aren’t listening to C’est la Vie by Bewitched, you are good, but the Sabrina (animated) theme song is actually decent.

But if a city is already ruined or you live in a village without a bus station, it makes travel a lot easier.

Not yet there, but it will probably be something on the radio, as I don’t have any tapes (which is the only thing it supports). Could I still buy them anywhere?

Well, if you are in the market for a smaller laptop, don’t buy the x280, as it isn’t upgradable, buy a Latitude 5290 with the same specs as t480, but with a horrendous display and no trackpoint. It has decent build quality and the same upgradability as the t480. You could find it used under 200$ easily.

How is a t480 old? It’s around 7 years old.

well, if you rewind time and stay in the box, the box would probably stay on earth, but I have no idea how time travel would work.

Well, my mom is a computer engieneer, who had me reflash a phone from work and install libreoffice on her windows laptop (to be fair none of her coworkers could reflash the phone and the second one was probably just lazyness).

You can take care of privacy on your personal hardware, but with work issued devices, you can’t.

Or people, like my mom, who are were relatively educated about technology and don’t want to learn new technologies/tools under the pretense of security (even if the software is foss, like again most adblockers.

Edit: Whenever I use a browser without an adblocker, I remember how shitty the web is without them.