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I would rather spend this time on a device with a 15' screen and a comfortable keyboard. A phone is just that - a secondary device. That needs to be comfortable to hold and type on with one hand while the other holds onto the subway railing.

Yeah, fair. I picked this as an example, but overall I'd consider a phone unusable if you can be denied apps. Especially when it comes to important things like censorship evasion tools, which are very likely to be deleted from App Store on request.

I can't imagine using a phone that I can't even use adless Youtube on :/

I am a very average-sized woman with average-sized hands, and big phones would have been unusable for me. Seems like they're all for big men's palms.

I picked the Pixel A because:

1. It runs GrapheneOS
2. It's slightly smaller and slightly cheaper than the normal version
3. The back is plastic and not glass

Glad I can use it and type on it one-handed, can't imagine using a bigger phone.

Yes, true.

Oh thank god. Was getting sick of only having hella overpriced and slow satellite internet there.

Yeah. Can't imagine I used to see not having a unified method to update everything as normal...

Not even that. In addition to being proprietary, it requires an account to use.

Unless the updates are done from your distro's repos

Also you need an account to even view it. And I've heard they're really trigger-happy about banning the accounts or holding them hostage until you provide a phone number...

I'm pretty sure my Debian doesn't collect personal data either

Me who dreads having to give her husband sex when she becomes a wife and hopes he'd pity her enough to not do it to her when she's clearly miserable and hates every second of it:

But no one can take a file from my hard drives either. No need for it to be on a low-capacity disk when a thing half the size of a DVD box can fit orders of magnitude more.

If the disk is going to be unused/thrown out anyway - why not buy a digital copy? Its only job would be corresponding to a usable file you download anyway... I do that with Steam games.

Sometimes it is a button, but oftentimes it is just there by default :(

This is yet another way tying accounts to phone numbers can come back to bite you! I guess pulling out means denying registration from the country's numbers as well? So that would mean either a constant additional expense (which might be significant for poor people), or constantly risk getting the account deleted if you tied it to one-time rental.

Idk, I would be cautious about trusting my personal notes to a proprietary piece of software...

Me with folders upon folders of plain .txt:

Used to be.

After Mozilla laid off all Servo developers in 2020, governance of the project was transferred to Linux Foundation Europe. Development work officially continues at the same GitHub repository with the project itself entirely volunteer driven.