• A🔻atar of 🔻engeance@lemmy.mlOP
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    16 days ago

    You should get on Rednote if you can get a better phone, you would be astonished by how much nicer they are than people on here. This is (and I say this in the most positive way) a blood bowl of special interest appreciators. On XHS you can make friends in Brazil, Egypt (although they are scared of being tortured by police over what they say 😬), Iraq, all over the place. Not just reverse-diasporoids like me, I’m nothing special. There is a large contingent of Americans on there cataloging homeless and their daily lives on the edge of precarity, and people are genuinely interested in helping them figure out how to make ends meet. Even if they can be almost aggravatingly naive with stuff like “maybe you could move into a less expensive home” or “try explaining your situation to the local government 😀”, they are starting to get it.

    But otherwise sit tight and we are going to create a telepathic internet like an Iain M Banks book.

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      16 days ago

      Well I got a new phone but it was a “low end” budget phone. Unless the carrier renegs on unlocking it, I may be able to do something if work works out. I’m over the fast-food mentality, not because I don’t crave fast, easy, sustainable solutions, just that I know rich arses profit, emotionally, financially, off of being as huge an impediment to progress for the masses.

      • A🔻atar of 🔻engeance@lemmy.mlOP
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        16 days ago

        Oh beware in less than a year Google will block installing your own apps. If you grab IzzyOnDroid and Obtainium you might be able to keep updating stuff that isn’t on the Play Store but I’m not certain. If it’s unlockable and on the LineageOS device list you want to expedite that!!