Catch 22

given how friendly northeastern Europeans are with bears (the animals) and how much they like saunas I wouldn’t be surprised to see bears in a sauna

that’s still impressive!

re-homing the old device is also a decent ewaste reduction strategy, kudos

hm i probably should have expensed more things when I had a business, especially because paying US taxes is inherently unethical these days 💀

gigabit!? what amazing country does this library exist in!?

wtf i wish i had known about this way earlier that looks SO much easier

https://www.ventoy.net/

tyfys 🫡

i actually did not know that. now i have an excuse for never verifying pfffffff

downloaded a lubuntu iso the other day, ty 🫡

it’s only half based cuz it was running on Windows (was too lazy to set up existing Debian box to use as the support PC)

i tell people* it’s because torrents are faster**
but it’s really because they’re cooler

*i made that up i’ve never gotten that far into a conversation about distro downloads

**in my experience it is actually a bit faster

affirmative

me too fam

Most US carriers also sell phones (usually via payment contract) so it’s in their best interest to discontinue support for older hardware

That rules!

that’s true I suppose

I’m still fucking salty because all US carriers decided to not support the 4G on Sony XZ2c and that was my favorite fuckin phone and the last truly compact one I ever found that met my spec requirements

ITT: it is confirmed that nearly everyone on Lemmy is die-hard “if it aint broke don’t replace it” about their phone (hell yeah)

if you don’t mind me asking, which model is it and which region is your carrier in?

in the US a ≥10 year old smartphone is almost unheard of since the 3G shutdown

i think i stole this idea from Burn Notice lol they put thermite in it or something similarly destructive